This old fishing wharf was, and might still be, located, facing south, on the south arm of the Fraser River in Steveston, BC. It is part of a series of Richmond/Steveston landscapes I painted in the late 80’s and early 90’s.
While living in mountainous Vancouver, my fascination at the time was with the contrasting flatness of the Richmond area, which is all a river delta created between the north and south arms of the Fraser River as it meets the Pacific Ocean by flowing into Georgia Straight.
The striated clouds are a common feature of this landscape, caused by winds funnelling in from the nearby ocean.