Aquatic - Teom Lim

Aquatic Portfolio

The artist at work

"Mirror Fish" African Pampano (Alectic ciliaris) Found worldwide in tropical seas and is noted for its sleek silvery skin.

"A moving feast" - Chinook Salmon (oncorhynchus tschawytscha) Total Length 24" Sold

Coho Salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch and Shiner Perch Cymatogaster aggregata 36"L x 10"W x 20"H (Sold)

Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) 39"L x 16"W x 36"H

Pumpkinseed Sunfish- Lepomis gibbosus 8"L x 5"W x 10"H

Yelloweye Rockfish (Sebaster ruberrimus/ Sub-adult colouration) 12"L x 8"W x 9"H

"SouthCoast Steele" (Salmo gairdneri irideus) The magnificent steelhead of British Columbia's South Coast. 11"L x 7"W x 6"H (Sold)

"Mr. Halibut" 12"L x8"W x5" High Pacific Halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) Largest of the flounder family. Big halibut can weigh up to 225Kgs(495 pounds). Limited edition 289 signed and numbered. Sold Out

"Eye of the Needle" (sold) A sleek Rainbow trout "threads" itself through a knot hole of a sunken log. This piece is 20" tall and the knot was from a Douglas Fir tree.

Tiger Rock Fish (Sebastes nigrocincutus) are found along the north Pacific coast of North America. A beautiful fish that bears live young. Carved from Spruce, habitat carved from Douglas Fir. Rockfish, 9" long, overall carving, 14" tall.

Wall hangers. Sometimes space for art sculptures is limited and wall hangers are the best option. They can be detailed or natural finished. This Largemouth bass was carved from one piece of wood. That includes all the fins. Careful consideration needs to be paid to the wood grains which could easily split and break off one of the delicate fins. The bass was painted to life like colours with iridescent shimmer of a real fish. (Sold)

Wall hanger. This Coho salmon was carved and left with a natural finish. The wood grains of this piece of spruce was too beautiful to cover up with paint. The only painting was on the eye. There is something about the eyes that give life to a carving. As Shakespeare so eloquently said, "the eye is the window of the soul".