Christina Morrison elected as signature member

Picton, Ontario, 29 September 2025

It is with great pleasure that the Canadian Society of Marine Artists announces that Christina Morrison has been elected as a signature artist of the Society.

Christina Morrison participated as an invited guest artist in the CSMA's 42nd Annual Exhibition. Her paintings were well received by the public and our membership. Our artists were very positive in their comments about her work.

Christina Morrison is a marine artist whose medium of choice is acrylic. She is based in Victoria, BC, and has been inspired by its boats and harbours. From an early age she liked to draw and became more serious when in 2013 her work was featured in the Madrona Gallery show in Victoria. Christina became a member of the Coast Collective and exhibited in a numbers of shows. In 2015 her work was accepted in the Sooke Fine Arts Show. Her greatest passions lie in tugs, vintage wooden boats, and working vessels of the West Coast. She cherishes the stories and histories behind these boats, as well as the memories her art evokes.

Since 2020 Christina has been focusing on her ongoing project The West Coast Tug Project. Her goal is to paint every working tugboat on the West Coast of British Columbia – and she has already completed more than a hundred of the nearly six hundred that are documented. She will be using her paintings, photographs and notes of these work boats to promote the recognition of this collection as part of Maritime History and has plans for a book to showcase this work.

A sample of Christina's work can be found here.

The Canadian Society of Marine Artists promotes excellence in marine art, accepting that art is in the eye of the beholder and believing that the broad notion of "fine arts" - including both