Ed Hill tutored under renowned west coast artist Roy Henry Vickers while posted to Tofino, British Columbia as an RCMP officer in 1985. Retired from the RCMP in 2002, Ed and his wife Joy now live in Gibsons, BC. It is from there that Ed hopes to spend many years exploring and enjoying the beauty that is the coastal experience of this great province and continue to produce works of art that evoke that special emotion that is "West Coast".