Creating beautiful portraits for pets and their owners brings the whole team at Punk & Loo great satisfaction. We love receiving your photographs of your dogs, cats, horses, birds, even your reptiles! More than this, we’re happy to know they’re celebrated through art and hung on the wall to bring you joy.

We chose the name Punk & Loo, as an homage to our appreciation of Emily Carr. Carr’s love of animals is well documented in her journals, they included parrots, chipmunks, a racoon, white rats, cats, plenty of dogs, and most famously her Javanese monkey, Woo. A lifelong lover of animals she spent time raising sheep dogs in Victoria, BC, on southern Vancouver Island. She wrote extensively about them, particularly Flirt, Punk, and Loo. Well, the stories clearly left an impact on us and we thought no better way to connect animals lovers and art than Emily Carr.

Carr’s works made a particular impact on our founder Alan Moss, during a childhood visit to Vancouver Art Gallery he was moved by the paintings of giant forests. Carr’s depictions of blue skies, clouds, and towering trees left a lasting mark on Alan’s connection to west coast. 30 years later, Alan visited the Musee de Beaux Arts in Montreal for an exhibit showcasing Carr’s canvases that had been lost to the East Coast. These massive and powerful depictions of the west coast took him right back to his visit to his childhood discovery of her work.

Punk & Loo’s dedication to the environment and sustainability is driven by Alan’s passion for British Columbia. His Scottish Mother and English Father settled in BC independently but found each other on Salt Spring Island in the 1950’s. His father worked as a communications installer for BC’s booming resource industry. Alan counts himself incredibly fortunate to spend much of his childhood outside developing a passion for the province and living “the good life.”