Victoria: Unknown thief targets Salish pair’s carvings, Separate break-ins net two valuable pieces
Coast Salish artists Luke and John Marston complete every one of their carvings with steady precision and careful attention to the traditions of their ancestors.
Which is why the theft of two of their valuable pieces — collectively worth more than $60,000 — from two downtown Victoria art galleries in the last four months feels like the works of art were ripped right from their arms.
Victoria police are searching for the man they believe is responsible for both thefts, but so far have no suspects.
The first piece, John Marston’s Silent Waters, Setting Sun, was stolen March 3 from a Fort Street gallery. A man clad in a dark hoodie smashed a gallery window with a rock and walked out with the one-metre-wide by one-metre-long carving, which John Marston estimates weighs about 23 kilograms.
The culprit loaded the $25,000 piece into an awaiting getaway car, a red pickup truck, and sped off with two other people.
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