Slack tide studio is a small art and greeting card studio run by mother-son duo, Jackie and Hayden. Our cards and prints begin with Hayden’s hand-carved rubber stamps, much of them inspired by the little details of growing up on the west coast, and by the beauty of ordinary things.
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A hand-carved linocut design of grey whales migrating above a moonlit sea
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Size: 4” × 6”
Printed on 100 pound vellum cover stock
Packaging: Kraft paper envelope, clear sleeve
Printed in Vancouver, BC
Designed by Hayden Roth in Tofino, BC
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A hand-carved rubber stamp design of a pair of friends heading out for an ocean dip.
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Size: 4” × 6”
Printed on 100 pound vellum cover stock
Packaging: Kraft paper envelope, clear sleeve
Printed in Vancouver, BC
Designed by Hayden Roth in Tofino, BC
A hand-carved rubber stamp design of a pair of trilobite and ammonite fossils, created as an ode to enduring love. Inspired by ancient sea life and the idea of love that repeats itself across time.
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Size: 4” × 6”
Printed on 100 pound vellum cover stock
Packaging: Kraft paper envelope, clear sleeve
Printed in Vancouver, BC
Designed by Hayden Roth in Tofino, BC
who we are
HAYDEN ROTH - ARTIST AND PRINTMAKER
I was born into a big family of artists, from woodworkers and writers to pianists and painters, but the kind of art I grew up around wasn’t very polished. Our house was full of drawings pulled out of sketchbooks, old charts from kayak trips covered in tiny illustrations, and driftwood (along with various other forms of marine debris) arranged and framed like paintings.
The kind of beauty I grew up around wasn’t very polished either. The scenes around me most often involved old boats, weathered wood, and tough West Coast women with feet made even tougher by years of walking on barnacles. Buoys hung off our porch, wildflowers grew untidly in the front yard, and we ate salad out of crooked bowls my great-aunt Phoebe carved from cedar burls.
My artwork comes from these things, and has taken on a loose, imperfect style similar to that of my grandpa and his sisters. I didn’t decide to make work that looked or felt the way it does, it’s just what I know. It’s in my bones.
Read “Art, Autism & Me”
JACKIE BROCK - BUSINESSwoman extraordinaire
Slack Tide Studio itself began not only with my artwork, but with a suggestion from my mom:
“These would make beautiful greeting cards.”
She refused to let the idea die, and now I’m trying to figure out how to design a website and she’s turned the little cabin in her backyard, with the help of Facebook Marketplace and a lot of paint, into an actual card studio. It’s from there that she handles the printing, packaging, shipping, and the terrifying task of walking into stores and asking if they’d like to sell our cards.
Somehow, between the two of us, those cards have made their way onto many a store shelf from Horseshoe Bay all the way up to Port Hardy.
