WHAT’S HAPPENING
Arts in the Garden 2025
Saturday, June 14 & Sunday, June 15
Arts in the Garden | June 14 & 15 | 11am – 5pm Buy A Garden Pass | $20 This year, explore 10 stunning garden locations across the North Shore, featuring 28 visual artists and 40 musicians and performers. We’re thrilled to welcome back crowd favourites...read more
Since Time Immemorial
May 29 - September 2, 2025
Art in the Community Presents In partnership with the North Vancouver District Public Library, Since Time Immemorial is an exhibition sharing Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Stories, Art, Animals, and Placenames as seen on the North Shore Culture Compass. This exhibition brings points...read more
District Library Gallery
Through The Garden Gates
June 14 - July 18, 2025
Nature’s beauty surrounds us—not just in towering mountains or along the shore, but right in our own backyards. In tandem with Arts in the Garden this year, North Van Arts invites you to step Through the Garden Gates and discover the hidden wonders waiting just...read more
CityScape Community ArtSpace
UPCOMING CLASSES
Continuing Watercolour
Registration opens soon Two 4-week sessions — join one or both! Session 1: October 18 – November 8, 2025 (4 weeks) Session 2: November 15 – December 6, 2025 (4 weeks) These courses takes the beginner student to the next level. Fundamental techniques like wet on wet...
Intro/Continuing Oil Painting (supplies included)
Oil painting is a timeless art form, offering a rich, expressive medium for creating stunning works of art. In this introductory course, you’ll learn traditional techniques and methods passed down through generations of artists, providing you with the foundation to create your own masterpieces.
Camp Creative | July 7–11, 2025 (Week 1)
Creative arts camp for kids aged 6–11, with nature walks, hands-on projects, music, drama, and weekly art exhibitions.
Camp Creative | July 14–18, 2025 (Week 2)
Creative arts camp for kids aged 6–11, with nature walks, hands-on projects, music, drama, and weekly art exhibitions.
Camp Creative | July 21–25, 2025 (Week 3)
Creative arts camp for kids aged 6–11, with nature walks, hands-on projects, music, drama, and weekly art exhibitions.
Camp Creative | July 28–August 1, 2025 (Week 4)
Creative arts camp for kids aged 6–11, with nature walks, hands-on projects, music, drama, and weekly art exhibitions.
Profiles
Elahe Nour bakhsh
Painting, Mixed Media
As an artist, my primary goal is to capture the essence of raw emotions and personal experiences, transcending traditional norms and techniques. My work is a mirror of my inner World, reflecting my unconventional perspective and bold artistic vision. I believe the...
Lorna Moffat
Collage, Wool, Applique, Velvet
Scottish born Lorna is a textile artist, whose unique approach to collage and stitch, allows her work to bring an artistic conversation to a space. Her pillows are a soft canvas bursting with color, texture, pattern, inspired by people, places, and the beauty of...
Nazila Rafizadeh
Acrylic, Mixed Media
Born in 1966 in Tehran, Iran, Bachelor of Physiotherapy. Starting drawing and oil painting from age 16. Immigrated to Canada in 2010. Continue her passion with Acrylic painting, photography calligraphy and writing poatery. Member of NVAC from 2015 and sold many works...
Terri Connelly
Mixed Medium, Acrylic, Watercolour
Born in the industrious City of Hamilton, Ontario, Terri moved to the West Coast where there was an instant connection with the glorious surrounding of nature, wildlife and people. Terri is described as an optimist that paints with a purpose to tell a story. A story...
Leila Afshari
Ceramic Clay, Acrylic, Plaster
Leila Afshari has been an artist for almost 30 years, starting as a painter after embarking on her studies at Azad University in Tehran where she earned her BFA in painting. She had several exhibits and published works in Iran before immigrating to Vancouver. Once in...
Clint Baker
Oil
From an early age, Clint Baker was captivated by the vibrant worlds of TV shows like The Muppet Show and Sesame Street. His fascination was so deep that he proudly carried a Muppet Show lunchbox in grade 4. This early exposure to colorful and imaginative characters...
Edward Peck
Pigment Ink
Edward Peck studied photography, fine arts, conceptual art, historical techniques, film, and literature at the University of British Columbia. He then collaborated with other artists to hone his technical drawing, etching, watercolour, performance art, and photography...
Monica Gewurz
Oil, Mixed Media, Acrylic
I am a mixed media artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. My art is rooted in my life on the west coast of British Columbia but also draws on my travelling experiences. Drawing on my background in science, I create evocative and purposely imperfect...
Tara Ticehurst
Digital, Oil
Inspired by the natural beauty of British Columbia, Tara’s work reflects a deep admiration for nature and a desire to evoke an emotional response in the viewer. She is a forward-thinking artist based in North Vancouver, blending traditional Impressionist techniques...
Shirley McKell
Acrylic, Oil
Art has always been a part of Shirley’s life, but her career took her into Horticulture and Arboriculture where artistic whims were not on canvas! She’s always looked at light, texture and colour in her gardens. In semi-retirement in 2014, Shirley began to paint. Her...
Sonya Iwasiuk
Acrylic, Mixed Media
Sonya’s artworks are often representative of her childhood years. Beautiful prairie landscapes and derelict buildings are portrayed using various media including plaster, hand-rusted steel, found or repurposed objects and gold leaf. She has also created a series based...
Homa Khosravi
Homa Khosravi is a visual artist and painter who believes in the power of imagination and dreaming in her art practice. She holds an MFA in Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University and a BFA from Tehran University. Homa has been painting for over a decade and has...
Hoorasa Sahandpour
Acrylic, Oil
Hoorasa Sahandpour was born in an artist family in Iran. Hoorasa’s father was a writer and theatre director. Hoorasa along with his father, his artist father became interested in painting and singing and making movies and theatre. Hoorasa has had...
Polly Almond
Poetry, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Hi, I’m Polly Almond! Originally from Russia, I now create art and write poetry in North Vancouver. My artistic journey started in arts-focused high school, evolved through university studies in journalism and literature, and took a major turn when I moved to Canada...
Parisa Hosseinzadeh
Painter
Hello, I’m Parisa Hosseinzadeh, a painter with a diverse artistic background spanning over two decades. My journey in art has led me to explore various mediums, including watercolor, acrylic, oil painting, calligraphy, and decorative arts like wood painting and...
Barbara Crystal
Acrylic Painting and Pastel Sketches
An artist living in North Vancouver, I’m inspired by nature and walks in the forest. I seek out the greenery of trees, leaves, moss and the unexpected beauty of blooms that grow wild. I grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland where I studied in the Scottish Borders and...
Яachel Lee
Mixed Media + Photography + Performance Art + Textiles/Fibre
Яachel Lee’s art sheds light on the experience of navigating through familial bonds, love, loss – life as a neurodiverse Chinese Canadian Catholic woman in a post-truth era. Through reflection and acceptance of her conflicting views, Lee investigates the shared...
Shelley Wales
Watercolour
Growing up on Canada’s west coast, Shelley has had a life-long love affair with the mountains and ocean. This has led her to explore and paint some of the more remote corners of western Canada’s stunning wilderness. Finding the landscape’s moods and the stories they...
Dana Huhn
Mixed Media | Painter | Functional Art
Dana is a mixed media artist working and living on the North Shore. She has a background in Art History, graphic design, architecture, and interior design. Her work ranges from vibrant and mood lifting abstract and semi-abstract painting to more serene and...
Andrea McKenzie
Textile & Paper Eco-printing
Andrea draws inspiration for her artistic practice of eco-printing from nature’s botanical realm in all of its seasonal cycles. She considers the plants to be the artists and she the assistant enabling them to release and imprint their true moody colours onto paper...
Una Polenova
Acrylic, mixed media, watercolour
Born in Richmond, I enjoyed expressing a talent for painting and dance in my early childhood days. My love for the arts inspired a career in Graphic Design and Visual Arts in the mid 1980’s. Today my paintings record a history of the land, and sea to sky of beautiful...
Sara Montgomery Designs & Studios
Silversmith, Metalworking
Sara Montgomery is an artist working on the North Shore who specializes in silversmithing and fine metalwoking. Sara Montgomery Studios is an inclusive studio with 3 desks that offer teaching rates, rental desks (with or without tools) lessons for metalsmiths, makers...
Jeanette Schisler Coldwell Creations
Jeanette Schisler, the woodworker behind Coldwell Creations, supports the circular economy by creating handcrafted woodworking from reclaimed and repurposed materials. Each piece and collection tells a story from its past life. Each quirk, ding, dent, or hint of...
Sherry LaFayette
Acrylic paint, soft pastel, mixed media
Sherry LaFayette is a Canadian artist who finds inspiration in her natural surroundings and that view! Sherry interprets the subtle changes with time of movement, energy and colour of a selection of personal visual experiences and memories. With her family’s recent...
Fanny Ip
Chinese watercolour and ink on rice paper
Two most important techniques of Chinese painting are Gongbi (工筆) and Xieyi (寫意). Gongbi is a realistic technique using highly detailed brushstrokes that delimits details precisely and without independent or expressive variation. Xieyi is a freehand brushwork which...
Holly Truchan
Painting
I am an emerging mixed media abstract painter working with collage, acrylic and pastels on wood panels. I live and work in East Vancouver, gratefully working out of the Parker Street Studios. My work is whimsical and full of colour and texture, informed by my personal...
Lori Popadiuk
Painter
I am an emotive abstract painter. I paint what isn’t there, what you can’t quite see, but you can feel. I paint what is forthcoming from my emotions, I paint spontaneously and from my heart. I hope you enjoy my work. Wide Open Macro 2, Mixed mediums...
Rick Cuff
Acrylic and Oil Painter
After studying painting at the Swedish State School of Art, I moved to London and attended The London College of Communications, graduating with a graphic design degree. I then taught at LCC and Chelsea School of Art in England, while at the same time practicing as a...
Roger Mahler
Drawing and Photography
Roger Mahler is a photographer and artist living and working in East Vancouver. He has been working as a professional photographer for over 20 years. With all of the changes to photography he has found his work requires more and more time in front of a computer. Roger...
Janna Kumi
Colour Pencil
Originally from the Netherlands, Janna Kumi is a Canadian artist living in Metro Vancouver creating intimate and detailed drawings of tree bark in colour pencil on paper and board. The consistency across the work is her emotional response to function, form, and...
Anne Marie Buchanan
Basketmaker, Watercolour & Acrylic Painter
A multifaceted artist, Anne Marie was born and raised on the North Shore and has worked in photography, watercolour, oil painting and drawing most of her life. She evolved into folk arts, sewing, knitting, quilting, restoring old furniture and basketry. Basketry is...
Antoinette (Toni) Ludski
Acrylic
I acknowledge that I live on the traditional unceded Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) people. I was born in Cape Town, South Africa where I grew up in a natural environment. I always...
Karyn Orry
Acrylic
Karyn is British Canadian, born in Yorkshire then moved to North Vancouver and now living in Kelowna, BC. She studied art and textile design at college in the U.K, then took a break from painting to focus on a busy graphic design, print and packaging career. Since...
Don Rutherford
Watercolour
Still, watercolour, 11″ x 9″, $200Near Foremost AB, watercolour, 14″ x 11″, $200Moods of Chesterman #1, watercolour, 14″ x 11″, $200Moods, of Chesterman #2, watercolour, 9″ x 11″, $150Spring on Nicola Lake, watercolour,...
Natasha Dash
Ink, Mix Media, Certified Zentangle Teacher
Natasha Dash is a Certified Zentangle Teacher. She began her Zentangle journey in 2016 and has enjoyed many benefits of “tangling”. Natasha uses tangling as a healthy and creative way to deal with stress and access a state of relaxed focus. She is always amazed by the...Theresa Wimbles
About my Art My creative experience is a subconscious view of the natural, as sensual rhythm meets realism and organic abstract meets shape, color and line. I create from childhood memories and photos of days spent outdoors exploring west coast beaches, and...
Therese L Joseph
Acrylic Mixed Media
Therese aims is to capture an honest thought, a genuine mood or a daring dream and paint the world – one story at the time. She is passionate about drawing and painting figures and thoroughly enjoys seeing how personality and temperament come into being from an empty...
Arlene MacAulay
acrylic & mixed media painter
I currently live in beautiful North Vancouver but have called many places home. I have always loved creating but didn’t start painting until 2010. I have no formal art training so I attended various classes and workshops and learned different techniques and styles....
Carol Demers
Mixed Media Artist & Ceramicist
My work in painting and ceramics reflects my reaction to the natural world. I seem to be always seeking to unearth the experience of a place and the poetry of things I see in nature. When I really pay attention to the details I have noticed…the sound in silence,...
Katie Rodgers
Painting
Katie Rodgers developed her artistic practice building upon experiences images and insights during earlier travels in South East Asia. The paintings consist of drawings and photographs presented in abstract form to suggest atmosphere and emotions associated with...
Donna Giraud
Acrylic on Canvas
Committed to creating artworks that evoke intense emotions that we can all relate to, my heavy use of texture and subtle layers of paint often offer the viewer a moment of pause. I create gestural shapes and moods that make people reflect and feel tranquil at the same...
Dana Johnson
Visual Artist
Dana Johnson is a Vancouver-born artist. As long as she can remember she has been consumed by art. Earlier on she lived in London, England and this was when she got her first taste of European history, art and culture. She has travelled extensively and these...
Riitta Peirone
Painter: oils and acrylics
I studied Interpretative Illustration at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario and took courses in drawing and painting at the Ontario College of Art. I worked in Toronto as a graphic artist, mainly in educational publishing. In 1986, I moved to...
Sue Damen
Mixed Media, Acrylic and Collograph
Sue Damen is an artist, illustrator and educator. She was born at Grace Hospital in Vancouver but grew up in the small farming community of Yarrow, BC. Later, she came back to Vancouver attending the University of British Columbia, where she graduated with a BFA...
Sonia Mocnik
Watercolour Painting
Sonia Mocnik is inspired by her surroundings; from cityscapes to the great outdoors. Vancouver born, she has always enjoyed creating some type of art. She paints with the colours that move her from an urban scene to nature’s blooms. The energy of each captured moment...
Shae Salmon
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Photography
Contemporary semi-abstract mixed media artist who incorporates her photography into her work. Through textural layers and translucent colour, Shae builds on her images creating an abstract world in hopes of captivating the viewer’s imagination....
Edme Focant
Acrylic & Oil Painting
Born in Belgium, my family passed along a strong appreciation for the art and music at an early age. We were always grateful to be surrounded by beautiful architecture and galleries containing remarkable paintings which cultivated a strong appreciation for the arts...
Susanne Kestner-Aiello
Oil Painting
Travels have taken Susanne from Europe to South America, to USA and last to Canada where she has lived since 1979. Initially an art student at Atelier Josse in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Susanne continued her formal education in the USA and in Canada. She attended...
Warren Oneschuk
Acrylic
Working in acrylics, Warren Oneschuk (AFCA) is a realism artist/painter in North Vancouver, BC. His subject matter lies in historical interests – mainly abandoned/rusted vehicles and derelict buildings. He works in a multi-layered, glazing and dry brush technique to...
Stuart Browning
Glass
Stuart was born in Vancouver, living much of his life on the West Coast. Recently returning to the North Shore from Richmond he is inspired by our massive West Coast forests, streams, rivers and water scenes. An ongoing interest in both Asian and North West Coast...
Thompson Brennan
Paint, mixed media, drawing, sculpture, conceptual design
My new work is titled “Solastalgia Story”. Solastalgia was coined to describe a feeling of displacement from one’s own home environment. The word referred to those who have experienced a radical change in the eco-environment: loss of glaciers, for...
Suzanne Thomson
Acrylic Painting
Born and raised in Vancouver, Suzanne’s vivid imagination and artistic eye has made its’ mark in many ways. After years of event planning, her own flower design business and adding sparkles to figure skating dresses, her talents are now focused on the...
Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki
Acrylic Painting
Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki is an award-winning Canadian landscape painter based in Port Moody, British Columbia. She emigrated from Serbia in 1994 after graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and pursued a Hi-Tech career while studying and...
Kathy Daley
Oil Painting
Kathy uses bright, dynamic colours and thick impasto oil paint on black gesso surface to explore her connection to the world outside. She has been in group and solo exhibits at art galleries in BC, Alberta and Manitoba since 1995, bringing urban scenes to life...
Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau
Jewellery, printmaking and wood
A Nehiyaw Métis visual artist, Adele creates work to engage the audience to consider current social and environmental issues. Her intent is to educate from an indigenous perspective and counteract current stereotypes. She uses the mediums of wood carving, beadwork and...
Alice Bottrill
Acrylic, Watercolour, Pen/Ink
Alice Bottrill is currently an active member of FCA, member of NSAG, The North Vancouver Arts and the International Watercolor Society of Canada(IWS Canada). She is also the BC Representative for IWS Canada. Alice’s painting covers wide range of subject matters:...
Gail Coney
Glass, Pottery, Ceramics
Vibrant, colourful, unique, handpainted stoneware and glassware for the home or for that special gift. Gail has an attention to detail, developing designs inspired by her life and the places she’s lived, and applying a consistently high standard to each and...
Lorn Curry
Oil Painting
Lorn Curry is an artist based in North Vancouver, British Columbia. He acquired his painting skills with master mentors and through self-directed studies. Inspired by the European hyperrealist and photorealist masters, he also cites fellow Canadian east coast artist...
Jean Prescott
Jewellery, Textiles/Fibre
Razzle Dazzle Designs Jean’s current jewelry includes earrings, necklaces and bracelets inspired by natural elements, bright metals plus antique and new beads. Textiles include table runners, hangings and amulets in a full colour range. Bracelet by Jean...
Sue Daniel
Oil
Sue Daniel was born in Hungary in 1948 and came to Canada during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. She now makes her home in West Vancouver with her husband of 30 years. Since the 1980s, Sue has been under the influence of abstract impressionism, believing the axiom...
Meghan Sharir
Oil, Watercolour
Based in West Vancouver, Meghan is an award-winning and Signature Member (AFCA) of the Federation of Canadian Artists who exhibits frequently in juried group and community shows and private venues and undertakes regular commissions. Meghan is primarily a portrait...
Jane Lowery
Mixed Media Artist
I am a graduate of Langara College and Emily Carr University of Art and Design/ Fine Arts Studio, Drawing and Printmaking. I tried to stop focusing on nature but I couldn’t. I like what’s going on under the ground. Life and Nature has its dark moments, its...
Shakun Jhangiani
An intuitively creative contemporary artist, Shakun’s signature style and distinctive use of mixed media is well known and easily recognizable in all of her abstract paintings. The versatility of using acrylics as a painting medium opened the...
Sharon Quirke
Acrylic, Pottery/Ceramics
Canadian artist, Sharon Quirke, explores her vast country by layering colour and emotion on canvases brushed with fresh air. Her acrylics are bold and dynamic. “The rush of beauty that infuses each captured moment sustains & directs us.” In bold and dramatic...
Nicola Morgan
Painter, Illustrator, Instructor
The process of art making is as personal as it is mysterious. It is an action of surrender through paint, to a world where time is suspended and layers of newly found realities are discovered. I strive for balance in my paintings which presents a the challenge of...
Catherine Fields
Acrylic, Mixed Media
Catherine Fields was born in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1983, she emigrated to Canada and often credits the country’s accepting atmosphere with giving her the confidence and freedom to explore her creativity. She now paints and lives in North Vancouver with her...
Ann Eynon
Acrylic, Mixed Media
I recently returned from Vancouver’s west side and a life in financial planning to my cottage and my artistic roots. My work is done in acrylic and is generally landscape. Plein air is a favourite – so many paintings are done on location throughout the...
Sande Waters
acrylic, acrylic ink, oil, photography
bio I received my BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and my MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, California. As a way to engage with my art community, I am volunteering as Assistant Curator at Lions Gate Hospital Foundation Healing Art Donation...
Sandrine Pelissier
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Watercolour
Artist Bio Originally from France, the visual artist Sandrine Pelissier has been living in North Vancouver, Canada for the past 18 years. She is very inspired by her Pacific west coast surroundings and paints the BC landscape, figures and still life, mixing elements...
Connie O’Connor
Acrylic & Mixed Media Painting
BIOGRAPHY Connie O’Connor grew up on a farm in Manitoba: expansive vistas of big blue skies, infinite horizons and colourful gardens influence her art and her vision. As a high school educator, Connie’s creativity shone throughout her career; her favourite...
Lauren James-Davies
Watercolour
BIOGRAPHY Lauren James-Davies (b. 2003) is a visual artist living and working in Vancouver, BC, on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her work explores...
Janet Strayer
Paintings in Acrylic, Oil, Mixed-Media
My art celebrates life in its variety, focusing on the vital intersection of worlds within and around us, the impact of imagination and memory, and the imperfect beauty of being human in a changing reality. It is inspired by experience and imagination, by cultural...
Tim Bennison
Watercolour Painting
Tim was born in England in 1963 and moved to Canada in 1970. Growing up in Ottawa, he began painting with watercolours in high school. Tim has painted in this medium ever since. He is continually improving and evolving his technique, taking courses at Emily Carr and...
Elisabeth Sommerville
Stone Lithography, Coloured Pencil
Elisabeth Sommerville graduated from the Alberta College of Art in Calgary winning the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize. She moved to Vancouver in 1965 to start her own award-winning graphic design business, Sommergraphics. In 1985 she was hired as design consultant...
Phyllis Schwartz
Photography
Phyllis Schwartz is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator who works in photography, ceramics and publishing. She is an Emily Carr University of Art + Design graduate with a concentration in photography and the recipient of the Canon Photography Award. Her...
Steve Rayner
Acrylic
Steve was born and raised in England and trained to be an architect at Cambridge University. His interest in the profession grew from watching his architect father at work and he also inherited from him and other Rayner forebears, some of whom were noted Victorian...
Jennifer Lamb
Photographer
“My photographic approach to and reaction to the natural and built environments are summed up in three phrases: · fuelled by curiosity · delighted by discovery · inspired by beauty Colour, line, texture and light attract my eye. I invite you to share the...
Thom Harvey Kline
Photomontage, film and sculpture
“I entered the Vancouver School of Art in 1969 to pursue my continuing photography work. Here I was introduced to sculpture and found the world of 3D. BCIT led to a career in the building environment and working with major architectural firms in...
Effat Mirnia
Paintings
Born and raised in Iran, Effat was part of an art-loving family. From childhood, she expressed her feelings and thoughts through her art – painting, writing and poetry became a form of release for her. From the age of 15, she gave her time and efforts to several...
Lori Bagnérès
Mixed Media
Lori’s mixed media artwork derives its depth from the interconnectedness of spaces that humans share with the environment. Images of serene landscapes meld with an edgy, cultural world. Lori exposes the dichotomy between urban, graffitied surfaces and her natural...
Tary Majidi
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Pottery/Ceramics
Tary was born in Tehran, Iran and left home at the age of 19. She started sketching in her youth and later developed her style and media when pursuing Masters of Art in India at the New Delhi Art College in 1991. Upon attaining her degree, she continued learning...
Mariana Sola
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Pottery/Ceramics
I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I work predominantly in the medium of painting with acrylics but I also work with clay in my sculptures. After completing my B.F.A at the University of National Arts in Buenos Aires Argentina in 1998 I had many solo and group...
Poesis Ilies
Visual Artist
I am a Vancouver based visual artist working from my studio in the West End. I studied drawing and painting at Emily Carr University and urban design at Simon Fraser University. My art is a reflection of my continuous exploration of new techniques in a variety of...
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