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Turning Trash Into Treasure

A travelling environmental art exhibit at CityScape Community Art Space until September 3

North Shore Art Crawl Registration Open

Artist and Host Business Registrations are now open for the 2022 North Shore Art Crawl, taking place October 14-16.

District Library Gallery

View the original artwork for the 2023 You Are Here calendar, on until September 19

Art Rental Art Fair

View the 2022 Art Rental Collection in 4 virtual galleries

WHAT’S HAPPENING

The Anonymous Art Show 2022 | Call for Artists OPEN

North Van Arts is thrilled to announce the 2022 Anonymous Art Show. This 19 year old group exhibition and fundraising event will include emerging and established artists working strictly on unframed 8”x8”x1½” canvas or wood panels. This is the third year the...
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Art Rental Art Fair 2022

April 14 to October 5
Online

Art Rental Art Fair 2022 features the new artworks recently added to the North Van Arts Art Rental Programme. In four virtual galleries you’ll see original works by local artists. Created using an impressive range of media and techniques, these 2-dimensional works...
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Calls for Artists

Every year, North Van Arts seeks visual artists, musicians, performers, and instructors for exhibitions, events, education, and other creative projects and initiatives. The table below lists calls for artists in various programme areas. When the call is active, the...
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UPCOMING CLASSES

REGISTRATION FOR SUMMER CAMP NOW OPEN

Member & Instructor Profiles

Sue Rousseau

An art Gallery in Goderich is where some of my work was first sold. Thank you, Goderich Co-op Gallery. Summers on Ashby Lake, & Go Home Lake in Ontario started me on this artist journey. The beauty and glorious colours of the...
Trevor Schmidt

Fine Art Photography

Trevor Schmidt is a self-taught abstract photographer. He lives and works on Canada’s west coast, where his art is inspired by and pays tribute to the coastal waters and rainforests of the Pacific Northwest. Trevor’s work in criminal intelligence demands frequent...
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...
Donna Giraud

Acrylic on Canvas

Self taught, abstract painter Donna Giraud’s large scale acrylic on canvas works are richly textured and rendered in thick expanses of pigment. Interested in capturing the “authentic” stories of human existence, her horizontal compositions fuse an abstract and...
Gelareh Raufi

Acrylic Painting
Esmie Gayo McLaren

paintings in watercolour, oil, & acrylic

My greatest joy in painting is in convincingly conveying emotion or energy on my paper or canvas. Dramatic or soft contrasts, emotive colors, and varied textures are my tools to bring my subjects to life. I engage the viewer with what I see and feel about the...
North Vancouver Chamber

North Vancouver Chamber is dedicated to helping local businesses thrive by supporting, connecting and leading employers in our community. The NV Chamber offers a variety of services, benefits and programs to help members grow and promote their businesses, develop...
Enda Bardell

Watercolour

Originally from Estonia, via Sweden, Enda Bardell is a Canadian Artist living and working in Vancouver. Enda has studied at Vancouver Art School (Emily Carr University of Art and Design), and completed studio courses and workshops with prominent Canadian artists such...
Janet Strayer

Painting

My art celebrates life in its variety, focusing on the intersection of worlds within and around us and on the imperfect beauty of being human in an ever-changing reality. It is inspired by experience and imagination, by cultural lore, nature, life-long travels, and...
Ian Bateson

Mixed media and digital art

Experience: During the 1970’s and early 80’s Ian worked in the field of illustration and graphic design, building a solid reputation with the publishing industry as an illustrator of children’s books and a designer and illustrator for academic publications. Ian worked...
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...
Thom Harvey Kline

Photomontage

“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 Vancouver....