WHAT’S HAPPENING
Angles & Curves: Contemporary Hard-Edge Abstraction
October 8 - November 14, 2026
Public Reception: Thursday, October 15, 6pm – 8pm Date Night Bark as Art: Thursday, November 12, 6:30pm – 8:30pm Angles & Curves: Contemporary Hard-Edge Abstraction presents contemporary hard-edge abstraction by visual artists Dana Cromie, Janna Kumi &...read more
CityScape Gallery
The Magic Shoes: Book Launch, with Author Rose Ananda Heart
November 7, from 3 pm - 5 pm
Date: Saturday, November 7th Time: 3 pm – 5 pm Cost: Free Venue: CityScape Gallery, 335 Lonsdale Ave Age: All Ages Join us at CityScape as we celebrate the launch of The Magic Shoes with North Vancouver author and illustrator Rose Ananda Heart....read more
Vestiges: A Contemporary Interpretation of the Japanese Rice Bag
September 17, 2026 - January 19, 2027
Vestiges: “a small part left from something larger and more important, esp. one that is no longer used” Helen Kwok I am inspired to make this body of work, to challenge myself to create beautiful handmade vessels, called Japanese rice bags (komebukuro),...read more
City Atrium Gallery
UPCOMING CLASSES
Date Night: Bark as Art
These courses takes the beginner student to the next level. Fundamental techniques like wet on wet and wet on dry will be reinforced and advanced techniques like glazing will be explored over the course of four sessions, participants will work on painting projects in a supportive and engaging atmosphere with other watercolor enthusiasts.
Life Drawing Series: Body Positivity, Diversity, & Inclusivity (Fall Pass)
Practice your drawing skills in a friendly, non-competitive environment.
Each session features professional nude models, with a focus on diversity in age, gender, and body shape.
This group welcomes both beginner and experienced artists.
Continuing Watercolour: Fall Term
Practice your drawing skills in a friendly, non-competitive environment.
Each session features professional nude models, with a focus on diversity in age, gender, and body shape.
This group welcomes both beginner and experienced artists.
Mixed Media Sketchbook: Fall Term
Explore mixed media with a handmade sketchbook. Experiment with ink, watercolour, pencil, and acrylic, build confidence, and develop your own creative practice with guidance from Mahsa Farzi.
Profiles
Meg Bryden
Oil Painter
Oil painter Meg Bryden explores themes of place, history, and relationship in her work. Growing up on Vancouver Island, she frequently portrays the West Coast’s vivid beauty in her landscapes, cityscapes, figures, and nature subjects, all characterized by a...
Christine Tunnoch
Oil Painter
Christine (Chris) is a mixed media artist living in North Vancouver. Her background in conservation management fostered a deep appreciation for the natural world which continues to inform and inspire her art. Working in ink and watercolour, her illustrations appear in...
Lakshmi Gosyne
Oil Painting
Lakshmi Gosyne (Luck‑shmee Go‑sign) creates paintings shaped by light, atmosphere, and the emotional pull of colour. She finds inspiration in the shifting beauty of the sky, weather, and open space, and how a moment can feel fleeting yet worth immortalizing. Her...
Ralph Sears
Oil Painting
As a child, I started with pencil, doing early line drawings. This progressed to pencil portraits and included detailed facial studies. Courses, painted landscapes and abstract art enriched my knowledge, along with books and magazines. Eventually, online instruction...
Andrea Bruns
Photography
My work explores how landscape can be transformed into an experience of stillness, balance, and contemplation. Working primarily with the ocean, forests, and coastal environments of the Pacific Northwest, I use photography as a tool for reduction. Through long...
Alan Kilburn
Oil Painter
Various themes such as freighters, cocktails, old motel signs, ocean waves, Hershy kisses and anything else that suddenly appears interesting are what Al works on. Always in oil paints. Living and working on Vancouvers’ North Shore offers an abundance of...
Michael Brouillet
Oil Painter
Michael is a painter of urban and nature scenes. He derives great joy and peace of mind from painting. His paintings document neighbourhood scenes of the Urban Landscape that feature restaurants, boutiques, coffee houses store front business with unique signs, murals...
Heather Konschuh Glass
Glass Artist
Heather is an internationally recognized Canadian glass artist based in North Vancouver, BC. She has been working with hot glass since 2002, developing a distinctive body of hand-blown and hand-sculpted glass inspired by the beauty and energy of the natural world. Her...
Sian Woodward
Oil, Acrylic
Sian Woodward is a Visual Artist based out of her studio The Graffiti Co. Art Studio(c2002) in North Vancouver. She holds an MFA in Mixed Media from the U of C and a BFA in Drawing from U of R. Her father was an accomplished Canadian landscape painter and art...
Sarah Johnson
Acrylic, Photography
” If we are lucky, a moment in life can take root in our memory, be re-visited in our thoughts, conjured and re-imagined in our dreams, and captured on film or canvas.” Sarah was born on the North Shore and grew up immersed in all that the forests,...
Robin Rivers
Mixed Media, Photography
Robin Rivers is a mixed-media artist, photographer, and writer exploring how stories and images travel between generations. Her work reconstructs layers of cultural memory through found photography, her own photography, archival materials, and original storytelling....
Kim Rosin
Acrylic, Oil
I have designed and painted ever since I can remember. I love all forms of art and design: painting, industrial design, fabric design, architecture, theatrical set design – you name it. I’m interested in all creative processes and I particularly love...
Marlene Lowden
Oil Painter
Marlene Lowden is an abstract oil painter whose work explores the quiet intelligence and resilient beauty of the natural world. Rather than represent specific scenes, Lowden seeks to evoke the felt experience of being immersed in nature: the hush of a mycelial...
In-Ah Mellor
Mixed Media
Art and illustration are, for me, a return to the tactile. After a career in the world of feature animation, the pandemic offered a moment of stillness that allowed me to reconnect with my classical training. My current practice focuses on botanical abstracts and...
Erik Vaartnou
Acrylic, Mixed Media
Erik Vaartnou creates abstract artworks under the concept Art from Ideas. Inspiration for the colourful and complex paintings comes from his lived experience and almost anything that interests him. Past and current themes include: displaced people, global warming,...
Gina Kling
Oil, Acrylic, Watercolour
Gina Kling is a professional Canadian Artist with over 40 years experience creating both gallery level paintings & private commission paintings nationally and internationally. She has been a part of the Vancouver Art scene for over 25+ years, showing, selling and...
Leticia Broadhead
Photography
I’m Leticia, a landscape photographer whose perspective has been shaped by two very different worlds. I grew up in Porto Alegre, Brazil, surrounded by vibrant color and energy, and today I create from the misty, rugged coast of British Columbia, where shifting light...
Dallas Deng
Oil Painting
🇨🇦Exhibiting Member of the Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA). 🇺🇸Member of the Oil Painters of America (OPA). 🏆Best Plein Air Oil Winner, January 2025 PleinAir Salon Global Art Competition (USA) – an event often dubbed the “Oscars” of outdoor painting....
Chandra Junck
Watercolour
Chandra Junck’s watercolour paintings explore space and depth, inspired by galactic imagery- nebulas, supernovas, the Milky Way. Her orbs feature many layers, textures, and rich colours, creating the illusion that the viewer is peering into a distant galaxy. Further...
Afra Khakzad
Oil Painting
Afra Khakzad is a visual artist based in West Vancouver with a PhD in Philosophy of Art, a Master’s degree in Art Research, and a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design. Her paintings explore themes of identity, time, and transformation, often drawing inspiration...
Sheree Jones
Oil Painting
Sheree Jones is an artist and oil painter living in North Vancouver. She has been passionate about her art since “the age of crayons”. An active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, Oil Painters of America & Plein Air BC, her work can be found in numerous...
Robert Heino Zylstra
Acrylic
Robert Zystra (aka “RobotRob”) is a Vancouver-based visual artist and illustrator known for his bold acrylic archectectual and landscape paintings and whimsical robot motifs. He blends vibrant colour, movement, and playful design in everything he does....
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...
Dominic Howell
Oil Painting
Dominic Howell is a subject driven painter, working in oils on a variety of different themes. Reflections – Anstruther, Scotland, oil, 20″ x 24″Vasile and Constance, oil, 20″ x 24″Old Sugar Mill, Maui, oil, 24″ x...
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...
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...
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...
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
Goldsmith, Private Silversmith Instructor
Sara Montgomery Designs Goldsmith | Private Silversmith and Sand Casting Lessons | Group Workshop Instructor Sara Montgomery is based in North Vancouver and acknowledges the ancestral and unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw the Squamish Nation, the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
Oil and Acrylic Painter
Dana Johnson is a Vancouver-born artist. She studied painting at Emily Carr University of Art and Design after a successful career in fashion design and teaching. Her love of European landscapes, history, historical costume and nature comes across in much of her work....
Riitta Peirone
Painter: oils and acrylics
Riitta graduated from Sheridan College of Art and Design in Oakville Ontario and continued to take courses in drawing and painting at the Ontario College of Art. Riitta worked in Toronto as a graphic artist, mainly in educational publishing. After spending some time...
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...
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. Indigo and Copper...
Sue Daniel
Oil
Sue has been under the influence of abstract impressionism, believing the axiom that “Art is a window into the soul.” Despite the varied complex relationships in her painting, the overall tone of her finished pieces always expresses feeling, soul and emotion through...
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...
Melanie Ellery
Painting
Melanie can be found painting vibrant, expressive, contemporary art in her Port Moody, BC studio. Her work is colourful and dynamic; she paints intuitively and spontaneously, expressing life, energy and joy. A founding member of the artist collective, ‘13 feet off the...
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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