Individual Artists
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:...
Amy Lee
Watercolour, Acrylic, Clay
Over the years, my work has seen a constant process of change. My paintings have evolved from the initial focus on realism to a style I can only best describe as “semi- abstract recognizable realism”. I love to paint from imagination and not be guided say...
Andrea Bruns
Photography
Andrea Bruns is an international awarded, self-thought Fine Art, Lifestyle and Travel Photographer from Berlin, Germany, now living in North Vancouver, BC, Canada, who is behind the Camera since 1974. Her Beautiful Fine Art Prints will let you discover amazing...
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...
Ann Hamm
Oils, Mixed Media, Charcoal, Ink
Nature revitalises me and I fall in love with each dry twig, a moss covered rock, a glint of sunlight on water, the sparkle of light on snow or the dancing shadows from trees. A special delight is a close up view: grass at the water’s edge, pebbles worn smooth, leaves...
Anne-Marie Calder
Acrylic, Oil and Watercolour
Anne-Marie was born in Edmonton but spent most of her youth in Florida and California. She graduated from the University of California, majoring in both Art History and French Literature with a minor in Fine Arts. She then moved to Montreal where she obtained her...
Antoinette (Toni) Ludski
Acrylic Painting
Toni was born in Cape Town, South Africa. As a child she loved to draw and paint. Toni immigrated to Canada in 1968. In 2007, Toni took a Beginners Class in acrylics with Andrew Hamilton at the McKay Art Centre in Unionville, Ontario where she was introduced to...
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....
Audrey Bakewell
Watercolour & Acrylic Painter
AUDREY BAKEWELL was born in Edmonton and has lived in South Surrey since 2001. Her focus has not always been art, she is well known in the hockey industry as an innovative pioneer of power skating. However in 2001 her life took a turn with a serious car accident. To...
Barbara Kops
Acrylic, Graphite/Coloured Penci, Mixed Media, Pastels/Conté, Pen/Ink, Watercolour
Born in Holland to a historic family of artists, I am forging my individual presence. My mother actively encouraged my artistic development. Studying at Emily Carr University and many workshops throughout the years spur my creative direction. I am humbly grateful for...
Bev Ellis
Ceramic Sculpture, Printmaking, Acrylic Painting & Mixed Media
Winner of the SSICA Ceramics Biennial Peoples Choice Award, and a large scale Ceramic Installation for VanCity, Bev enjoys Painting, printmaking, drawing and sculpting highly textured surfaces with clay. Her favourite muse is nature, where beauty is found in...
Billy Would Designs (Adea Chung)
Jewellery, Mixed Media
Craving sustainable fresh jewelry, Adea Chung created Billy Would designs in 2007. Offering beautiful and chic designs not found anywhere else. Each unique piece is handmade using recycled and reclaimed hardwood. Rescuing exotic hardwoods from various local...
Brian Minichiello
Oil on Canvas
Brian Minichiello’s paintings provide a moment to appreciate the natural world. A place to unburden and find connection. “When I paint, my thoughts fall like snow flakes, muffling sound and quieting time. I strive to create spaces where it is safe to slow...
Brian Wolfgang Becker
Digital capture & creation using cell phone cameras, PC laptop computers & associated software applications programs
My creative background began with post secondary studies at B.C.I.T., David Thompson University Center and the Sheridan College School Of Visual Arts followed by a year of commercial portfolio development with a focus on fashion, people, travel and sports. That set me...
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,...
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...
Celinda Stevens
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Wood
Born in Acapulco Mexico into a family of artists, writers, poets and musicians, I developed an appreciation for art since early in life. I have lived in Canada for the best part of my life and I feel deep inspiration from the many colours of nature that I humbly...
Cindy Mclean
Watercolour Paintings
My Morning Treasures are the beautiful flowers I find everyday on my walks. They are what connects me to the present moment. What makes me realize how truly great this universe is. To be able to paint them so that I can share them with you is truly an honour. I have...
Claudia Wiebe
Acrylic and Mixed Media Paintings
My artwork is a reflection of my life…surrounded by very painful and melancholic memories, as well as many happy and wonderful experiences. I like to communicate life’s experiences through my paintings. I believe art speaks to the soul, some days like a soft whisper...
Coach House Workshop
Glass, Jewellery, Textiles/Fibre
Linda Sharp has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alberta. She works in fabric and paint, using oilsticks to capture movement and visual energy. Linda also hand fashions odd glass beads and jewellery made from them. Many of her wonderfully...
Connie O’Connor
Acrylic & Mixed Media Painting
As a prairie native who grew up in Manitoba, Connie O’Connor began painting expansive fields stretching to the horizon with vast blue skies. Her focus has recently shifted to abstract work which has been inspired by her 12-year meditation practice. She is creating a...
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...
Diana Zoe Coop
Visual Artist
Diana Zoe Coop’s paintings on paper and canvas reflect an intimate exploration of the Japanese Garden, water features, seasons, and diverse plant life that make this an art form unto itself. Contemporary expressionist botanical works are her focus, and her...
Dianna Burns
Oil Painting
Dianna Burns was born in Weyburn Saskatchewan. As the daughter of a railroader, she learned to love the wide open spaces and sunshine of roaming the prairies. She drew as a vital part of her being as soon as she could hold a red crayon. She completed her Bachelor’s...
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...
Doris MacDougall
Drawing and Painting
I am a Canadian Artist living in North Vancouver, British Columbia. I studied Fine Arts as well as Clay and Fibre at Capilano College graduating in 1981. I am active in the Vancouver and North Vancouver Art Communities and participate in the East-side Culture Crawl in...
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...
Edward Peck
Digital Media
Edward Peck studied photography, fine arts, conceptual art, historical technics, film, and literature at the University of British Columbia. He then went on to work under a number of artists to develop his technical skills in photography, film, etching, watercolour,...
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...
Elahe Nour Bakhsh
Oil, Mixed Media
Elahe Nour Bakhsh was born in Iran in 1964. She grew up in an artistic atmosphere. With her mother as a professional painter, Elahe realized that painting was her true calling. Elahe began studying painting in 1996 under the supervision of Karim Nasr, one of the most...
Elisabeth Sommerville
Stone Lithography
Elisabeth Sommerville was born in Calgary, Alberta and graduated from the Alberta College of Art in 1963. She moved to Vancouver, B.C. and established Sommergraphics, an award-winning graphic design studio. In 1998 she became interested in printmaking and studied at...
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...
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...
Eva Francis
Mixed Media
I live by the ocean at the edge of the Pacific Northwest temperate rain forest. I love the beauty of this place in any weather. I spend a lot of time outdoors on the hiking trails of Vancouver’s North Shore and out on the water. My observations of the natural...
Faye Gordon-Lewis
Acrylic Painting
I have been a painter for many years, concentrating mostly on landscapes for the past twelve. I am a graduate of Emily Carr University and have degrees from UBC in Studio Arts and Education. I also studied photography informally, having one two-person photography show...
Gabriele Maurus
Painter & Collagist
My main interest is in the interplay of colour and composition. I’m painting, drawing, photographing, sculpting and everything else senses are used for. For email updates on a non-regular basis, please join my *privacy respecting* mailing list at emmarts.ca....
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...
Gelareh Raufi
Acrylic Painting
Geoffrey Caofei Feng
Oil Painting
Had 8 years professional learning experience from Xi’an Fine Art Institute in China. After obtained Bachelor Degree of Oil Painting from the institute, he had worked with his associates to provide products for private homes and gift chain stores in the US for many...
George Janousek
Photography
View from Radisson Hotel Tahiti by George Janousek, photography, 13 x 9 in. $400.Venetian Gondolas Las Vegas by George Janousek, photography, 14 x 10 in. $500.The Stack by George Janousek, photography, 14 x 10 in. $400Old pilings on Fraser River by George Janousek,...
Grace Gordon-Collins
Mixed Media & Photography
I have always been an observer and a storyteller, as a result, my work invariably starts in a narrative structure. My approach to photography has been clearly influenced by my studies at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T The parallel and conceptual...
Guity Novin
Visual Artist
Guity Novin (born Guity Navran, 1944) is an Iranian-Canadian figurative painter, and graphic designer residing in Canada. She classifies her work as Transpressionism, a movement she has introduced. Her works are in private and public collections worldwide. Visit...
Guy Hollington
Glass
Guy Hollington has great fun experimenting with glass as well as using traditional Italian techniques in a modern way. Guy HollingtonGuy HollingtonGuy Hollington...
Heather MacNeil
Acrylic & Mixed Media Painting
Originally from Montreal, Heather moved to the West Coast in 1994 feeling drawn to its natural beauty. Prior to moving west, she lived in Toronto and overseas in Switzerland, Belgium and Germany where she was inspired by rich artistic environments. Heather has...
Helen Barke
Oil, Watercolour Painting
Helen, a native of the UK, is an emerging artist resident in West Vancouver, BC. Helen has had a lifelong interest in gardens, wild flowers and animals and is fascinated by our wonderful natural environment in BC. Largely self-taught, she has studied under some...
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...
Jane Armstrong
Acrylic
Jane Armstrong is an established BC Artist residing in West Vancouver where she has her studio. Jane started her career in 1992 and as of 2003 she started painting full time. She is an active member the Federation of Canadian Artists and the North Shore Artists Guild....
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...
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...
Janice Beaudoin
Mixed Media
Janice is a contemporary mixed media artist living in North Vancouver. Her studio is located in Welch Street Studios – an artists’ collective located at the base of Pemberton Avenue. Discovery and risk-taking are an important part of her creative process....
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...
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...
Jessamyn Box
Acrylic & Mixed Media Painting
Jessamyn is an abstract painter living in North Vancouver. She has been involved in the arts in one form or another from an early age, being a former drummer and trained actor. Jessamyn moved into working with clay and hand building, and from there landed on her...
Jilly Watson
Acrylics
Jilly Watson paints happy colourful acrylic paintings. Artist statement: “You will very often see paths or trails in my work which are symbolic of the choices we make in life. My present path as an artist has brought me great joy. I have a passion for bright...
Joanne White
Acrylic, Oil, Pastels/Conté, Mixed Media
Joanne is a figurative, expressive artist who loves colour and line, the play of light and shadows, and the negative shapes that frame and hold our bodies. She’s inspired by the infinite beauty of nature, water and the human form and strives to capture movement,...
Jody Broomfield
Wood Carving, Graphics, Jewelry, Etched Glass, Metal Sculptures
My name is Sinámkin – Jody Broomfield of the Squamish Peoples, Coast Salish. My creative life journey as an artist began in 1999. Mediums that I enjoy working in are carved wood, jewelry, clothing, fabricated metal sculptures and etched glass. Since, I begun my...
Julie Fox
Julie Fox is best known for private commissions or donated illustrations for a variety of fundraising events on the North Shore. Her work shares meaning through whimsical designs, fine detail and brilliant colour captivating audiences of all ages. As her family grows...
Julie Johnston
Visual Artist
Julie D. Johnston is an artist living in South Surrey. She has been making and teaching art for over twenty years. Teaching herself to draw Fred Flintstone from memory launched her career at the age of ten. Julie’s work includes painting, illustration,...
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...
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...
Kats (Kathleen) Klein
Photography, Acrylic & Mixed Media
Kats began exploring a unique capture of her world at an early age. Spurred on by the gift of a Kodak 126 Instamatic camera from a blind family friend and the instructions “explore your vision of the world in your own way”, she pushed the limits of tools and subjects...
Kim Rosin
Acrylic, Oil, Watercolour
I have always created art, always drawn or painted or made things. I took art lessons from an early age and was a keen artist bubbling with ideas for designing things and observing the world. I studied Fine Arts at university and spent my first approx 10 working years...
Kristy Wensveen
Photography and Painting
Kristy Wensveen, a resident of North Vancouver, is an artist, photographer and teacher. She captures the essence of B.C. landscapes and wildlife using real life scenes that are individually unique and vibrant in nature. Through the lens, her photographs bring...
Libby Dybikowski
I think of my work as an extension of Visceral Me, a way of sharing my feelings and impressions, often calm, sometimes edgy. I paint in acrylic to create vibrant images of people, horses, landscapes and studies in abstract. For subjects, I draw on the unique...
Lilie Rutter
Acrylic
Lilie is an abstract artist based in British Columbia, Canada. She has expressed herself through art from an early age, and after moving across the Atlantic to Canada, she began to seek out more time to paint in between her career and raising her children, gradually...
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...
Lorn Curry
Oil
I’m a North Vancouver based oil painter. Inspired by the hyperrealism movement, my primary subject matter is the contemporary still-life. Through these works, I explore a long-held fascination with the interplay of light and dark, positive and negative space. I have...
Luciana Alvarez
Acrylic
2020 brings new themes of local hikes, garden and travels as well as whimsical cityscapes. Acrylic on canvas with exaggerated with vibrant colors. Studio visits available through the year. Luciana7@telus.net Sunflowers in Vase by Luciana AlvarezQuarry Rock Trail...
Lynne Green
Painting
Step into a working studio and browse a large selection of bright colorful flower paintings from imagination, large peaceful and atmospheric landscapes, patterned west coast rain forest scenes as well as a series of figurative prints advocating for beauty found in a...
M. Reza Atashzad
Master Watercolour Artist
Feast of Initiation, 2003, watercolour, 56x37cmParis, France, The Eiffel Tower, 2005, watercolour, 28x19cmFrankfurt, Germany 1, 1995, watercolour, 47x32cmGlory of Sightseeing, Bagh e Melli Gates and Portal Tehran, 1996, watercolour, 46x32cmFlorence, Italy, Ponte Santa...
Majid Sheikh Akbari
Sculptures
Majid creates sculptures from wood or spare materials from building sites or by-products of other processes including re-bar, scrap metal, ceramic, copper, glass and nuts & bolts. This approach significantly reduces the ecological footprint of his sculptures while...
Margaret Riley Cody
Acrylic and Pastels/Conté
Margaret Riley Cody is a member of the North Vancouver Arts Council and an Associate Member of the Federation For Canadian Artist. She is also the Design and creative director for Charterhouse...
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...
Meghan Sharir
Oil, Watercolour
Meghan draws from her own life and travels to capture and communicate moments of whimsy, quiet beauty and quirky humanity. She works primarily in oil in a realist manner, though her paintings range from impressionist renderings of the figure in city/landscape, to...
Michael Binkley
Stone Sculpture
Michael Binkley is a professional artist with 40 years experience working as a sculptor in a wide range of scale, stone type and idiom. His gallery and studio are located in the warehouse district of Squamish, BC, Canada – a 50 min. drive from North Vancouver....
Michelle Fedosoff
Photography
15 years ago, Michelle picked up her first camera. She photographs everything from landscapes to wildlife to people and whatever captures her eye. Printing on metal, wood, canvas, and bamboo paper allows her to share the beauty that she finds in the everyday. Sunset...
Moira Elliott
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Pastels/Conté
Moira Elliott is a North Shore artist who has exhibited in Vancouver, Montreal and throughout the U.K. One of her watercolours was selected by Tony Onley and Douglas Coupland to be part of a nation-wide watercolour exhibition. One of her acrylics was part of an...
Monica Gewurz
Acrylic & Mixed-Media
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 paintings...
Mylène Comsia
Paintings in Acrylic & Mixed Media
I find inspiration for my painting everywhere, from nature to textile design, to colourful food and places around the world. Growing up in a small town in France, surrounded with beautiful fields, orchards and gardens, I developed an artistic side at a young age....
Nancy Draper
Jewellery - vintage and new beads, metals, glass, ceramic
My jewellery pieces are inspired by our beautiful natural surroundings – our beaches and mountains. I use natural stones, glass, vintage pieces, silver, copper, ceramics when creating my jewelry. All of my earrings are made using nickel-free ear wires, for those...
Neill Lyons
metal, pottery, ceramics, stone
Neill Lyons is a professional engineer who in middle age took up the art of sculpting as a recreational pursuit. Over the past twenty years he has worked in several sculpting media including wax, terra-cotta, plaster, stone and bronze. He has pursued self-education...
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...
Nilufar Moayeri
Painter, Art Instructor
Nilufar Moayeri is a painter and art instructor with more than 20 years of practice. Nilufar was born in Tehran but spent her life in Turkey, where she eventually became one of that country’s most prominent artists and art educators. She started studying art at a very...
Nina Kuznetsova
Oil & Watercolour Painting
Composition 28 | 2020 Oil on canvas 17”x23” $900 not framed (Limited ed. prints available) Composition 30 | 2019 W/C on paper 10”x15” $300 matted original not framed (Ltd. ed. pr. avail.)Evening Sun | 2019 Acrylic on canvas 8”x10” $300 not framed (Limited ed. prints...
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...
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...
Ray James Bradbury
Paintings in oils, Inktense and water crayon
When not painting I am a wilderness activist, mainly trying to protect our coastal environment. I hold a B.A. (Architecture) degree from Manchester University (UK). I also farmed in New Brunswick and, earlier in life, was a leading scout for the army in the Malayan...
Reyan Bakht
Mixed Media Artist
I started making art in 2016 without any background or experience in art. At first, I did not have any intention to make art or becoming an artist. I just wanted to apply an art therapy technique that I had learned in the past. I scribbled without aiming to draw...
Reyhaneh Bakhtiari
oil painter
Reyhaneh Bakhtiari is an internationally acclaimed oil painting artist. She was born in Tehran, Iran and showed artistic talent at a young age. She went to England when she was 19, where she attended Swindon College, University of London, and continued her studies. ...
Rhonda Honing
acrylic painting
I have had the wonderful opportunity to live in some very beautiful places, Grand Cayman being the last place, before moving to North Vancouver in 2000. On a grey day in November 2006, I was inspired to start painting some of my favourite places in the Caribbean,...
Rhonda LeGrove Garton
Oil
Painting in oil is a constant source of inspiration and exploration. Portraiture, landscape, figurative and still life all provide an opportunity for experimentation with colour, texture and composition. Rhonda has a particular passion for portraiture, but has delved...
Rick Herdman
Printmaker and Sculptor
Rick Herdman lives and works in Burnaby, British Columbia. Rick studied at Capilano College, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, and University of British Columbia. In the process received a Diploma in Studio Art, Bachelors of Fine Arts, and a Bachelors...
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...
Robert Atyeo
Acrylic Abstract Expressionist
Robert Atyeo is a Toronto born artist who currently divides his time between Peterborough Ontario, and Vancouver. Ever a creative soul, Robert has enjoyed a successful career as a singer songwriter and it was during that time that he began to paint. His abstract...
Robert Wanner
Robert has spent most of his life enjoying the great outdoors, whether skiing and living in Whistler, or hiking and biking the North Shore Mountains. Often venturing to warm places to spend time in the ocean snorkeling amongst the beautiful creatures our planet offers...
Roman Rozumnyj
West Coast Modern Artist
Born June 4th, 1964 in Sudbury, ON, raised in Winnipeg, MB, currently residing in West Vancouver, BC, Canada, graduated from the University of Manitoba with a B.A. in Economics (’85) / Bachelor of Interior Design (’89). A practicing artist, interior architect and set...
Saeedeh Pourbozorgi
Painting
Born and raised in Tehran , Iran, immigrated to Canada in 2000. Although studied business management, traveling to almost every corner of this planet inspired me to learn the art of painting. Throughout the years, oil painting has been my noblest and most favorite...
Sally Clark
Oil & Linen on Canvas
“I paint to get at the essence of my subject, to understand its mystery. I want to create the feeling one has, when light suddenly hits a surface and there is a moment of illumination. I wish to engage the viewer in this sense of mystery, these apparitions of...
Sande Waters
Acrylic, Acrylic Ink, Graphite, 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 have volunteered as Vice President, Board of Directors at the Seymour Art Gallery, North...
Sandra Yuen
Acrylic Painting
Sandra Yuen is a Canadian-born Chinese visual artist who works and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has works mainly in acrylic painting for the last fifteen years. Art is her passion and part of her healing and journey of recovery from illness. She wants to...
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...
Sarah Ronald
Drawing and Mixed Media
My artwork explores our relationships with wild animals, as living beings in the world and as concepts in our personal stories and culture. I feel that we need to be continually reminded that humans are only tenants on this planet, and I believe art is an accessible...
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....
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...
Sharka Leigh
Acrylic
Sharka Leigh is an acrylic painter from North Vancouver. She paints varied subject matter, though she most often focuses on her favourite animal, cows. Her work is recognizable by its combination of composition, unusual subject matter and detailed style. Sharka paints...
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...
Shelley Brookes
Multi-Media
I always say I’m not a painter but a tool for the creator. My process is to destroy the art and let the universe decide what it will create. Every piece is completed in its own variation. The final product is just as exciting to me as when the viewer sees the piece....
Sheree Jones
Oil
“My creative journey has taken me down many paths. I am a keen outdoor ‘plein air’ painter, preferring to capture my subjects directly from life. I carry my painting gear wherever I travel, from Costa Rica to Spain, Sicily and Italy. From California to Wyoming and...
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...
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...
Stephen Corcoran
Born and raised in Vancouver, Stephen trained at the Vancouver Art School (Emily Carr) in the 70s. Woodworking and welding skills transfer into the pastels giving them grain and structure. At his exhibit, ‘Dancing on the Interface’ at Basic Inquiry Gallery and Studio...
Stephen Cowell
Painting
I live in Deep Cove and find the scenery exciting and always changing. Painting this area comes naturally, it even drives me. Canada has been my home since arriving in Vancouver at 19 while traveling. The Vancouver area has been my home though I have lived in Northern...
Steve Rayner
Steve Rayner – Background 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...
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...
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...
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...
Sue Des Lauriers
Acrylic & Oil Painting
“The moment an idea sparks in the mind it flows gently or furiously from the mind to the heart, where it is captured and turned into a moment in time. The results leap from the hand to mix around the colours … the glorious colours. Then comes the critical...
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...
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...
Tammy Flynn Seybold
Painting
In Tammy Flynn Seybold’s figurative works, the media itself – the lush applications of thick oil paint – have a presence that transcends the representative aspects of the image. Through her bold application and manipulation with a palette knife, the paint...
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...
Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki
Acrylic Painting
Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki is a Canadian landscape painter based in Port Moody, British Columbia, where she emigrated from Serbia in 1994. Although her childhood was filled with drawing, the challenging reality of her native country made her choose education in science....
Theresa Wimbles
Whether I’m painting, illustrating or taking photos, mindful contemplation and the exploration of what life and nature’s beauty represents is at the center of my art. My creative experience is an up close and personal view of the natural, as sensual rythmn meets...
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....
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...
Tiffany Reid
Acrylic, Oil, Pastels/Conté
Tiffany Reid – A contemporary abstract artist, influenced by the natural beauty and sweeping landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. Having grown up on the North Shore, she truly has an appreciation for nature’s vibrancy and colours, which find its way into...
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...
Vern Montgomery
Vern is a seasoned acrylic artist who pants rich, colourful local scenes and celebrations in a whimsical style that captures the heart and brings a smile or a chuckle to the viewer. Vern’s inspiration comes from everyday activities. Using bold, bright acrylics...
Victoria Mitchell
Acrylic
Victoria Mitchell has had life long passion for creating visuals to emotions, inspired by what comes from within. Having studied body structure & kinetics extensively over the years has influenced her painting representations of many natural and environmental...
Wanda Doyle
Acrylic, Oil
Starting with just one acrylic painting in 2001, Wanda has since grown into her studio in North Vancouver and paints most afternoons with either oils or acrylics. Although she is essentially self-taught, Wanda has enjoyed many workshops which have inspired her...
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, dry brush technique to depict the...