Art Instructors
Paige Jung
Paige Jung is a Chinese-Canadian illustrator, muralist and artist from Vancouver, Canada. Using digital and acrylic mediums, Paige is known for her proficient use of colour and gestural shapes to create illustrations that tell stories of connection, wonder, community,...
Emma Fish
Emma Fish is a passionate artist dedicated to connecting people with nature through creativity. After immigrating to Canada in 2016, she fell in love with breathtaking Canadian landscapes and blended this with the bold vibrancy of her Australian roots. In her...
Elena Senatorova
Elena is a full-time visual artist based in West Vancouver who works mostly with oil medium, in techniques from classical realism to contemporary impressionism, from fine glazing to heavy brush strokes, and palette knife work. Throughout her life, Elena has had the...
Francisco Berlanga
Textile
Francisco Berlanga is a Vancouver-based artist with a BFA from Simon Fraser University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. His practice reflects on his relationship to his Mexican identity as a second-generation immigrant through the lens of craft. He...
Cyd Eva
Is a queer visual artist, fashion designer, Art Teacher, podcast host, dancer, installation artist and surface pattern designer from Coquitlam so-called BC Canada. She has a BFA in visual art from Simon Fraser university, a degree in Fashion Design from Cape town...
Kim O’Brien
Felting
Kim O’Brien is a self-taught textile artist who has worked with wool since 2005. She sees the world through a joyful, quirky lens and uses her art practice to explore both amusing observations and complicated experiences. Since 2016 Kim has worked with wool...
Stephanie Blundell
Multi-disciplinary
Stephanie Blundell is a Vancouver-based visual artist who moved from London, UK, in 2019. She works on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and serves as the Arts Education Manager at North Van Arts. Stephanie’s art brings...
Sandrine Pelissier
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Watercolour
Originally from France, Sandrine Pelissier is a North Vancouver based Artist. Working from her studio, part of Welch street studios, she explores creating art in a variety of media : acrylics, watercolor, drawing and printmaking. Her work has been collected and...
MJ Holec
Multidisciplinary
MJ Holec is a lesbian writer, painter, and explorer across mediums. As an artist and educator, she believes in creating a space for students to explore, play, and discover their own unique modes of expression. One of her primary interests is in multi-media responses...
Surnoor Singh
Painter
Surnoor is an Indian born artist now living in Vancouver. He draws inspiration from the very life surrounding him. City, land, and people are reoccurring themes in his paintings. He is most passionate about painting ‘en plein air’ (painting outside from life) which...
Anna du Bois
Multi-Media Artist
Largely self-taught multi-media artist with interest in life drawing, as well as what is generally considered craft rather than art: creating items from yarn and repurposed or upcycled fabric; refinishing or repurposing furniture and other objects, and...
Kamila Bashir
Industrial Designer
Kamila Bashir is a nature enthusiast pursuing industrial design from Emily Carr University. She moved to Vancouver last year from India. Her work is mostly driven by nature and she continues to embrace, come closer to, be inclusive of, and mindful of the natural...
Willoughby Arevalo
Mycologist, Artist, Educator
Willoughby Arevalo is a interdisciplinary artist, mycologist and educator working on community-engaged projects that build relationships between humans, fungi and other members of our interspecies community. Willoughby’s goals as a community-engaged artist...
Isabelle Kirouac
Interdisciplinary Choreographer, Performer, Movement Educator
Isabelle Kirouac is an interdisciplinary choreographer, movement artist, and educator born in Quebec, on the traditional lands of the Abenaki, and currently living in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh...
Clement Yeh
Drawing
Clement Yeh is an artist, parent, husband, educator, community advocate, and student of life. Born to Chinese parents in England, he grew up in Calgary on Treaty 7 land. Comics were an early creative influence that inspired him to pursue fine art, leading to a BFA at AuArts and an MFA at Concordia University. He currently teaches in the Communication and Visual Arts dept at Thompson Rivers University, on traditional unceded Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Territory (Kamloops, BC), and sits on the Board of the Kamloops Arts Council. His primary medium is figurative drawing, and he is passionate about supporting the role that art plays in personal growth, confronting social issues, and uplifting the quality of life in society.
Sydney Tough
Bassist, vocalist, composer and educator Sydney Tough graduated from Capilano University in 2019 with a Bachelor Degree in Jazz and Education. Sydney sings and plays bass in a variety of musical projects ranging in style from jazz, R&B and folk. Her visual art...
Anastasia Kondratovich
Painter
Anastasia Barabanova is a professional artist painter with a strong artistic background. She holds a Masters degree in Arts, within specialization in oil painting from Academy of Fine Arts in Saint-Petersburg, Russia and a Bachelor of Education 2nd degree from Simon...