About the North Shore Art Crawl

The North Shore Art Crawl is a free community event that celebrates the creative energy of local artists. The event features artists in approachable venues all throughout the North Shore, inviting community to engage with and learn about their practices. The North Shore Art Crawl energizes and inspires community through uplifting the arts.

Marlene Lowden

Marlene Lowden

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...

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In-Ah Mellor

In-Ah Mellor

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...

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Erik Vaartnou

Erik Vaartnou

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,...

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Leticia Broadhead

Leticia Broadhead

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...

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Dallas Deng

Dallas Deng

🇨🇦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. 🏅People’s...

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Chandra Junck

Chandra Junck

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...

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Kenzie Pattillo

Kenzie Pattillo

Kenzie Pattillo teaches Life Drawing: Body Diversity and is a multidisciplinary artist and long-time life model whose creative practice spans drawing, collage, and mindful exploration of the human form and lived experience.

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Afra Khakzad

Afra Khakzad

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 from...

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Sheree Jones

Sheree Jones

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...

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Robert Zylstra

Robert Zylstra

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.    ...

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