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...
Using a wide variety of materials and with an emphasis on richly textured surfaces, Lower Mainland artist Lee Caufield sometimes refers to her work as ‘ abstracted Impressionism’. Her subject matter is usually gardens, birds, and animals but with an emphasis on the...
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...
Mahin Sharilli is a fine art painter based in Vancouver who was born in Tehran, Iran. Mahin’s passion for art began early on in her life, and she pursued her dreams by obtaining a B.A in Stage Design from University of Art (Iran) and teaching the Basics of...
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...
North Van Arts offers arts education in the form of courses, workshops, seminars, camps and in-school programming for all ages, interests and abilities.