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 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, 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 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...
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.
