” If we are lucky, a moment in life can take root in our memory, be re-visited in our thoughts, conjured and re-imagined in our dreams, and captured on film or canvas.” Sarah was born on the North Shore and grew up immersed in all that the forests,...
Robin Rivers is a mixed-media artist, photographer, and writer exploring how stories and images travel between generations. Her work reconstructs layers of cultural memory through found photography, her own photography, archival materials, and original storytelling....
I have designed and painted ever since I can remember. I love all forms of art and design: painting, industrial design, fabric design, architecture, theatrical set design – you name it. I’m interested in all creative processes and I particularly love...
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...
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...
North Van Arts offers arts education in the form of courses, workshops, seminars, camps and in-school programming for all ages, interests and abilities.
