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...
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,...
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...
North Van Arts offers arts education in the form of courses, workshops, seminars, camps and in-school programming for all ages, interests and abilities.
