2024 WINTER STORIES
Chelsea Brooke Roisum
Chelsea Brooke Roisum celebrates the beauty in candour and the exuberance of simple living moments.
Kathryn Fullerton
Clay, with its earthy tactile nature, invites Kathryn Fullerton to follow quite impulses through deep embodied listening.
Ken Walters
Ken Walters's popular creations are colourful, impactful, and imbued with a kind of solidity and a democratic treatment of form and colour.
Breaking Bread
Nadia Vassev takes the simplest of ingredients and creates bread that elevates butter and makes family gatherings better.
Viewfinder
ZOOM readers take their favourite magazine on their travels and share their photos with us.
Gifts for all Seasons
From birthday presents to holiday treasures, our local shops and artisans have got you covered with unique gifts for every season and reason.
2024 SUMMER STORIES
Steven Bulman
Steven Bulman's incredible photography gives the viewer everything: light, colour, form, subject, composition, and, if we spend some time with the image, maybe even a story.
Evelyn Kirkaldy
Big buttery swirls, true colour, and surprising lifelike detail all come together in a visual synergy that is a feast for the eyes.
Rainforest Circus
Ever stumbled upon a circus in the magical rainforests of the Sunshine Coast? If you’re one of the lucky ones, you have!
Wake Up In The Wilderness
Summertime is all about being outdoors. What better way to enjoy it than with a camping adventure?
Shain Jackson
Shain Jackson's gorgeous vessels, bowls, and boxes are functional and sublime. He works with beautiful materials to produce work that is sophisticated and layered with symbolism and meaning.
Coast Recital Society
New leadership at the Coast Recital Society carries on its enduring legacy of excellent repertoire and performances.
Finding Relief & Healing From Grief
The bereaved do emerge, usually with a strong commitment to joy and gratitude. Grief can be the crack through which music sounds, and light shines.
Our Botanical Garden
In its 15th year, the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden is setting a beautiful path toward a sustainable future.
Saving Lives On The Water
Regardless of how you travel in or on the water, you need to know who to contact if you get into trouble.
2024 SPRING STORIES
The Early Years | Editor’s Choice
As we reflect on ZOOM's 14 years of capturing the Sunshine Coast’s artistic talent, the magazine's creator Edmund Arceo, looks back on some of his favourite photographic images from the early years.
Jan Jensen
Jan Jensen's evocative abstract expressionist painting is a delight. Her restrained use of colour gives a spacious feel to these images as if a breeze could blow through each layer.
And The BLues Play On
Pender Harbour's annual Blues Festival is coming! June 7, 8, and 9 will bring delighted audiences and performers to our beautiful area of lakes, coves, and forests.
The Music Makers
Lynne and Reg Dickson, lifelong performers, songwriters, and partners, have been making music with and for our community for over 50 years. They continue to show us all how it is done.
The Harbour Gallery
Harbour Gallery responds to the rhythms of our small community. In off-peak times the gallery provides studio space for guest artisans, solo and group shows, as well as workshops.
Nature’s Healing Power
Today, more than ever, people want to know what they can do to keep healthy. Over 2000 years ago the well-known Greek physician Hippocrates advised us, “Nature itself is the best physician.”
Have Paddle, Will Travel
With spring’s kinder weather upon us, we turn our thoughts from staying cozy (and dry!) indoors to enjoying the outdoors once again. On the Sunshine Coast, that includes getting out on the water!
Sweet to Savoury
Love ingredients that can move from sweet to savoury with ease? The simplicity of the rice grain has filled our bellies for thousands of years.
ZOOM, ZOOM!
Sunshine Coast residents pack copies of their favourite local magazine to take great souvenir photos of their trips and share with us snapshots of their adventures.
JOHN KALMAN PHOTOGRAPHY
In early May, the skies treated us to a rare display of aurora borealis. A “severe” geomagnetic storm made the northern lights visible across Canada and much of the U.S. This coincided with clear skies so that viewers in many places got a thrilling light show that lasted for hours and will be recalled for lifetimes. Magenta, cerulean, turquoise and green . . . our eyes gave us unexpected and wonderful colours. Our cameras saw even more.
John Kalman caught some exceptional photos of the heavens dancing from his home in the Shores area of Sechelt. He felt lucky to be able to view the lights with his wife and daughter:
“. . . we felt blessed to be experiencing this event together. . . that puts into perspective our place in the vast universe; we felt humbled to bear witness to its beauty.”
PAST ARTICLES
PHOTOGRAPHERS
The Early Years | Editor’s Choice
As we reflect on ZOOM's 14 years of capturing the Sunshine Coast’s artistic talent, the magazine's creator Edmund Arceo, looks back on some of his favourite photographic images from the early years.
Ron Smid
"My work strives to go beyond the mere documentary capture of a landscape by gazing towards the veiled; creating imagery where the physical world touches the divine."
Forest Impressions
"It is an ongoing exploration of the beauty and soul of our forests. I include motion in many of these images in an attempt to capture the true essence of these magnificent life forms . . ."
Life Awakes
There's nothing as relentless as spring. Buds form when snow is still on the ground, and the season progresses even when some of us aren't quite ready.
Rays of Light
I could easily have interpreted the scene as being touched by the hand of God, with the rays of light being fingers reaching out to touch me with their splendour . . .
Ice Visions
What is it about ice? Besides the fact that it is so very familiar to Canadians, it might be that ice illustrates so beautifully the solid phase of matter that we grapple with daily in less appealing forms.
ARTISTS
Jan Jensen
Jan Jensen's evocative abstract expressionist painting is a delight. Her restrained use of colour gives a spacious feel to these images as if a breeze could blow through each layer.
The Harbour Gallery
Harbour Gallery responds to the rhythms of our small community. In off-peak times the gallery provides studio space for guest artisans, solo and group shows, as well as workshops.
James Bennett
Affinity for form and earthiness translates quite seamlessly into one-of-a-kind ceramics.
Margot Hallman
"I work with pastel, acrylic, and oil. I am drawn to the subtle changes in spatial expanse, texture, colour, and temperature that manifest themselves in the landscape."
Abstract Expressions
Sandy Kay's artful and sparing use of colour brings her nature-inspired, abstract works to life.
Meghan Hildebrand
"I love my small town streets, the fading facades and how sunset lights up shop windows, redirecting shadows and illuminating hidden passages . . ."
EVENTS
And The BLues Play On
Pender Harbour's annual Blues Festival is coming! June 7, 8, and 9 will bring delighted audiences and performers to our beautiful area of lakes, coves, and forests.
International Choral Kathaumixw
This year's festival was an exuberant and joyful success, with audiences and participants having waited five long years since the last gathering.
Love Exhibition
February's Love Exhibition at One Flower One Leaf Gallery was a delightful feast for the soul and senses, with contributions from 12 local artists, as well as interactive experiences, meditations, and activities.
Festival 2023
For our small but mighty community of performers, and their coaches and teachers, the festival is a chance to set goals and prepare for the rigours of adjudication, competition, and performance in front of an audience.
The Mix
When artists of a similar high calibre and with diverse techniques and materials band together, the result can be a joy for all concerned.
Artisan Seaside Market
These “crafty” works have a real dignity. They show laborious detail, restraint, an assured sense of composition, and a painstaking approach to colour.