The Sunshine Coast is blessed with more artists per capita than anywhere else in Canada. A small handful of these artists are world class, showing internationally, with studios open to the public. Mardi is one such hidden sparkling gem, showing her art locally at her little rustic barn/studio, the ArtBarn in Roberts Creek, just off [...]
Rotary Club Art Auction On Saturday, November 2, the Rotary Club of Pender Harbour will host the twelfth annual Rotary Art Auction at the Garden Bay Hotel in Pender Harbour. This event has become a favourite night out for many and a chance to either start a collection or build on an existing one. An [...]
Growing up in Africa, Liz de Beer was surrounded by a rich resource of wonderful design elements in nature, from which she draws inspiration for her pottery. Her dad used to pick up porcupine quills in the fields on their farm and would then turn them into actual writing instruments. The use of quills on [...]
Jennifer refers to this work as “Botanical musings through explorations of surface design on fabric.” The inspiration for Cuttings comes from the botanical world, both the wild, untamed world of the BC forest and the cultivated yet equally fantastic realm of her neighbours’ exotic garden. Jennifer’s medium is fabric, which she dyes in complex and [...]
FibreWorks Studio & Gallery had the privilege of presenting eight classes of pine needle basket weaving by Hattie Olsen. Hattie’s storytelling teaching style provided the students with a relaxed learning environment as they created their individual containers. Her stories of making her first basket — gathering pine needles in the Lillooet area, the support of [...]
[custom_frame_center][/custom_frame_center] Westwind Gallery presents “Trails of Discovery” - New Paintings by Greta Guzek. All are welcome to the opening reception on November 12, 4 to 7 pm at Westwind Gallery, #14-292 Gower Point Road in Gibsons Landing. Nature provides many metaphors for life’s journey, and as I walk down the beach and forest trails, hemmed-in [...]
[custom_frame_center][/custom_frame_center] Lez Niepo, local visual artist and musician, immigrated to Canada from Scandinavia in 1973, first settling in Toronto, then moving to the Sunshine Coast, where he established his studio, Allworks, in Halfmoon Bay. His paintings from that time were influenced by the European abstract movement. In the eighties, Lez travelled to the Fiji Islands [...]
[custom_frame_center][/custom_frame_center] Tessa Rand grew up in Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast. She obtained a degree in 3D Animation from the Art Institute in Vancouver, where she met her husband. After moving back to the Coast in 2007, she joined a collective of self-taught metal artists who call themselves the Martopian Collective. Tessa, a “mompreneur” [...]