Alisa Drake Location: Gibsons Instagram: Alisa.drake_ Youtube: youtu.be/Ehkt0CNKX6c Alisa Drake is a self taught aspiring artist, who lives on the Sunshine Coast. She has painted for two years and finds inspiration from the beaches near her home, which she paints using oil on canvas.
Karin Taylor Website: karintaylorart.com Location: Davis Bay After discovering a very fine, high quality woodcellulose powder back in my home country Holland I was finally able to start creating my bear statues (clay is not an option for me). Soon after moving to Vancouver from Bragg Creek in 2014 we took up yoga and during
Karin Taylor Website: karintaylorart.com Location: Davis Bay I started out with watercolor lessons in the early 90’s and realized early on wildlife inspired me the most. I painted for the Jakarta Friends of the Zoo organization in Indonesia when we lived there and after emigrating to Canada in 1997 bears and other North American wildlife
Margot Hallman Location: Sechelt Website: coastinspired.ca Instagram: Hallmanmargot I am drawn to the meeting of air, land and water and I want to express the endless relationships between these elements in my painting. The west coast of Canada offers me profound inspiration. I want those who see my work to be moved by the vastness
Allan Forest Location – Sunshine Coast Website – allanforestphotography.com Facebook – allanforestphotography Twitter – imagexpressions Instagram – allanforestphotography Photography is a medium that allows me the freedom to fly. Unfixed eyes passionately roam, feeling and experiencing life with all the nuances hidden, yet accessible within ordinary existence. The camera is an amazing tool for capturing
Greta Guzek Website – gretaguzekpaintings.com Location – Gibsons Greta grew up and completed her Fine Arts degree in South Africa. She moved in 1980 to the Sunshine Coast of B.C. where she has since worked from her studio as an illustrator and painter. “Having lived on the west coast for 30 years I feel an
Paula O’Brien Location-Gibsons Website – paulaobrien.com/digital-painting Tutorial videos Digital painting is SO exciting, especially for plein air painting and life drawing because the iPad is just SO EASY to take along – anyplace! Personally, I ONLY use digital painting when I can’t use real paints in my studio, like when I’m away from home or
Paula O’Brien Location – Gibsons Website – paulaobrien.com Instagram – paulaobrien.art I’m a colorist, I paint the LIGHT. My work has shifted from figurative work to the West Coast world of abstract landscapes, seascapes and digital painting. I see infinite beauty in the world. I look for the energy and light; the light, shapes and
David Emerson Hall Website – davidehall.ca Location – Gibsons My intention is to bring the viewer a sense of the moment that moved me to pause . The scene could stimulate a reflection on the human condition or one’s relationship with the natural environment . I work intuitively selecting materials that represent the spirit and
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