Our network is growing. The Cowichan Valley Artists Directory showcases our members working across all genres of art. From painters and musicians, to writers and mixed-media artists, we are a collection of creators helping to define and develop the arts throughout the region.
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CVAC members can create their own listings with links and images in the directory when they complete the membership account information online.
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Sierra Acton
Harold Allanson
Mediums:
Watercolour
Address:
PO Box 712 Crofton, BC V0R 1R0
Description:
Realistic style representative of my life as to where I've been, seen and done.
Adele ᒪᐢᑿᓱᐤᐏᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau
Adele ᒪᐢᑿᓱᐤᐏᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau, Artist
Mediums:
Beadwork, Carving, Home Tanned Hides, and Digital Art Prints
Address:
6121 Marsh Rd., Duncan, BC V9L 4G7
Description:
One of a kind bespoke pieces hand crafted from home tanned hide and beaded, or hand carved from red or yellow cedar. Captures her memories via digital art and produced as limited edition giclees.
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Philip Backwell
Mediums:
Photography
Will Banman
Thing-a-ma-jig Creations
Mediums:
Jewellery, Mixed Media, Sculpture
Description:
Recycled found objects
Gail Barry
Carol Bednarski
Address:
1522 Shorncliffe Rd
Description:
Contemporary artist
* Abstract/Impressionist
*. Bold, colourful, dynamic art
*. Acrylic, oil, multi media
*. Commissions welcome
My hope is that I can express what is authentic, true and beautiful in the world I experience, whether it is internal or external, and in so doing create connection with you, the viewer.
Being seen, connecting through ones art, that is the joy and privilege of being an artist.
* Abstract/Impressionist
*. Bold, colourful, dynamic art
*. Acrylic, oil, multi media
*. Commissions welcome
My hope is that I can express what is authentic, true and beautiful in the world I experience, whether it is internal or external, and in so doing create connection with you, the viewer.
Being seen, connecting through ones art, that is the joy and privilege of being an artist.
Lorna Beecroft
FP Fab Designs
Mediums:
pencils, graphite, oil, acrylic, watercolour
Address:
2208 Gomerich Road, Nanaimo, B.C. V9X 1R8
Description:
Lorna Beecroft has followed a self-directed path in her art education and loves to create in many different mediums. Her love of animals always draws her back to them and their beauty of spirit. She has achieved several awards for her work and is an Active Member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, being awarded that status by a jury of her peers. Her art has been juried into shows with CFA and others and is hanging in homes and offices across Canada and the US.
Janet Bell
Susan Bigotte
Mediums:
Printmaking
Susan Billings
Denise Blade
Victoria Blouin
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Painting, Visual Art
Brenda Boreham
Mediums:
Mixed Media
Louise Braatz
Mediums:
Visual Art
Wendy Bradshaw
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Painting
Judy Brayden
Mediums:
Design, Mixed Media, Painting
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Catherine Campbell
Murray Cantelon
Mediums:
Sculpture
Joyce Castle
Mediums:
Visual Art
Robert Cerins
Robert Cerins Designs
Address:
9279 Poplar Rd. Chemainus, BC V0R 1K5
Carra Christy
Mediums:
Acrylics, Oils, Watercolours, Mixed Media, Drawing, Sculpture
Description:
3rd year student in B.A. program at Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo.
Joanne Circle
Mediums:
Fibre, Sculpture, Visual Art
Daniel Cline
Daniel Cline Sculpture
Mediums:
Stone Sculpture
Address:
3121 Channel Blvd. Chemainus, BC V0R 1K2
Description:
Explore the world of stone sculpture with the passionate artistry of Daniel Cline. Based on Vancouver Island, BC.
Daniel is a contemporary sculptor who draws inspiration from the natural world around him. With over 30 years of experience, he creates powerful and thought-provoking sculptures that challenge the universal and mysterious. Using traditional techniques and a self-taught approach, he transforms rock into endless forms that explore the unknown within the stone.
Discover the enduring qualities, textures, and strengths of stone with Daniel's unique creations that bring passion and art to your world.
Colette Colgrove
Art by Colette
Mediums:
Acrylic, gesso, clay
Address:
2216 Rosewood Avenue, Duncan, BC V9L 3E7
Description:
My art is storytelling through different mediums, connecting like threads in a tapestry, binding hearts through humanity, mental health and healing.
Susan Collacott
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Painting, Photography
Clay Hub Collective
Mediums:
Ceramics, Pottery, Sculpture
Lesley Comassar
Uncommon Threads
Mediums:
Fibre, Mixed Media
Address:
#31-6145 Genoa Bay Rd, Duncan BC V9L 5T7
Rita Cooper
Mediums:
acrylics, watercolour, gouache, Contè sticks
Cowichan South Arts Guild
Donnic Currie
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Rosemary Danaher
Mediums:
Ceramics, Jewellery, Painting
Michelle Datta
Gary David
Chantey Dayal
Chantey Dayal - Artist
Address:
5840 Banks Rd., Duncan BC, V9L 1L2
Jozette DeBattista
Mediums:
Painting, Photography, Sculpture
Lois DeEll
Mediums:
Photography
Dennis B Del Torre
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Sculpture
Kate Denby (Gross)
Taryn O'Gorman Designs
Diane Diane
Sunflowers & Ceramics
Address:
2071 Widows Walk, Shawnigan Lake , BC
Kim Dibb
Mediums:
Painting
Shirley Dickie
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Painting, Visual Art
Description:
Acrylics or Oils on stretched canvas.
Rachel Dobie
Miles Dobson
Donna Draper
Kindness Tree Art
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Visual Art, Painting
Description:
* I am a mental health nurse, whimsical artist and certified expressive arts and intuitive painting facilitator. I offer workshops, events and wild spirit gatherings at Kindness Tree Art Studio in Cobble Hill. One to one and group sessions. Honour your soul's rhythm and allow freedom to explore and unlock your creativity.
* a wonderful catalyst to jump start your art practise
* expect the unexpected
* get free * feel alive
* We respect and welcome everyone's gender identity and provide inclusive events for all
Wendy Duffield
Mediums:
Mixed Media, collage, sculpture
Description:
I often place figures and objects into new surroundings, sometimes real, sometimes imaginary.
In doing this I hope to bring the subjects closer to us by presenting them afresh.
My mixed media artwork often has many layers and textures.
I hope to intrigue you ... and invite you to interpret the story and unravel its mysteries.
Diana Durrand
Mediums:
mixed media
Address:
3298 Cook St., Chemainus, B.C.
Description:
Acrylic, fabric, canvas, water colour, soft pastel, clay, felt, photography
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Christine Earl
Mediums:
Fibre, Visual Art
Geert Ehlers
Mediums:
Acrylic
Address:
205 Marine Drive, Cobble Hill, BC V0R1L1
Description:
Abstract
DOMINIQUE EUSTACE
Mediums:
Ceramics, Painting, Pottery
Description:
Artist who enjoys using color and texture to reflect the emotion and beauty of life
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Maureen Fatin
Mediums:
Photography
Neil Fatin
Susan Fenwick
Mediums:
Painting
Description:
Inspired by the beauty and splendour of nature
gives purpose to the seascapes,
landscapes, and portarits
I paint.
Cindy Friesen-Ford Ashurst
Artsy Lady Art & Glass
Evelyn Frisby
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Painting
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Patricia Galliford-Jenkins
Patricia Galliford
Mediums:
Oil Paints
Nicole Gaskell
Monk
Richard Gibson
Mediums:
Glass, Mixed Media, Multimedia, Painting, Sculpture, Visual Art, Woodwork
Brigitta Green
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Regan Harris
Mediums:
oil, acrylic
Description:
Anything flaura and fauna
Willie Harvie
Mediums:
Painting, Photography, Pottery
Address:
3114 MOORFIELD RD
Rebecca Hazell
Mediums:
Painting, Visual Art, Writing and Poetry
Description:
Both an artist and an author, I have illustrated many of the children's books I've written. On occasion I also do writing and editing for nonprofit organizations.
Mary Heath
Cheryl Hebb
Linda Helms
Mediums:
Ceramics, Pottery
Address:
Linda.helms@hotmail.ca
Description:
I use a variety of ceramic forms classical and modern to explore raku, saggar and smoke firing techniques. Please call 746 1907 for viewing of work.
Harriet Hiemstra
Mediums:
Mixed Media
Lenore Hietkamp
Mediums:
Painting
Address:
portraitsbylenore@gmail.com
Description:
I paint in acrylics, and I specialize in portraiture. I also paint animals--pets and birds in particular. My goal in capturing likenesses is to convey life, not through the precision of rendering but through the energy of wielding a large brush with skill and blending paint on the canvas. I prefer to paint large, up to 30x40", but am exploring painting small too--down to 6x6 inches (so far!).
Find me online at https://portraitsbylenore.ca
Linda Hohenacker
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Painting
Marcy Horswill
Marcy Horswill Design
Mediums:
printmaking, fibre art, painting, digital art (surface pattern, illustration)
Address:
509 Ballou Pl, Ladysmith, AB V9G 2C7
Description:
Marcy is a designer who has interests in several creative mediums, which you will see when you visit her website... http://marcyhorswill.ca.
Jonathan Hoskins
Hoskins Arts
Mediums:
Acrylic, water based monoprints, mixed media
Address:
1410 Moby Dick's Way Gabriola BC v0r1x5
Description:
Jonathan lives on Gabriola Island since retired in 2018 from the United States. He has over forty years professional experience creating presentation graphics of health and human services statistical, performance measurement, business intelligence data for national and international audiences. Jon has been doing print making and painting for over 20 years on an occasional basis then as a business since 2020.
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Claus Ingerslev Madsen
Mediums:
Photography
Address:
1079 Briarwood Dr. Mill Bay BC V0R2P2
Brenda Isaak Takao
Blue Seed Studio
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Multimedia, Sculpture
Description:
Within the range of possibilities of any given moment there lives a state of enchantment – the chance to find and follow our bliss. When I work in my studio, that is the place where I reside.
There is an alchemy that never ceases to amaze me when working on my metal pieces, how hours of drudgery spend grinding and buffing small pieces of metal and then bending and forming begin to turn them into a beautiful shape.
My metal pieces also tend to take on very feminine forms, flowers and seed pods. They are not always realistic. They are not what you would expect. And slowly, my eyes are being opened to the way the process of forming a beautiful sculpture mirrors the ways our beings as women are shaped.
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Roger Jackson
Mediums:
Painting, Visual Art
Description:
I paint in oil and acrylic, en plain air and studio, scenes of life, today and yesterday. I am a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, Maple Bay Painters and the Cowichan Valley Arts Council, conducting workshops, demos and teaching with the CVRD recreation program, Elder College and various art groups. My work is in private collections in BC, Alberta, Ontario and UK.
Colin (Ted) Jarvis
Mediums:
Woodwork
Gladys Javorsky
Jim Jenkins
Mediums:
Painting, Photography
Address:
P.O. Box 43, Honeymoon Bay, B.C. V0R 1Y0
Laila Jensen
Charronne Johnston
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Etsuko Kaji-Holley
Mediums:
acrylic, mixed
Address:
etsukok.art@gmail.com
Description:
Contemporary art; Abstract/Impressionist painter
Heather Jane Kent
Mediums:
Drama, Mixed Media, Visual Art
Address:
2872 Caswell Street Chemainus B.C. V0R 1K3
Description:
Heather works in watercolours, acrylics and assemblages. Her career in theatre and puppetry influences her art, using visual narratives to tell a story. She is passionate about community engagement and art education.
Paul Konig
Mediums:
Painting
Judy Kozler
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Rohana Laing
Mediums:
acrylic
Address:
#103-9916 Daniel St.
Description:
Rohana is inspired by her environment and by places and people she has seen both locally and on her international travels. Her images are representational but stylized. Design and colour are important elements in her work and each painting has a story.
Anne Langhout
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Painting, Visual Art
Joan Langtry
Mediums:
Visual Art
Susan Law
Mediums:
Printmaking, Visual Art
Patricia Lawton
Mediums:
Fibre, Mixed Media, Painting, Visual Art
Address:
1524 MAPLE BAY ROAD
Mary Laycock
Bonnie Leighton
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Painting, Visual Art
Diane Lemke
Shelley Lockwood
Claudia Lohmann
Mediums:
Acrylic on Wood
Description:
Hard Edge Geometric Abstract
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Penny Maday Ciochetti
Island Girl Art Studio
Mediums:
Drawing, watercolor, acrylics, Italian Limestone fresco
Address:
3019 Hammond Bay Rd
Description:
I am a Mixed Media artist who is formally trained/ educated in representational art but who works in a broad range of mediums and styles from realism to abstract. My International body of work is contemporary abstract which combines drawing, photography /printmaking and collage in each piece .
Jean Madison
Mediums:
Painting
Janet Magdanz
Mediums:
Ceramics, Pottery
Dennis Malkin
Mediums:
Sculpture, Woodwork
Address:
7900 Athabasca Place, PO Box 19 V0R1R0
Jim Malo
Mediums:
Painting
Kim Mann
Mediums:
Writer of ecologically based short children’s stories about the indigenous critters of our coast and their perceptions of us human critters. We all have stories to tell; these are their stories.
Maple Bay Painters
Susan Purney Mark
Address:
as above
Description:
Working as a Textile and Paper Artist for over 30 years, Susan is also an accomplished instructor in surface design techniques and book making with a focus on using text and narrative in her work.
Her series have included work created during an Iceland residency and also a focus on the Industrial Shoreline where commerce meets the waters edge and the challenges of business and a viable watershed compete.
Barbara Mccaffrey
Address:
#3 - 909 Carolwood Drive, Victoria BC V8X 3T9
Paul McCuish
Description:
I build furniture, boxes and now and then boats. I'm not making a living at it, but my small house has no room for more so I sell to customers who want traditional or original handcrafted furniture that will last. I can work with customers to modify designs or select specialty materials to suit their taste.
Sherri McCulloch
Mediums:
Acrylic, mixed media
Address:
517 Kennedy Street Nanaimo B.C. V9R2J6
Carolyn Mcdonald
Mediums:
Jewellery, Mixed Media, Painting
Address:
4407 Kingscote Road
Beverlee McLeod
Mediums:
Instructor, Mixed Media, Painting, Printmaking
Sandra McPherson
Diane Mellott
Description:
Watercolour painter, miniatures, mandalas, botanicals.
Ann Mendenhall
Wilma Millette
creartfuldodger
Mediums:
Mixed Media
Address:
1010 Redcap St Duncan BC V9L 5X8
Georgina Montgomery
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Painting, Photography
Description:
I'm an abstract/contemporary artist working in mixed media, photography and paint. Chief among my creative influences: abstract expressionism, colour field painting and surrealism.
The marvel that we exist, and time—the currency we spend for existing—are key themes that influence my art making. My aim is largely on interpreting and expressing visually what scientists, philosophers and poets have to say on both subjects.
My focus in the last couple of years has been a photo-based project that harnesses crazed light. Using an unconventional “lens train”—and, by usual photography standards, imperfect technique—I can seemingly expand the content in any slice of time. The resulting art works, produced as archival pigment prints on fine art paper, capture the rich sensuality and complexity of paintings.
Rose Kamma Morrison
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Painting, Photography
Roberta Murchie
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Cherry Nettleton
Tzouhalem Spinners and weavers Guild
Address:
PO Box 21104 Duncan V9L 0C2
Michael Niendorf
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Painting
Coleen Nimetz
Mediums:
Fibre, Instructor
Doris Noels
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Painting, Printmaking
Astrid Notte
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Painting
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Carey Pallister
Claude Paquette
Mediums:
Glass, Multimedia, Woodwork
Patti Parkyn
Glenn T Patterson
Mediums:
Mixed Media
Kim Pegg
Rachel Penney
Mediums:
Photography
CLARE PETERSON
Pat Phillips
Mediums:
Painting, Visual Art
Brenda Pon
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Reel Alternatives
Reel Alternatives
Mediums:
Drama
Gillian Riordan
Mediums:
Fibre, Mixed Media, Painting
John Robertson
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Music
Phil Robinson
Mediums:
Painting, Photography, Writing
Wendy Robison
Mediums:
Instructor, Writing and Poetry
Michael E. Rosen
Mediums:
Photography
Description:
Nature and wild life photography.
Bev Russell
Mediums:
Ceramics, Painting, Visual Art
Cam Russell
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Renske Sagar
Mediums:
Painting, Visual Art
Paul Sala
Karola Schabernak
Bonnie Schmaus
Mediums:
Painting
Goetz Schuerholz
Mediums:
painting acrylic, sculpting stone, steel, bronze
Address:
1069 Khenipsen Road, Duncan BC, V9L 5L3
Mo Sealey
Mediums:
Painting
Jules Sherred
Polaris Creative
Mediums:
Photography
Address:
#103-255 Ingram St Duncan BC V9L 1P3
Description:
With a keen eye and attention to detail along with the philosophy that food should evoke the trifecta of memory, emotion, and hunger in people, Jules Sherred is an unparalleled emerging talent in the field of food and lifestyle photography.
Based in Duncan, BC, Sherred works as a photographer, writer, journalist, and outspoken advocate for disability and trans rights. He is an official contributor to Getty Images, a staff writer for Fstoppers news site, an instructor for professional photographers looking to expand their skills, and is an accredited food photographer with the Professional Photographers of Canada.
Sherred’s history behind the camera goes back decades, from growing up in a household that encouraged photography to being an active member in various photography clubs. His experience during that time instilled the art and science needed to be a quality photographer, but it wasn’t until 2019 when he started his web site, Disabled Kitchen and Garden, that he began to develop his food photography skill.
Disabled Kitchen and Garden was born out of the need to include disabled people in the conversation around food. Through the site, Sherred’s focus was to write about his own experience as a disabled person by sharing the benefits and joys of accessible products while providing a number of tips, tricks, and recipes to make cooking and gardening easier for a variety of disabilities.
Initially Sherred took photos chronicling the cooking process for his readers, but as popularity for the site grew and the opportunity to author a cookbook presented itself, much of the past year went into developing his photography skills to a professional level. The results from that intense period of study are a veritable feast for the eyes. Photos brimming with vibrant colours and staged in a way to both showcase the skill in which the food was prepared and entice the viewer to experience the flavours the dish has to offer.
Possessing a talent and creative eye only matched by his unwavering advocacy for the needs of marginalized communities, Jules Sherred is doing so much more than simply taking photos. He’s sharing the world through his eyes and letting his subjects, inanimate or not, tell their story.
Kaye Smillie
Mediums:
Multimedia, Painting, Visual Art
Marna Lynn Smith
MISSA
Mediums:
Workshops in all artistic mediums: painting, ceramics, printmaking, textiles, creative writing, music, sculpture, silversmithing, weaving and more!
Address:
MISSA, PO Box 5065, Victoria, BC, V8R 6N3
Description:
MISSA is a destination art retreat for adults that takes place every summer for two weeks on the beautiful Shawnigan Lake School campus in Shawnigan Lake, BC. The MISSA 2023 Summer Program will take place July 14 - 28. Workshops are available in two-day or five-day formats and tuition includes daily lunches. Students are highly recommended to stay on campus to soak up with full art emersion experience. Be on the look out for the full 2023 Summer Program being launched in early January. Friends of MISSA are able to register for a week before registration opens to all. Join our membership and Become a Friend today!
Sue Smith
Carmen Stanek
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Painting
Address:
4138 Judge Dr
Description:
abstracted realism, imaginative
Linda Stenmark
John Stevenson
John D Stevenson Gallery &Studio
Mediums:
Oils Watercolour pen & ink Acrylic
Description:
Paint with knives for oils and brushes for all else
Susan Stitt
Mediums:
Painting
Address:
1199 Sutherland Drive, Cowichan Bay, BC V0R 1N2
Georg Stroebel
Mediums:
Painting
Heidi Summer
Erica Sutfin
Mediums:
Painting, Visual Art
Address:
6905 Mays Road
Description:
I paint in acrylics utilizing both brush and painting knife techniques. I enjoy a variety of subjects: landscapes; seascapes and especially animals. I like to explore the energy of the subject I am painting and try to impart that feeling to the viewer in the finished work. I am a member of Maple Bay Painters and CVAC.
Nik Sylvan
Mediums:
Painting, Printmaking, Writing and Poetry
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Denise Tacon
Catherine Taron
Mediums:
Painting, Visual Art
Leah Terpsma
Mediums:
Oil
Address:
480 Thetis Drive, Ladysmith,
David Thompson
Kaatza Art Group
Mediums:
Woodwork
David Thompson
Linda Thomsen
Description:
Linda Thomsen
Graphic, multimedia designer
"A happy hen house hobby has merged perfectly with my painting hobby.
The hen's provide a seemingly endless supply of amusement, coloured eggs
and creative inspiration.
"Too many eggs for us!" to consume has me considering a Rainbow Eggs &
Chick Magnets Farm Stand..."
Cory Towriss
Darlene Tully
Mediums:
Watercolour and Acrylic Painting, Pencil, Photography
Description:
Striving to capture simple moments of beauty and fragility, I work to juxtapose the tenuous and difficult predicaments in life with an engagement of the lovely wonders that are present in the every day. The natural world is my muse.
Lesley Turner
Mediums:
Fibre
Address:
Victoria
Description:
I make stitched textiles to tell stories about the need for a more intimate relationship with our natural environment.
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Delores Wagg
Susan Ward
Mediums:
Watercolour, Multi media, Stained Glass
Address:
1507 Thomson Terrace Duncan BC V9L 5P9
Description:
Always experimenting, my leaning is toward intuitive, loose, abstract watercolour and mixed media as well as contemporary and Arts and Crafts period reproduction stained glass. Trained as a Graphic designer, I am now drawn to create art as a vehicle for exploration, meditation, personal challenge and therapy and it just always elevates my joy.
Antoinette Webb
Description:
After a 45 year hiatus, my daughter encouraged me to return to art as a form of therapy. I had the extreme good fortune to study under internationally renowned artist Angela Pistucci, for approximately one year before COVID hit, I now look forward to sharing my drawings in the wonderful artists community.
Nancy Wesley
nan.c designs
Mediums:
Fibre
Address:
Cowichan Valley, BC
Description:
Creative fibre artist, and author of Next Level Felting, Nancy makes one-of-a-kind felted wool creations and teaches felting workshops. Products include felted toys, decorations, wall hangings, mobiles, hand dyed felting wool and her line of Learn-To-Felt Kits.
Barbara West
BLest
Mediums:
watercolour and acrylic paints. Beadwork jewellery
Description:
A self taught artist inspired by a life long passion of the colours and textures of Vancouver Island.
Judith Whitemarsh
Susan Whyte
Jane Wolters
Mediums:
Ceramics, Painting, Pottery
Address:
9002 Chemainus Rd.
Description:
Pottery: mostly functional but some sculpture. Paintings: oil, generally portraits.
Angela Woodgate
Description:
Visual artist with a background in animation. I enjoy photography, painting and pottery.
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richard young
Mediums:
Mixed Media, Sculpture