Pam Mullins
“Bears are one of my favorite critters to photograph and spend time with,” Mullins says. “Here they seem to be more nocturnal than I’m used to.”
Sherry Nelsen
Animals enhance many of Nelsen’s landscape photos, and she particularly loves photographing horses. For her they function as a gateway into a scene.
Anna Bennett
“Ever since I was a child, I’ve been drawn to the sea: the vastly changing landscapes, the many textures, both surrounding and underfoot, and the varied weather. From the calm to the storm, season to season, I am excited to capture and share these experiences.”
Lucas Kratochwil
"With my paintings, I want people to feel immersed in nature. To show them the might and beauty that resides in mountains, lakes and valleys. I want people to feel what I feel when I’m in front of a mountain: struck, non-existing, in complete awe, inspired and at peace.”
Bob James
Bob James grew up in Deep Cove, where his work in logging and shake-cutting developed into a lifelong passion for wood and the shapes he could create from it.
Mikel Grant
Trends in jewellery move more slowly than trends in fashion. Mikel Grant Jewellery understands this and aims to create enduring, relatable, mesmerizing pieces that stand the test of time.
Peter R Nicholls
As a fourth generation artist Peter R Nicholls is known as a futuristic artist. He practices the fundamentals of color theory across various forms of painting, sketching and technology. He believes art reflects truth in endless imagination.
Jeff Barringer
Success breeds success. Painter, film maker, foodie, distiller, businessman (the list goes on), Jeff Barringer is a fine example. When he is able to take a little time off from the crazy-popular Bruinwood Estate Distillery, a business he started with partner Danise Lofstrom, he might use the time to immerse himself in his other creative practice: painting.
Cindy Riach
As an artist, one is always in search of the next inspiring colour, texture, element. On a recent adventure to Alert Bay on Vancouver Island, Cindy Riach found her next creative pursuit as the beauty of the surroundings captured her heart.
Allan Forest
"Photography is no longer something I chase. Looking for the perfect shot doesn’t interest me. Composing an image is a source of nourishment and as such can’t be hurried. Like a tasty meal, it needs to be savoured and enjoyed."
Carl Olsen
Photographing wildlife means long, patient (or not-so-patient) hours, standing still as a stone, often in rain or wind. Sometimes even that yields nothing great. And sometimes a shot literally jumps out at the camera.
Sheila June
Mesmerizing close-ups of natural subjects, particularly flowers, combined with a strategic use of focus, give Sheila June’s photos a painterly feeling. Delicious smears of colour are juxtaposed with minute detail.
Keith Burdon
"I have lived close to the sea most of my life, and marine themes have always been prominent in my art. Wood is a wonderful material to work with, and I find the carving process mentally, physically, and emotionally rewarding."
Motoko
Drama is the first impression. Motoko really works her canvasses and, while tending toward more restricted palettes, her use of colour is masterful. You’ll see glowing depths, wonderful, inspired blending, and dollops of milky, almost chunky colour that really pop out at the viewer.
Pat West
"These forms are occasionally animal or human but most often are simple organic shapes that hint of movement and known images such as flowers, birds, or sea creatures.”
Elizabeth A. Evans
Elizabeth A. Evans likes to paint stories. Her haunting and colourful pieces are full of meaning and really do suggest tales and places that invite the viewer to walk right into a narrative.
Patrick Skidd
The blues! Cobalt blue, navy blue, a greyish northern sea blue, teal, and turquoise. Patrick Skidd is displaying the colourful veneers upon which he bases his woodcarving art.
Shel Neufeld
Neufeld invites us to see the minutiae in the heavens and the magnificence in a leaf, to ponder the (in)significance of humankind. Each shot asks, “What is our place in this?” He succeeds in taking us beyond the binary “us or Nature” stance to someplace more overarching—maybe it’s “immersing.”
Morley Baker
"Children’s creative slates are clean. Nothing is impossible, there are no rules to follow, no right or wrong,” says Sunshine Coast artist Morley Baker. “I try to imagine that freedom in my work . . . "
Dean Van’t Schip
Dean Van’t Schip gives us everything—everything that matters in a shot: stillness, movement, detail, panorama, colour, texture. It’s all there in his compelling nature photography.
Vern Minard
With a natural sense of the different values and characteristics of light, Vern combines both spontaneity and technical skill to compose creatively charged images.
Autumn Skye
"With my paintings, I want people to feel immersed in nature. To show them the might and beauty that resides in mountains, lakes and valleys. I want people to feel what I feel when I’m in front of a mountain: struck, non-existing, in complete awe, inspired and at peace.”
Liz de Beer
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.
Conrad Sarzynick
"I create my sculptures as starting points for the imagination. I capture glimpses of hidden worlds that peek around the edges of everyday reality. When the opportunity arises, they unfold fully formed and strangely familiar."
Dolf Vermeulen
I am a self-taught content creator based on the beautiful Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. I have been lucky to call this place home ever since my family moved to Canada just a year after I was born in England.
Claire Folstad
Claire Folstad's work is constantly evolving. From functional bowls to stand alone sculptures, she seeks to express freedom, gratitude, and meaning within the glass itself.
Pia Sillem
We already know Pia Sillem’s work. Her beautifully wrought ceramic pieces celebrate the form, composition, and slow, deliberate movement of the natural world around us.
Brett Varney
Brett Varney gives people what they want. His vivid oil pastels and giclee prints are a delight. His colourful pastels and giclees evoke associations with post-Impressionists like Van Gogh.
Linda Sabiston
"I love to photograph things that the average person wouldn’t stop to look at. There is so much beauty that gets passed by, when really people just need to slow down and look around in order to see it."
Cindy Cantelon
Sunshine Coast is the muse for Cindy Cantelon, owner/artist of Earthly Creature Designs. She has lived on the Coast for over twenty years, while creating art and jewelry for almost forty.