Painting full time since 1978, Kathryn has covered a range of subjects and used a variety of mediums. Her love of the West Coast continues to give her inspiration. Working in pastel on paper or oil on canvas she offers those who enjoy the beauty of our magnificent shores a taste of its unique character.

Her more recent work in acrylics has opened up a novel and challenging approach to her interpretation of familiar settings. Kathryn’s joy of the calm and the fury of our ocean is characteristically echoed in this scintillatingly new artistic direction.

Through the well-defined seasons of our year, Kathryn spends much of her leisure time in the environment she so fondly treasures. A most frequented and favourite destination is the Pacific Sands Beach Resort near Tofino where her passion for painting the scenes of our West Coast was first awakened.

Kathryn is proud to be one of the ‘Artists in Residence’ at the now well known event, “Painters At Painters'” held annually at Campbell River, B.C. Invited since its inception in 1994, she has participated every year along with such renown artists as Ted Harrison, Fenwick Lansdowne, Robert Genn and Alan Wylie to name just a few.

Kathryn devotes herself full time to the accomplishment of her much loved profession. Her work has been purchased by individuals and collectors world wide and her efforts in aiding and contributing to her chosen group of charities is well acknowledged and recognized. Kathryn and her husband, Graeme Roberts, reside in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia.

Fran has travelled the world, painting passionately in Vancouver, teaching art in Toronto, in Luxembourg for nearly a decade, and the rare opportunity of having taught in the Northwest Territories. As a member of the Inuvik Arts and Crafts Council for three years, Fran ardently promoted cultural enrichment in the North. Her presentations at the teachers’ conferences were richly informed by her classroom experience, and composed primarily of Inuvialuit, Gwich’n, and Metis children. Fran has said her time in the “Land of the Midnight Sun” was one of the most rewarding experiences of her life.

Fran expresses her passion for art with an architectural eye through the heart of a poet. She explores abstract impressionism in her art through a thoughtful process of multilayers of color. A skillful use of color, form, and balance are a testament to training, and diligent application, and her limitless subject matter is a constant muse, urging her ever onward to masterfully render paintings that are simply put, exquisite.

Fran is an Associate Signature member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.

“ I was entranced by art from an early age, enthralled throughout my life by the ability to capture, with intimacy, the magnificence of a blossom, the simplicity of ordinary moments, and the way light evokes a sense of feeling from all of these things.”

After graduation (1968) Peggy, her husband and children moved to Calgary, where she established a Stock Photo Company and worked as a commercial artist.

In 1993, Peggy undertook the 5 year Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the prestigious Alberta College of Art & Design, winning the Gregory Arnold Scholarship Award, and the Illingworth Kerr Scholarship Award.

After graduation from art school (1998) Peggy’s work was accepted at the Harrison Galleries, only to be stolen in a “theft by demand” break-in heist.  Shortly thereafter, Peggy founded the EVA Artist Group, based in Calgary.

Peggy and her photographer husband now live on Pender Island.  They designed a home with an artist’s studio where Peggy works full time on art.  She established “Port to Starboard” where artist studios are open to visitors.

Peggy works exclusively in the pastel medium, focusing on landscapes.  Her work is found in corporate & private collections worldwide.  For six years running, Peggy has been chosen for the juried Sidney Fine Art Show.  She is also a member of the Pender Island “Art-Off-the-Fence”, with a popular two-day outdoor art show in July.

“Recently, I attended a five-day workshop with Robert Bateman.  He paid me an enormous compliment when he said:

“Peggy’s work has a Group of Seven feeling to it . . . It is nicely handled’.”

Peggy is represented by Gallery 8 on Salt Spring Island BC, Canada.

Robert Mclellan Bateman was born in Toronto. After teaching for 20 years, in 1976 Robert left teaching to paint full time. He has travelled the world with his artist/conservationist wife Birgit to many remote natural areas to find inspiration for his award-winning animal artwork.

Besides being one of Canada’s most well-known artists, Robert is also a naturalist recognized by the Audubon Society as one of 20th century’s “heroes of conservation”. He is a spokesman for many environmental and preservation issues, using his art to raise millions of dollars for these causes.

Books about his life and art have sold over 1,000,000 copies. He has also been the subject of several films and television programs. It is in honour of Robert Bateman’s contribution to art, teaching and conservation that one public, and two secondary schools have been named after him; as well, he has been awarded 14 honorary doctorates.

When Kristina was a young girl, her family emigrated from England on a ship full of teachers
and their families, landing in Montreal after a two week journey and then boarding the train to
be dropped off all across Canada. The Boardmans landed in Lethbridge Alberta, which was quite
a change from England. After a few years on the prairies, the family moved to Vancouver
Island. Her parents insisted the five children each bring home two books from the library every
week. Kristina’s choices always involved art, from books on learning to draw to stories about
artists from around the world. She would find any excuse to add a drawing to a school project
and spent much of her spare time making things.
Kristina’s fascination with the west coast is evident in her paintings. She is intrigued by the
array of beautiful and unique stones found on many walks along the beach. When working from
a blank canvas, she imagines the placement of stones along the shore and during the act of
painting the stones begin to settle into place as if the tide had just washed them in. Sometime
the stones bring in other objects such as shells or fishing floats, and every painting is like a trip
to the shoreline.

Kristina also enjoys painting commissions and has sometimes been given a stone with special
meaning or a little bag of pebbles to sneak into the commissioned painting, creating a new
treasure filled with these special memories.
She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Alberta University of the Arts with a double major
in painting and drawing and has achieved Senior Signature Status with the Federation of
Canadian Artists.

In the last few years Kristina has twice driven across Canada from Victoria to the coast of Nova
Scotia and found herself enjoying the colours and patterns of the stones found in mountain
creeks and the along the lakeshores of Ontario and unique beautiful pebbles from Canada’s
Eastern coast. These stones now co-mingle with her west coast favorites and some that friends
have brought from around the world. These special stones provide endless painting inspiration!
“… Boardman currently specializes in still lifes of beach stones, to the inanimate shapes of
which she lends as much personality as to an intimate portrait of a person. In its arresting
dramatic effect, Boardman’s work is similar to trompe l’oeil painting, where tricks of perspective
render a flat surface seemingly mulitidimensional. But Boardman’s work is art, not artiface. You
want to reach out and touch one of her paintings, so rich is their depth, complexity of colour
and pattern…”

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“All the experiences gathered from living in different environments have helped to broaden my vision. My recent paintings were inspired by my life on the Gulf Islands, where I see myself, at last, enjoying each moment and doing the things I love.

Nature has always had a great impact on my work. If I am in a place where the lighting and landscape combine to urge me to paint, I immediately begin visualizing a painting approach that suits the mood and subject. Spontaneity is one way I paint, yet at the same time, I may take many months or even years to finish the work, all the while continually analyzing it and learning from it as I progress.

Colors have such expressive power. I choose them to match my feelings at the moment I begin painting and then they provide a focal point for each work. My passion for color convinces me that both psychological and compositional effects of color can transform a visual energy into life. I apply acrylic paint in layers to capture the depth I perceive in nature. This layering process is time-consuming, but I enjoy the added intensity of colors and textures it provides. For me, the process is like a meditation. As a painter, the beauty of the world becomes a spiritual conduit, leading me to the recognition of natural beauty wherever I go”

Jade holds both bachelor and master degrees in fine arts. She received her BFA from Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan and her MFA from Brooklyn College, Brooklyn New York. During her time in New York, Jade was awarded the Manhattan Arts International Award of Excellence and the Shaw Memorial Award. Her paintings have been exhibited in galleries and shows in North America and Taiwan.

Jerry maintains a parallel interest in photography. He has photographed some of the major ballet companies in Canada: the National Ballet, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and the forerunner to Ballet B.C. He has had several illustrated articles published in photo, dance and travel magazines in both Canada and the United States, and is the author of a popular book on photographic darkroom technique, published by Pembroke Publishers of Toronto.

A former military and airline pilot, he has also had a long association with the air show industry and was a team photographer for a number of years with Canada’s famous military air demonstration squadron, the “Snowbirds”.

Jerry has lived on Salt Spring Island for the past 30 years where he works out of his home studio.”

I acheive this by working rapidly, thus capitalizing on the malleability and slow drying-time of my medium of choice, oils, which, from my years of making jewellery, I liken to working with high-karat gold. While other media are lovely, like silver, oils are unique in their forgiving characteristics, and their seductive buttery consistency.

Art does not reproduce the visible, it recreates it.

The art of Carol Evans is expressed through the medium of her exquisitely detailed watercolours. “When the sun highlights a scene, often a fairly ordinary one, it catches my attention. A common sight, even a relatively mundane setting will become illumined and bright. It practically sings with radiance and everything becomes extraordinarily beautiful. I always find it an uplifting moment when that happens and it is one of my favourite subjects for painting – not just the scene itself, but how the sunlight plays in the scene.”

Since 1981 Carol has held 15 very successful one-woman exhibitions in a variety of places; Vancouver, Salt Spring Island, Gabriola Island and Nanaimo. She was invited to participate in a group exhibition by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, “The Real West Coast” where she was honoured to have her paintings shown alongside the work of fellow west coast artists.

She is currently working on new paintings of places along the BC coast that have caught her interest in sharing these sights with you.

He was also inspired at an early age while watching a CBC documentary about Toni Onley. “I was very young when I saw the film and was quite taken by the apparent ease with which he could create such emotionally moving pieces of art with a single fox tail brush and a few simple brush strokes. Clearly, there was more going on here, and I felt compelled to look at this more closely. This was the beginning of my passion for painting. Starting with watercolours, I learned that less is more, and to work with the medium.”

Both his acrylics and watercolours are best known for their bold use of expressive colour, while anchored firmly with strong composition and design. Many years of experience now give way to the painting of his unique vision of the landscape. His watercolours are known for their vibrant colours and high contrast – not typical of what watercolour paintings have been known for. They are created on archival watercolour board and then finished with varnish in such a way that no glass is required so that they are framed like any work produced on canvas.

His works are collected throughout the world and enjoyed by those who identify with an emotional response to their surroundings as the paint flows expressively seducing the viewer to participate in an exchange of varied texture, and strong colour combinations. The viewer’s emotional response that his art triggers engages one to participate in a heightened poetic journey to places of serenity and peace. His works can be seen throughout Canada in many fine galleries.