Andrea Hooge

Andrea Hooge is an artist working from her studio at the Arts Factory. She is often inspired by the nostalgia of vintage magazine and children's books, and her focus is mainly on creating figurative oil paintings and scratchboards. While many of her works are on wood or hardboard panel, she also creates scratchboard cutouts to move away from conventional shapes. These have been made to stand alone or to overlap to create larger and more dynamic pieces. Andrea attended the University of the Fraser Valley, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Psychology and a minor in Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited in various group shows and she has had five solo exhibitions

Aimée Henny Brown

Aimée’s collages, drawings, prints and sculptures engage archives, research, and printed matter to question historical content and possible futures. An artist and educator of settler ancestry, she completed her BFA at the University of Alberta and obtained her Master’s in Fine and Media Arts at NSCAD University.  She has received several awards and grants, notably the Joseph Beuys Scholarship for Artistic Merit and several Canada Council Production Grants. Her collages, drawings, performances and bookworks have been presented nationally and internationally, with group shows in Japan, Germany, Scotland, Knoxville, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and solo exhibitions across Canada. She has attended numerous artist residencies and presents regularly to artists, students, and international audiences.  Represented by the Vancouver Art Gallery Art Rental and Sales program and Ian Tan’s Online Art Gallery (OAG), Aimée is an Assistant Professor: foundations, 3D and extended media with the University of the Fraser Valley.

JOANNA CLARK

Joanna Clark is a figurative oil painter. Her recent works explore vintage divers and swimmers. Joanna has developed her skills through a mix of formal training and self-discovery. Her background in landscape design and urban planning also plays a role in her unique perspective on form and figurative art. Joanna's artistic vision blends her curiosity, wide-ranging experiences, and passions with her experimental, playful approach to creating art. She is drawn to figurative art, simple compositions and playing with vibrant colours of the natural world, sky, water, clouds and pop art with a vintage feel. Joanna aims to constantly learn from both her subject matter and the act of artistic practice.

FELT à la main with LOVE

From wearable art to sound-absorbing wall hangings, exploring the textures and properties of wool and what it can shape into has become Chantal Cardinal's full time obsession under FELT à la main with LOVE. After a career as a Fashion Designer and Costumer in the film industry, she was introduced to wet felting techniques where she discovered the endless possibilities of painting with fibres and falling in love with nature's renewable gift. This opened her up to the breathtaking ways in which material could be molded and shaped to create endless possibilities of artifacts out of wool. An important part of her artistic practice is using local wool and processing it herself from a raw sheep's fleece that she gets to know by name. Chantal loves to share her love of wet felting with workshops at community events, online, on location like at Fibreworks Gallery & Studio or at her studio. She has exhibited in BC, the USA, as well as in the UK, and was awarded a Vancity public art commission for the Surrey City Center Branch. In this last challenging year, she was part of an AIC grant (Artist in Classroom) where she engaged 200+ kids K-7, over a six month period, in creating Living Walls:From Farm to Felt and connecting the kids to where the medium comes from by processing a raw sheep's fleece and turning it into art.

Kirk Gower

Kirk Gower is a visual artist and painter with a strong interest in portraiture. Originally from the Sunshine Coast, Kirk currently resides on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver BC). He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University. Recent exhibitions include the Seymour Art Gallery, Kariton Art Gallery, and was an artist with Vancouver Mural Festival. His work has been featured in various publications including Booooooom, Create Magazine, Visionary Magazine, and Suboart Magazine.

Ian Greenwood

In my previous life I was a circus coach/performer, coaching at Circus West and stiltwalking and juggling around Vancouver. I also trained in sword fighting at Academie Duello in downtown Vancouver, and with Lykopis archery, which is where my leather working began, making equipment and accessories, particularly for archery. Then in 2016 my AVM intervened, I had a brain bleed and spent 4 months at VGH and GF Strong rehab. On my release I quickly discovered most of my pre stroke activities were either unavailable to me or so difficult as to be disheartening. Fortunately I was still able to do leather working and archery, and these, particularly the crafting, have become my anchor and direction. I try to incorporate recycled and repurposed materials into my pieces as much as possible, I also, almost exclusively, work with veg tan Leather and hand dye and stitch most of my work.

Sandeep Johal

Sandeep Johal is a Canadian visual artist whose practice engages drawing, collage, textiles, and large-scale murals. Through her Indo-folk feminine aesthetic, she confronts themes of bleakness, despair and ugliness with their dissonant opposites: brightness, hope and beauty. Johal’s work typically centers around the stories of women and while she highlights female suffering in its many forms, these are ultimately stories of resistance and resilience.

Johal has worked on a number of notable site-specific commissions including a recent mural for the Vancouver Art Gallery’s inaugural #SpotlightVanArtRental project (2021), a digital projection mapping for Facade Festival produced by Burrard Arts Foundation (For Jyoti, 2019), and a 4,000 sf collaborative mural project for Vancouver Mural Festival, which centred around the Komagata Maru Episode and involved the denaming of the federal building it was painted on (Taike-Sye’yə, 2019). Her work was part of the group exhibition In/Visible: Body as Reflective Site through the McClure Gallery and Visual Arts Centre in Montreal in partnership with the IMPACTS Project (2019).

Johal’s clients include Apple, the Vancouver Canucks, the Vancouver Whitecaps FC, Holt Renfrew, Lululemon, and Earls Restaurant Group as well as the University of British Columbia's Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Simon Fraser University’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. She has been an artist-in-residence at Burrard Arts Foundation (2021) and Indian Summer Festival (2018) and is the 2019 recipient of the Darpan Magazine Artistic Visionary Award.

Johal holds a Diploma in Fine Arts (honours) from Langara College (2007) and a Degree in Education from the University of British Columbia (2002). She lives and works in Vancouver, BC.

Ezra Larsen

Humanities relationship to nature has always horrified yet fascinated me. Why we do what we do. How we justify our actions. The world is full of brilliance and chaos. Let us capture it and throw a little of our own into the fray.

Mari

Mari Torizane is an abstract painter and wood carver who is inspired by the Nature and the Universe. Create her art with mostly like Dreaming in her dream. Sometimes adding bit of Oriental tastes.

Megan Majewski

Megan Majewski’s narrative work tells stories from her dreams, experiences and memories. She focuses on capturing the shadows in her unconscious and bringing them to life through symbolism and the haunting figures in her paintings. Her recent work explores the fragile beauty of life and death while fixated by symbolism from cryptological communication through the use of flowers. She has had her art featured all over the world and has been a GOLDEN Artist Educator since 2016. With a background in animation, working on movies and TV shows, she now creates art full time from her art studio in Vancouver Canada.

Eric Neighbour

“If you know what you’re doing, you shouldn’t be doing it.” I try to embrace that sentiment and make each project an exploration. There’s a moment, early on, when a new project is materializing in an embarrassingly ugly fashion. For me, that stage is the most exciting. Everything else is just refinement.

Tara Pople

Tara Pople is a watercolour artist who explores themes of nature. With every piece, her aim is simple: to create art that resonates with people, inspiring feelings of wonder, serenity, and appreciation for the world around us. “I want my paintings to be more than just décor; I want them to be cherished pieces that bring a sense of joy and connection to those who view them.” 

Kemo Schedlosky

Kemo is a fibre artist working primarily with lace. She creates abstract 2D and 3D framed works using a variety of lace techniques. The lace is layered and stretched making architect shadows in its wake. She has worked in her Arts Factory studio for 8 years and studied textile arts in Newfoundland and at Capilano University.

Studio Roma

I create things that have never been built before. I build prototypes, mechanical props, and custom-made items. I conceptualize, plan, and build or manufacture with anything at my disposal and in all forms of media. My projects combine mechanical, electrical, pneumatic or hydraulic systems. I am particularly fond of plastic, but also work with iron, wood, aluminum, rubber, fabrics and, well, all other materials.

I was born and raised in Israel by parents who are craftsmen and free thinkers. Creating since I was a kid, I was always interested in inventions, in mechanisms and in artistic depiction of the natural world. I did not quite fit into any schooling system and found that the best way for me to learn is through hands-on experience and by randomly absorbing knowledge from my surroundings. And from TV!

Today, after over a decade running my own studio, I'm still looking for new ways to deploy my various skills in my projects. I constantly seek new technical, conceptual and artistic challenges, which is why I specialize in “one-offs”, creating an entirely different item with every project.

I share my life with Daniela and with our four self-made, uniquely designed super-beings. To me, life, art and craft are one and the same. I run my studio as I live my life, with “outside the box” thinking and a zero-fluff approach.

 

Tristesse Seeliger

Tristesse Seeliger is a Vancouver artist. Her multimedia works include collages, murals, paintings, and sculptures. She predominantly explores the ideas and metaphors around mapping as a tool of perception and orientation. In her newest abstract paintings, she explores shape, colour, and form influenced by the pathways water and creatures create on the land. These artworks are colour field paintings that explore movement, transparency, and opaque layers shifting across a plane. Tristesse hosts an Artist Talk and Assignment series on YouTube called Studio to Studio. In this series, she interviews talented artists who give us insights into their practice and then assigns a creative project. This series started during the pandemic and just kept going.