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Aimée Henny Brown’s collages, drawings, prints and sculptures engage archives, research, and printed matter to question historical content and possible futures.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 Associate Professor in Visual Arts with the University of the Fraser Valley.

David Crompton

David Crompton is a photo-based artist based in Vancouver. Exploring on foot, he focuses his inquiry on the subtle, often overlooked corners of urban spaces and the transient objects and architectural forms found within them. His compositions favour geometric structure, layering, and the ephemeral qualities of light, shadow, and reflection. Through photography, printed matter and time-based media, Crompton seeks to reveal the underlying poetry of these settings.

A graduate of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, his work has been exhibited in galleries, festivals, and media channels internationally. Crompton’s pieces are included in the Media Centre collection at the Marshall McLuhan Salon (Canadian Embassy in Berlin) and he has received awards from the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council.

Crompton has produced several photography-based artist zines, including ‘Common’ (2014), ‘Strait Goods’ (2017), and the five-volume ‘Surrounded’ (2017), which highlights his work from 2013 to 2017. His latest collection, ‘Umwelt,’ documents work from 2018 to 2024, capturing a span of six years of his ongoing 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 VanDusen Gardens 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 and 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 connecting the kids to where the medium comes from by processing a raw sheep's fleece and turning it into art.

In the past year, Chantal participated in a cultural exchange with Taiwan, where she had the opportunity to meet and exchange with renowned Taiwanese fiber artisans. She was also invited to showcase her felting expertise at TED Talks, leading an interactive community garden installation that engaged attendees throughout the week-long event. Additionally, Chantal was awarded a prestigious public art commission, producing her largest work to date: Come Together: The Power of Connections, a 300 sqft permanent window installation for the ACT Arts Centre’s 20th anniversary in Maple Ridge, BC.

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.

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.

Kat McPhee @ Arts Factory

With a sharp eye for colour and a quirky sense of humour, East Vancouver-based artist Kat McPhee’s vibrant, expressionist portraits and mixed media prints have quickly earned a loyal following. Applying elements of graffiti and animation as inspiration, Kathryn uses a broad palette that includes oil pastels, acrylics and spray paint to add density and texture to her pieces.

Kat has been drawing since she was old enough to pick up a pencil.  Over the years, growing interest in her pieces has allowed her to take her passion to the next level. She creates privately commissioned work, specifically pet portraits, almost daily at Vancouver’s Arts Factory Society and has showcased her pieces at numerous galleries and restaurants.

Her most recent collections include a series of eccentric, satirical animal portraits, pop culture portraits and skatedeck art. She has also created an impressive line of mixed media photography prints which showcase the tiger & unicorn. All of her works boast unique elements inspired by street art and surrealism to create truly one-of-a-kind pieces.

Kat’s interests don’t end with art. She also has a blossoming clothing brand Mister, We Are the Weirdos which encourages and embraces individuality, creativity and diversity.

Laleh Javaheri

Laleh Javaheri is a fibre artist, garment designer, jewelry designer, and painter who has worked in a wide variety of media over the span of over 40 years.  Her interest lies in producing objects of varied functionality and to cross the traditional boundaries of function and ornament. The materiality of her work intends to explore and re-express natural components, mainly fibres. She has worked in several disciplines and media from textiles to jewelry and sculptural forms to paintings and her work had been exhibited at several local and international exhibitions.

Vanessa Lam

As a self-taught visual artist, Vanessa Lam works with collage, sculpture and abstract painting. Through experimentation, her work investigates the tension between emotional expressiveness and suppression. She is the Vancouver Regional and Grand Prize Winner of the 2017 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series. She was awarded the opportunity to collaborate with Artsy for her first solo exhibition in New York. Vanessa was an artist in residence at UA International Residency in New York, USA and Takt Projektraum in Berlin, Germany. Her work has been featured in publications such as Abstractions Magazine, Create! and Uppercase. Vanessa lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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.” 

Sophie Spiridonoff

Tristesse Seeliger

Tristesse Seeliger is a Canadian artist and educator whose multidisciplinary practice primarily encompasses painting, weaving, murals, and collage. Seeliger earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and acquired her teaching certification from Simon Fraser University. Her artistic endeavors center on the exploration of mapping as a tool for perception and orientation, delving into associated ideas and metaphors. Seeliger has collaborated with various clients, including Emily Carr University, The City of Richmond, and the City of Vancouver, in the creation of seven murals. Her works, spanning paintings, weaving, collages, sculptures, and murals, have been showcased in both solo and group exhibitions across Canada and the USA. Presently, Seeliger operates from her studio located at the Arts Factory in Vancouver, while concurrently serving as an educator in art education for the Vancouver School Board.

Trevor Van den Eijnden

Trevor Van den Eijnden is a visual artist, writer and educator born and in Nova Scotia and currently  living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Van den Eijnden’s practice investigates patterning, the photographic, the future, and the sublime with distinct interests in the ways we understand and operate with regard to nature, time, and grief. Often referencing the Anthropocene, his work is driven by his interest in photography as a means to capture the future in the everyday, and the photographic as means to engage audience participation in crafting their own memories of the objects, and topics his work discusses.