Carollyne Yardley
Raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Carollyne Yardley completed two years in the Faculty of Fine Arts, and is a graduate of the University of Victoria, where she completed a double major in Psychology and History in Art. Most recently, she has taken art classes at the Victoria College of Art and studied with Tony Ryder at The Ryder Studio School in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since 1997, she has been the founder, business owner and creative director of a software application & web development company which...
Read MoreJames Atkin
James Atkin has been creating high relief woodcarvings on Vancouver Island for close to twenty years. His calling as a woodcarver was born out of a life long affiliation with wood, a love of art and a need to create. While recovering from a series of surgeries and with a need to channel energy and frustration, he started carving. Completely self-taught, what began as a form of therapy has gradually blossomed into a passion that is almost an obsession. Jim is both tickled and intrigued by whimsy, which is...
Read MoreMarilyn Peeters
Marilyn is an expressionist painter working and residing in the Comox Valley, British Columbia. Art has been a strong passion for her from a very young age. In the 70’s, she majored in Fine Art in high school with the dream to further her art studies, but life chose a different path for her at the time. Her and her husband moved to the Comox Valley in the early 80’s. Yet, she continued to put her art dream on hold to start a family. When their children reached elementary age, Marilyn extended her...
Read MoreNorene Schmuck
A Collector by nature, the discovery of the Pique Assiette style of mosaics was a perfect fit for my creative expression. (Pique Assiette loosely translates as “to steal from plates”) Accumulating stacks of old dishes to use as a palette comes easily for me. Hunting for materials, scouring the Thrift stores for that perfect cup, plate or dish to be broken and re-purposed, flowers become eyes for fish or leaves turn into scales or fins. Exclusivly using broken crockery, hours can be spent in one...
Read MoreHalloween at Sooke Harbour House, thank you for all the decorations, the graveyards and your warm welcome :Good witch, scarecrow, tin man
I would like to see more days when we can play and wear totally different outfits, but less sugar maybe! Would you like to come for a fun evening of dressing up as….?? great food, fun drinks, lots of laughter, Frederique and her staff would like to create such an evening at the end of January, would you like to come and have a good time with us? A Mardi Gras in January! Waiting until March is too...
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2 Night All Inclusive Fishing Package
Romantic Retreat
