Raised amongst the temperate rain forests, mountains and endless shorelines of Vancouver Island. Christine Stufano Simpson has always been deeply moved by nature’s immense beauty. Since her adolescence she has attempted to express this wellspring of sinspiration through photography, painting, and mixed media. A self taught painter, she prefers to work primarily with acrylics. ...
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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...
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Vedrana was born and raised in Croatia (former Yugoslavia) and immigrated to Canada in 1992 at the tender age of 21. The war which erupted in her country of origin acted as a catalyst in fulfilling her lifelong dream of making Canada her home. Thanks to the love and support of her uncle, aunt and extended family in Sudbury Ontario, this little dot on the map in the heart of the lake studded and wildly beautiful part of the world became her “Canadian home town” and the...
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On any given day, the home and working studio of Angela Menzies is bursting with joy. Two homeschooled children are chasing a big, cape wearing brown dog through the living room, a pitbull is curled up on the sofa and a cat or two are belly up in the patch of catnip. Woven into this blissful tapestry is a loving, supportive husband. In the middle of it all, Angela sits at an easel, painting and laughing. Welcome to Brown Dog Studio. Hanging on every wall are large, colorful...
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“Winter” Joanna Asha Roznowski ARTIST STATEMENT I am a painter and photographer. With colour, contrast, texture, and shape I bring out vivid and dynamic compositions that echo my emotions about the environment. The technique I use of pouring and moving the paint across a canvas makes it possible to easily follow the direction of spilt acrylic paint. For the last few months I traveled with my digital camera documenting the natural environment on Vancouver...
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