With its “inspired and obsessively local” Pacific Northwest cuisine of “fresh, seasonal” ingredients ” often grown right on the property”, Sinclair and Frederique Philip’s “outstanding” ” long-time destination favourite” ” right on the water” in Sooke ” never fails to impress” with ” tasteful attention to every detail”; an “eloquent...

Linda Walton received her post secondary educations in painting and ceramics at the Berkshire college of Art and at Leicester University in England.  She lived and worked in Jamaica before immigrating to British Columbia in the 70s where she taught ceramics, drawing and design in the Fine Arts Department at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops.  She moved to Vancouver Island in 2005.   Linda’s work has been exhibited in Chicago, San Francisco...

Ahhh, love, amour, hearts…. I have always loved hearts, the shape of them, the meaning of love; I started a collection for my oldest daughter Jasmine… I think she has hundred of them now. Here is a wreath created for the Sooke Harbour House’s front door for Valentine ’s Day by Karen Stones, from “A Sea of Bloom”. I love it! It is beautiful, artistic, with a food component……The Art of Love. Sooke Harbour House is romantic by essence and it is...

    Born in the Netherlands, Soleil Mannion’s formative years were spent in Vancouver, B.C. Her travels through the dramatic landscapes and seascapes of the Pacific coast awakened her artistic insight and personal aesthetic.   In 1991, Soleil moved to London, England to engage in multidisciplinary art studies – in drama, dance, and costume design. As she went on to work and teach in acting and costume design, she refined her...

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...