Airport Exhibit 2019-2020

Struggle Above High Tide
40” x 30”, oil on canvas
$2,300
born to paint!!!
Contact: [email protected]
elissaanthony.com

We have all day
36” x 48”, acrylic
$1,700
Cara wants to spark conversations, create debates about our culture, and stretch our imaginations to see life in a different light. She’s excited to mold together new ideas and concepts in the future, and explore all the different angles of the world brought to life on canvas. Recently she completed a ten painting collection for Vista Radio Corporation, seen in radio stations across Alberta & British Columbia, and a commission to create a label for the “Beausphine” premium wine by Beaufort Winery.
Contact: [email protected] | carabaird.ca

June (views from the Courtenay Airpark #115)
40”x 60”, acrylic on canvas
$4,000
Bev Byerley is a passionate landscape painter in love with Vancouver Island and the west coast of BC. For the past 30 plus years she has focused her energy on painting the places where she walks and bikes near her home in the Comox Valley.
Contact: [email protected] | bevbyerley.com

Twin Gems
20” x 16”, canvas
$100
The amazing opportunity to venture into the creativity of art and photography will open your eyes and heart to a new world of possibilities.
Contact: [email protected] |
cardinal-photography.com

A Retreat of Our Own
60” x 60”, mixed media on canvas
$5,400
Marianne Enhörning is a West Coast Canadian artist. The desire to live small on the earth; to live softly with the natural world began to inspire her art. The splendour of the natural world and our small human part in it fill her landscapes, manifesting in evocative, dreamlike works in mixed media. Her art emerges from her deep sense of longing for a world that is inclusive, equal and just; a world that is simple and kind.
Contact: [email protected] | enhorningdesign.com

Always Watching
30cm X 164cm, Mixed Media : wood marquetry, pyrography, fibreglass, Vancouver Island cedar core.
$1,750
Angela Farquharson works in wood marquetry and paint, and is lead artist for Kindred Custom Snowboards and Skis where she decorates and manufactures high performance winter sports equipment with her partner, Evan. She appreciates the opportunity to translate imagery into bold graphic compositions, most often using a brush, knife or woodgrain to her advantage.
Contact: [email protected] | 778-428-4822
kindredsnowboards.com

Monoliths
35” x 35”, Graphite
$3,800
Jayson finds himself inspired by nature’s never ending endowment and pervasive spirit. His prints and drawings attempt to convey the ‘magic’ that one can imagine within it, and as he works on a subject, he intends to not just replicate what he sees but to translate it using his own set of tools and symbols. Tools such as line, pattern, graphic mark-making and symbolism that he has developed over the years into a personal style.
Contact: [email protected] | bigwhale.ca

Living on the Edge
24” x 36”, Limited edition print on paper
$350
Laura Furness’ art is bright, bold, whimsical with a touch of realism and a true love of nature! She shares her passion with others and is grateful for some amazing inspiration at her fingertips that is evident in her art. Laura primarily draws and paints in acrylics, and teaches classes out of her commercial space in the Puntledge Park area of Courtenay, BC!
Contact: www.facebook.com/laurajayneartstudio

Striving
24” x 30”, Acrylic on canvas, framed
$675
Fran Goldberg’s abstract artwork lives at the intersection of unconscious processes, crazy random happenstance, and conscious intention. Each painting’s journey begins without a predetermined plan, yet joyfully unfolds as the art and artist communicate with one other. The destination is often disclosed as the painting whispers a direction or path or actual words in the form of a title.
Contact: [email protected] | frangoldbergart.com

birds of a feather flock together
24” x 36”, photography
$90
With her photography of shorelines Ingrid Hoggan also uses interesting textile effects to create surreal skies and backdrops. By doing so, when one sees her photographs the signature will read Bollegraaf.
Contact: [email protected]

Autumn in the North Woods
24” x 30”, Acrylic on canvas
$425
Maxine specializes in acrylic on canvas and describes her work as “loosely realistic”. She has won awards from the Interior Provincial Exhibition in Armstrong, B.C. and the People’s Choice Award at the Pearl Ellis Gallery in Comox. She lives in the Comox Valley and greatly enjoys life on the edge of Vancouver Island.
Contact:  [email protected] | 250-871-1033
maxinehorner.net

Towards the Evening Star
48” x 48” diptych, Acrylic on canvas
$3,600
From urban intensity to country calm, Martha’s paintings deal with the roots and spirit of place. She’s a born wanderer, and doesn’t deal so much with inner turmoil as with the amazing world out there around her. She calls herself a narrative realist.
Contact: [email protected] | marthajonesart.com

Tricks are for Kids
40” x 30”, Acrylic on Canvas
$750
Lisa Joan has always had a passion for wildlife. While living on Vancouver Island and after the birth of her daughter, Lisa finally decided to combine her enthusiasm for wildlife with her passion for the arts, and founded Isla Life Designs. She loves how art can create connections between people and the world that surrounds them. She believes that the closer humans feel to nature, the more likely we will strive to protect it.
Contact: [email protected] | islalifedesigns.com

Out West
12” x 2.25” x 9”, Cast glass and Metal (Nickel Silver)
$2,800
Originally from South Korea, currently residing on Vancouver Island, Mikyoung creates a range of glass artworks. Living and travelling in different countries as a ‘nomad’ encouraged her to develop ways to communicate and articulate feelings beyond the traditional conduit of speech. Her artwork reflects the new surroundings and spaces that she has visited, by using the fundamental beauty and unique characteristics with glass and metal.
Contact: [email protected] | mikyoungjung.com

West Coast Girl
24” x 36”, Gallery Wrapped Canvas
$300
Born and raised on Vancouver Island in British Columbia,Sara Kempner developed an early appreciation for the outdoors. Being surrounded by oceans, lakes, rivers and mountains has been a key component of her overall lifestyle and has heavily influenced her photography as well. Sarah is currently based in Cumberland where she lives with her husband and golden retriever, her two main partners in life and adventure.
Contact: [email protected]  | 250-702-2169
sarakempnerphotography.ca

Out of the Blue
48” x 36”, Acrylic on Canvas
$2,800
As much as Sandra Lamb is driven to express in a contemporary figurative genre, the environment constantly pulls at her to speak for its beauty and often she succumbs to the call. When visitors come inquiring as to what all the shouting is about, we artists do our best to answer with our painterly grandstanding of paradise. And her own penchant for often adding the human element to the scene reflects her belief that perhaps Adam and Eve still belong in the Garden.
Contact: [email protected] | 250-337-5487
sandralamb.art

Tide Pool
38” x 21”, Fibre Art
$450
Wendy loves the process of blending colours and textures to create fibre art that is unique, sturdy and tactile. She is using reclaimed silk, alpaca, merino wool with silk blends and locally sourced wool roving using the process of wet felting, nuno felting or needle felting to create wearable art scarves, handbags, clutch purses and wall art.
Contact: [email protected] | wmayersdesigns.ca

Wandering Moon
48” x 36”, Cold Wax and Oil Paint on wood
$4,300
Wendy Morosoff Smith is a contemporary Canadian painter and printmaker, based in Merville, BC, whose work explores and reflects the spiritual aspect of the Canadian landscape. Blending abstraction and landscape symbolism with the study of light and space, Wendy creates meditations on place, time, the elements, memory and perception. Her pieces can be found in many public and private collections worldwide.
Contact: [email protected] |
wendymsmith.com

Paradise Meadows 19
36” x 48”, acrylics
$1,800
Gail Neuls paints in a very unique semi-abstract manner, being somewhat representational. Her love for the Comox Valley is expressed in many of her landscapes. Both realistic and abstract styles are visible, bedded in mystery and elements of surprise. The poetry of line and perspective combine with strong, exciting colours pinging off bold edges. Gail has lived and worked as a professional artist in the Valley for nearly 50 years.
Contact: [email protected] | 250-897-6260
gailneuls.com

A Moment in time
44” x 50”, Acrylic paint on canvas
$2,000
Marilyn has been an artist as far back as she can remember but it was not until later in life she decided to go back to school to study art. Her work transcends the limits of BC’s natural landscapes, yet still capturing the essence and symbolism. Her connection with nature has been engraved in her soul since childhood, and now as an adult, nature brings her a sense of empowerment and strengthens her soul which allows her to create a place that is somewhat unusual.
Contact: [email protected] | marilynpeeters.com

Lone Hunter
18” x 24”, Acrylic
$550
Bev Peterson has worked with a variety of mediums but prefers the versatility of acrylics. Themes and motivations are never static, because there is always a story to tell and, being visual, she expresses herself best by interpreting and communicating that which she cannot articulate in any other way.
Contact: [email protected].

Frozen Fire
4.5” x 5.5” x 5.5”, Wood Fired Clay
$555
Denman Island artist, Shirley Phillips, loves creating with clay! Primarily self taught, the natural world is her constant inspiration. Her pottery pieces have organic shapes, textures, colourful glazes, and some fusing of beach glass. She uses hand building methods as well as a pottery wheel. All of her pieces complete their creative journey either through a Wood, Smoke or an Electric Firing.
Contact: [email protected] | lilacsunpottery.com

Eagle No.2
10x13” Framed to 14x18”, Ink and graphite on vellum and cut paper
$300
Sareh Puetz is a multimedia artist specializing in graphite photorealism and west coast nature themes - capturing our abundant and recognizable region in a unique process of layers of graphite, charcoal, ink, or a combination of the three in drawings on transparent vellum. Sareh also uses bright bold colours in acrylic paints and inks to represent the many local creatures found in our oceans and forests.
Contact: [email protected]

Skypool
36” x 48”, Oil on canvas
$1,500
Kathi Rudko paints for three main reasons; to preserve a moment in time when she has been touched by beauty or mystery; to challenge herself to transform vision into technically strong artworks and finally to relish the pure pleasure of moving pencil or paintbrush over a surface. She has been moving towards more nonrepresentational work, exploring more playful and loose interpretations and introducing encaustics and oil and cold wax into her art.
Contact: [email protected] | kathirudko.com

Meeting of Minds
30”x36”, oil and cold wax on wood panel
$1,650
Sofie Skapski’s biggest inspiration comes from trees and sky. She says, ‘The sky holds me in enchantment; the trees lead me up to it. I can only imagine the conversations they have as I gaze up at branches catching that ephemeral light. The silhouetted trees reaching up, the clouds scudding across that great expanse, the colours that suffuse and drain at dawn and dusk: all these speak to me and find expression in my paintings.’
Contact: [email protected] | 250 218 6170
sofieskapski.com

River, on the Rocks
24” x 36”, Alcohol Ink and Brass Pigment on Yupo Paper
$479
Ashley Slade is an emerging artist born and raised on Vancouver Island. She specializes in abstract ink paintings on yupo paper; however, she also enjoys creating mixed media pieces utilizing acrylic, resin, and 3D elements. Inspired greatly by nature, most of her works are water-themed. Her artistic goal is to provide the Comox Valley with beautiful, unique art that represents life on the island as the truly special experience that it is.
Contact: [email protected] | wishandwillow.ca