Twin brothers, Bob and Lloyd Barnes are self-taught artists living near 100 Mile House. Their subjects are the flora and fauna that are indigenous to the interior of BC. They are unusual because they collaborate on most of their works, and because of their remarkable visual memories: most of their detailed creations are drawn from memory not reference material.

Born in South Africa Marie Botha's first artistic passion was for the piano and she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Music from Stellenbosch University.

While teaching piano in Stellenbosch, she began attending some courses and workshops in drawing and painting in oils. She later took courses in pottery and soon began exhibiting her work.
 
However, she desired a higher level of artistic expression and undertook a two year course with Louise Goudemond, a South African artist. During this time she started to sell her work and exhibited in groups.
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Marie's works contain elements of impression or expressionism depending on her inspiration. Her paintings are reflective of her love for nature and travel, varying from the awesome beauty of a Canadian mountain range, to an old street corner in Amsterdam to the hypnotic rhythm of a Namibian dune in the desert.

Two of her children emigrated to BC, Canada and she followed for Christmas visiting several magnificent locations over 3 months. To Marie, nature evokes emotions of joy, passion, peace and awe. Her paintings are memories of special moments, like waking up on a November morning in Prince Rupert and seeing the whole world in a white blanket after the first snowfall of the season!

Marie’s works are to be found hanging in corporations and homes in South Africa, the UK, USA, Australia, France and Switzerland.

Brian Croft's popular historical scenes of Vancouver are a result of painstaking research and meticulous attention to detail. He claims that about 80% of the work involved in creating a painting is research which he accomplishes with the help of local historians, internet research and trips to museum archives.

Brian has had an unusual background for an artist, his first career was as a pilot, initially with the Canadian Armed Forces as a fighter pilot then later as a commercial airline captain.  He retired from flying in 2009 and now devotes much of his time to his art.

Many of Carol Evans watercolours portray British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest on the beautiful and rugged pacific shores on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Her ability to create intensity of colour in the watercolor medium and her attention to the subtleties of light are trademarks of her increasingly popular work.

“Watercolour paint is a natural medium for me. It complements and enhances the beauty of this coastal panorama. This region is, after all, a damp, misty part of the world a lot of the time. Water hangs in great silken sheets of fog across mountains and inlets. It ripples and reflects along the shore. The wet, delicate, and raw subtleties of watercolour washes are ideal for conveying the gradation of light within clouds or a summer haze, perfect for suggesting shapes and forms barely visible in shrouded mist or streaking rain. It has a characteristic fresh, organic quality that easily gives the impression of trees and plants, and of rock formations and their textures. It is quick and spontaneous, and has a simplicity to it, requiring few tools. It has a wild quality and although the water can be somewhat controlled, it cannot quite be tamed.

The first impression is always sunlight, the primary concern of everything I paint. No matter what the subject, my process of painting is entirely influenced by light: its direction, the shadows it creates, its honey glow causing everything to hover on a cushion of warm air. Light penetrates things, revealing inner qualities and colours, like the veins in a leaf or the translucence of a shell. It creates halos around them. It makes things shine and flash and reach out to you, come alive. It rings out like sound echoing here and there off everything, filling a place with its reflected glow like a visual symphony. It has a divine loveliness to it. It appears without any human hand causing it to appear. It is just there and a scene is blessed with its rays. My work is to reflect it in my painting."

Since 1981 Carol has held 15 very successful one-woman exhibitions in a variety of places; Vancouver, Salt Spring Island, Gabriola Island and Nanaimo. She was invited to participate in a group exhibition by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, "The Real West Coast" where she was honoured to have her paintings shown along side the work of fellow west coast artists.

Carol is one of our favorite artists, and you can see more of her work at: www.carolevans.com.

Max Jacquiard has been painting steam trains since 1980. The Coquitlam resident has quietly become one of the most respected artists in Canada and North America in his specialized field of portraying steam locomotives.

Max has a sizable library of printed materials, photos and slides of steam trains and the locations and places they would have operated. It is that precise attention to details that sets Max apart from the other artists.

The sensitivity and passion that he infuses into his subject is what you feel in each and every one of his canvases. And this is what the Selection Committee of Canadian Railway Hall of Fame must have seen and felt when they selected and induced Max into the 2006 Canadian Railway Hall of Fame.

The evocative nature of Max's paintings has captured the attention and hearts of landscape and steam buffs across Canada and around the world.

His paintings now hang and grace the walls of homes all over the world.

Martin Kaspers has been creating artistic photographs for the past 30 years. While his first works were recorded on film and transformed in the dark room he now captures images and manipulates them digitally.

His work is distinguished by sound composition,  complex textures and a wide tonal range.

His current focus is on creating oversized landscape images and are available as limited edition canvas giclées as well as limited edition fine art prints.