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This photo was taken at Beachcomber Park, Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island

This photo was taken at Beachcomber Park, Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island

Exact replicas of starfish are hand glazed and kiln fired in natural & designer colours. The waters of British Columbia, from Puget Sound to Alaska are particularly rich in starfish, now called sea stars. The most common sea stars, the Pisaster Ochraceus or purple star, is found in the middle...

Lynn Orriss is a Vancouver Island artist who creates jewellry using polymer clay. This medium allows the artist to emulate glass, metal, ceramic, stone, bone, wood, fibre and paint. She often adds semi precious stones and crystals to her necklaces. She has recently started producing beautiful buttons out of polymer...

Lynn Orriss is a Vancouver Island artist who creates jewellry using polymer clay. This medium allows the artist to emulate glass, metal, ceramic, stone, bone, wood, fibre and paint. She often adds semi precious stones and crystals to her necklaces. She has recently started producing beautiful buttons out of polymer...

Lynn Orriss is a Vancouver Island artist who creates jewellry using polymer clay. This medium allows the artist to emulate glass, metal, ceramic, stone, bone, wood, fibre and paint. She often adds semi precious stones and crystals to her necklaces. She has recently started producing beautiful buttons out of polymer...

Lynn Orriss is a Vancouver Island artist who creates jewellry using polymer clay. This medium allows the artist to emulate glass, metal, ceramic, stone, bone, wood, fibre and paint. She often adds semi precious stones and crystals to her necklaces. She has recently started producing beautiful buttons out of polymer...

Lynn Orriss is a Vancouver Island artist who creates jewellry using polymer clay. This medium allows the artist to emulate glass, metal, ceramic, stone, bone, wood, fibre and paint. She often adds semi precious stones and crystals to her necklaces. She has recently started producing beautiful buttons out of polymer...

Lynn Orriss is a Vancouver Island artist who creates jewellry using polymer clay. This medium allows the artist to emulate glass, metal, ceramic, stone, bone, wood, fibre and paint. She often adds semi precious stones and crystals to her necklaces. She has recently started producing beautiful buttons out of polymer...

Lynn Orriss is a Vancouver Island artist who creates jewellry using polymer clay. This medium allows the artist to emulate glass, metal, ceramic, stone, bone, wood, fibre and paint. She often adds semi precious stones and crystals to her necklaces. She has recently started producing beautiful buttons out of polymer...

Lynn Orriss is a Vancouver Island artist who creates jewellry using polymer clay. This medium allows the artist to emulate glass, metal, ceramic, stone, bone, wood, fibre and paint. She often adds semi precious stones and crystals to her necklaces. She has recently started producing beautiful buttons out of polymer...

Lynn Orriss is a Vancouver Island artist who creates jewellry using polymer clay. This medium allows the artist to emulate glass, metal, ceramic, stone, bone, wood, fibre and paint. She often adds semi precious stones and crystals to her necklaces. She has recently started producing beautiful buttons out of polymer...

Muriel Bush is a Vancouver Island artist whose nature-based work focuses on the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. A graduate of the Emily Carr College of Art & Design she works in oil, acrylic, pastels as well as pen & ink.

Born in Port Alberni, Vancouver Island Adina moved to Venice, Italy where she studied art.  Upon her return to Canada she studied art and design at Vancouver Island University. She draws inspiration from her natural surroundings and Venetian architecture, working in acrylic, watercolour, charcoal and pencil.

Carla Flegel is a Vancouver Island watercolour artist who is known for her various whimsical birds and humorous sayings.

Carla Flegel is a Vancouver Island watercolour artist who is known for her whimsical birds and humorous sayings.

Aaron Yukich is a nature and landscape photographer based on Vancouver Island. Nature is his happy place. It is a source of creativity, inspiration and a great teacher in the course of life. He believes time spent in nature is deeply nurturing and that we can all tune in to...

Aaron Yukich is a nature and landscape photographer based on Vancouver Island. Nature is his happy place. It is a source of creativity, inspiration and a great teacher in the course of life. He believes time spent in nature is deeply nurturing and that we can all tune in to...

Westcoast artist Wendy Schmidt expresses her interest in nature and wildlife through her paintings using watercolours and oils as well as photography.

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Ice Bear is an artist from the Ojibway nation, Chippewas of Nawash Clan. He moved from Ontario to BC in the early 80s. He has been painting and sculpting for nearly 50 years, drawing on nature and his Indigenous heritage for inspiration. His work is found in corporate and private...

Westcoast artist Wendy Schmidt expresses her interest in nature and wildlife through her paintings using watercolours and oils as well as photography.

Westcoast artist Wendy Schmidt expresses her interest in nature and wildlife through her paintings using watercolours and oils as well as photography.