Nicola Prinsen
resides on Salt Spring Island BC
Nicola Prinsen has been sculpting for over 15 years, working out of her studio - a converted 1926 dairy barn overlooking Ganges Harbour. Over the past 23 years her experience with sculpture includes wheel-thrown pottery, stoneware, raku, and, most recently, bronze editions. She first studied ceramics, then figurative and portrait sculpture. For the past five years, her subject matter has been based on her surroundings, especially the animals that live in this setting. From otters to cows, crows to goats, in clay or bronze, Nicola explores the forms of these animals and undertakes a process of refinement by way of detailed studies and accurate depictions. Pushing the boundaries with these forms through distortion and exaggeration are part of Nicola's creative achievement. In 2000 at the Peace Arch Park International Sculpture Exhibit, she was awarded "Peoples Favorite". Nicola's work can be found in private collections across Canada and the USA, Germany, Holland and Grand Cayman Islands.
http://www.theavenuegallery.com/default.aspx?PageID=1002&CategoryID=2&ArtistID=29
http://www.whiterockgallery.com/Nicola_Prinsen.htm
http://www.adelecampbell.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=1316

Patricia Banks  FCA
born in Edmonton, Alberta - resides in Nanaimo BC
Patricia Banks grew up in the Okanagan Valley, BC. Her love of the ocean showed at an early age - though she had never seen the ocean, she drew a detailed seascape on the cover of her Grade Two report card . After high school, she moved to the West Coast where she and her husband spent many years sailing among the Gulf Islands and visiting the remote wilderness areas. In June 2007 Patricia received International acclaim by winning second place in the International Artist Magazine competition for her piece “The Broken Islands.” In October 2007, she was accepted into the International Guild of Realism, an organization that regularly shows their members’ work in prestigious International Gallery shows and Art Museum Exhibitions. She is an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and her work can be found in local, national, and international collections.
From: http://www.island.net/~banks/galleries.htm
http://www.myartclub.com/artist.php?XYZ=997&artpg=2
http://www.patriciabanks.ca/index.htm
http://www.realismguild.com/Artists/PatriciaBanks/HTMLs/OnePager/ArtPage/TheBrokenIslands.html

Lynda Kirby
born in Fraser Valley BC - resides
Lynda Kirby and her family traveled throughout the province’s interior as a child. The raw and unpredictable character of BC’s wilderness and its strong-spirited communities took root in Kirby’s young imagination. She left the small town environment to study Fine Arts at Vancouver City College in 1972 and worked intermittently in commercial art while sharing in the upbringing of two daughters. When time afforded it, she returned to her studies in Visual Arts and Liberal Studies which produced a degree from Vancouver Island University (formally Malaspina University College). Kirby’s paintings are a charged combination of landscape and human elements using an abstract visual language. This is emphasized in her use of layered colour and shifting forms that appear to be natural but are not. Kirby has exhibited in many places in BC, as well as in Shanghai China, and Bellingham Washington. In a 2007 interview in collaboration with Byron Chief-Moon, her artwork was used in the show which aired on the Bravo Television Network and APTN.
From: http://www.petleyjones.com/dynamic/artist_bio.asp?ArtistID=81

Lou Lynn
born 1950 in Edmonton Alberta - resides inWinlaw BC
Lou Lynn has been exploring the sculptural potential of glass since the mid-1980s. Her sculpture has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in the permanent collections of the Kamloops Public Art Gallery; Vancouver Centennial Museum; British Columbia Provincial Art Collection; Claridge Collection; Xerox of Canada Collection; Foreign Affairs Canada ; Berlin Embassy Collection; GlasMuseum ; Denmark; and the Corning Museum of Glass. Ms. Lynn has been awarded grants from the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation; the BC Arts Council; the Vancouver Foundation; and the Canada Council for the Arts. "My sculpture is informed by architecture, archaeology and industrial objects. The recent body of work references the function and aesthetics of hand-tools and functional objects that have been used throughout history. I am interested in combining the fragility, strength, and optical properties of glass with bronze or aluminum to create contemporary forms that are reminiscent of artifacts from times past. The juxtaposition of contrasting materials invites the viewer to explore the tension that exists between strength and fragility."
http://www.glassartcanada.ca/s/artistDetail.php?id=30
http://www.evergreenculturalcentre.ca/ART+GALLERY/Past+Exhibitions/Lou+Lynn.htm
http://www.bclocalnews.com/fraser_valley/abbynews/entertainment/41859237.html
http://www.bcgaa.org/roundhouse2005exhibit.html

Mickie Acierno
born New Westminster 1954 - resides in Nanaimo, BC
Mickie Acierno paints still lifes with heightened dynamic realism, filled with energy and vitality. She graduated from Graphic Design at the University College of the Fraser Valley in 2003, when she and her family moved to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. She works as a full-time artist, represented by the White Rock Gallery, the Stephen Lowe Gallery, and Gallery 223 in Nanaimo. In 2004 she was part of the "Women's Declaration/Contemporary Women Artists Exhibition" - a show of work (and now in a permanent collection) of 15 Chinese and 13 Canadian women artists at the Duolun Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, China. A Signature member of the Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA), she has received their Award of Excellence at least three times, the Barrie Chadwick AFCA Award, FCA Jurors' Choice Award, the Peggy & Harry Evans Award, and First Place in The Torrit Grey Art Competition.
http://www.whiterockgallery.com/Acierno-magazinart.htm
http://www.mickie.ca/bio.html
http://www.stephenloweartgallery.ca/artists/am0908001.asp?selptr=0
http://www.gallery421.ca/gallery/album08
http://www.gallery223.ca/