Mary Jean Brown
born 1941 in Vancouver BC - resides in the Sunshine Coast BC
Mary Jean Brown is a portrait artist living in an old converted warehouse that she designed on the beautiful Sunshine Coast of BC. She moved to New York in 1966 where she was Assistant to the President of Paraphernalia, the avant-garde fashion house of its day, and where she was exposed to the who’s who of the fashion world and the art world. She was responsible for opening the Village store, giving her professional experience with coordinating a large interior design project which later fed into her own interior design business in the late 70’s. Mary Jean owned and operated Mary Jean Brown @ Max’s Kansas City in 1969 - a very high fashion clothing boutique for discriminating eccentrics. She was also involved in the company Illusions In Light, Inc. where she owned/produced psychedelic light shows for rock stars such as The Fifth Dimension, Vanilla Fudge and Richard Harris. This led to a major in-house production for CBS as well as a one of a kind party at Yankee Stadium for the Cooper Union Alumni. She became a serious artist when she met famous sculptor/painter Barbara Pearlman. Brown's years as an Interior Designer were the cornerstone of her career in New York and Vancouver. She had a double page spread in the magazine sections of the New York Times written by Marilyn Bethany along with many articles in international magazines. Her art is partly autobiographical, working from people who interest her. Brown's work is in collections around the world.
http://www.maryjeanbrown.com
http://www.awarehousehideaway.com/
http://www.sunshinecoastartists.org/#MaryJeanBrown
http://www.kooladster.ca/index.php?md=browse&idemail=21

Marcia DeVique
resides on Galiano Island BC
Marcia DeVique attended the Okanagan School of the Arts and the University of Alberta (studying ceramics). In the late 1990's she studied glassblowing and glass casting from well-known BC glass artists Gary Bolt, Morna Tudor, Joanne Andrighetti and Lisa Samphire. In 2004 Marcia moved her studio and opened a gallery on Galiano Island, in the midst of the rainforest and peaceful solitude. In the production of her kilnworked glass she works exclusively with bullseye glass which is manufactured in Portland, Oregon. Marcia is currently represented in Galleries in Victoria, Vancouver, Pender Island, Galiano Island and Squamish in BC. She is represented by Rowles & Company Ltd., Alberta's Corporate Art & Gift Gallery, in Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
http://www.lindalandofineart.com/
http://rowles.ca/artist.php?artist=175
http://www.bcgaa.org/roundhouse2005exhibit.html
http://aggv.bc.ca/art_in_bloom_2008_calendar.aspx

Jenn Robins
born in the UK - resides in Victoria BC
Jenn obtained a music degree in the UK, emigrated to Canada and had a successful business career, before completing her Fine Arts degree at UVic. She is an award-winning printmaker who specializes in both traditional and innovative forms of printmaking. She has a degree in Visual Arts from the University of Victoria, and also studied at Okanagan University College and at the University of Lethbridge. She has developed new techniques in print-making and combined them with traditional methods to create hybrid art forms. She continues to explore the possibilities of the etching press. "It is the intense darks, magnificent textures, and translucent light in the printmaking process that keep me engaged with this medium. It's like pulling treasures out of a bag." She has been a freelance teacher for many years and currently teaches as well at the Victoria College of Art and Design. Jenn's work is found in permanent collections at UVic, Okanagan University College, and private collections around the globe. She teaches privately and gives workshops as close to home as UVic and MISSA/Pearson College, and as far afield as Tuktoyaktuk in the Arctic where she has been Artist-in-Residence.
http://www.jennrobins.com
http://www.missa.ca/other_media.htm

Ann Nelson
born 1955 in White Rock BC - resides in Vancouver BC
Ann Nelson was educated at Douglas College and the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Granville Island in Vancouver BC. In Sweden at her grandparent's home there was a word"smultronstallet" meaning "the place of wild strawberries," but it means much more than that to Ann Nelson. "It is a secret place, discovered, treasured, shared with friends. The wild strawberries are only implicit; they suggest themselves because of their rarity and beauty. Smultronstallet is any personal wonderland that has somehow singled itself out from ordinariness and become free from the bewilderment of the outside world".
Ann's paintings reflect this feeling of wonderland. Her work has been exhibited throughout the BC mainland and as far away as China. She is represented by the Petley Jones Gallery in Vancouver. Her paintings are included in many private and corporate collections in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia and in the collection of the Surrey Art Gallery.
http://petleyjones.com/dynamic/artist_bio.asp?ArtistID=114
http://www.anelson.ca/bio.htm