10 Vancouver Artists to Keep an Eye On
Vancouver has no shortage of talent in the realm of arts. With graduates from renowned Emily Carr University of Art + Design as well as many studio spaces spread across the city, Vancouver is a hotspot for emerging artists. Fortunately, Vancouverites are able to get a glimpse into the work and studios of these talented individuals with festivals such as the Eastside Culture Crawl shining a light on local visual arts, design and crafts. Out of the 519 artists that were featured in the latest Eastside Culture Crawl, we have picked out a few that really stood out to us to share with you. If you are looking for a new art piece for your home, make sure to check out the work from these local Vancouver artists!
Arleigh Wood
Through a combination of photography, painting and drawing on watercolor paper, Wood is able to depict the moody quality of the West Coast of BC in her work. Primarily monochromatic with subtle hints of color, each piece in her latest collection is unique with an understated whimsical quality.
Carole Sinclair
Informed by her background as a fashion designer, Sinclair’s work juxtaposes a diversity of media and found objects on the given plane. She allows each piece to evolve and find its own form by creating a transition between the natural and industrial through spontaneous expression.
Christine Breakell-Lee
The intuitive relationship Breakell-Lee has with colour and space is very obvious in her work. Her paintings have an ethereal perspective that is captivating – drawing your eye to it as soon as you walk into a room. In all her pieces, you can feel the energy captured in the brush strokes on canvas.
Jill Pilon
Snapshots of memories portrayed through her paintings, Pilon has a unique approach to her work which makes it stand out from the crowd. Through contemporary mixed media, she is able to tell stories of objects and events that otherwise wouldn’t have a voice.
Lisa Ochowycz
Intertwining and manifesting in wildly colored abstractions or soft and subtly layered atmospheric landscape paintings, Ochowycz’s paintings revolve around three primary concepts – translations, the imprint of social and geographical experience on memory and beauty. Her work allows viewers to navigate alternative translations and interpreted landscapes.
Lori Popadiuk
Having studied both art and design, Popadiuk’s work has a conceptual quality. Her most recent works are evocative – presenting complex dichotomies such as calm vs. violence and balance vs. imbalance. Even with a limited palette, she is able to create movement, texture and depth in all her pieces.
Miriam Aroeste
Conceptual and abstract, Aroeste’s work depicts authentic, spontaneous emotion and experience. There is no doubt that the visual appeal in her work causes viewers to look at it over and over again, yet experience something different every time. Provoking and evocative, her pieces have a timelessness to them that keep them alive and relevant.
Ronan Boyle
Inspired by the Pop movement of the 1960s and the Do-It-Yourself movement in New York’s punk scene in the late 1970s to early 1980s, Boyle’s work has an inherently edgy street aesthetic that is met with a clean sophistication.
Siobhan Humston
A truly interdisciplinary artist, Humston is practiced in drawing, painting, photography, fiber arts and sculptural installation. In her work, she creates narratives that intersect environmental concern and ecological awe by combining abstracted aspects of nature with man-made elements.
Tanis Saxby
With just under 20 years of experience as a sculptor, Saxby works primarily in porcelain and black marble. Her sculptures introduce concepts of stillness, simplicity and sensuality – a contrast to our time-driven and complex culture.
