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.

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.

Artist Statement:

I am a painter in acrylics and I have been painting since 1986. I am also an occasional carver of soapstone. I am married with two children. I tend to paint character studies of subjects in which I strive to create compositions, whether they be human or animal that convey a particular emotion or an identifiable character trait of the subject. Since 2014 I have started to paint subjects with a metaphysical theme or spiritual nature to them. My style is mainly realistic with a touch of abstraction, particularly in the background, or with a bit of fantasy. My main emphasis while painting is creating a subtle transition between color tones, often adjusting or adding a temperature change in the small area of transition. This aspect of transitional change, I feel, allows my paintings to have a vivid glow and uniqueness to them. I hope you enjoy viewing the artwork as much as I did creating it. Thank you for showing an interest in this site.