Transforming wood into sculpture is an act of discovery. What can be done with a log full of cracks, a knotted burl, a precut plank, or even a half-rotted stump?

Watercolour was my first medium and I return to this love affair repeatedly over my painting career.

From a live/work studio space in Sechelt, Grant creates pieces that are beautiful, practical, and affordable.

These beautiful pieces of contemporary abstraction start out as simple pencil-and-paper drawings. Sokazo sits down and starts to explore his imagination.

Bluff Hollow Cementworks has created a line of pots created especially for succulents. With simple, clean shapes and easy-care groupings of plants, these vessels will add style to patio, table, or desktop.

Barter’s dinnerware epitomizes what is earthy and essential. The design took some time to emerge, but Torrance is pleased with the results.

Minimal but powerful, there is a friendly, almost helpful sort of austerity to these pieces.

The things we love about our setting—the uncrowded coastline, the forests, the space—also mean isolation: studios at the end of long wooded driveways, limited behind-the-scenes conviviality, very little late-night café and drinks culture, and long distances between communities. The Kube aims to help.

Elizabeth Evans likes to paint stories. Her haunting and colourful pieces are full of meaning and really do suggest tales and places that invite the viewer to walk right into a narrative.

As an artist, one is always in search of the next inspiring colour, texture, element. On a recent adventure to Alert Bay on Vancouver Island, Riach found her next creative pursuit as the beauty of the surroundings captured her heart.