When it comes to jewelry, we want what we want. There are few other possessions that encourage us to be so exacting. We want beauty, symbolism, and timelessness. We want durability and wearability.

The blues! Cobalt blue, navy blue, a greyish northern sea blue, teal, and turquoise. Patrick Skidd is displaying the colourful veneers upon which he bases his woodcarving art.

Gigi Hoeller’s finely wrought images of flowers, landscapes, wood carvings, and totems call to mind the work of Georgia O’Keeffe (the 20th-century American painter best known for her extreme and sensuous close-ups of flowers).

Melanie Fogell’s engaging and diverse paintings reflect a rich and storied life. Colourful and reminiscent of the Fauves (early 20th-century painters who emphasized colour and the characteristics of the paint itself, rather than focusing on representation), her work is also strongly influenced by music.

Through his large paintings—some of them as long as eight feet—de Beer seeks also to challenge the way art is “placed on a pedestal out of reach for the majority of normal people.

Pia's beautifully wrought ceramic pieces celebrate the form, composition, and slow, deliberate movement of the natural world around us.

The Power of Paint is the perfect name for this impressive yearly exhibition by a group of friends and colleagues known as Eleven Equal Artists. Energy is the first impression and synergy is the second.

His colourful pastels and giclees evoke associations with post-Impressionists like Van Gogh.

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?

Anni Hunt and Catherine Nicholls present their observations and feelings for the stunning forest landscape through textile art