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.

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.