[custom_frame_center][/custom_frame_center] Lez Niepo, local visual artist and musician, immigrated to Canada from Scandinavia in 1973, first settling in Toronto, then moving to the Sunshine Coast, where he established his studio, Allworks, in Halfmoon Bay. His paintings from that time were influenced by the European abstract movement. In the eighties, Lez travelled to the Fiji Islands [...]

[custom_frame_center][/custom_frame_center] Tessa Rand grew up in Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast.  She obtained a degree in 3D Animation from the Art Institute in Vancouver, where she met her husband. After moving back to the Coast in 2007, she joined a collective of self-taught metal artists who call themselves the Martopian Collective. Tessa, a “mompreneur” [...]