Roystan Ling is an illustrator, cartoonist and 

storyboard artist servicing the advertising and publishing houses.

He has worked sporadically on various freelance illustration  jobs.●

http://roystanartzone.weebly.com

if you have any inquiry, commissions just drop 

me an e-mail:  roystan_l{at}yahoo(dot)com(dot)hk

More to come

Canadian Artist Carolyn Mohr, born in White Rock, British Columbia, defines her style as “organic abstraction.” She is inspired by nature. However, the goal is not to reproduce what she sees. She strives to communicate what she feels.

She uses vivid colour as a form of “art therapy,” a way to escape the sombre grey of the West Coast winters. While there is undoubted beauty even in the rainy winters, the explosions of colours in her work are clearly inspired by spring, summer, and fall. Ultimately, Carolyn is a summer person; it is the time of year when people are the most relaxed, carefree, and exuberant. She strives to capture that sentiment with energy, movement, and the brilliance of the summer season in her art.

As a painter and sculptor she works towards integration of three-dimensional materials onto two-dimensional surfaces. She makes use of various media such as paints, mediums, found objects and paper. Achieving a textural quality is something she has always enjoyed in her art. Texture engages the viewer’s eyes, and their hands; it is as if they need to confirm the texture is real and not just an illusion of the paint. This has always fascinated Carolyn.

To Carolyn, painting in her abstract style creates a dialogue with her audience. By nature, people look for the familiar, something to connect within an image. Her thrill is the audience’s search for a connection. Her thrill is the conversations therein. Her thrill is hearing and seeing the emotions people feel when looking at her art. The highest compliment of all is when people feel pure joy.

Carolyn received her fine arts education at Kwantlen University, and has participated in several exhibits. She is a frequent participant in the Royal City Farmers Market and Stanley Park Painter’s Circle. She is a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and the New West Artist Group.

The Window Community Art Shop is a non profit retail consignment craft and design store and social enterprise in the DTES funded by the PHS. Providing a studio for use by DTES residents and a place for artists and designers to gather and share knowledge.

I am a German artist who recently moved to Vancouver, seeking new inspiration for my quirky and colourful paintings. I am very much inspired by Art Nouveau, people and nature and often combine the three. At times you will also find a little of the macabre and unusual in my works.

I get inspired a lot by photography and also by having travelled quite a bit. My main medium at the moment are acrylic paints.

www.jennmartin.ca

Identity is achieved through many aspects of society: one’s environment, experiences and family play major roles in the definition of people and their culture. In my photography I have explored the way nature defines contemporary life, the convergence of past and present in the field of feminine ideals and how mental illness fragments an individual’s sense of self. 

Taking memory and locality as starting points, I have utilized different mediums to display my work publicly. Utilizing both film and digital formats, I’ve employed alternative forms of printing, projection and installation to restructure traditional expectations of photography and ourselves.

Through my art, I want to interact with the people in my community and invite them to look outside of their lives; to see beyond their identities and the constructs of society that guide them through their days. 

Fund Development Assistant for L'Arche Greater Vancouver.

Alexander Bell (aka ssiess), born in Santa Monica, California, is a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist whose major foci are centered on oil painting, print work and photography. Alexander’s formative years were spent nomadically as his family travelled, moving almost annually from city to city. Alexander attended visual arts classes at the Vancouver Academy of Art. Over the years Alexander has explored diverse creative fields/media including radio art, text art, sound art, installation, performance, video art, net art - but has always returned to oil painting and photography as his primary media. It is the sum of his mentors, the places he’s visited, the organizations and collaborations he’s been a part of, which continue to inform his work and reveal themselves as parts of his personal visual/symbolic language. His recent works include presenting local subjects as a combination of gestural brushwork, text art and print work.

“I try to live a compassionate life, which is conscious of my neighbour in a way that is balanced with my own goals and desires. I try to increase happiness and reduce suffering but don't choose happiness if it means denying our suffering. I try to promote harmony, but I strive to have the courage not to avoid conflict when appropriate. I try to be present and aware of my surroundings but not permanently lost in the moment; not forgetting the path I have travelled or my bearing in the future. It is my wish to share fun and play with those around me. I try to promote the open lateral thinking of play. I try to encourage beauty, and create beauty, but be broad with my definition of it. I try to explore and tirelessly seek without prejudice while enthusiastically growing my roots into fertile soil I have explored. It is my intention to be open to the answers I receive, even if they do not concur with my hypotheses. “

My name is Nida Fatima Khan and I’m an Artist and a Motion Designer. I was born and raised in Lahore, Pakistan and am currently based in Vancouver BC.

I started my career as fine artist focusing in painting. In that time I became very involved with the process of material incidents, such as, ink stains on paper. The stain became a place of inventions, and together with intuitive marks and personal techniques, created a narrative of events. I was particularly fascinated by how, each pigment or dye had a different density, gravity, and weight, how these properties transformed over time. Observing these untreated yet systemic transitions, I wanted to capture and document them, which led me to motion design. 

Now my canvas has evolved to modern systems. Using techniques like live action, rotoscoping and compositing I’m able to explore the same concepts on a digital platform. My current work is spread over Motion, Art and Design. I love combining traditional disciplines with digital media. I’m also interested in stop motion, film, animation, illustration, and typography. Whether its painting or motion storytelling and building narratives is what I enjoy most. 

For further contact feel free to email me at

nidafkhan@hotmail.com

THE FORT GALLERY is a community based, nonprofit, artist collective that encourages and supports individual development and exploration in contemporary art.

THE FORT GALLERY  features artists who are exploring their personal edge, their individual frontiers, in order to discover their full potential and dialogue with community. Members support the creative process in one another and work together to determine the exploration and direction of the gallery, organizing exhibitions and events that maintain a viable local venue for contemporary arts.

Working in various mediums, Anastasia E White’s work explores her family history.  Coming from a mixed race family she is fascinated by the diversity of experiences encountered as her family has spread across North America, Europe and the West Indies.  Through exploring and sharing family stories Anastasia has come to better understand not only her families’ histories but her own individual identity.  By documenting stories through textiles, paint, collage, photography, and text she aims to build a better understanding of the dynamics of mixed race families and cultures, hopefully inspiring the viewer to examine the diversity of their own heritage.

    Housed in a former grocery store, the truth and beauty studio and gallery operate in a 1905 heritage-designated building in Vancouver's Douglas Park neighborhood. Blessed with natural light, high ceilings and the original turn-of-the-century plywood floors, the space is a warm and welcoming environment for visitors.

As photographer and curator, I invite you to visit my space at :

698 West 16th Avenue

and online at : 

www.truthandbeauty.ca

www.truthandbeautyphoto.wordpress.com

www.twitter.com/4truthandbeauty

http://www.linkedin.com/in/peppamartin

www.youtube.com/truthandbeautyphoto

604.707.0327

Member: Canadian Association of Photographic Arts (CAPA),

Professional Photographer’s Association of British Columbia ( PPABC ),

Vancouver Association for Photographic Arts (VAPA)

Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI)

Contemporary Art Society