Sarah Alford 2010
After the Melt
Paper and Masonite on board

Sarah Alford is in the process of completing her Master of Fine Arts degree at the School of the Art institute of Chicago, specializing in Fibre and Material Studies. With a background in jewellery making, her techniques include drawing, wrapping, leafing and papering. Her large scale glue gun drawings were exhibited at Two Rivers Gallery, alongside the work of Jennifer Bowes and Dagmara Genda in Beyond the Mountain from May 14 to July 25, 2010. Alford has just accepted a teaching position at the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design in Halifax.

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Suzanne Bessette cofounded "Artworks", a visual arts program for adults with developmental disabilities. She is based out of Victoria, BC and an exhibition of her oil and acrylic paintings, Codes: Practical and Poetic was featured at Two Rivers Gallery from July 25 to September 28, 2003.

Born in the Netherlands and spending most of her adult life in Vancouver, Margaretha Bootsma draws on inspiration from locations such as Comox, BC and the Muskokas in Ontario, for her vibrant multimedia creations. Her work, consisting mainly of photography and painting but also incorporating sanding, textures, ink, wax, and various pigments, uses intuitive spontaneity and explores the interaction between humans and the urban or natural environment. The results have been exhibited throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe, including Two Rivers Gallery where Convergence was exhibited from August 2 to September 23, 2001. During her visit Bootsma collaborated with the Prince George community and some of the stamped pieces of driftwood, which appeared in her exhibition, can still be found in the dry river bed in front of the gallery. Bootsma currently teaches in the Fine Arts Department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

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Jennifer Bowes earned her Master of Fine Arts in Drawing in 2003 and Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1999, both at the University of Alberta. She is the Visual and Graphic Communications Arts Instructor at the Dawson Creek Campus of Northern Lights College. Bowes has participated in exhibitions across Canada, most recently at Two Rivers Gallery, alongside Sarah Alford and Dagmara Genda in Beyond the Mountain from May 14 to July 25, 2010.

Originally from Alert Bay, and of Kwakwaka'wakw ancestry, Liz Carter now resides in Campbell River. Her work places materials like cedar bark, wood, copper, buttons, skins and photographs as the symbolic subject of her story. She is a graduate of North Island College's Fine Arts Program and is working on her Bachelor of Arts degree at Emily Carr Institute. She has received numerous awards including the Visual Arts Development Award. Carter exhibited in the group show Debutante, at Two Rivers Gallery, from December 7, 2007 to February 17, 2008.

Briar Craig is a printmaker and a printmaking teacher at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, formerly Okanagan University College in Kelowna. Craig was born and raised in and around the Toronto area and has always been interested in looking at the world around him. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and a Master of Visual Arts degree from the University of Alberta in 1987. Mad About the Waltz, Craig's Two Rivers Gallery exhibition, was on display from February 20 to May 10, 2009.

Judith DesBrisay was born and raised in rural British Columbia. She lives an environmentally friendly life in remote Taharti Lake, outside Quesnel, BC. In her own words, she is "inextricably interwoven within the wilderness landscape" where she resides.

DesBrisay's art is informed by her travels around the world. Judith's career as a community health nurse and educator enabled her to travel to both remote and urban communities from Antarctica to the Arctic, including three years in various regions of South America. Judith continues to paint five days a week and has exhibited in solo and group shows in Canada and Chile. From May 23 to August 10, 2008, DesBrisay had a solo exhibition, Geographies, at Two Rivers Gallery.

www.judithdesbrisay.com

Mario Doucette lives and works in Moncton, New Brunswick. He has been involved in many solo and group exhibitions and curatorial projects across Canada. Doucette's exhibition Histoires/Histories was at Two Rivers Gallery from August 22 to November 9, 2008. The same year he was one of the four finalists for the prestigious Sobey Art Award.

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For over thirty years as a professional artist, Edward Epp has been consumed by a passion for painting. Epp has travelled extensively and has lived and painted in Liberia, Botswana, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. Whether travelling or at home, he paints whenever he can snatch time. As such, he artist's materials travel with him everywhere.

Epp moved to Prince Rupert in 1999 and started to regularly include the ocean in his subject matter. Freighters and other ships frequently use the waters around Prince Rupert, the third deepest natural harbour in the world. It is paintings from this period that were exhibited at Two Rivers Gallery from July 22 to September 26, 2004 in Epp's solo exhibition, Of Northern Extraction. Epp currently lives in Shawnigan Lake, BC.

www.edwardepp.com

Thoma Ewen 2010
Aurora Borealis Behind the Trees #6: 10x10x10
Hand woven tapestry

Thoma Ewen integrates spiritual beliefs and the natural environment into her rich tapestries. With over 35 years of experience, she is well suited to her current vocation as artistic director of Moon Rain Centre, in Val de Monts, Quebec, a non-profit community textile art centre where she also teaches workshops. Her commitment to community and artistic merit was recently recognized with "Le Grand Prix d'Excellence des Quatrième Jeux de la Francophonie" award.

Ewen's exhibition Tapestries From Moon Rain showed at Two Rivers Gallery from August 31 to October 29, 2000. During her time in Prince George, Ewen and her loom travelled to the College of New Caledonia, the University of British Columbia, Two Rivers Gallery and Pine Centre Mall, where the artist involved the community in the design and creation of a collaborative tapestry. The resulting Community Tapestry is part of Two Rivers Gallery's permanent collection.

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A self-taught artist, Ken Ferris has been drawing wildlife since early childhood. With his very realistic style, Ken illustrated, wrote and successfully published The Rockies: An Artist's View. He has completed several commissions by Ducks Unlimited Canada , garnering numerous awards and accolades. Ferris' artwork has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, including Changes of Seasons, his exhibition which ran from November 22 2001 to January 13, 2002 at Two Rivers Gallery.

Born in Joliette, Quebec, Jérome Fortin lives and works in Montreal. He is represented by Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montreal. Fortin exhibited at Two Rivers Gallery from May 23 to August 10, 2008 in his solo show, Constellations.

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Annerose Georgeson was born in Switzerland but grew up near Vanderhoof, British Columbia. Earning her Bachelor of Visual Arts degree from the University of Victoria, Georgeson works mainly in acrylic paint and mixed media. Georgeson curated Red and Blue Beetle Art which commented on the mountain pine beetle epidemic, and she has been featured in solo shows around Canada, including A Secret Language at Two Rivers Gallery from January 17 to March 2, 2003. She currently teaches art to children and adults, based in the same small community where she grew up.

www.annerosegeorgeson.com

Monique Germaine was born and raised in New Brunswick in an Acadian family, the second of 14 children. Her complex paintings grew out of Germaine's challenging life experiences and her many trips to Europe, during which she familiarized herself with the great Masters of classical painting. Her paintings, which often are comprised of several intertwined images, have appeared in many group shows at Two Rivers Gallery and from October 21 to December 31, Germaine exhibited in a two person show, A Semblance of Truths, alongside Iris Hauser.

www.moniquegermaine.com

Catherine Gibbon lives in Dundas, Ontario where she is a founding member of the Carnegie Gallery and a teacher at the Dundas Valley School of Art. Chalk pastels are often Gibbon's choice of medium-they suit her working methods and passion for colour.
As a regular exhibitor, she shows her work in public Galleries across Canada and she is represented in a number of public and private collections. Gibbon exhibited with Jane Adeney from July 6 to September 16, 2007 in Smoke. She is also a recipient of many grants and awards for her work in conservation and visual art.

www.catherinegibbon.ca

Ted Hiebert is a visual artist and theorist whose art has been shown across Canada in public galleries and artist-run centres. Mediated Selves was Hiebert's solo exhibition at Two Rivers Gallery, from November 21 to February 8, 2009. Hiebert is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal CTheory, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell, Washington.

www.tedhiebert.net

Laurel Johannesson uses a broad spectrum of media and techniques, including printmaking, digital media, drawing and painting along with photography and video. She studied at the University of Calgary, the University of Saskatchewan, and the Royal College of Art in London, England. Having received numerous awards and residencies as well as having shown in galleries in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia. Johannesson is currently Assistant Dean of the Drawing Program at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. Her prints were included in Two Rivers Gallery's group exhibition, Digital Prints, from October 10, 2003 to January 1, 2004.

www.laureljohannesson.com

Trevor Lloyd Jones was born in Essex, England and studied at Colchester School of Art, Sheffield College of Art and Design and Goldsmiths' College, University of London. In 1980 Jones immigrated to Canada and taught art part-time at McBride Secondary School until he retired in 2004. In 2003 and 2006 Jones traveled in Australia and New Zealand, and these journeys have been reflected in recent work, including in his solo exhibition at Two Rivers Gallery High Places and Sacred Mountain, which ran from January 13 to March 9, 2006. Jones lives in McBride, where he dedicates his time to painting.

www.trevorjonespaintings.com

Davida Kidd is a photo-based artist who resides in Vancouver, BC. She received her Master of Visual Arts degree from the University of Alberta and since 1996 has been teaching Print Media at the Visual Arts Department of the University College of the Fraser Valley in Abbostsford, BC. Davida has exhibited widely internationally and nationally, receiving several awards, scholarships and grants for her work. Kidd's work was included in the group exhibition Debutante, at Two Rivers Gallery, from December 7, 2007 to February 17, 2008. She has been short listed by Canada Council for the Arts as one of the artists to exhibit work at the Canadian Pavilion at EXPO in Shanghai next year.

www.davidakidd.com

Betty Kovacic was born in Prince George, earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Victoria and exhibiting in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Her work reflects her commitment to the community by featuring various social injustices such as war, violence, abuse, the sex trade homelessness, and ecological deterioration.
Kovacic has had two solo exhibitions at Two Rivers Gallery. Her first, Legacies, on display from October 11 to November 25, 2001 included a series of portraits and stories of elders. Six years later, from September 27 to November 27, 2007, Kovacic presented A Roomful of Missing Women, an installation to commemorate the first 50 women that went missing from Vancouver's downtown Eastside. Kovacic currently instructs art in the community and at the College of New Caledonia.

www.bettykovacicart.com

Born in Scotland, Claire Kujundzic moved to Canada at the age of 5 and during her youth lived in various small towns across British Columbia. Her father was a professional artist who founded the Kootenay School of Fine Arts in Nelson. Kujundzic, always socially active, was strongly involved in the women's movement and solidarity work with Latin America, and was commissioned to do design work for many organizations.

In the early 90's Kujundzic and husband, artist Bill Horne, bought the former Catholic Church in Wells, BC and opened "Amazing Space" studio and gallery. There, she exhibited the flying women which have become familiar to many of us through magnets; women escaping their traditional roles, stepping out of their windows and taking flight. The canvas paintings in Kujundzic's exhibition, Cariboo, on display at Two Rivers Gallery from May 22 to August 9, 2009, incorporated pine beetle marks, maps, animals and wood textures. A large selection of her canvas "trees" and pine beetle paintings were installed in the athletes' living rooms in Vancouver and Whistler during the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

www.claireart.ca

Through her sculptures and installations, Diane Landry recycles the meaning and primary use of everyday objects. Her projects are born out of commentary on current events. She hopes to upset and interrupt people's thoughts and introduce her works into their minds through the effect of surprise.

Landry lives and works in Quebec City. Since 1987, her works have travelled widely across Canada and in major cities in the USA, Mexico, Argentina, many European countries, Australia and China. She is the first recipient of the prestigious Giverny Capital Prize, a distinction awarded to a visual artist from Quebec. She has been an artist in residence in many centres in Canada, the United States, France, Italy and Argentina. Diane Landry holds a Master of Arts degree from Stanford University, California. From November 17, 2006 to January 21, 2001, Landry's exhibition, The Magic Shield, was on display at Two Rivers Gallery.

Joyce Majiski's distinctive style has been influenced by her training in wildlife biology. Certainly, as a biologist, sculptor, printmaker, wilderness guide, and owner of the travel company "Sila Sojourns," Majiski cannot be accused of monotony. Based out of Whitehorse, she explores the interrelationships among nature, humans, home and senses of place. Her work has been shown in British Columbia, Alaska, California and Yukon. From February 14 to April 27, 2003 Majiski exhibited at Two Rivers Gallery in a solo show, Inner Spaces, Outer Places.

Originally from northern Ontario, Alison Norlen earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Manitoba and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. Fascinated by contemporary societal artifacts such as theme parks, carnivals, roadside attractions and malls, Norlen centres many of her drawings and installations around these examples of "cultural artifice." As a result, her work explores the interaction of society, structure, and a sense of place and is varied and complex. She currently is an associate professor at the University of Saskatchewan's Department of Art and History and exhibited her large scale drawings in the three person show, Figment, along with Minh Nguyen and Tania Kitchel from November 22, 2001 to February 9, 2003.

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Alice Parks-Spurr's abstract paintings hint at the unique background of their creator. Hailing from California, Park-Spurr moved in 1980 to the Southern Lakes district of Yukon Territory with her husband, building a cabin. While in Yukon, she began painting and eventually returned to California to get both her Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees at the California College of the Arts. Her paintings, in oil, watercolours, and acrylics, feature the unique environment of Northern Canada and were exhibited at Two Rivers Gallery from July 19 to September, 2001 in her solo show, The Other Side.

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Gary Pearson is an artist and Associate Professor in the Department of Creative Studies at UBC Okanagan. He is also an exhibition curator, art writer, and author. Pearson's personal exhibition history includes solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the US, Australia, and Europe. His survey exhibition entitled One Way Ticket, organized by the Kelowna Art Gallery, was on display at Two Rivers Gallery from February 25 to May 1, 2005.

Philippe Raphanel was born in Paris, France. In 1978, he graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués, and received a diploma in Fine Arts. He immigrated to Canada in 1981 and has since exhibited his work across Canada and in the United States, South Korea and Australia. From July 22 to September 26, 2004, Raphanel had a solo exhibition, The Visceral Landscape: A Short Survey, at Two Rivers Gallery.

Raphanel came to prominence as one of the artists in the celebrated Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition, Young Romantics, in 1985. He has received numerous Canada Council grants and was also awarded the prestigious VIVA award in 1996. He taught at Simon Fraser University and has been teaching at Emily Carr University of Art & Design since 1993. Raphanel is represented by the Equinox Gallery in Vancouver and is currently living and working in Vancouver, BC and Brasília, Brazil.

Since graduating with a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Guelph in 1995, Perry Rath has been pursuing artistic projects in a variety of international venues. He creates paintings which utilize a variety of materials to develop layers of textures and images, including botanical and geological motifs, maps, and cultural iconography. His installations use organic and found materials to open up meanings of social, political, or cultural implications.

Rath has exhibited across Canada and internationally in Australia, India, Germany, Russia, Britain and the US. His exhibition, Ghosts, was on display at Two Rivers Gallery from October 8 to December 5, 2004. Rath works as a teacher and artist in Smithers, BC.

www.perryrath.com

Peter Regush is a sculptor who carves primarily in Brazilian soapstone. Peter is interested in creating work that enhances his relationship with stone and his ability to understand, capture and record the characteristics that each stone possesses. He incorporates and combines the many colours and patterns of the stone into one harmonious final form. Each of Regush's works can be interpreted in many ways, as each viewer brings their own experiences to their interpretation and each viewer sees something unique within the form. His installation, Beginnings, was exhibited at Two Rivers Gallery from May 11 to July 8, 2001. Regush lives in Dawson Creek, BC with his wife and three daughters.

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Joanna Rogers 2010
Disappearing Beautiful BC
Mixed media on board

Joanna Rogers creates original, one-of-a-kind fibre art and mixed media work for exhibition and sale. She uses traditional surface design techniques combined with non-traditional materials to create artworks which are richly textured, both physically and metaphorically. From January 25 to March 3, 2002 Joanna Rogers explored women's role in history through her textile-based exhibition, Under Wraps at Two Rivers Gallery. Rogers works at the Three Fates Studio and Gallery on Pender Island, situated in British Columbia's southern Gulf Islands. There she is constantly experimenting with new ideas and new media to push the limits of fibre art.

www.pendercreatives.com

Theresa Sapergia received a Bachelor of Fine Art from Emily Carr Institute of Art And Design in 2001 and an MFA from Concordia University in 2005, where she taught for a number of years. Currently, she lives and works in Prince George, BC where has taught as an instructor with Emily Carr University in the University of Northern British Columbia's joint Fine Arts Program. Sapergia is also a practising artist and proprietor of Handsome Cabin Boy Tattoo. Sapergia has exhibited in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, California and New York and her solo show, I Like Canada and Canada Likes Me, was exhibited at Two Rivers Gallery from August 21 to November 8, 2009.

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Theresa Sapergia received a Bachelor of Fine Art from Emily Carr Institute of Art And Design in 2001 and an MFA from Concordia University in 2005, where she taught for a number of years. Currently, she lives and works in Prince George, BC where has taught as an instructor with Emily Carr University in the University of Northern British Columbia's joint Fine Arts Program. Sapergia is also a practising artist and proprietor of Handsome Cabin Boy Tattoo. Sapergia has exhibited in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, California and New York and her solo show, I Like Canada and Canada Likes Me, was exhibited at Two Rivers Gallery from August 21 to November 8, 2009.

www.sapergia.com

Born in 1927 in Kenora, Ontario, George Sawchuk spent the first 40 years of his life as a logger and labourer before an accident claimed his leg, forcing him to retire. Living in North Vancouver at the time, he came to occupy himself in the woods behind his house making carvings that he would set on stumps. He would also make alterations to trees which included adding machine parts, mirror fragments and other found objects.
His artwork drew the attention of artists and critics like Lucy Lippard, who included him in a number of important exhibitions in the early 1970's. From March 12 to May 6, 2004, Sawchuk exhibited his portable sculptures in his solo exhibition at Two Rivers Gallery, Rough Hewn, which toured to Grand Forks, Moose Jaw and Campbell River. Sawchuk is known for producing artwork that blurs the boundaries between folk, conceptual and site-specific installation art.

www.georgesawchuk.com

Paula Scott, who currently lives in Dunster, B.C, began painting in her late thirties and is mainly self-taught. Her oil paintings are primarily autobiographical and reflect her life's journey, often using humour and metaphorical devices to provoke further thought. Scott received the Vancouver Foundation Development Award grant in 2000 to explore different surfaces, mediums and the psychological use of color in art. She has exhibited her paintings in many group exhibitions at Two Rivers Gallery. From April 12 to Jun 9, 2002, she had a solo exhibition, In Relation to Being and Other Musings and from December 7, 2001 to February 17, 2008, Scott exhibited in a group show, Debutante, at Two Rivers Gallery alongside Davida Kidd, Lisa Hebden and Liz Carter.

Douglas Senft has been a practicing sculptor since 1972 when he graduated with honours from the Vancouver School of Art. From January 5 to February 25, 2001, he exhibited his sculptures at Two Rivers Gallery. In tandem was a two person exhibition featuring collaboration between Senft and Heather Thomas. Senft has created numerous public commissions in Canada and internationally including Cathedral at Waterfront Park, North Vancouver and hole in the sky, White Rock. His two most recent public art commissions last year were bearing in Calgary, Alberta and falling water in Victoria, BC. He teaches sculpture at North Island College in Courtenay, BC. Currently Senft is working on a new commission for the Dollarton Business Park in North Vancouver. As well, he is building a new studio on his property in Royston, BC.

www.douglassenft.com

Harry Stanbridge was born in Quesnel, British Columbia and currently lives and works in Victoria, British Columbia. Stanbridge exhibited at Two Rivers Gallery from April 27 to June 24, 2007 in a two person show, Communion, alongside his partner, Linda Stanbridge.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Linda currently lives and works in Victoria, BC. She has exhibited her work in solo shows in Canada and internationally in group exhibitions. From April 27 to June 24, 2007, Linda Stanbridge exhibited alongside her partner, Harry Stanbridge, at Two Rivers Gallery in a two person show, Communion.

Dan Steeves was born in Riverview, New Brunswick, but his intaglio prints have travelled throughout Canada and to the United States, Holland, Italy, Japan, Poland, Taiwan and the Ukraine. His favoured method, intaglio printmaking, uses plates with incised images and has roots in the 15th century European printmaking practices. Steeves received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Mount Alison University, in Sackville, New Brunswick where he now teaches and is the printmaking assistant. His exhibition, Things We Put on a Hill, appeared at Two Rivers Gallery from January 12 to February 25, 2001.

www.dansteeves.com

Diana Lynn Thompson is an installation artist who works with ephemeral moments, accumulated objects, collected stories and intervention strategies, which she documents in video and photographs. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria and her works have been exhibited, performed and installed nationally and internationally. From January 13 to March 9, 2006, Thompson transformed the Two Rivers Gallery's Canfor North exhibition space with her installation Alluvion.

www.dianathompson.net

Alex Turner's photographic images were included in Two Rivers Gallery's group exhibition, Digital Prints, from October 10, 2003 to January 1, 2004. Turner lives and works in Harrison Hot Springs.

Peter von Tiesenhausen has a fierce connection to the land. That connection is present in his paintings, installations and sculptures, much of which features transformation and transience. Born in British Columbia, Peter moved with his family to Demmitt, Alberta, outside of Grande Prairie, when he was a young. He has a strong attachment to his family homestead and still lives there with his own family.

In July of 2005, von Tiesenhausen installed his exhibition, Requiem across both the exhibition spaces at Two Rivers Gallery. Requiem addressed issues around the mountain pine beetle infestation in Central BC and was on display from July 22 to October 9 of that year.

In June of 2009, von Tiesenhausen's public sculpture Balance was unveiled at Two Rivers Gallery. Balance was commissioned by the Gallery with the support of the Arts Partners in Creative Development program and with the assistance of the City of Prince George.

Matthew Wheeler 2010
Pencil Essay
Archival ink pigment photograph on board

Matthew Wheeler is a freelance artist, writer and photographer living in McBride, BC. His exhibition, Fingertip Views, was on display at Two Rivers Gallery from September 7 to November 5, 2000. Many of the photographs that were included in the exhibition appear in his book of photographic puzzles, Small Worlds.

Inspired by his home in the Robson Valley, Matthew Wheeler creates art heavily informed by his rural surroundings. His meticulous interest in everyday objects and detail made him the prime candidate to illustrate the animals section of The Handbook of the Canadian Rockies. A televised documentary in the Landscape as Muse series showcases Wheeler's ice lens photography. His images have also appeared in various publications including Beautiful British Columbia and Scientific American.

Nicola Wheston was born in London, England, and studied at both the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Working predominantly in oil paint, Wheston paints with attention to small moments, bringing a sense of intimacy and vibrancy to still lifes, figure drawings, and landscapes alike. Her work has been featured in solo and group shows in Canada, England, and Mexico, and she currently resides on Salt Spring Island, B.C. Her exhibition, All Our Daughters, was on display at Two Rivers Gallery from September 27 to November 18, 2001.

www.nicolawheston.com

Growing up on a farm near Saskatoon heavily influenced the connection to place for Vancouver-based sculptor and installation artist Shirley Wiebe. Her temporary installations, ranging around the Pacific Northwest, are made to be ephemeral and unexpected. She has studied Fine Arts and Applied Arts in Social Services in Vancouver and Kitchener, Ontario, as well as having participated in numerous artistic residencies in Berlin, Vancouver, Turkey, and the Yukon. Wiebe exhibited alongside Rory Mahoney in Trace Elements: Fugitive Terrain from August 16 to September 29, 2002.

Leszek Wyczolkowski's artwork reflects his rich artistic roots. Born into a family of artists in Poland, Wyczolkowski studied at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland and at the Ontario College of Art in Canada. Based out of Toronto, he creates unique, unclassifiable work that blends organic and geometric forms, which he has shown in over 100 solo and group shows, including in his solo exhibition, Dialogue, at Two Rivers Gallery from January 9 to February 29, 2004.

Born in Calgary and raised in Regina, Norman Yates studied at the Ontario College of Art after returning from duty in WWII. For more than thirty years he taught at the University of Alberta, where his huge mural graces the Education Building. Yates loves teaching and has mentored many artists in Northern British Columbia through the Wells Artists' Project (now named the Toni Onley Artists' Project). While teaching, Yates painted constantly and continues to create large format landspaces in Victoria, BC. From February 19 to May 2, 2009, Yates exhibited Landspaces: The 21st Century, Selections from the first decade at Two Rivers Gallery.