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September 27 & 28, 2025
10am - 4pm
This self-guided tour offers an intimate glimpse into private studios where artists showcase their work and creative processes. From vibrant paintings and unique sculptures to finely crafted pottery and jewelry, the tour highlights the diverse artistry of the region.
Visitors can meet the artists, purchase original pieces, and enjoy the scenic charm of Lighthouse Country along Hwy 19a. It’s an inspiring weekend celebrating local talent and creativity.
Studios are located along Route 19a (Island Hwy W & Island Hwy S) between Dashwood and Union Bay on Vancouver Island
ARTISTS STUDIO TOUR
ARTISTS STUDIO TOUR
ARTISTS STUDIO TOUR
ARTISTS STUDIO TOUR
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Carla Flegel
1063 Ganske Road,
Qualicum Beach, BC V9K 2G5
All of my work is original watercolour . My greeting cards are printed locally. Stop by Carla's studio, the Flegel Factory, to see some of her work and the space in which she creates.
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Sylvie Peltier - Esspé
175 Fire Dance Lane,
Qualicum Beach, BC V9K 2L6
An exhibiting member of the Federation of Canadian Artists since 2021, Sylvie Peltier participates in art events from Comox to Nanaimo. She is a member of local artists' groups, with whom she regularly participates in exhibitions. She is also planning two solo exhibitions: one at the McMillan Arts Centre, in May 2025, and the other at The Old School House Arts Centre (TOSH), in January 2026.
Sylvie Peltier has lived in British Columbia for over 30 years, and has been wielding her brush for the past 10 years under the artist name Esspé, the phonetic expression of the initials of her name. Her joyful, abstract works are inspired by the natural world around her.
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Sylvie Bart
188 Fire Dance Lane,
Qualicum Beach, BC V9K 2L6
Sylvie Bart is a Qualicum Beach painter with a passion to create and explore.
Her practice follows contemporary themes using acrylic and mixed media. Her work reflects her love for nature, patterns, colors, and whimsy. Come by & visit my dream studio by the Salish Sea.
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Debora Munoz
309 Kendon Drive,
Qualicum Beach, BC V9K 2N8
Debora is a seasoned mixed media artist with a passion for celebrating diversity and fostering understanding and harmony. Debora received her art education from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, in shared studio with fellow artists and in an 18 month on-line masters level two 'Art and Success' program led by Artist and Instructor, Pamela Caughey. Debora has dedicated more than 10 years to teaching young children and youth the FUN (damentals) of making art, and has facilitated healing through creative endeavours workshops for adults. Debora has facilitated and participated in many collective community art projects. She has exhibited her art works in Vancouver, Prince George and more recently in the annual collaborative 'Exquisite Corpse' art project at the MacMillan Arts Centre in Parksville.
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Sheena McCorquodale
5320 Island Hwy W.,
Qualicum Beach, BC V9K 1Z2
I worked as a graphic designer all my adult life in sign design, computer graphics, hand-painted designs, tv set graphics, theatre set & prop design, and typography.
I always explored my own creativity away from the commercial work environment with drawing, painting, and sculpture and since 2015 I have been developing my own interests at my Cathouse Gallery in Qualicum Bay. I am a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and currently hold my AFCA. I am also an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artitists.
I enjoy conte drawing from life and acrylic painting, but my favourite medium is sculpting with chicken wire. A surprisingly forgiving medium that provides me with endless opportunities to create. I love having the ability to breathe life into this relatively industrial, unlikely material.
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Debé VanderHeide
5320 Island Hwy W.,
Qualicum Beach, BC V9K 1Z2
Deb VanderHeide is a Canadian jewelry artist working from her home-based studio in Qualicum Beach, BC. She creates distinctive mixed metal and enamel pieces using a combination of traditional and modern techniques.
Deb uses a variety of methods to add texture and pattern to metal — including etching, rolling mill impressions, hammers, and more. Her enameling techniques include torch firing, kiln firing, sgraffito, layering, liquid enamel, and other surface treatments that bring depth and color to her work. Rooted in a love of process and materials, Deb’s work is inspired by natural textures, metal’s inherent beauty, and the handmade journey.
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Kent Leontowich
3055 Raymur Place,
Qualicum Beach, BC V9K 2N9
If you align with a philosophy of sustainability, recycle-reuse-reclaim, then you are going to fall in love with Kent Leontowich from Westcoastkitsch. All of our products are made from our home-based studio in North Qualicum Beach located on beautiful Vancouver Island. His work combines reclaimed wood with painted scenes from Vancouver Island and British Columbia. Materials are of central importance to his work, and are chosen for both their associative meanings and their aesthetic appeal. This approach has to do with a strong environmental ethic as well as the idea of rescuing orphaned items both natural and manmade. His art pieces show a connection to our natural coastal surroundings.
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Amy Baxter
109 Noonday Road,
Bowser, BC V0R 1G0
I do a painterly style of digital photography layering images with a textural element with the main subject of the piece. No filters are used, just multiple layers. I also paint in acrylic and oils. Mostly west coast themed semi-impressionistic style. I am mostly known for my photography.
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Susy-j Johnsen
59 Bowser Road,
Bowser, BC V0R 1G0
Although born in Denmark Susy is an island gal. At the ripe age of 3 months she convinced her parents to emigrate directly to Campbell River, BC, Canada. Teachers recognized as early as primary school that she could sustain intense focus while doing art. Although assignments were not always well-writen they were well-illustrated. Her art education began at CARIHI and was influenced especially by two teachers -- Ms Simpson (gr8) and Ms Hilsden (gr11). Upon graduation she won a bursary from the Campbell River Arts Council. With that incentive she went to art college. A college portfolio led her to graphic design which segued into a career in advertising. Intense years of deadline-driven agency work led her to rethink her art. The irony was that now she was spending all her time doing everything but art. Quitting the city led her back to the island and a place to explore watercolours. Why she chose watercolours was simply because she didn't want to stain her car seats with acrylics or oils during a time when she was homeless living in her car. Without a studio she began painting outside and without a place to display her art she started a blog. She posts a new painting every month often twice-monthly. Follow her passion, see her hone her skills, at https://susy-j.ca/newpaintings
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Cosmo Palace Studio
55 Frontier Drive,
Bowser, BC V0R1G0
We are a playful mother/daughter team that creates functional, whimsical hand built pottery. We have a large working studio space plus an attached small gallery/shop where we display and sell our wares. We hand build all our pieces, (no wheel) and hand paint and glaze creating one-of-a-kind, unique ceramics. Come by the cosmo palace studio and learn about hand building, share a laugh or a story and sip some lemonade in the garden. Looking forward to welcoming you!
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Janine and Brett Sibley
50 Captain Kidd Drive,
Bowser, BC V0R 1G0
Small Batch Letterpress Studio - We delight in making greeting cards and fine stationery letterpressed on luxurious cotton paper.
Cue an amazing vintage Heidelberg printing press, add paper and ink and voilà, happiness in print!
We use recovered fibre paper—exquisite, pure cotton that’s irresistibly soft to the touch. We hand-mix our inks and apply precise impression to create the unmistakable look and feel of letterpress printing. We love taking art from an idea to a great finished piece!
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Loris Dawn Nygaard
4990 Thompson Clarke Dr W.,
Deep Bay, BC V0R 1G0
I have happily lived on Vancouver Island for 62 years, never have I wanted to live anywhere else. I have created art since my teens. I created pottery, mosaics, jewelry, while I stayed home and raised three children. I learnt the art of Stained Glass in 1995. I was captivated, and have been creating Sentimental Gifts, Unique Lighting, and Window Panels that bring energy into your home through design and colour ever since. I sell through galleries, Qualicum Beach Farmers Market and in my home studio. I enjoy teaching small workshops, sharing my passion.
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Wanitta Ranson
5040 Longview Drive,
Deep Bay, BC V0R 1G0
I’m an Island girl!
I moved to the Lighthouse area in 2014 and quickly established myself as a volunteer in the community, first with Bowser Seniors Housing Society, and then in 2015 became a volunteer with Oceanside Emergency Support Services.
I’ve been creative since I was a kid but really learned an appreciation of arts and crafts when I was ten when our family moved to Fort Rupert. There I became friends with a couple of girls from the Kwakiutl First Nation community. I was thrilled to learn beading, bead embroidery, weaving, etc., from the kind and patient grandmothers and aunties.
My learning continued throughout my life, including at a college level where most of my courses were in Indigenous studies of history and cultures of First Peoples of the Americas. I also took first year law courses in First Nation Administration that included the study of the Indian Act.
When our kids were young I was pretty busy as a stay at home mom but I took up cross stitch and by the time they both graduated I had designed 37 patterns, some of which I sold online.
In 2004 I picked up my crochet hooks again, and then in 2006 began dabbling in jewellery making.
Always evolving my crafts, a few years ago I began painting jewellery with enamels and gel paints, and experimenting with various techniques, as well as incorporating new and vintage components into my designs.
I also upped my crochet game and have now created a line of completely designed-by-me goods for home and body.
I don’t limit my creativity to just jewellery or crochet. I love to upcycle items to make fun home decor items. Designing and creating is my thing and I love it!
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Peggy logan
5224 Gainsberg Road,
Bowser, BC V0R 1G0
The arts of enamelling and jewellery making have engaged Peggy for over thirty years. She has explored many themes, processes, and materials that have allowed her imagination to grow. An example of this is in her fascination for seeds where she casts seed forms in silver, then incorporating these forms with precious pearls or semi precious stones to create original pieces of jewellery.
Enamelling glass to metal is much like painting in the choices of color and the layering process through multiple kiln firings to create a piece of art. Cloisonne and Champleve are the forms of enameling that are her specialty. She finds joy in the process to see an idea come to completion opening the door to another idea.
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Claire Olivier
5224 Gainsberg Road,
Bowser, BC V0R 1G0
Claire has been practicing ceramic arts for over 30 years. She has exhibited and collaborated with many BC ceramic and mixed media artisans. Claire moved to Qualicum Beach from Salt Spring Island where she was an active member of their guild for several years.
Living close to the Salish Sea and Douglas Fir forest nurtures and influences her work. She strives to embrace that deep ancestral reaction to art made with fire, with the beauty of the cosmos, organic colour, curling smoke and scorching shadows.
Forms are hand built using coils or slabs of clay and undertake an initial firing in an electric kiln.
Her earth fired work receives a second firing in another kiln or pit layered with seaweed, coffee grounds, salt, grasses, driftwood, kindling and the like. This organic mixture is left to burn for several hours. Once complete, the pieces are finished with either beeswax or a protective sealant. The result is a unique marriage of her creations and fire, weather, and material mix. The outcome is never totally predictable. This is what makes the work so exciting. She is always heartened when it elicits a reaction and begs to be touched.
Claire also creates unique translucent, water tight, porcelain vases and colourful tableware.
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Lori Schiersmann
5414 Deep Bay Drive,
Bowser, BC V0R 1G0
"Pasting" a ceramic like substance on glassware to create beautiful, functional artwork...garunteed for Dishwasher and Microwave safe. Think "Raku" on Glass.
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Anne-Marie Harvey
5435 Deep Bay Drive,
Bowser, BC V0R 1G0
In my heart I am a story teller, disguised as a pleinair painter. I paint people in their everyday interactions with nature and seek to capture the grandeur of the ordinary.
I find great joy in mentoring and teaching. By helping aspiring artists I found true friends and created a happy rewarding painting family with whom I keep in constant contact.
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Wendy Adams
365 Ships Point Road,
Fanny Bay, BC V0R 1W0
Wendy is a Glass Bead artist in Fanny Bay. She began her journey in glass bead making in 2000 and that's when her passion for glass ignited. Wendy has a strong sense of color and draws inspiration from the beauty around her. Her Studio is nestled amongst the forest which is a perfect place to let her creativity flow. Wendy feels very blessed to create pieces of wearable art.
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Philip Adams
7838 Tozer Road,
Fanny Bay, BC V0R 1W0
Second year participant in 19A Arts Festival. Philip Adams paints abstract art with acrylic paints on canvass. Stop by his studio to see his work.
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Don Cunningham
7801 Tozer Road,
Fanny Bay, BC V0R 1W0
I have built full kitchens, wardrobes, buffets, TV lifts, from a wide variety of woods. As well I am a fine artist. My latest series of paintings attempts to capture the light at different times of the days using Long Beach as the basis for each piece.
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Madeleine Wood
7801 Tozer Road,
Fanny Bay, BC V0R 1W0
I was born and raised in BC with an aptitude for drawing, which grew into a fierce desire to become a painter. My formal education began at Emily Carr University in two stints, the latter during a trend when painting was declared dead. Determined, I went on to complete my MFA at Concordia University and then established my studio practice in Vancouver. In 2010, I was able to return to Vancouver Island with my partner, joined by our cat, where I feel a deeper connection to nature.
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Brian Latta
7844 Ships Point Road,
Fanny Bay, BC V0R 1W0
I am a Photographer and Artist and live on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. My work centers around the beautiful natural environment in which I live.
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Paul Crawford
433 Holiday Road,
Fanny Bay, BC V0R 1W0
Glass artist Paul Crawford has been designing and custom handcrafting sandblasted and etched glass art features for home and business since 1986. His passion for Vancouver Island and everything nature is evident throughout his work. From small awards and souvenirs, to large scale commissioned projects, Paul attention to detail and specialized techniques make him a true Master of his medium.
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Becca Fairbairn
6537 Walker Frontage Road,
Fanny Bay, BC V0R 1W0
Becca Fairbairn paints on wood panels with wood stains and oil based paints. Her work focuses on combing the natural qualities of the wood itself, the grain and wood patina with the subject. Her focus for many years was the beauty of wooden boats and the seascapes of the Inside Passage and Salish Sea. She has been painting since her move to Bowen Island in 2012 where she set up a studio on the waterfront. In this wild setting, Becca began her integration into the wildness of the Westcoast. She now lives just south of Nanaimo, and continues to paint en plein air, capturing the natural beauty of her surroundings. Becca taught art history for many years at Kwantlen University.
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Gwendolyn Monnet
6537 Walker Frontage Road,
Fanny Bay, BC V0R 1W0
I was born in BC, Canada to a large family of Métis heritage.
I have managed to live my life doing what I love the most; most of the time. This usually involves a happy mix of art, community and beaches.
Art has always been an integral part of my life. Historically, the women in my family were known for their beautiful beading and sewing skills which became part of my identity early on.
I love simple lines and bold colors, most of my past works include playful cartoon animals. I have also collaborated with students to create large works in a few of our local schools. You can find my prints and cards in several shops and galleries on Vancouver Island.
More recently, I have been using and building on the floral designs of my grandmother and have been exploring different mediums such as beadwork, soap stone carving and painting on drums. I have also created larger sculptural pieces to honor MMIWG+ which have been featured at the CVAG.
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Danielle Bilodeau
6560 Country Road,
Fanny Bay, BC V0R 1W0
As a lifelong maker, Danielle of Little Love Letter Arts, enjoys creating with several media styles. Fairy tale and fantasy are a favourite theme. Paintings showcase nature through vibrant, whimsical visions. Clay work utilizes gems, jewelry and other objects to create ‘magic mirrors’ and fairy home planters. Danielle even dabbles in hand sewn custom lap blankets and other fabric creations. You can find Little Love Letters Arts on Etsy, Facebook and Instagram.
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Teresa Knight
5681 Island Highway,
Union Bay, BC V0R 3B0
Ive lived on Vancouver Island for 20 years and I love painting my vision of the best of life here!
This includes all the things i think and see while walking my dog, so there are many peaceful night scenes as well as ocean views. and forest walks...
My thoughts and feelings get painted too, and I feel very sorry for many animals who suffer at our hands so some paintings share this empathy for them.
As I've been painting for so many years, my works are in collections around the globe and have been in many exhibitions and show. I continue to paint and to teach painting which is simply - fun!
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