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Esseiva, Janet

Janet Esseiva was born in Cape Town, South Africa. She moved to Canada with her young family in 1998 and now lives on Bowen Island, BC with her husband and two daughters. Janet is mostly self taught but has also benefited from many workshops and classes both in South Africa and in Canada.

Janet's work can be viewed at her home studio and at the Art's Pacific Co-op Gallery on Bowen Island.

http://janetesseiva.com/

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Haxby, Sarah

Sarah Haxby is a local writer and artist and a creator of zines and self-published, hand-made books. Her work has been featured in Can West, Word Under the Street and in various international travelling exhibitions. She has led various workshops for all ages over the years and hopes to inspire youth to pursue their literary aspirations. www.peargirl.com/

Hillman, Susan

Susan Hillman studied painting at Chelsea School of Art and Design during the ‘60’s where Sheila Fell, Allen Jones and John Hoyland were her most influential teachers. She participated in a radical graduate course ‘Modern Social and Cultural Studies’ in 1968 at Chelsea College of Science and Technology, the intellectual impact of which was digested and assimilated gradually, strongly affecting both her painting and teaching.Her diverse background includes; teaching courses in three London Polytechnics, illustrated for the Sunday Times Magazine as well as the Esquire magazine in New York and teaching painting and drawing full-time at The Vancouver School of Art in B.C. Canada.Full-time teaching inevitably led her to be interested in curriculum development ,chairing two departments and becoming an associate dean before retiring from Emily Carr University in 2005. Over the course of her own artistic development both her teaching and personal practice were always witness to the changing face of contemporary art. Susans' current preoccupation in the studio is an examination of the condition of abstract painting in 2009, and how it might thrive and/or continue to evolve................. www.susanhillman.com/

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Klann, Andrea

Andrea Klann is a writer, painter and illustrator. She is currently working on her first non-fiction book and preparing for her next painting exhibition in 2010. She has written for Canada’s National Post and Georgia Straight (Canada), worked for The Guardian & Observer and the Scottish Herald in London (UK) and The Economist Intelligence Unit (Australia). She is the web pioneer who created the irreverent RedIguana webGuide to Vancouver, in 1997. Andrea and her family are known on Bowen as"those crazy people who barged an old bungalow from Port Moody to Bowen Island". To view her artwork: http://www.eaklann.com/

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Simpson, Gregg