Born in Vancouver and raised on the majestic slopes of its north shore, Doug Heal is a multidisciplinary artist and poet living with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 3. A lifelong student, Doug has studied at Emily Carr University and has degrees from Capilano and Simon Fraser University. His work is inspired by the natural wonder […]
Posts in VISUAL ARTS: Painting
A.J. Brown
A.J. Brown is a deaf and cerebral palsy painter artist. Her obsession and passion is painting cats. She uses a variety of media, including charcoal, pen, ink, and watercolour. A.J.’s art has shown in many galleries since 2001, where she exhibited at the Art Rental Show at the North Vancouver Community Art Centre. Her art […]
Deborah Leigh
Deborah was born in Prince George B.C., in 1951. Deborah started to draw and paint very late in life, in her 50’s, as a form of therapy to help relax. Since then, it has become an obsession, and with that some joy and a sense of peace. When creating something, on paper and canvas, I […]
Athena Cooper
Athena Cooper is a visual artist and therapeutic arts practitioner based in Calgary, Canada. Self-taught as an acrylic painter, Athena’s paintings are explorations of what it means to live an extraordinary, ordinary disabled life. Born with the rare genetic disorder, Osteogenesis Imperfecta (aka ‘brittle bone disease’), and a wheelchair user since the age of six, […]
Patrick Thomas Wood
Within the field of psychology, visual art share several areas of investigative interest, one of these is visual perception. Within this field I have been investigating the concept of Gestalt. Nature, abstraction, mathematics; all lend themselves to this poignant reference point of patterns. From prehistoric to modern times, civilizations have employed repetition and patterns as if to convey a secret […]