Jacquie Tremblay

Jacquie Tremblay is a Lake Country-based fine art photographer whose work explores light, movement, and perception. Using techniques such as intentional camera motion and double exposure, she creates images that blur the boundary between abstraction and reality, revealing beauty in often-overlooked subjects and everyday moments.

Inspired by the transformative nature of light, her photographs invite viewers to slow down, look closer, and discover the extraordinary within the ordinary. To experience the world through a different lens.

Jacquie Tremblay’s Artist Statement:

Jacquie Tremblay has two different relationships with photography. One is professional, technical and precise. It is where she has honed her skills and endeavours to always improve. Built from this technical foundation, is her Fine Art Photography practice. This is her place to be creative, expressive and full of discovery. Photography has always been her creative outlet, a way to slow down, to imagine the world a little differently. The camera is a tool Jacquie uses to express herself, to create something tangible, from the intangible. A tool for painting with light and perception.

Through Jacquie’s fine art photography, she explores the beauty hidden in simplicity. With techniques like double exposure and intentional camera motion, blurring the boundary between form and feeling, to create images that move between abstraction and recognition. Images that capture the essence of motion, texture, and colour.

From the delicate grace of flowers to the overlooked corners of the everyday, her work seeks to remind us that we don’t need grand vistas, or exotic locations, to experience the ephemeral beauty of the world around us.

Angela Hansen

Angela Hansen is a Canadian artist and educator based in the Okanagan Valley, working primarily in encaustic and clay. With a BDes from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and a BEd from the University of Victoria, she has developed a multidisciplinary practice that spans over two decades. Her work addresses urgent environmental and social issues of the Anthropocene, exploring the impacts of global warming and the complexities faced by modern women. Hansen’s installations and artworks have been exhibited across Canada and the United States, including “BREATH” at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, “BRINK” at the Kelowna Art Gallery, and “CONSUME” at Vernon Public Art Gallery. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the Encaustic Art Institute and Museum in Santa Fe. In 2024, she received Juror’s Choice for “Spiral Pod” and curated the international exhibition Global Warming is Real, further establishing her voice in contemporary encaustic art.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Angela is an encaustic sculptor and ceramicist. She has worked with encaustic, a medium made of beeswax and tree resin, for nearly 25 years; its versatility of applications drives her art-making practice of both 2D and 3D works. Angela’s work pushes the boundaries of traditional art-making practises through the unusual and innovative use of encaustic medium combined with natural materials and textiles. Having spent a large portion of her childhood outdoors in either the forests of the Cariboo Chilcotin or on the beaches of Whiterock, her deeply embedded wonder of the natural world and biophilic tendencies are evident in the biomorphic forms and imagery found in her work expressing the biodiversity, strength, and fragility of the planet. Angela’s installation work questions environmental and social issues of the Anthropocene era – specifically the effects of global warming.

Robert Jenkins

I am a retired scientist who has always had a strong interest in art. Upon retirement, I embarked on a second career, travelling the province and painting what I saw. My progress led me to work in series, getting deeper into a subject by painting various parts of it, allowing me to portray its message in a deeper sense. My work has definitely been influenced by my scientific background; you could say my approach to art is empirical, trying something out, seeing what happens, and proceeding from there. It is a constant voyage of discovery, that excites me, and gives me something to paint about. It is not just about the discipline of painting. It is about being human and experiencing the world.

The current show ‘A Church for Barkerville – a Pictorial Essay’ is a three-year project, centred on St. Saviour’s Church in the historic gold-mining town of Barkerville; seeing it as a visitor; learning about its message from evidence left behind; a series of 27 paintings done over a number of years. The display is intended to immerse the viewer in the same kind of experience, of being there, seeing bit by bit the message left behind.