Our 20 Faces // 2026 campaign provides a window into our community of 150+ members, highlighting the diverse artistic practices that thrive within it.
Explore their practices below and learn how you can join us for the coming year.
ANDREAS RUTKAUSKAS
I use photography, video, and sound as means of exploring the environment. Since relocating to the Okanagan in 2016, I have taken an interest in post-fire landscapes, but that's not all that I do! I have realized major projects on the Canada/U.S. border and…
Grant Robinson
I am a multi-disciplinary artist working in photography, painting and sculpture. My photography career began in London, England in the early 2000's shooting fashion and cosmetics before turning my camera to action and industrial photography. This work has allowed me to…
BANU TULUMAN
My practice is rooted in abstraction as a way of exploring emotional, psychological, and lived experience. I paint intuitively, allowing each work to evolve through layers of movement, texture, destruction, and reconstruction…
Hana Hamaguchi
My practice involves finding visual elements that I am drawn to and further exploring those through pattern, form and repetition. I received my BFA from UBCO in 2022, and I am primarily focused in painting currently, but I have also worked in printmaking and digital mediums. I am…
CARLY JOHNSON
I am a Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate student from the University of British Columbia 2026 cohort! I mainly use oil paints for my practice, and take my own reference photos from around the Kelowna landscape. I enjoy interpreting the contrast of night scenes lit by…
John Leinemann
My main focus is woodturned items that I carve and burn and embellish with shapes, patterns and textures that I find intriguing. When I’m not in my wood shop I really enjoy creating line art, gestural drawings, scribbles and doodles...
CAROLYN KINGSLEY
My artistic practice can be seen as an ongoing cycle of curiosity, mistake-making, and good luck. Often the end result of a piece is not what was originally intended, but somehow still manages to be pleasantly surprising. I use primarily watercolour and I love painting portraits…
Katelyn Jeske
I am young and early in my artistic career, and I am still figuring out who I want to be as an artist. Since moving to Kelowna and being surrounded by other artists, my eyes have been opened to so many possibilities. I make art to bring myself joy and quiet my mind. To me, a successful…
Katya Meehalchan
I am a collage and printmaking based artist. I recently graduated from UBCO with a BFA, majoring in printmaking. This last year I have really been expanding my collage work as full finished pieces…
Lucie Bardos
I am a mixed media abstract artist and poet whose creative practices continuously inform and shape one another. At times, a poem becomes the emotional or conceptual foundation for a painting; at others, a painting reveals a feeling or fragment of understanding that later…
Robyn Santamaria
My artistic practice investigates how landscape is perceived and emotionally experienced rather than simply represented.
Living in the Okanagan, I am surrounded by mountains that quietly frame daily life, and my work responds to the subtle shifts in light and atmosphere that…
Kel Taylor
I would describe my artistic practice as evolving and shifting, most importantly rooted in a commitment to bravely following my heart. This journey started with story telling through figurative mixed media painting almost ten years ago, which has more recently led to performance art…
Marguerite MacIntosh
I began making art ten years ago after our five children were grown and I retired from architectural practice. Soon after this, we moved to Summerland, and much of my art is a consideration of the liminalities that I have been processing over this last decade. I am particularly…
Wanda Lock
Wanda Lock's artistic journey began to take shape in her early years. In 1987, she enrolled in the Fine Arts Diploma program at Okanagan College, where she honed her technical skills and laid the foundation for her artistic pursuits. After completing two years at Okanagan…
Liliane West
My artistic practice explores emotion, transformation and the organic rhythms found within the natural world. Working primarily in acrylic, I create layered, intuitive paintings inspired by wilderness, psychedelic patterns and inner experiences that are often difficult to put into…
Nola Sinclair
My current main practice is in printmaking, specifically screenprinting. I thoroughly enjoy the act of screenprinting as it is really a mix of media, digital and printmaking. Being able to create my images on the computer allows for endless possibilities, whether it's…
Wynne Leung McIntosh
I’m a painter, educator, designer, and colour investigator. My artistic practice is rooted in emotion, intuition, and the quiet discoveries that happen through making. I’m interested in the intersection between subconscious mark-making, colour, memory, and the ways art can help us…
Lorenzo Rodrigues
I am a multimedia artist studying Visual Arts at UBCO for a Bachelor of Fine Arts, focusing on sculpture and digital collage artworks, also creating music on the side with Digital Audio Workstations. I focus on humorous subject matter with the objective of amusing the viewer, but…
Pippa Bingham
As an emerging artist I create large-scale mixed-media paintings on canvas. I begin by developing a composition of simplified shapes, drawing inspiration from both natural forms and man-made objects. These shapes emerge through a process that moves between imagination…
Zoë Caine
I am a queer and neurodivergent creative writer and 2D mixed media visual artist currently pursuing a BFA at The University of British Columbia. I’ve had my art shown in several group exhibitions and am currently a Director on the board of the Wine Country Writers’ Festival. I’ve also…