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…
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…
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…
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…
