Studio 2
Cathy Larkin
Shania Park
Lampwok/Flamewok
Emerging artist Shania Park practices the craft of flameworking on moretti glass in Vancouver Beaumont studio, Canada. She has studied under notable glass artists such as Bandu Scott Dunham and Italian venetian glass artist maestro Lucio Bubacco.
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Marcia Martinez
I love colour, texture and the feeling of old, smooth wood. I’m a trained interior designer and have been creating in paint, fabric and wood as long as I can remember. I am a huge fan of the original painted finish and feel slightly ill when I see a piece of furniture that’s been stripped of its personality and history.
I’ve made my creative way through watercolours, silkscreening and photography to the point where I’m currently working in acrylics on canvas. I often incorporate faux finishing techniques and skills learned from furniture restoration into my pieces. My work tends to be “larger than life” and uses bold colours and strokes to pick up on details found in common objects. A promotional banner designed for a music company led to a series of guitar paintings and my nickname the Guitar Lady.
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Heather Lea
Writing, Design and Publishing
Website
Six years ago, just after turning thirty, I started an arts and culture publication in Revelstoke, BC called Reved Quarterly (www.reved.net). I loved writing and this new venture would, hopefully, ensure a job, which could be hard to come by in a small town. Plus calling myself a ‘publisher’ felt so romantic and sexy.
But for many nights in the beginning I sat in my home office, which was freezing, with tears of frustration in my eyes after trying to teach myself various publishing software programs. I’d run a hand under my damp nose, lift the afghan higher up on my knees, cuddle my hot cocoa and wonder if this vocation was really all that sexy.
Six years later, I’ve worked out the kinks: got a laptop so I could work by my woodstove, became proficient in Adobe software and amazingly, still feel that wonderful energy publishing gives me.
In January of 2011, I moved to Vancouver to take a Multimedia Intensive course at UBC, which I’d hoped would give me the tools to take my business further into the world of social media and enable me to build my own website. It did that and more.
I still run my business from Vancouver and live here working as a freelance writer and designer. I live for mixing my skills in writing with design to communicate a message, whether it be through advertising, writing, photos or graphic images (not to be confused with ‘graphic’ images).
