Growing up in a creative family in New York city was the perfect environment for Jim Walsh who now paints as J. Charles. "My family appreciates art and they encouraged me to follow my passion for drawing and painting."

Following a stint in the US Navy he felt the need to wander and hitch-hiked across the country and settled in California…for awhile. From there he moved back east to Montreal, Canada, and eventually traveled out to Alberta where he apprenticed as a sign painter and eventually open his own sign company. Relocating to the West Coast opened up a new world and provided him with an environment where he could concentrate on and fine tune his artistic ta...

David Innes is a photographer-artist based in Courtenay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Largely self-taught, he has followed a lifelong passion for photographic seminars under Freeman Patterson in Canada and at the Instituto de Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

“I make photographs to capture and interpret, and then share that sense of wonder, or surprise or balance I see in a situation – when I see someone passing a display of my fine art images, a smile of recognition or pleasure spontaneously forming across her face – I know the photograph has made a deep connection with that person. And that is my r...

Violet was born in the cold north, surrounded by a community of outdoorsmen and artists.  She spent her childhood drawing, painting and spending time with her beloved Aunt who was a highly respected artist.  Summer days were spent in the alpine meadows sketching wild flowers.  Violet became a prolific sketcher and by the age of 16 she decided to explore the world of her older sister.  She set off taking the bare necessities: a sketch book, small set of watercolors and a large back pack.  For two years the girls traveled through Western Europe.  It was there that she began collecting vintage postcards and ephemera at old antique stores and flea markets.