November Feature Artist - Bob Miller (aka Bob the Carver)

Artist Reception: Saturday, November 9, 2 - 4 pm

“Woodworking has been a passion for me from my earliest years, especially in terms of grain texture and colour.  When I first saw a duck decoy, I knew I had to carve some and then moved into creating other birds, notably songbirds, owls, hawks and eagles.”

Born in Peru in 1957, Monica immigrated to Canada in 1976, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science and a Master in Landscape Architecture. She also has an Advanced Painting Certificate from Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

Monica's distinctive style of textural painting, in which she applies thick layers of acrylic paint and medium with palette knives, results in a 3-D effect, suggesting organic energy, flow and movement. At the same time, she uses multiple glazes of colour to produce contrast and harmony, creating lightness, fluidity, and ephemeral atmospheric effects.

Janna Kumi is a Canadian artist based in Metro Vancouver. She studied natural resource management and forestry, working for over 30 years in senior management positions in British Columbia.  In 2006 she began part-time fine art studies at Emily Carr University and then completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia in 2015. Since then, her art practice has evolved into a unique body of work comprised of mostly drawings and mixed media works centered mainly upon the tree – specifically, the bark.