June 8th -27th
FOUND AND FORMED
Found and Formed brings together three artists working across sculpture, painting, and mosaic. The exhibition invites viewers to slow down and look closer, noticing what has been found, remembered, changed, and given new form. Rooted in transformation, observation, and connection to the coast, the works reflect on what we carry with us, what we leave behind, and what continues to take shape.
Events:
Meet the artists at our artist pARTy, Saturday July 11th, 6-8pm.
What we carry forward.
Artist Statement:
Phoebe Tsui’s abstract landscape paintings create moments of calm within the busyness of everyday life. Inspired by the coast, shifting skies, soft colours, and distant horizons, her work begins with what is found in the natural world: light, atmosphere, movement, and memory. Through layered colour, texture, and atmospheric forms, Tsui forms these impressions into quiet spaces that invite viewers to pause, exhale, and feel a sense of renewal. Her work reflects the exhibition’s themes of transformation, observation, and connection to the coast, while offering a softer place to release what we carry.
Bio:
Phoebe Tsui is a Vancouver-based fine artist whose abstract landscape paintings offer moments of calm within life’s constant movement. Inspired by the coastlines, shifting skies, and quiet horizons of the West Coast, her work in oil and acrylic explores stillness, renewal, and connection to place.
Phoebe holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Communication Design from Emily Carr University. Before dedicating herself fully to painting, she owned a luxury wedding design company, creating bespoke invitations and stationery for discerning clients. Her paintings are now held in private collections across Canada and the United States.
When she’s not painting, Phoebe can often be found playing by the water and beaches with her young daughter and son, traveling in search of inspiration, or enjoying a good meal with her husband.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Phoebe Tsui
Kathryn Beals
Artist Statement
These mosaics are made from broken dishes, reclaimed tile, and pieces of shell and seaglass that we find on our local BC beaches. Piecing them together, I think about the history of these objects over time, and the ways I can fit them together to tell a story. In the intertidal zone, the ocean’s power constantly shapes and erodes the land into new things, as the animals and plants of our island weather the tides and seasons.
As a painter venturing into mosaics, I’ve reflected on my own transformation in a time of change. Translating a complex scene into a few colours sharpens my creativity, since I can’t shade and layer colours the way I would in a painting. I love the challenge of starting backwards from the pieces that I have and making them into something new that honours their original beauty. This body of work is a celebration of evolution, shared history and connection to the West Coast ecosystems that we call home.
Artist Bio
I’m a self taught Bowen Island painter with a background in forest biology. I challenge myself to learn a new medium whenever I can, and I also work in wood, resin, metal leaf and clay. In each medium I keep coming back to my favourite subject, the beauty of the West Coast. This year my focus has been mosaics from reclaimed materials.
Jayme Chalmers
Artist Statement
The portraits in my art practice concentrate on notions of the ‘performative’ and the idea of expressing and changing how we feel through our actions. My research focuses on the development of the modern portrait, with an emphasis on revealing the process and challenging how one views contemporary art, materials, meaning and routine.
My practice has long been rooted in portraiture, from the intimate scale of book sculptures to the monumental presence of sculptural portraits. Across these shifts in form, I return to the same pursuit: to reconsider the portrait not as a fixed likeness but as a performative space where stories, histories, and identities are explored and activated.
Bio:
Jayme Chalmers is a portrait and mixed media artist based on Bowen Island, British Columbia. Originally from Edmonton, Alberta, Jayme has exhibited his art all around western Canada over the past 15 years, as well as in London during a residency there in 2013. Jayme studied fine art at the University of Alberta, receiving a BFA in Painting; and then completed his MFA in Painting at the University of Calgary in 2013 where he also published his thesis The Performative Portrait.