Amber Butler 
Amber Butler is a local Sea to Sky multimedia artist. She now calls Squamish home and has her studio at Homebase Studios. Amber has been teaching art classes since the early nineties, and her passion is helping others ignite their creativity. For more information or to check out her website visit amberbutler.ca
Maureen Coles 
Maureen is a very popular art teacher who has instructed arts for many years in a variety of capacities. She has worked with children of all ages in camps, schools, community centres and special events. Maureen is teaching After School Art and Adult/Youth Acrylic Painting for the Fall 2011 session.
Dene Croft 
Within the walls of his North Vancouver studio, Dene Croft immerses himself in his world of "film noir" inspired narratives, urban landscapes and his love of teaching. Dene always believed that by the time you turn professional as an artist you are a thousand influences deep. His great influences are Tamara De Lempicka and Edward Hopper and with endless respect and admiration for the ground that they broke for future painters, I pay homage to them daily in my own work, while constantly pressing forward with my own sense of aesthetic and storytelling.
Jeanne Krabbendam 
Jeanne was born in The Netherlands and immigrated to Vancouver in 1999. She received formal training in the European art tradition in The Netherlands and France. Jeanne has extensive exhibit experience both national and international; she has her art studio on Granville Island and teaches as a sessional instructor at Emily Carr University. Over the years her paintings have found homes in Europe, North - and South America, Australia, South-Africa, China and Japan.
Leslie Redhead 
Leslie is an award winning artist and teacher in watercolour. Her art focuses on the combination of spontaneity and detail that watercolour has to offer. Leslie is a signature member of the Federation of Canadian Artists (AFCA). Her work is in collections worldwide and is featured in the book Splash 10: Passionate Brushstrokes from the Splash: Best of Watercolor series as well as Leslie Redhead: the life of an artist. She has conducted several workshops in Canada, the US, and Europe. Leslie currently resides in Victoria, BC.
Joan Skeet is a contemporary abstract expressionist who lives and works in North Vancouver. She has exhibited in over 40 group and solo exhibitions in public and private galleries in BC, Ontario, and Nova Scotia and has won several awards for her work. Currently she is represented by The Avenue Gallery in Victoria, BC. Joan has a DFA, Studio Major with distinction from Okanagan College (now UBC Okanagan) and a DFA, Double Studio Major in Painting and Sculpture from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Based on her personal interpretations of the world around her, with particular reference to the natural world, Joan’s abstract works often incorporate texture, layering, and distressed surfaces.
Frankie Watt
Frankie obtained a degree in Contemporary Art and Dance from London University and undertook post-graduate studies in Portraiture at the Heatherly School of Fine Art in London. She has studied facial anatomy for Forensic Facial Reconstruction at the University of Oklahoma and has a certificate in Art Education. A regular exhibitor with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, she is a member of the Portrait Society of America and the Canadian Institute of Portrait Artists. Her work was recently published by Taschen Books in ‘Illustration Now! Portraits’ and is in numerous private and public collections in Europe and North America.