The Oak Bay Artists’ Studio Tour is an opportunity to view and purchase visual art by Oak Bay artists. Many of Oak Bay’s established and emerging artists use their homes and studios as backdrops to display original watercolour, acrylic, and oil paintings, photography, woodcuts, as well as fibre, glass, and pottery creations.
The free tour is produced by Oak Bay Parks, Recreation, and Culture. The tour is self-guided and self-paced, with maps provided by Oak Bay Parks, Recreation, and Culture. Maps and guides to be available closer to the date.
Spring Oak Bay Artists’ Studio Tour
Monterey Recreation Centre
1442 Monterey Avenue, Victoria, BC
- Saturday, April 5, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Sunday, April 6, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Private Artists Home Studios
Locations vary, please view the guide once it is available.
- Saturday, April 5, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Sunday, April 6, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Artists’ Attending
Monterey Recreation Centre
Myra Baynton: Myra works in watercolour and acrylic paints inspired by local and international settings.
Linda Blumenthal: Linda is a watercolour artist who enjoys a variety of subjects painted in vibrant colours.
Arlene Davey: Arlene’s art reflects her appreciation of traditional Chinese Brush Painting while also including some modern touches.
Joan Easton: Working in watercolour Joan enjoys painting flowers, landscapes, birds, feathers and illuminated letters. Originals & cards will be available. Special orders are always welcome.
Joanie McCorry: Joanie McCorry is a regular participant in the Oak Bay Artists Tour. She has been creating greeting cards for three decades. All cards are original pieces of art, best known for 3D paper cast cards and collage cards using upcycled and repurposed items. Joanie sells cards at art tours and farmers markets around the Capital District.
Carolyn Purden: Carolyn employs a wide variety of colourful glazes on her wheel-thrown stoneware pottery, reflecting the hues of the earth, sea and sky.
Louise Quinby: Louise’s functional pottery brings joy, peace and tranquility into your life. Discover her styles, colours and textures.
Sophia Shafonsky: Sophia is a multimedia artist who works primarily in handmade ceramic sculptures and oil painting inspired by Vancouver Island nature. Her work explores colours and textures creating a unique vision of our west coast botanical and marine life.
Kim Van Weelden: Kim’s unique and vibrant floral cards (and other images) make great gifts for Easter, and to celebrate the arrival of spring!
Heather Midori Yamada: Heather Midori Yamada shows watercolour florals, abstracts on Japanese washi papers. Heather’s con-templative approaches to art-making including meditations, reflect the spontaneous gestures and use of sumi inks with collage.
Roy Mercer: Roy has many different styles and application but primarily watercolour is his preferred medium. His subject matter is mainly landscapes, people and animals. He uses humour in many of his captions.
Private Art Studios
Ed Hughes: Ed Hughes is a figurative and landscape painter whose work ranges from crisp representation to full abstraction. Ed has exhibited across Canada and was a Salt Spring National Art prize finalist in 2021.
Lindy Michie: Lindy paints things that make her happy. Colour is always of upmost importance. Her favourite medium is acrylic. She uses Procreate on her ipad to create work when traveling.
Marie-Andrée Allison: Marie-Andrée is a multi-media artist with expertise in the techniques of iconography, Fresco bueno and Byzantine style mosaic. She welcomes you and hopes to demonstrate some of the techniques she practices.
Penny Hobson-Underwood: Penny makes art using acrylic, oil and drawing materials, to capture the diversity and vitality of life. She is drawn to movement, spontaneity, and beautiful moments whatever is going on.
Flo-Elle Watson: Flo-Elle is a thrift shopper, buying white porcelain that she draws and paints on with an underglaze paint. These upcycled and artified pieces are fired in her kiln making them oven microwave foodsafe. A treasured piece of art.
Donna Ion: Donna paints in small and large format. Her work celebrates our beautiful west coast forest in her unique style. Original works and greeting cards.
Michelle Sirois Silver: Michelle is a textile artist who creates hand hooked art and soft sculptures. Her tactile works are inspired by vivid colour exploration and repurposing materials.
Pam Stonehouse: Nature photography, Pam explores trees, water, flowers, animals and the unexpected by foot, bike, and canoe. Cards, prints, canvas and metal.
Victor Lotto: Victor is an award-winning artist who paints local scenes in watercolour and acrylic. His imaginative abstracts have also attracted considerable interest am
Open to the public. Free to attend.