Amara Spring is a Vancouver‑based abstract expressionist artist. Her work is intuitive and layered, built from feeling, movement, and inner experience rather than planning. She paints to explore identity, emotion, and transformation, letting each piece evolve naturally in the moment.

Grace creates dark, surreal work that confronts the raw, uncomfortable parts of human experience. Using traditional mediums like oil, acrylic, pencil, and charcoal, she blends timeless techniques with distorted forms and uneasy textures. Her art reflects themes of suffering, escape, mental struggle, and a deep connection to nature, shaped by her personal history and years of holistic study.

Ibrahim’s work is poetic and symbolic, shaped by imagination rather than realism. He creates dreamlike worlds where humans, animals, and nature merge into one presence—faces as landscapes, bodies as trees, water flowing through forms. Drawn to softness and quiet emotion, he uses surreal imagery to explore love, transformation, wisdom, and spiritual connection.

Based in Vancouver, James specializes in rusty‑colored surrealism and oil painting, creating work that blends atmosphere, texture, and imagination. His practice leans into mood and narrative with a distinctive visual edge. A fan of light‑hearted, community‑building competitions, he thrives in the energy of live painting and steps into the arena ready to qualify, compete, and “fight at art.”

Katherina loves the social, fast‑paced vibe of Art Battle and the fun of making something on the spot. She paints colorful watercolor animals, plays with different media, and has been studying anatomy by sketching creature skeletons. She’s been drawing since she was a kid and started taking art seriously at 16. When she’s not illustrating or at conventions, she works as a 3D rigger in the animation industry.

Madeleine is back! She paints colorful and whimsical depictions of everyday landscapes. She has loved her time as a participant and volunteer for Art Battle. /sf

Marcela is a Vancouver‑based artist who works in Impressionism and pop art. She prefers a neon‑and‑pastel palette in her pieces.

Patrick is an avid hiker who draws his creative inspiration from the mountains. Each adventure becomes a story, reflected in the subtle details of his paintings. His work focuses on the dramatic nature of mountain landscapes, the unknown, and the sense of mystery that pulls viewers into the journey. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, he brings together his lifelong connection to both nature and art, inviting others to share in the paths and peaks that shape his work.

Hailing from Vancouver, BC, Rickie [sugar] Sugars brings a visceral, free-flowing energy to everything from canvas to tattooing. He calls his style "scrub," which is far more impressive than it sounds and involves zero actual cleaning. It’s a bold, rhythmic blend of Indigenous elements and cubism that tells a story without ever coloring inside the lines.

Sama is a painter and art educator with more than 20 years of professional experience. She holds three overseas teaching certifications in Oil Painting, Charcoal, and Colored Pencil techniques, and has taught both adults and children. She previously owned and operated an art gallery and teaching studio in Maple Ridge and earlier ran a painting gallery overseas. She was a member of the Newfoundland Artists Association for three years. After briefly stepping away to study Psychology, she returned to painting and now works professionally and teaches privately.

Theresa Columbus is a Sea-to-Sky–based artist known for expressive, semi-abstract landscapes and animal paintings. Working in acrylics with a minimalist palette of bold color and gestural brushstrokes, her work focuses on mood, movement, and emotion over detail. Inspired by the West Coast landscape, Theresa paints intuitively, allowing each piece to unfold organically. She is an experienced live painter and instructor, regularly leading paint nights and community art events throughout the region.

Tianna’s work is rooted in emotion. She paints with acrylics, using vibrant color and abstraction to express the highs and lows of living with bipolar disorder. Her portraits are not literal but emotional impressions built from energy, movement, and color. Painting helps her externalize what’s difficult to articulate, turning inner turbulence into something tangible and alive.