Art Galleries & Artists
Glass artwork (Danielle Hayes photo)
Artists, writers, poets, and musicians are drawn to the southern Gulf Islands in great numbers.
Saturna Island has its share of talented creatives. There are no formal galleries or cooperative spaces here, but a handful of artists operate home studios that are typically open by appointment.
Saturna Art Stops
The best one-stop for island art and crafts is the Saturday market, held on the grounds of the Community Hall (Lyall Harbour). Local art hangs in the café at the Saturna General Store.
Boot Cove Books sells Saturna-made greeting cards, among them a delightful salmon-themed set produced as a fundraiser for the Saturna Arts and Concert Society. Another keepsake for those seduced by the island is an oversize reproduction of Rosalinde Compton's annotated Saturna map created for the region's celebrated "community atlas," Islands in the Salish Sea.
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Artist Studio Tour
The BC Day Holiday weekend at the beginning of August is set aside for an annual tour of the island's half-dozen home studios. It's a great way to meet the artists, check out their workspaces and purchase original Gulf Island art minus gallery mark-ups.
Home Studios
Check the listings in the annual Saturna Island visitor guide freely available on BC Ferries. Ask locals for insider tips on who's creating where on the island. Or track down names like Janet Strayer (known for her imaginative artwork in a variety of mediums), painter/printmaker Karen Muntean and photographers Nancy Angermyer and Elisabeth McColl.
Saturna artists with home studios include: Jack Campbell (240 East Point Road), a veteran landscape painter who sells limited-edition giclée art prints of his work; Donna-Fay Digance (121 East Point Road), multi-media fabric collage artist; Teresa Higgins (620 Tumbo Channel Road), a weaver who uses a spinning wheel in her garden studio to create a line of scarves, shawls, rugs and blankets; and Anne Popperwell (132 East Point Road), a widely exhibited painter.
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