• Vendor Highlight: Forest Spirit Creations

    Vancouver Island Pagan Pride welcomes Forest Spirit Creations!  

    Forest Spirit Creations is a family business founded on the concept of healing with the powerful plants, animals and stones around us. Whether you are treating an illness with one of our salves or tinctures, or grounding your spirit with one of our jewelry or décor pieces, you will find wellness, beauty and balance in our products.

    Visit Forest Spirit Creations at Pagan Pride Day on August 17th!

    online at Forest Spirit Creations

  • Vendor Highlight: Emma Heitzmann Art Studio

    Vancouver Island Pagan Pride welcomes Emma Heitzmann Art Studio!

    My name is Emma Heitzmann, I’m a potter and a sculptor and I currently live in Campbell River BC. I was born in Calgary, Alberta and moved out to Vancouver Island in late 2011.

    Working in the ceramic medium is highly elemental, raw earth and water to make it malleable, fire and air to change the material to something that will last until someday it erodes back into its component parts.

    I find a great deal of inspiration and interest in the natural world around me and have been learning a great deal about the flora and fungi of the area I live in since I moved from Calgary. Bringing some of the passion I have for the natural world into the work I create has become a main area of focus for a number of years now. I feel that there are nearly endless possibilities that flow from our forests and oceans into my work.

    I make work that both mimics and represents several species of mushroom, that dances with bees, and that offers daily practice of prayer and noticing.

    You can purchase her pottery on Pagan Pride Day at the Sooke Region Museum and you can see more of her work at  https://www.instagram.com/emmaheitzmannartstudio/

  • Vendor Highlight: Lane Moon and Jeanie Wilson

    Vancouver Island Pagan Pride welcomes Lane Moon and Jeanie Wilson!

    Lane Moon features hand crafted wooden wands with symbols and crystals, wooden ritual boards with protection symbols burnt into them while enchanted and crafted within the circle.

    Jeanie Wilson features handmade wire wrapped crystal pendants and handmade beach glass and driftwood pendants and paintings.

    Visit Lane Moon and Jeanie Wilson at Pagan Pride Day in Sooke on August 11th!

  • Vendor Highlight: Forest Spirit Creations

    Vancouver Island Pagan Pride welcomes Forest Spirit Creations!  

    Forest Spirit Creations is a family business founded on the concept of healing with the powerful plants, animals and stones around us. Whether you are treating an illness with one of our salves or tinctures, or grounding your spirit with one of our jewelry or décor pieces, you will find wellness, beauty and balance in our products.

    Visit Forest Spirit Creations at Pagan Pride Day in Sooke on August 11th!

    online at Forest Spirit Creations

  • Vendor Highlight: Rubius Glass

    Vancouver Island Pagan Pride Day welcomes Rubius Glass! 

    I use borosilicate glass to make fantastical sculptures including dryads, mermaids, dragons and fairies.  Mythology, fantasy, history and the natural shapes of trees and plants inspire and inform much of my work. Since childhood I have always loved stories of mythological creatures and so I pursued a degree in Classical Studies to better immerse myself in the world of beasts and spirits. Now I funnel all of that love into creating sculptures of Green man, Quetzalcoatl, nymphs and more from my home in the woods of Vancouver Island. Glass is a wonderful medium for such creatures as the captured light truly brings these beings to life.

    Visit Rubius Glass at Pagan Pride Day!

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  • Vendor Highlight: Island Arts

    Vancouver Island Pagan Pride welcomes Island Arts!

    Beautiful hand painted wine glasses, mugs, rocks and soaps. I will also be showing my original acrylic paintings on canvas and wood.

    You can visit Island Arts on Pagan Pride Day!

  • Vendor Highlight: Emma Heitzmann Art Studio

    Vancouver Island Pagan Pride welcomes Emma Heitzmann Art Studio!

    Emma Heitzmann is an emerging artist who especially enjoys sculptural work. Much of her current work is ceramic and she enjoys it when what she makes has a functional as well as artistic design.

    Emma moved to Comox Valley in late 2011 having graduated from a graphic design program in Calgary and has been a part of the Fine Arts Program at NIC since 2012. She loves playing with clay and spending time exploring the alchemy of ceramics to develop new projects from the natural world. She also has been exploring the wider realm of sculpture in metal and wood and alternative materials within the last year.

    Emma’s eclectic background is reflected in what she chooses to shape in clay. You might find a set of four ‘Metta-meditation cups’ or a whimsical figure from the latest fantasy novel she’s read. Some of her latest creations range from fungi-inspired cups and tea-pots to bee decorated plates and bowls she’s christened ‘bee-ware.’  All pieces marry the principles of purpose to the fires of the imagination.

    Emma is devoted to mastery in her craft and revels with glee in the possibilities of what she can create next. She shares her knowledge by volunteering in pottery programs at the Campbell River recreation center. She welcomes inquiries about commissioned work.

    You can visit Emma Heitzmann Art Studio at Pagan Pride Day!

  • Vendor Highlight: SuzannArt

    Vancouver Island Pagan Pride welcomes back SuzannArt!

    I paint on canvas, and on many objects made of fabric and glass. My style ranges from very realistic to abstract, incorporating fairies and symbols like sacred geometry (the flower of life, Sri yantra…), elvish writing and so on.

    I make clothes by recycling and modifying second hand ones. I also create jewelry with stones and crystals (rings earrings, bracelets, anklets) and dreamcatchers.

    Visit SuzannArt on Pagan Pride Day and see more of her work at http://www.suzannart.com

     

  • Vendor Highlight: SuzannArt

    Vancouver Island Pagan Pride welcomes SuzannArt!

    I’m a fine art teacher from Quebec. I’ve always be drawn to art as far as I remember. suzannartI paint on canvas, and on many objects made of fabric and glass. My style ranges from very realistic to abstract, incorporating fairies and symbols like sacred geometry (flower of life, Sri yantra…), elvish writing and so on. In every painting, my goal is to portray the light that surround us, whether it is it’s reflection on a car, in the eyes of someone or the rays of colors that characterize emotions, persons, places… Light can also transform the most ordinary object into a stunning painting. Nature is the best at playing with colors and my paintings are a tribute to the beauty that surrounds us. I make clothes by recycling and modifying second hand ones. I also create jewelry with stones and crystals (rings earrings, bracelets, anklets) and dreamcatchers.

    ”I think people should trust more their instincts when it comes to art, travel in the paintings and let themselves go with the flow of any emotions that rises within them.”

    See more of Suzann’s work at www.suzannart.com and visit her on Pagan Pride Day.