Jorden and David have been working as a collaborative art team for over 16 years and are focussed on bringing art to the public. David is currently working at UBCO as a sculpture instructor and Jorden is finishing her MFA degree focussing on assemblage sculpture and murals.

David and Jorden are the Artist Directors and Project Managers for the Uptown Mural Project. They are dedicated artists, collaborators and facilitators for all involved in this exciting world class mural initiative.

Jeremy is a Montreal-based interdisciplinary creative mind. Born in the interior of BC, he studied classical painting and sculpting at UBC Okanagan, and film studies at Emily Carr. Having exhibited internationally as a traveling artsman, Jeremy lives for the moments of creative collaboration

Jorden and David have been working as a collaborative art team for over 16 years and are focussed on bringing art to the public. David is currently working at UBCO as a sculpture instructor and Jorden is finishing her MFA degree focussing on assemblage sculpture and murals.

David and Jorden are the Artist Directors and Project Managers for the Uptown Mural Project. They are dedicated artists, collaborators and facilitators for all involved in this exciting world class mural initiative.

Jeremy is a Montreal-based interdisciplinary creative mind. Born in the interior of BC, he studied classical painting and sculpting at UBC Okanagan, and film studies at Emily Carr. Having exhibited internationally as a traveling artsman, Jeremy lives for the moments of creative collaboration

Kevin Ledo is a Montreal-based artist who grew up in a mix of urban and ethnic cultures. He was raised by Portuguese parents from the Azores Islands and began his artistic practice in 2005. Since then, his work has given him the opportunity to live and work in places such as Taiwan, Vancouver, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and China. He graduated from Dawson College with a degree in Illustration and Design in 1999.

Mono Sourcil (Maxilie Martel-Racicot) is a young multidisciplinary artist, born in Montreal in 1989. It was at Cégep Édouard Montpetit that she obtained her D.E.C. in visual arts. She is continuing her studies in visual and media arts at UQAM in order to refine her techniques, her thoughts and her approach. She especially enjoys performance, molding and sculpture classes. She finished her bachelor’s degree in 2012.

Taka was born and raised in Tokyo, but currently resides in BC Canada. He takes influences from those totally different environments to create unique style of artworks, but most powerful and true inspiration is meeting people with amazing creativity from all over the world.

Sandeep Johal is a Canadian visual artist whose practice engages drawing, collage, textiles, and large-scale murals. Through her Indo-folk feminine aesthetic, she confronts themes of bleakness, despair and ugliness with their dissonant opposites: brightness, hope and beauty.

Characteristically vibrant paintings, Priscilla’s art is inspired by the perceivable patterns that exist in everyday life through textiles, design, and architecture, as well as nature’s universal patterns on both the larger and microscopic scale. Through abstracted points of perspective and a geometric language, she creates worlds that dwell in a strange gravity mixed with personal symbology.

Ali is a visual artist, muralist, and tattooer in Vancouver, BC. She moved to the city from a small town in Northwest Ontario over a decade ago to pursue art. After receiving a BFA from Emily Carr University, where she started freelancing in art and illustration.

Kathy Ager is a Canadian-born oil painter based in Vancouver. Her work has been featured in Juxtapoz, Print, High Fructose and Beautiful Bizarre Magazine. Brand collaborations include Nike, Polo Ralph Lauren, NOCTA, and Real Skateboards.

Ager creates detailed still lifes that feel simultaneously Baroque and acerbically modern. Inspired by the 17th-Century Golden Age of Dutch and Spanish painting, her imagery uses historical visual rhetoric to deliver intensely personal and emotively charged themes.

Kristin paints murals internationally, with more than 100 murals and several canvas collections, in yoga studios, homes, offices, restaurants, spas & wellness spaces across Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand & Canada. She is famous for the many mandala murals painted for Pure Yoga International, & loves finding photos of her art with yoga practitioners from all over the world.

Sheldon Pierre Louis, a member of the Okanagan/Syilx Nation, is a multi disciplinary Okanagan/Syilx Artist. Sheldon’s ancestral roots have influenced his works in painting, drawing, carving, and sculpting. Sheldon sits on the board of directors for the Arts Council of the North Okanagan in his second term as well sits at the Board for the Greater Vernon Museum and Archives. His work has been published in the Arts and Council Guide for the North Okanagan 2016 and 2017.

Liz Ranney is a painter, illustrator, graphic designer, and instructor living in the Okanagan Valley with her husband and two daughters. Her artwork is high energy with bright and bold colours, and she explores ideas of connection, interaction, expression, timelines, and beauty. Liz graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2012 from UBC Okanagan and works primarily as a portrait artist and graphic designer.

Dylan Ranney is an Okanagan-based interdisciplinary artist and musician. His visual artwork focuses on humanity, psychology, and impressions of the metaphysical. Dylan is also an advocate for Live Music in the Okanagan and is currently performing in multiple bands as a drummer and vocalist. Dylan graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Arts from UBCO in 2013

Olivia Di Liberto is a freelance artist and graphic designer located in Vancouver, BC. Her work focuses on illustration, installation, painting and mural art. She is influenced by the 1960/70s counterculture and uses vibrant illustrative elements, specific colour palettes and intricate line work to convey a feeling of cultural nostalgia. Vintage design and psychedelia is often referenced alongside her inspirations through her love for music, nature and travels

Contemporary female mural artists Lacey Jane and Layla Folkmann have been working as an artistic duo since 2010.Working exclusively as a synchronized duo, they have produced over 100 murals all across Canada, from an over 4,000 square foot farm silo in the Ontario countryside to the notable Rogers Place hockey arena in downtown Edmonton. Internationally, they have painted in Honduras, France, and Northern Uganda where they volunteered with an orphanage and an arts centre for the reintegration of former child soldiers. After over a decade of professional collaboration, Lacey and Layla have forged a notable career with a specialization in monumental public art. They have and continue to work with a number of influential businesses such as Microsoft, Absolut Vodka, Simons, and Yves St. Laurent. They have collaborated with organizations such as MURAL Montreal, MU, stART Up Toronto, Mural Routes, as well as multiple other arts councils, arts organizations, and festivals.
Specializing in the use of traditional applications of brush and acrylic paint, Lacey & Layla focus on the creation of relevant and contemporary portraiture and vivid depictions of real people from diverse and local populations. Community engagement and interaction is a point of both pride and inspiration for Lacey & Layla. They believe that the creation of successful public art starts by building palpable relationships with local populations. Having relocated from Montreal in late 2019, they currently operate out of Vancouver and Edmonton where they are dedicated to their collaborative efforts in meaningful and engaging public art and developing their individual studio practices.

Nick Sweetman is an independent, multidisciplinary artist from Toronto. His practice, based in painting, has explored photography, video, installation and mixed media. Sweetman completed his MFA at OCAD University in the Interdisciplinary Art, Media & Design program.

Jesse has been a practising mural painter since 2010 and has helped produce many public art pieces throughout Greater Victoria and is now leading his own projects. He is of Michif (Métis), Salteaux, Cree, Scottish, and English ancestry currently living in traditional Lekwungen territories. In addition to his mural practice, Jesse spends time mentoring youth on the craft of mural painting and understanding the diverse forms of Indigenous art across North America.

Multidisciplinary, self-taught, and always evolving, Robbins consistently maintains a heavy illustrative style that transcends his medium of choice. Growing up on the Pacific Northwest and coming of age during the 90’s, the bold shapes found in the rich art of the surrounding First Nations and the illustrated subculture of skateboarding’s second wave, left an indelible mark.

John F. Ross is a Canadian painter creating contemporary works charged with personal and sociopolitical narratives. A graduate of Studio Art from York University, John has been exhibiting his work since 2006 in Ontario and Alberta and can be found in private collections across Canada and Europe.

Tyler has been creating art since he was a child, and working as a commercial artist since the year 2000. Specializing in large scale murals Tyler started a business called Canadian Murals in 2002. With Canadian Murals Tyler has completed close to 100 pieces for cities, municipalities, and businesses that can be seen across Canada.

Doras is an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist, illustrator, muralist and director based in Montréal, QC. He graduated from OCAD University, Toronto’s illustration program in 2012 where he received the gold medal in for his series “Genius.”

Being a first-generation by-product of Canada’s Residential School Systems, navigating colonial systems, and being a self-taught Indigenous person, life has its challenges. Peatr found art, culture, and tradition was a way to cope with the recycled trauma, and a way to continue to work on healing from the past and present. By sharing the teachings Peatr was taught, as well as the ones he has learned/is learning, they can help Indigenous peoples and peoples of all.