2024 Instructors

Brent brings the power that made him one of Canada’s best illustrators into the pursuit of his personal vision. The energy, intensity and poetry of both his figurative and landscape works are a result of his passion for direct study from life. This was a trademark discipline as an illustrator and is now in his plein air and studio work. The immediate, raw connection with his subject is the cornerstone of his work. He hangs in select galleries along the west coast and takes on private commissions painting large installations and canvases for both private homes and public buildings. Brent spends the coldest months of winter painting in Todos Santos, BCS Mexico. He exhibits his work at the renowned ‘Galeria de Ida Victoria’ in San Jose Del Cabo. When he’s not traveling, you will find him in his studio on Vancouver Island, painting on the ocean shore of the northwest…his home. 

 Charlie Easton comes from a family of British artists. He moved to Canada in 2006 and immediately fell in love with the same scenery that inspired many of the Group of Seven.

A prolific painter of landscapes and seascapes in both oils and acrylics, Charlie is an award-winning artist, represented by galleries across North America and Europe where he regularly has solo exhibitions of his work.

He is a Senior Signature Member of the Federation of Canadian Artists (SFCA) and has studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and at Emily Carr University. His teaching is in demand and in 2022 he will be on the faculty at the Plein Air Convention – the largest international gathering of artists worldwide.

Charlie has a studio in Vancouver, but his first love is painting on location in BC, Alberta, California and beyond. He has had residencies in Haida Gwaii, with The Haida Nation and Parks Canada, in Banff and in Whistler. 

A passionate landscape painter, Maria Josenhans creates oil paintings both outdoors on location and in her North Vancouver studio. As an artist for nearly four decades, Maria's work plays back and forth between representational and abstract as she allows each painting to find its own unique path. Her career has been shaped by long periods of immersion in large format photography, working as an illustrator, training, competing and adjudicating Highland dance, teaching, and travelling the world by bicycle. Maria holds a BFA with Honors from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, and continues to take part in Invitational Plein Air events both nationally and abroad.