The Avenue Gallery is excited to introduce two new artists! Andrii Yendakov, a Ukrainian-born painter with a keen sense of light, colour, and composition, brings captivating local scenes. Pender Island woodturner Robert Wilman celebrates the beauty of salvaged wood, highlighting the interplay of form, colour and texture. Welcome, Andrii and Robert! Valentine’s Day is around the corner… don’t forget your sweetheart! We have the most beautiful jewellery and lots of little treasures from which to choose… _____________________________ Included in this Newsletter: Andrii...
Bi Yuan Cheng is a seeker of the truth. Not truth in facts, but in feeling; not in evidence, but in experience. His pursuit as an artist is to convey the world as he sees it and share its impact with the viewer, to impart the sense of wonder it brings to him. “I always think if you do art, it has to come from your heart, from your inside world. That makes it really true,” he says. He was an artist from day one. Born in 1957 in Jinan, China, as a boy of six, Bi could often be found sitting at the side of the road with pencil and paper, sketching the passing cars or bicycles. “It just came naturally,”...