Explore & Engage
The island is home to a high density of artists and a diverse community that welcomes you throughout the year for festivals, weekly events, workshops, classes, retreats, and guided adventures.
Tours & Farm Visits
The Gabriola Museum and GERTIE offer themed tours during peak season.
Private tours and self-guided tours are available all year.
Workshops
Whether you’re attending a weekend retreat focused on self-discovery, learning how to make your own cheese, or apprenticing with master builders, Gabriola is the ideal place for expanding your horizons.
Karen Cain Studio & Gallery
Categories
Arts & Culture
About
Gabriola Island professional studio since 1996. Featured in Gabriola’s most beautiful homes and widely collected. It is my response to the energy of the living world that drives the engine of my art making. The interrelationship between nature, art and the human spirit is the focus of my continuous exploration. The mindful act of constructing/deconstructing the surface, inscribing organic rhythms, and layering colour, creates a distillation of experience. Intuitive, expressive, sensual and transitory, my abstracts are reflecting equivalents in nature. Themes of landscape and memory are evocative of a moment caught in time.
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