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Visual Artists
Artist Viewing Locations & Hours In Artist Descriptions
Mary Matheson
Location: Festival-wide
Time: All weekend.
*Official Woodstove Festival Photographer" Bio: Mary Matheson is a Vancouver-based event photographer highlighting bands, festivals, circus arts, and arts organizations. From promotional shoots and album art to live performances, she captures life in motion, and those moments where you say, "We're going to want to remember this".
Time: All weekend.
*Official Woodstove Festival Photographer" Bio: Mary Matheson is a Vancouver-based event photographer highlighting bands, festivals, circus arts, and arts organizations. From promotional shoots and album art to live performances, she captures life in motion, and those moments where you say, "We're going to want to remember this".
VED Installations
Location: Weird Church Stage
Time: All weekend
Bio: Based in Victoria, Ved is an art installation collective. We create large form multimedia sculptures & environments, with a focus on cyclical spectrums.
Time: All weekend
Bio: Based in Victoria, Ved is an art installation collective. We create large form multimedia sculptures & environments, with a focus on cyclical spectrums.
LRN Design
Location: Blue fence on Dunsmuir
Time: All weekend
Bio: Local artist Lauren Correia makes linocut prints of BC flora and fauna in a unique graphic style. Paper prints, shirts, and handmade wall hangings made of organic and salvaged materials featuring prints of familiar animals seen through a wavy, illustrative lens.
Time: All weekend
Bio: Local artist Lauren Correia makes linocut prints of BC flora and fauna in a unique graphic style. Paper prints, shirts, and handmade wall hangings made of organic and salvaged materials featuring prints of familiar animals seen through a wavy, illustrative lens.
Nicole Crouch ""State Change" Art Exhibit
Location: Weird Church
Time: All weekend
Bio: Nicole Crouch is a local painter and art therapist whose artistic practice has spanned more than two decades, has shown locally and beyond, and which includes multiple collaborative mural projects, years in experimental theatre and various community arts events.
Time: All weekend
Bio: Nicole Crouch is a local painter and art therapist whose artistic practice has spanned more than two decades, has shown locally and beyond, and which includes multiple collaborative mural projects, years in experimental theatre and various community arts events.
Sham
Location: Paige Stage, Museum
Time: All weekend
Bio: Sham Sandhu is a fibre and mural artist who works with bold lines and bright colors. She weaves, tufts, and paints, creating work guided by playfulness.
Time: All weekend
Bio: Sham Sandhu is a fibre and mural artist who works with bold lines and bright colors. She weaves, tufts, and paints, creating work guided by playfulness.
Adrian Granchelli
Location: By Waverley Liquor Store (alley)
Time: All Weekend
Description: Visual Art, Shadow Synth.
Bio: Adrian Granchelli is an interactive artist, EdTech researcher, and maker based on K’òmoks territory. Blending an engineering background with digital fabrication and education, he builds immersive installations designed to spark play and connection. When he isn't creating, you'll find him climbing and exploring nature.
Time: All Weekend
Description: Visual Art, Shadow Synth.
Bio: Adrian Granchelli is an interactive artist, EdTech researcher, and maker based on K’òmoks territory. Blending an engineering background with digital fabrication and education, he builds immersive installations designed to spark play and connection. When he isn't creating, you'll find him climbing and exploring nature.
Aubrey Burke
Videographer (Filming Woodstove Festival 2026)
Bio: Aubrey Burke is a Victoria-based filmmaker, visual artist, and producer working across film, photography, and live performance. With experience documenting artists, musicians, and live events, Aubrey creates energetic, character-driven work that captures the atmosphere and people behind the experience. Aubrey will be filming Woodstove Festival this year.
Bio: Aubrey Burke is a Victoria-based filmmaker, visual artist, and producer working across film, photography, and live performance. With experience documenting artists, musicians, and live events, Aubrey creates energetic, character-driven work that captures the atmosphere and people behind the experience. Aubrey will be filming Woodstove Festival this year.
Melanie Wilson
Location: Space between KGH and Moons Records
Time: All weekend
Bio: "Mel is looking deeply into the details.
Sensitive to space, the way it feels, the compression and expansion.
Aiming to get us lost, so we are unsure where we stand, seeing more the longer we look."
Time: All weekend
Bio: "Mel is looking deeply into the details.
Sensitive to space, the way it feels, the compression and expansion.
Aiming to get us lost, so we are unsure where we stand, seeing more the longer we look."
Lily Sn - Doodle Booth
Location: By Paige Stage
Time: Saturday, Nov 7, 12-5pm and Sunday, Nov. 8, 12-5pm
Bio: Lily is professional illustrator based in Comox. She creates cheerful illustrations inspired by nature and childlike vision. Through her Doodle Booth work, she wants to create a playful experience that invite adults to let go of formality and bring wonder into the moment.
Time: Saturday, Nov 7, 12-5pm and Sunday, Nov. 8, 12-5pm
Bio: Lily is professional illustrator based in Comox. She creates cheerful illustrations inspired by nature and childlike vision. Through her Doodle Booth work, she wants to create a playful experience that invite adults to let go of formality and bring wonder into the moment.
Summer Scott
Location: Alley Cuts
Time: All weekend
Time: All weekend
Cool As Ice - Ice Sculpture Demo
Location: Paige Stage
Time: Saturday Evening
Artist Bio: 25 years ago, after randomly joining a snow sculpting event, Aaron began his sculpting journey. Eventually he earned the title of BC Snow Sculpture Champion. Many years later picking up ice sculpting and attending the world championship of Ice Sculpting in Alaska.
Time: Saturday Evening
Artist Bio: 25 years ago, after randomly joining a snow sculpting event, Aaron began his sculpting journey. Eventually he earned the title of BC Snow Sculpture Champion. Many years later picking up ice sculpting and attending the world championship of Ice Sculpting in Alaska.
Jared Popescu (The Greylands)
Location: CRI Stage Decot
Time: All weekend
Bio: "Jared Popescu is a creative fella living in Cumberland, BC
His primary artistic endeavours are digging around in the backwaters of his imaginations wilderness hunting out the neon colourings and hidden shadows of creation itself, for research purposes only."
Time: All weekend
Bio: "Jared Popescu is a creative fella living in Cumberland, BC
His primary artistic endeavours are digging around in the backwaters of his imaginations wilderness hunting out the neon colourings and hidden shadows of creation itself, for research purposes only."
Kevin Flesher
Location: Paige Stage
Time: All weekend
Bio: Kevin is 5'11" and enjoys tacos and long walks on the beach.
Time: All weekend
Bio: Kevin is 5'11" and enjoys tacos and long walks on the beach.
Merc Michel
Location: Umbrella Installation by CRI
Time: All weekend
Bio: Merc makes art and sometimes other things.
Time: All weekend
Bio: Merc makes art and sometimes other things.
Jessica Kosichek
Location: Odd Astra - exhibit at Museum.
Time: All weekend
Bio: Investigations and reflections on the interconnectedness of everything.
Time: All weekend
Bio: Investigations and reflections on the interconnectedness of everything.
Poetryhugs: Typewritten Moments with Emily Buck
Where: Alcove of pink building on Dunsmuir
When: Saturday, 12-3pm
Sunday, 12-3pm
Bio: Based on Vancouver Island, Emily Buck has been offering "Poetryhugs" at festivals, weddings, and markets since 2020. She sits with curious and courageous strangers at her vintage Underwood typewriter, turning conversations about what matters into poems that capture the sweet, silly, and tender sides of being human.
When: Saturday, 12-3pm
Sunday, 12-3pm
Bio: Based on Vancouver Island, Emily Buck has been offering "Poetryhugs" at festivals, weddings, and markets since 2020. She sits with curious and courageous strangers at her vintage Underwood typewriter, turning conversations about what matters into poems that capture the sweet, silly, and tender sides of being human.
Roksan Parfitt
Where: Weird Church
When: Friday 7 PM Weird Church
Event: Live Painting - Music match - Jason Sharp
Bio: A multidisciplinary artist originally from Türkiye, Roksan lives on a southern Coast Salish Island known as Galiano. She founded the Yellowhouse Arts Centre, a non-profit offering year-round community arts and culture events. Her practice spans drawing, painting, collaborative art-making, and facilitation, currently creating live, improvised drawings with sound and movement.
When: Friday 7 PM Weird Church
Event: Live Painting - Music match - Jason Sharp
Bio: A multidisciplinary artist originally from Türkiye, Roksan lives on a southern Coast Salish Island known as Galiano. She founded the Yellowhouse Arts Centre, a non-profit offering year-round community arts and culture events. Her practice spans drawing, painting, collaborative art-making, and facilitation, currently creating live, improvised drawings with sound and movement.
Wild Bee Florals + Studio Eagalle
Where: The Abbey
When: All weekend
Who: "Wild Bee Florals is a regenerative flower farm and Studio Eagalle is a nature led design studio where every stem tells a seasonal story.
As a certified B Corp, we grow, gather and arrange locally-sourced flowers for celebrations and every day moments in the Comox Valley and beyond."
When: All weekend
Who: "Wild Bee Florals is a regenerative flower farm and Studio Eagalle is a nature led design studio where every stem tells a seasonal story.
As a certified B Corp, we grow, gather and arrange locally-sourced flowers for celebrations and every day moments in the Comox Valley and beyond."
Miss Bumble
Where: Legion (Stage decor)
When: All weekend
Who: Miss Bumble is an Illustrator, Painter, Textile & Felting Artist creating on the unceded territory of the K'ómoks First Nation, in the province known as BC, Canada. The artist takes large inspiration from local mycology as well as west coast natural flora and fauna in her illustrations and fibre artwork.
When: All weekend
Who: Miss Bumble is an Illustrator, Painter, Textile & Felting Artist creating on the unceded territory of the K'ómoks First Nation, in the province known as BC, Canada. The artist takes large inspiration from local mycology as well as west coast natural flora and fauna in her illustrations and fibre artwork.
David Vegt
"The Death of a Good Satyr" Painting
Where: Masonic Hall
When: All weekend
Who: David Vegt is a visual artist who paints figurative works and is recently interested in painting figurative narratives that delve into the inner worlds of the masculine and feminine
Where: Masonic Hall
When: All weekend
Who: David Vegt is a visual artist who paints figurative works and is recently interested in painting figurative narratives that delve into the inner worlds of the masculine and feminine
Moss Wolf
Where: Mural by Waverley Liquor Store
When: All weekend
Who: Moss Wolf is Spencer & Maiya. Two artists who create a world of creatures that inhabit an evolving climate change ridden landscape, and are ready to fight back against the colonization of their land. Their work can be found in mural form, on canvas, and in music.
When: All weekend
Who: Moss Wolf is Spencer & Maiya. Two artists who create a world of creatures that inhabit an evolving climate change ridden landscape, and are ready to fight back against the colonization of their land. Their work can be found in mural form, on canvas, and in music.
Sadie Marfisi
Where: Skate Deck exhibit, museum entryway
When: Available all weekend
Who: Sadie Marfisi, a queer artist based on Vancouver Island, with a BFA in illustration from Sheridan College. She moves through painting, portraiture, hula hooping, clowning, burlesque, acting, set design, and art direction, not to master one, but because trying them all is the point. The creative path is the practice.
When: Available all weekend
Who: Sadie Marfisi, a queer artist based on Vancouver Island, with a BFA in illustration from Sheridan College. She moves through painting, portraiture, hula hooping, clowning, burlesque, acting, set design, and art direction, not to master one, but because trying them all is the point. The creative path is the practice.
Patrick Kilborn
Where: "There Is No Them, There Is Only Us" Exhibit Buchanan Hall
When: All weekend
Who: "There is no them, there is only us.
I experience life through a spiritual lens, my art is an attempt to express that.
Whether you call it God’s Kingdom, shared humanity, or compassion, every person has inherent value and dignity.
We are all just people, beautifully unique, and worth celebrating."
When: All weekend
Who: "There is no them, there is only us.
I experience life through a spiritual lens, my art is an attempt to express that.
Whether you call it God’s Kingdom, shared humanity, or compassion, every person has inherent value and dignity.
We are all just people, beautifully unique, and worth celebrating."
Decor & Sound
ocation: Cub Space stage decor
Time: All weekend
Bio: Our team is located in the Comox Valley & have over 60+ years combined of event production, professional sound, creative art directing in film and tv and one of kind visual art. Our goal is to elevate your event, celebration, party to create an unforgettable experience for you and your guests.
Time: All weekend
Bio: Our team is located in the Comox Valley & have over 60+ years combined of event production, professional sound, creative art directing in film and tv and one of kind visual art. Our goal is to elevate your event, celebration, party to create an unforgettable experience for you and your guests.
James Roney
Where: Weird Church
When: Friday, 8PM
Who: James is a figurative oil painter based out of Vancouver BC. His work typically lands somewhere within a surrealistic impressionistic reality.
When: Friday, 8PM
Who: James is a figurative oil painter based out of Vancouver BC. His work typically lands somewhere within a surrealistic impressionistic reality.
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