Opening Reception: Thursday, April 2, 6–8 p.m.
Meet the Artists: Saturday, April 11, 2–3 p.m.
Tour for Farsi Speakers: Saturday, April 18, 3 p.m.

The Quiet Between explores the contemplative spaces where emotion, nature, and material meet — whether through still life, raw clay vessels, or graphite landscapes.

The seed for Kathryn Fullerton’s clay pieces began during her 2024 residency at Tidal Art Centre in Lund. By responding intuitively to the land and its materials, she began to form hollow spheres from local clay. These closed vessels gradually revealed themselves to her as containers for the generative pulse of life. Over time, the spheres began to open, as the quiet nature of these pieces guided her deeper into the cycles of place. Informed by her residency at Tidal and ongoing research into decolonial methodologies, this work explores what it means to sustain a life-affirming art practice that acknowledges the cultural and ecological implications of making. The process is both ritual and offering. Each act of making, opening, or releasing becomes a meditation on giving and receiving within the community of life.

Charles Keillor’s black and white graphite drawings explore the relationship between human habitats and the immediate natural world. These stylized depictions of quiet local moments aim to instill thoughts of anticipation, mystery, and nostalgia. The element of stillness is strongly inspired by his love of Japanese cinema. With his move to Vancouver Island a few years ago, Charles’ vision expanded to include modes of transportation, and how they’re connected to infrastructure, architecture, lifestyle, economy and the local environment.

Bahareh Riazat chose painting as a way of seeing and understanding the world around her. For years, she has focused on still life—not as a simple depiction of objects, but as a space for pause, observation, and a renewed experience of colour, form, and space. In her work, everyday objects become a starting point for reaching deeper layers of perception and feeling. Colour is not only a visual element; it is a tool for expressing stillness, time, and lived experience. Each painting grows out of quiet and sustained looking—a way of slowing down and staying close to the moment, making visible what is difficult to name. Here, painting is an ongoing process of seeing, understanding, and rebuilding the world in which meaning quietly reveals itself through simplicity and stillness.

About the Artists

Kathryn Fullerton is a ceramic artist based on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast whose practice explores transformation and ecological interconnectedness. Her artistic journey includes intensive ceramics training internationally, with workshops led by Shozo Michikawa, Alessandro Gallo, and Hillary Kane at Gaya Ceramic Arts Centre in Indonesia; natural glazing studies with Studio Alluvium; and material experimentation and critical dialogue with A-B Projects. Kathryn holds a Master of Arts in Environmental Education and Communication from Royal Roads University. Her academic work is complemented by Embodied Imagination® training with Robert Bosnak and immersive study with the Animas Valley Institute, integrating nature and psyche. Kathryn’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions, including Emergence (Gibsons Public Art Gallery, 2022), Giving as a Way of Being (Qathet Art Centre, 2024), and Vessel of the Wanderer (Vancouver, 2025). She has participated in artist residencies at Joya: Arte + Ecología (Spain, 2025), Tidal Art Centre (Canada, 2024), Wabisavillage (Japan, 2023), and the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (Canada, 2022). A two-time Canada Council for the Arts grant recipient, Kathryn’s work has been featured in Zoom magazine and photoED and presented in refereed contexts, including “Echoes in the Bones” (Taipei, 2024). She is also a Governor General’s Gold Medal Award nominee for her arts-based Master thesis.

A resident of the North Shore for over 50 years, Charles Keillor currently lives and works as a full-time artist in Nanaimo. Beginning in the 1980’s, his initial passion for portraiture culminated in private commissions and in becoming an exhibiting member of the Canadian Institute of Portrait Artists. He was a finalist on two occasions for the national Kingston Prize Portrait Competition.

From the early 2000’s, Charles’ art has evolved from being specifically figurative to increasingly focusing on local and international land and seascapes, often with an architectural, urban, or industrial component. His interest in these subjects has culminated in two successful solo exhibitions: at North Vancouver’s Artemis Gallery in 2013 and at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery on the Sunshine Coast in 2021.

Bahareh Riazat has been passionate about painting since the age of seven. Her journey as an artist became more serious when she attended Mr. Zakeri’s art classes. He taught her how to use gesture drawing and environmental drawing, helping her explore both movement and space in her work. Bahareh’s primary medium is acrylic, and she enjoys creating still life paintings, where everyday objects are brought to life through vibrant colors and light. Her artistic practice is deeply connected to observing nature and the world around her, leading to an expression of emotions and stories through colour and form. For Bahareh, painting is more than a passion—it is a way to connect with her surroundings and share her feelings with others.