2027 CLASSES & Workshops
Workshops, Classes & Online learning 
dates for 2027 - coming soon
SUNSHINE COAST - Gibsons BC
stay tuned for dates and locations
2nd SAT activities and events
workshops with JAN POYNTER
On location and in the studio - composition, photo refs, gear
Tips & techniques for travel sketching & painting
and artists seeking fresh inspiration beyond the studio!
Take it OUTSIDE!
OPEN STUDIO
Drop in or make it a regular addition to your practice
Informal demos, instruction and personal attention
Bring your ideas, your fails, your works-in-progress or end game.
With support and direction by talented artists & instructors.
SKETCHING VS STRESS
My sketching & painting practice is like meditation.
I recognize the value of creative practice in the struggle
against stress, grief, pain, depression and a busy, overloaded mind.
It is a daily battle.
I plan to offer a program of drawing sessions for mindful observation.
Maybe just an informal drop-in or outside meet up.
Not offering therapy
but a simple, accessible tool for your stress survival kit.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ANY OF THE ABOVE OFFERINGS
send me an email ! let me know what:
medium interests you
subjects inspire you
style excites you
level of experience & skills
I am in the process of setting up 2027 dates and venue rentals.
Someday we may have a fixed location!
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Jan offers CUSTOM workshops in the following:
Drawing | Composition & Design | Acrylic | Watercolor | Gouache
from beginners to advanced
I also offer personal lessons & mentoring
at my home studio in Gibsons BC
in person
$60 hr - 2 hr minimum
This is a great way to get intense personal direction for the
level of skill you are currently working and to achieve YOUR goals.
We'll review your past and recent work, discuss your style
and subject preferences and plan a customized lesson schedule.
Book weekly or monthly or again in 3 months...
it is up to you and your creative schedule.
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GROUP WORKSHOPS & RETREATS
gather your art group or painting pals
and plan a private workshop.
I love to stay & explore in new places
and this is usually where it starts.
Subject material for demos and painting workshops include:
Plein Air Essentials, Drawing, Composition & Design
Basic-Int Watercolor. Basic-Int Acrylic. Gouache on Black.
Color Mixing. Advanced Watercolor & Advanced Acrylic.
COST depends on number of participants,
Demo VS hands-on, location, travel/stay expenses, materials etc.
CONTACT me to plan your custom Workshop.
phone: 604 886 8918 email: info@janpoynter.com
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JAN POYNTER - Artist Statement 2026
The world is a never-ending source of inspiration & wonder to me. Whether in my own garden, on a mountain top or sitting on a rustic wall in ancient places – I strive to find the beauty in the commonplace and capture the awesome bits to celebrate. As a painter I am always chasing the light – and feel there must be darkness to make the light shine.
My current acrylic painting “style” and techniques have developed over the past 20 years – a unique combination of underpaint, drawing, layers of luminous glaze, surface texture and random marks. Summer finds me painting plein air – on location early to late - catching the transient skies, light, shadows and sparkling shimmer and reflections on water. I love the patterns in Nature of dynamic growth and movement, from trees & waterfalls to snowslides & gullies. A single leaf, the center of a flower, the geology of water, ice and stone hold a lifelong fascination for me.
Working in Acrylic, Watercolor & Gouache. These small studies and my sketchbook along with a thousand reference photos inform my large studio paintings throughout the winter months. I also use digital devices as studio tools to develop compositions and color for my canvas & palette.
Over 50 years career as professional illustrator, designer & fine arts painter, I have developed a skill set with a vast knowledge of materials and techniques. My job as a teacher & mentor is to help others to SEE as a painter and pass on that knowledge – so that they can build a “tool kit” to back up their own creative interpretation and style.
A tool kit that lasts a lifetime.
I do not want students to paint like me – or join in to follow along and then go home to face an empty canvas without direction. I want my students to ask, try, fail, experiment and feel confident in their own choices – as those choices will accumulate with practice & intention to become their own practice & style.
I am privileged to live & work overlooking the majestic Howe Sound fjord, on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. The traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Shíshálh (Sechelt) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) Nations.