Our Artist's
Meet Our Artists & Teachers
This page is your go-to spot for information on all of the artists whose work we carry in our shop, as well as the teachers who lead classes and workshops at The Crow’s Nest—learn about each creative, their style, and what they offer.
Nadia Rieger
Nadia Rieger is the owner and founder of The Crow’s Nest Artist Collective in Campbell River, BC. Since opening the gallery in 2016, she’s grown it into a welcoming, community-focused creative hub—part art gallery, studio space, pottery bar, and art supply shop—built around supporting local artists and making art accessible to all ages and skill levels. Passionate about connection and creativity, Nadia is known for creating an inclusive space where beginners feel comfortable, artists feel valued, and the community can gather to learn, make, and be inspired. She also teaches many of the workshops at The Crow's Nest, specializing in Watercolour, Mixed Media and Drawing.
Mike Davies
Mike Davies is the Community Outreach Manager at The Crow’s Nest Artist Collective and a valued part of our sales team. He helps build connections with local artists, organizations, and community partners while keeping our space welcoming and community-focused. Mike is also one of our instructors, teaching wood carving and woodturning, and leading step-by-step oil paint nights with a patient, encouraging style that helps students feel confident as they learn.
Cat Lavigne
Cat Lavigne is an instructor at The Crow’s Nest Artist Collective, leading many of our kids’ classes with a warm, encouraging approach that helps young artists feel confident and excited to create.
She’s fantastic with kids—patient, upbeat, and great at meeting each child where they’re at. You’ll also find Cat on our sales team in the shop, helping families and customers find the right supplies and projects to keep the creativity going at home.
Madeleine Brodie
Madeleine specializes in creating beautiful, stylized hand lettering in combination with flowing watercolours - perfect for creating unique and eye-catching cards. She uses her experience and expertise to guide students through challenging learning curves by breaking letters down into manageable strokes and then building them up to create stunning, swooping and gorgeous letters.
With Madeleine's guiding hand she will help you find your own personal flair as you explore ways to shape and create letters beautifully. She is also a passionate watercolour artist and will incorporate watercolour art into her hand lettering, and vice versa.
Gibson James
In 2004, at the age of 18, Gibson started melting glass and hasn’t stopped since.
His glass journey began on a makeshift workbench over the sink in a camperized van on the back of his dad’s property. It was small and it was cramped, but it served as an incubator for his initial creations.
He’s built many glass workshops since then, creating environments where he can not only do his own work, but also pass his knowledge along to aspiring glass artists.
Within the community, he has collaborated with many other talented artists, bouncing ideas off one another to create amazing pieces that reflect multiple styles, while developing his own along the way.
Noella
Noella was destined to be a potter.
It started when she was in Grade 2, when she would get home from school and head to the riverbank to dig up clay and make things out of it on garbage can lids.
In Abottsford she took pottery classes with a well known potter Herman Venema for 3 years learning about how to create on the pottery wheel.
Fast forward a few decades, and she’s now the in-house potter at The Crow’s Nest and passing her love for the craft on to dozens of students per month, hosting children’s birthday parties and date nights for couples, and creating beautiful work for the shelves of the shop and custom commission work for others.
Jewel Buhay
Jewel has always had a passion for art and has been painting seriously for the last 20 years.
But once Jewel discovered alcohol ink about a dozen years ago, she quickly fell in love with the brilliant colors, the process, and the challenge of how to control it.
Soon after beginning to show her unique pieces, she was bombarded with requests from people who wanted to know more about how to achieve the effects she was getting, so she started offering classes and creating YouTube tutorials.
Taking her inspiration from nature and all the beauty it has to offer, Jewel’s unique style has seen her pieces sold to collectors not only locally, but all across Canada, the U.S., Australia, Africa and Europe.
Tammy
Born into a lineage of healers, seers, and artists, Tammy’s journey was awakened through a powerful near-death experience that revealed her soul’s purpose.
Guided by spiritual encounters, including teachings from Buddha and initiations at Mt. Shasta, she was led into deep studies of metaphysics and shamanism.
As an Ordained Celtic Shamanic Priestess and intuitive guide, she now offers tarot, Akashic readings, and healing journeys—holding sacred space where others can access their own truth, guidance, and transformation.
Misty Waters
Misty is a silversmith and artist who creates whimsical, nature-inspired jewellery from her home studio in Cumberland, BC.
Her work draws from the forest floor—mushrooms, moss, and organic textures are recurring themes in her designs.
Misty was raised in an artist family and found herself drawn to making jewellery and to the way metal can be shaped by fire, force, and patience. Over time, she developed a style that reflects her love of wild places and the quiet magic found in nature.
Teaching came naturally as a way to share that magic with others—she believes that working with your hands is not only empowering, but also deeply grounding.
Cara Leanne
Cara Leanne loves creating bright and cheerful art…and invites others to explore with her!
Her collaged artwork celebrates the small moments that brighten everyday life: a blooming flower, a quirky chicken, a hummingbird at the window, or a peaceful ocean view.
During classes, Cara shares her passion for torn paper collage, inviting participants to explore the fun and to play with colour, pattern, and layered shapes. Creativity, experimentation and personal expression are always encouraged.
Cara’s classes are beginner-friendly and open to all skill levels. She loves to see participants bring their own unique twists to the process. Individual choices in colour and composition make every finished piece distinctive.
Stefanie Price
Stefanie tried stained glass for the first time in a class at The Crow's Nest Artist Collective. She knew right away she had found an art form she was passionate about, and began Crimson Tide Glass the following year.
She loves the endless possibilities of working with glass, creating everything from small sun catchers, to windows, to glass cacti, to plant stakes and many other items.
She has also expanded into the world of fused glass to add to her passion for stained glass. Glass fusing brings a whole other element to compliment the detailing in a stained glass piece or creating its own beauty.
Stefanie offers beginner-friendly one-day stained glass classes at The Crow’s Nest and she strives to create a fun, relaxed learning environment. But because her classes are so in-depth, they are limited to six participants, so make sure you hop on-board as soon as you see one you’re interested in.
Laura Maija Clarke
Laura is an award-winning author whose creative writing workshops are inspired by her love for nature, folk magic and the occult. How does our poetry and fiction grow and get weirder when we co-create with fungi and slime molds, the moon, or folktales? Open to all levels of experience, her Creative Writing with the Tarot class draws on the mythopoeic and archetypal energy of the tarot to guide our creative development and writing process via generative exercises, timed prompts and direct engagement with the cards.
Laura’s first book, Decline of the Animal Kingdom (ECW Press), which was included on the Globe and Mail and the National Post’s Top Books of the Year, was praised as “a truly impressive and startling debut collection” (Winnipeg Free Press) and a “mischievous, fabulist debut collection” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Anne Clarkson
Anne has been creating art since childhood, though life and responsibilities often pulled her away from it. Over time, she explored theatre props, costumes, makeup, and eventually opened a small arts and crafts studio for home learners, where she discovered her love of teaching.
Anne believes that with patience, encouragement, and the right guidance, anyone can create art they’re proud of. Since opening Foxglove Hollow Studio in 2016, she has helped thousands of students surprise themselves by creating things they never thought possible.
She now shares her talents and techniques with students who visit The Crows Nest in a variety of medium!
Carrie Yu
Carrie is the maker behind Lunar Bliss Studio, a local crochet artist based in Campbell River. She first discovered her love for crochet during a trip back to China, where she picked up a beginner’s kit and taught herself stitch by stitch. What started as a simple hobby quickly turned into a passion for creating tiny, whimsical pieces full of warmth and personality.
Inspired by nature, childhood memories, and all things cozy, Carrie enjoys creating handmade crochet pieces ranging from flowers and plushies to tiny detailed accessories. She especially loves sharing the joy of crochet with others and believes anyone can learn with a little patience and practice. Through her workshops, Carrie hopes to create a welcoming and relaxing space where beginners can explore creativity and enjoy making something with their own hands.
Lauri Lind
Gemstones and Crystals have always had a role in Lauri’s metaphysical work
as a Psychic and a Medium.
Not only are the holistic qualities and meanings behind them are a part of her healing and teaching work, Lauri has always loved the look and feel of shiny Beads and Gemstones and what you can create with them.
Here creative journey started when intuitively she knew she would be doing workshops of some sort and then one day she saw her friend’s Mala and knew that was it! (even though she didn’t know what a Mala was) it was instant attraction!
Delving deeper she realized that this was not just a piece of jewellery; it had
history and meaning. It was symbolic of Ancient traditions and uses.
That was over 6 years ago. Since then, she has branched out to Mala Wrist
Wraps and other Chakra inspired jewellery and Suncatchers.
Her classes are highly inspired by the participants.
Leah Gies
I am a self taught embroidery and textile artist that turned a love for fabric and thread into a
career as an artist and digital designer when I started Stray Threads Craft and Design in 2017. I enjoy sharing the skills I have learned with others and encouraging creative expression.
Lauren Correia
Lauren Correia is a block printer and upcycler from the Comox Valley, creating work that combines sustainability with straightforward, hands-on craft. She prints on thrifted, sustainably sourced shirts, makes small-batch art prints and cards, and reworks secondhand clothing into one-of-a-kind pieces.
Every block is carved by hand and every print is pulled individually, making each item slightly different—an honest record of the process. Whether she’s printing a new design, rebuilding a garment, or creating simple prints meant to be shared, her work stays rooted in intention, resourcefulness, and respect for the materials she uses.
And now she’s sharing that process with students here at The Crow’s Nest in her classes to pass along her love for the craft and encourage more people to create and share in these amazing mediums.
Alicia Fischer
Alicia has always had a passion for art and began making jewelry in her early teens. Two years ago, after leaving her full-time career to focus on her family, she discovered polymer clay while looking for a new creative outlet.
By combining her previous jewelry-making experience with a natural eye for aesthetics, she now specializes in fashioning unique jewelry and accessories with polymer clay and other media.
She now teaches this versatile medium to others here at The Crow’s Nest, to share her passion for creating beautiful pieces and exploring whatever direction her and her students’ inspiration takes them.
Sometimes that inspiration even incorporates other mediums like UV resin, silkscreening, glitter, mica, metal charms or whatever else helps bring the vision to reality.
Angela
Hey I'm Angela, the artist behind Seaside Botanicals.
I was born and raised on this spectacular island and am so incredibly grateful to call Campbell River home.
Most of my free time is spent exploring & enjoying the environment around me, which almost always inspires me to create.
I have been making art for most of my life, but in 2017 I decided to make it known publicly, by attending markets in the community and teaching workshops.
I have embraced the "kaleidoscope" mindset, meaning that I cannot choose just one beautiful thing that I want to represent me and my artwork.
I enjoy working/playing with many types of mediums, as well as repurposing foraged & found items, and am always looking to expand my skillsets in order to keep things new & exciting.
As they say, variety is the spice of life!
