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Kootenay Time — Fern Van Horn

Exhibit Dates: October 3 - December 5, 2025

Fern Van Horn — Kootenay Time

Born in Ocean Falls, BC, and a resident of Kaslo for the past 53 years, Fern Van Horn has spent a lifetime exploring many forms of creative expression. While she has experimented with drawing, collage, sewing, journaling, and costume-making, her passion now lies in representational landscape painting in watercolour and acrylic. Her work is driven by a deep love of light, colour, and the traces of change left on the land.

Art has always been part of Fern’s life. Growing up in a family of artists, she inherited an appreciation for creativity that led her down many artistic paths. With no formal training but a lifelong curiosity, she has learned from art books, workshops, and online resources, always returning to the forests, rivers, mountains, and shifting weather of the Kootenays.

Fern’s plein air practice has adapted over time—now often shaped by quick sketches from the car window or photographs captured in passing. Included in this exhibition are several of her sketchbooks, offering a glimpse into her process: experiments, missteps, and small sparks of potential.

For Fern, making art is a paradox—it can frustrate, soothe, surprise, or delight, sometimes all at once. She admits she often forgets to breathe while working, caught between focus and distraction, but always compelled to continue.

Kootenay Time gathers works created over the last five years, reflecting her enduring connection to the Kootenay landscape. Through changing seasons and shifting light, the region’s mountains, skies, rivers, and forests remain her constant inspiration—her home.

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