Sharon Roberts
Part project manager, part creative, and full of curiosity, Sharon Roberts is a project manager, educator and writer living and working in Vancouver, BC. Driven by a deep desire to enhance human understanding through creative fiction and non-fiction storytelling, Sharon strives to see the human element in everything. She takes immense pleasure from people watching and trying to interpret the underlying drives and desires that motivate action.
Her background includes an undergraduate degree in Communication at Simon Fraser University where she spent her time studying the ways that mediated communication shapes how humans interact with one another and the world around us. Complimented by 10 years as a project manager in Visual Effects for feature films, her unique skill set brings a fresh perspective to both the theory and application of artistic story-telling and how it can be used to enhance human understanding.
Megan Majewski
Megan Majewski is an established pop-surreal artist who’s narrative work tells stories from her dreams, experiences and memories. She focuses on capturing the shadows in her unconscious and bringing them to life through symbolism and the haunting figures in her paintings. Her recent work explores the fragile beauty of life and death while fixated by symbolism from cryptological communication through the use of flowers. Over the last couple of years, she has started experimenting with new materials while documenting her fascination with nature. Collecting charcoal and ashes from the wildfire areas near where she grew up. Creating paintings that immortalize the destroyed forests, celebrate the wildflowers that thrive off the destruction and show the beauty in the darkness.
She has had her art featured all over the world and has been a GOLDEN Artist Educator since 2016 and a Silver Brush Educator since 2019. Her art installation “Tales From The Forest“ was commissioned by the Vancouver Opera Company and displayed during their 2019 spring season. Megan’s love for storytelling through her art is what keeps her experimenting with different mediums and creative visions. With a background in animation, working on movies and TV shows, she now creates art full time from her art studio in Vancouver, Canada.
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