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Amanda Hale is a painter, sculptor and mixed media artist. She has exhibited her work in galleries across Canada and has participated in Arts Festivals in England and Wales. Her art is influenced by travel in South Asia, the Middle East, the Mediterranean countries and Central America. She has worked as an artist in Guatemala, painting a mural for a human rights group in '88: and in Greece, where she painted frescoes on the island of Crete. In October 2003 she will travel to Cuba to collaborate on a mural with Cuban and Canadian artists.

Amanda has lived on Hornby Island for fifteen years and is a founding member of the Hornby Artists' Gallery and the Hornby Island Arts Council. She has collaborated with island artists on a number of projects including a large outdoor labyrinth for the Festival of Myth in 1990 and Off the Wall, a wearable art show featured in the 1998 Hornby Summer Festival, for which she made a large Elephant Mask and winged Hermes boots and helmet. She has participated in numerous arts events in the Comox Valley and on the Gulf Islands, including the HIAC Millenium Celebration in Summer 2000.

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Hornby Island Arts Council
School House 1-10
Hornby Island, BC
V0R 1Z0
Phone: (250) 335-1848
Fax: (250 335-1848
E-mail: hiac@mars.ark.com