August is PRIDE month! So what better way to celebrate than to bring together a group of self-taught artists, that don't identify as straight, and present an exhibition of selected works that reflect the many sides of these three artists.

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James Fletcher is a self taught sculptor, who at the age of three, experimented with mud; at age six, discovered the beach and built sand castles; and at age nine mastered the art of creating mashed potato sculptures at the dinner table.

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His works range within a number of styles - from spontaneous surreal and sensual organic forms with humour to allegorical realistic human figures.

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Angela Tahara is a a self-taught artist dedicated to not only constantly improving there techniques,

but the depths of what they need to convey. They began as a sculptor but in 2012 they painted there

first oil and never looked back.

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"Confident actualized people are beacons for others to accept themselves, and I, as a artist, have the

ability to spread that further."

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L.J.Throstle was the first artist that Outsiders and Others did an exhibition with in Vancouver in June 2022. LJThrostle is a self-taught artists from the UK. Lucy’s style developed from pen and ink drawings mixed with acrylics to a more precise method of drawing with emphasis on the many layers of light and contrast that can be identified in photographic images. In her stencil work Lucy uses rich background colours to contrast the predominantly monochrome palette of her subjects, more recently she has begun working with mixed media, and her work has been recognized by the Federation of Canadian artists in two shows since then. Subjects include people, animals and some still life, all work is representational and built layer by layer, using single use stencils and acrylic spray paint.