The winter season can be a busy time, but being an artists in residence at The Ou is a call to slow down and turn inward with your practice. The forests have gone quiet as they drink up the rains, but the air is fresh with evergreen cedar boughs, pine and fir.

A gorgeous container for your creative rest and renewal, The Ou Gallery’s studios and accommodations have been thoughtfully appointed and kitted out, so that all that’s left for you to focus on is you and your work. Maybe that looks like learning how to nap again. Maybe it looks like staring out at the trees and watching squirrel acrobatics while the heron fishes below. Maybe it looks like long, uninterrupted studio hours.

Located on gorgeous Vancouver Island on the West Coast of Canada, The Ou Gallery is located in a a 100 year-old boat-building workshop in the Quwut’sun Valley (the Warmland) and overlooks a year-round creek fed from Mount Swuq’us.