Tony Barton worked as a plane and geodetic surveyor before migrating to the United States of America to study mechanical engineering and aeronautical engineering at Columbia University. He returned to Jamaica in 1998, and started woodworking as a hobby. This has now grown into a full-time occupation. Tony is totally involved in pushing the boundaries of woodworking, employing a wide range of technologies and disciplines. This has led to him being recognised overseas as a leading research and development practitioner and innovator.

Recognised locally as the 'artists' woodworker', he has coordinated with other artists to produce works for notables who include the Royal family. He exhibits locally at Revolution Gallery, and in 2002 won the People's Choice Award in the 'Scandalous Pleasures' exhibition at the gallery.

Originally from Montreal, Quebec, Rachelle has made Vancouver her home since 1995. Having come from a multicultural and multilingual background, her original career choice was that of a language teacher. After finishing a degree in Spanish and French, Rachelle went to Japan to gain teaching experience, and a one-year stay became a four-year odyssey. The clay culture in Japan set her irrevocably on the ceramic path. After four years of part-time apprenticeship in Tokyo, Yokohama, and Kitakyushu, she returned to Canada to study at Sheridan College of Art and Design in Ontario, then at Emily Carr School of Art and Design in Vancouver. She now lives and works in East Vancouver. The physical geography of British Columbia, specifically the west coast of Vancouver Island, is the central influence in her work. An avid kayaker, Rachelle goes on extended yearly pilgramages into the ocean wilderness with her husband Douglas. These trips are the well-source of her inspiration.

"The Pacific ocean inspires me to think differently, not simply about the environment, and not in 'nouveau spiritualism'. Kayaking on the west coast of Vancouver Island, has exposed a landscape that grows and expands with each trip. My carving is the physical translation of nature as I experience it. It is the repetitive ebb and flow, the silence and clarity of being that permeates the senses while in the wilderness. Vessels in this series suggest white flowers, or the undulating flow of the ocean; they are from, and of nature. Working in clay is a refuge for me. My work isn't about process, design, or decoration. I use clay as a medium of expression, because it best suits the haptic nature of life: experiencing and understanding through physical contact."

Patsy began painting in the early '70s as a student of master painter, George Rodney, and in 1996, gained the Master Art Diploma from the International Correspondence School. Since 1974, she participated in the Jamaica National Festival competitions gaining bronze medals in 1976 and 1977, and through Life of Jamaica Staff Appreciation Achievements, gained first place Art awards in 1990, 1991 and 1992. Her first solo exhibition was in 1997 at Braco Village Resort, where she was artist-in-residence for a week.

A past student of St. Hugh's High School, Patsy attended the University of the West Indies (UWI), where she gained a Bachelor of Arts, and a Diploma in Education. She taught at Immaculate Conception High School, and the College of Arts, Science and Technology (now the University of Technology) between 1964 and 1986. In 1987, she acquired the Diploma in Human Resource Development and was training and development manager at Life of Jamaica Ltd. from 1989 to 1994. Currently a full-time fine artist, she is also a consultant in Training and Development, specialising in business communication. Awarded Distinguished Past Student 2000 - 2001 by St. Hugh's Past Students' Association, she is also immediate past president of Woman Inc.

Her work is in the private collections of local and overseas art collectors.

Jean Chiang is an artist who is able to express her conceptual visions in diverse media, i.e., clay, wood, metal, glass, paint, woodcuts and embroidery. She is also an installation artist, whose recent series includes 'Meditation/memorium', 'The Great Wall of China', 'Laundry Suite' and 'Letters to my mother' ­ themes related to her cultural heritage, and personal experience.

Jean is able to execute her artistic visions in the most intimate scale, as in delicately embroidered pieces in 'Letters to my mother' to the most grand scale as in 'The Great Wall of China'.

She says: "Tea has been imbibed through the centuries around the globe. It has been used socially, medicinally, artistically, and politically, in many ways. 'The complexities of complexion' addresses the issue that we are all different in custom, language and complexion, yet a common denominator is the use and enjoyment of tea. Tea has been used to stain paper to suggest the skin of different peoples."