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Artist focus: Janet Kvammen

All the Colours Bleed Into One is the title of the artwork at left as well as Janet Kvammen’s collection that’s now on display until Jan. 6 at Western Sky Books in Port Coquitlam.
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All the Colours Bleed Into One is the title of the artwork at left as well as Janet Kvammen’s collection that’s now on display until Jan. 6 at Western Sky Books in Port Coquitlam.

A mixed media/lens-based artist and poet, Kvammen has 24 pieces in her show.

Kvammen is best known in New Westminster as the vice-president of the Royal City Literary Arts Society and her work with the New West Artists.

Three years ago, she received a Nehru Humanitarian Award from UBC and Goel Family Charitable Foundation; she also won the Writer’s International Network Distinguished Poet and Artist Award in 2012 and, two years later, the World Poetry Empowered Poet Award.

Her art can also be seen at Gallery on 12th Street (712C 12th St., New West).