Timms 'Walkway Gallery' Art Rentals and Sales Featured Artists Talk
Join us for an Artist Talk by Krystal Charlston and Tamara Grand, two artists in our Art Rentals and Sales Program currently on display at Timms Community Center 'Walkway Gallery'!
Date: Saturday, February 21st 2026
Time: 10:45 - 11:30am
Location: Timms Community Centre, Council Chambers 2F
20399 Douglas Cres, Langley, BC V3A 4B3
Free to attend, and open to all ages!
Krystal Charlston
Krystal Charlston is a Langley-based mixed media artist, photographer, and educator whose work explores themes of identity, education, and personal experience. Her artistic practice blends photography, sculpture, and installation, often informed by her background in teaching and her upbringing in rural British Columbia.
Charlston holds a BFA and EDAS certificate from Kwantlen Polytechnic University and a BEd from Simon Fraser University. She currently teaches visual arts in the Langley School District while maintaining an active art practice. Her recent series—Pedagogy, Farm Girl, and Futurism—investigate the intersections between gender, learning systems, and digital possibility. Through mirrored imagery, hyper-feminine symbols, and educational motifs, she challenges conventional narratives and invites viewers to reconsider what shapes identity and knowledge.
Charlston’s work has been exhibited throughout the Lower Mainland, where she continues to develop new projects that blend personal history with broader cultural critique.
Tamara Grand
Tamara Grand is a Canadian abstract painter whose work explores the layered intersections of emotion, memory, and nature through bold colour, texture, and dynamic mark-making.
After the loss of her 13-year-old daughter, Clara, Tamara turned to painting as a way to hold grief and joy simultaneously. A way to keep living in the aftermath of heartbreak — to make space for both sorrow and the bright, defiant moments of happiness that still emerged.
In her abstract work, Tamara explores the tension between light and shadow, mess and clarity, revealing and concealing — a visual echo of what if feels like to live after loss. Her intuitive process embraces spontaneity and revision, embracing imperfection and transformation by allowing traces of earlier marks to remain visible — raw reminders of love and loss that continue to shape both the painting and the painter.