Start your art journey with us
Epiphany Neighbourhood Art Studios has a rich 33-year history of art education. From a single-room studio to a new state-of-the-art facility with a beautiful view, ENAS has classes for all students age 5 - 99+ in classical drawing and painting.
“Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.”
-Lawren Harris, Canadian Painter, Group of Seven
Meet the Teachers
Our multi-cultural faculty brings art accreditation from across the globe as well as even a 50-year tenure from right here in our backyard, so to speak. Input from both junior and senior teachers combine to form our rich art processes and paths. All counted, our accumulative years of teaching art are 153! Our instructors draw from depths of experience to bring you direct equipping for your artistic development.
Office Manager
Abbie moved here for this role! She brings a host of well-rounded resources that serve and saturate our endeavors and environment with excellence, warmth, and wisdom. Great at answering your questions, she’s the full-time face at the Studios.
Books and More
Masterful minds at work keep lines flowing, so that ledgers are clean, numbers crunch, pay is timely, and office systems are kept up.
Owner and Artist
Marguerite loves to create and loves empowering others to create too! Her specialty subjects are people and also the images that appear in her mind’s eye to inspire, heal and encourage. She celebrates beauty all around.
Marguerite knew she was an artist by age 6, and her youth was marked by creativity, from school art awards, commissions for portraits and calligraphy, to art shows. Post-secondary tracks of specialization were still life, life drawing, fundamentals of design, and deep dives into portraiture, watercolor, acrylics, and eventually oils. She did professional work as a portrait artist, sign-maker, muralist and commercial chalk artist before becoming a mother.
During her 19 years of home-educating four kids, she was the art teacher of the many co-op learning groups, and was the frequent invited guest artist for many special painting times at her church’s gatherings for over two decades.
Marguerite learned the intricacies of colour-mixing and glazes in oil paints with Bob Barrett in 2015, attended the School of Creativity in CA in 2017, and exhibited her first solo art show called Epiphany 2020: Life is Precious on Jan. 6, 2020. She took the challenge in 2022 to make her biggest career move in 2 decades, and now directs Epiphany Neighbourhood Art Studios, a creative hub she cherishes, teaching with instructors and students she loves!
Her artistic passion is true identity connecting with divine insight producing life-giving inspiration that translates onto visual art spaces. Her joy is when others make art from inspiration too!
Marguerite Bouchard
“I will always consider this wonderful place as the ‘launching pad’ to my career as a professional artist.”
— Jenn Williamson, former NAS Student
The Studio History
The Neighbourhood Art Studio began in 1991 under the creative direction of artist Robert “Bob” T. Barrett with the name The Fraser River Galleries Inc.
The Gallery took a unique approach to art instruction. It taught traditional, representational methods in the heyday of Post-Modern conceptualism. It had a casual class structure which allowed students to learn at their own pace. Students were taught one-on–one in a group setting by professional artists and the school offered grassroots arts instruction to students of all ages and levels.
In 2022, the Studio transitioned ownership and location from North Langley to Willoughby. Marguerite Bouchard, a life-long artist and former student of Bob’s, took the mantle of leadership to serve students in the Langley area.
Through the Neighbourhood Arts Studio, thousands of children, youth, adults, and seniors have developed a love for art and grown in their technique.
As Bob would fondly say…
“Art will change your life!”
“Our daughter Kaitlin has been learning at the Studio for the past 8 years. We are amazed at the progress she has made with her drawing and painting. Her dream is to become a professional artist one day.”
— Jan and Peter Sanderson, NAS Parents