The Vancouver En Plein Air Painters Meetup: 2025 Recap, January to June

Presenting a retrospective of the 2025 Vancouver En Plein Air Painter’s Meetup, a painting group I created after joining an en plein air painting course in Cortona, Italy in September 2023. We started painting in the Greater Vancouver parks in April of 2024. Join us if you live in the area. You’ll find us on the Meetup Platform, or just search our name online, The Vancouver En Plein Air Painters. Enjoy the photos!

January 12, 2025 Coal Harbour

January 19, 2025 Granville Island

February 9, 2025 Lost Lagoon, Stanley Park

March 2, 2025 Van Dusen Botanical Gardens

April 6, 2025 Granville Island

Urban sketching on Granville Island with the Vancouver Urban Sketchers and visiting sketcher, Mike Daikubara.

April 13, 2025 Queen Elizabeth Park

April 19, 2025 Nitobe Gardens, UBC

April 26, 2025 Kitsilano Show Boat

May 4, 2025 Van Dusen Gardens

May 9, 2025 Deer Lake, Burnaby

May 25, 2025 Van Dusen Gardens

Fluers de Villes at Van Dusen Gardens, Downton Abbey theme. What a lot of fun to paint one of the installations at this event!

June 3, 2025 Spanish Banks

June 8, 2025 Commercial Drive

Painting with the Vancouver Urban Sketchers, on a very hot day for Italian days on Commercial Drive this day. Some of us found a cool café to sit in and draw the crowds. Gelato afterwards was wonderful.