Tinhorn Creek Presents – Artist Talk with Alex Lavrov and Tamara Grand

Saturday, April 18, 2026
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Tinhorn Creek Vineyards
537 Tinhorn Creek Road
Oliver, British Columbia V0H1T1External site. Opens in a new window

Join us for an intimate afternoon of art, conversation, and wine at Tinhorn Creek Vineyards. This complimentary artist talk brings together three West Coast artists whose work is deeply connected to place, process, and personal expression.

Set against the backdrop of the Golden Mile Bench, guests are invited to hear directly from the artists as they share insights into their creative practices, inspirations, and evolving relationships with landscape and material. The conversation will explore how memory, emotion, intuition, and hands-on making shape their work, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the artistic process.

Your afternoon includes a welcome splash of wine and light charcuterie to enjoy as you settle in for thoughtful dialogue and creative exchange.

About the Artists

Alex Lavrov 

Alex Lavrov is a visual artist working primarily with oils on canvas, using improvisation as his central creative method. Born in Ukraine, he moved to Israel in 1997 at age sixteen, facing cultural dislocation and separation from family, which intensified his engagement with art as a means of processing emotional challenges. Over time, his practice evolved into a tool for self-exploration and understanding the workings of the mind. In 2007, he permanently relocated to Canada and now lives and works in the Vancouver area, British Columbia, continuing to create art that unfolds intuitively during the creative process.

Tamara Grand 

Tamara Grand creates layered abstract paintings using acrylic, wax pastel, and graphite. Her work develops through a process of addition and revision, with bold colour, organic form, and gestural marks accumulating and remaining partially visible. Rather than concealing earlier stages, she allows traces of the past to emerge, recording change over time. Her intuitive approach embraces movement, erasure, and reworking on canvas and birch panel. With a background in science, she views each painting as an experiment, inspired by nature’s shifting light, textures, growth, and decay. Her practice began after the loss of her daughter, holding grief and joy together through evolving, unfinished transformation.