LOCAL ARTISANS

• ARTISAN IRON
  2945 A Bridge Street, Victoria, BC V8T 4T2
  tel 250-386-9300 or fax 250-386-9333

  Dean Hooson, artist in metal, creates custom-made wrought iron garden furniture as well as garden arches, trellises, and free-standing and wall-mounted hanging basket holders. They also produce stands for hanging baskets similar to the famous Victoria hanging basket street lamp standards.

• STARFISH GLASSWORKS
  630 Yates Street, Victoria, BC
  tel 250-388-7827
  Open Mon-Sat: 10am - 6pm, Sun Noon - 6pm, Closed Tues

  This new addition to Victoria's downtown scene is a working glass-blowing studio where three artists trained at Sheridan College in Toronto and at the Pilchuk Glass Centre in Washington create fantasies in glass. A mid-summer's dream: watch the sun's rays refract through one of their glass sculptures in a quiet alcove of your garden. Glassblowing demonstrations held Wed thru Sun afternoons.