Tamar Griggs has been photographing her island community, passionately drawn to the people, events and changes in our villages for over twenty years now. Through her camera she has documented the fleeting moments in our lives and ultimately recorded history. The Faces of Salt Spring exhibit will be a showing at ArtSpring in the coming months. Over 300 islanders are in this series of photography and interviews, and if you are not in it, you are bound to know someone who is.

This weeks featured Face of Salt Spring is: Jill Louise Campbell, 2014

I was born in a small town by Lake Erie in the early morning mid-summer of 1951. I came here for a yoga weekend at the Salt Spring Centre in 1986 and we moved to Salt Spring Island with our family in 1990.

The romantic ideals of living on this island became whispers that became so loud, I knew this was to be home. I was escaping from and running to myself.

I experienced deep learning while living in France attending the Sorbonne in the early 70s. I love to challenge myself, satisfying my curiosity and wish to resonate with people and places in remote areas around the world.

I love creating a life and living that allows our family to make Salt Spring Island home. I love hearing stories in my Gallery, and sharing my art with fascinating people from around the world. My passions are to explore the spirit world and the natural world around us. My fascination with indigenous culture, people, places, architecture and land speaks a truth that I see missing in our world today. I love myth, dreaming, world music, sunrises and sunsets, rainbows, exploring the Northwest coast by boat and car. I love Northwest landscape, mountains, snow falling, waterfalls, thunderstorms, walking a beach, and the healing arts.

The best part of living on Salt Spring Island is a belief that I have a freedom to be who I am. I also enjoy being close to and living with natural abundance. I enjoy the eccentric, marvelous people who live here and have the courage and strength of character to be who they are. The challenges of living here are making a consistent, sustainable living.

Jill Louise and Duart Campbell, 2014