On the outskirts of Salmon Arm, in an adobe home with straw-bale-thick walls is the home of Jen Dyck and Steve Mennie. Jen Dyck is a jazz pianist and a collage artist. Steve Mennie is a printmaker, drawer, painter and jazz drummer.  The couple is creativity personified. 

Built on her dreams, Jen Dyck’s collage works depict interior spaces constructed of snippets from National Geographic, Life, ladies journals and whatever magazine is worthy of her cull. Dyck’s scenarios are peopled with characters engaged in zany situations charged with the illogical inventions and happenstance of her remembered sleeping state. With an uncanny familiarity, the work haunts, like a nudge in the ribs of awareness.