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Gifts & Art Supplies

Gifts & Art Supplies

Gifts & Arts Supplies from your favourite Canadian bookstore

At Galiano Island Books, we have an extensive selection of gifts and art supplies. Visit our retail bookstore and you will find acrylics, oils, watercolours, canvases and brushes to go along with the instructional art books we have on our shelves. We also have a wide assortment of gifts, ranging from puppets for children to beautiful artistic pieces, many produced by local artists. Click here to contact us for more information

Buy Galiano Island Books gift certificates online

Treat your friends and family with a Galiano Island Books gift certificate. Certificates of any amount ($20 minimum) are available for purchase online and are a great way to surprise the book lovers in your life. Gift certificates can be used for any of our products including books, art supplies, and much more! Click here to buy gift certificates online.

Featured gifts & art supplies

We carry a number of unique gifts crafted by local and international artisans. Here is a description of some of our current featured products:

Oberon leather journals: beautiful, bench-crafted gifts

Oberon’s journals are classically beautiful and timeless. Unique, nature-inspired designs and high-quality materials make these journals wonderful gifts. We also carry Oberon day – timers.

Folkmanis® puppets: making playtime fun since 1976

Galiano Island Books carries the famous, fun and enchanting Folkmanis® puppets. Folkmanis® launched in 1976 in the Berkeley, California area and has been popular ever since. If you or your children are animal lovers, you’ll want to adopt the entire Folkmanis® line. We’re proud to be one of the few retail locations in B.C. to sell these creative companions.

Quality wooden gifts

Our high-quality wooden puzzles are handcrafted and appealing to children. Big, bright and colourful is the best way to describe these puzzles. Growing up on Galiano Island is a wonderful opportunity to use the imagination, and these wooden gifts will help your child do just this.

Art supplies: paints, canvases and, of course, art books

Our retail bookstore on Galiano Island makes it easy to be an artist. We have many of your favourite supplies, such as paints, canvases, brushes and art books to help you find inspiration. Our resident artists select the best art books to stock under our roof, from names like Phaidon and Taschen.

Our perception of "art" is an umbrella encompassing many different fields. In addition to our art technique books, we offer a great selection on literature on music, drama, theatre, film and art history.

Visit our online bookstore to find out more about our impressive selection of gifts and art supplies. We look forward to helping you and hope that you’ll make us your favourite independent bookstore.