Edith Krause
“The thing that sets contemporary art apart from decorative art is that the objective is to get conversations going about something."
Margaret
Bill Dixon
"I have pulpit-preached and people-pastored. I have organized community resources and comfort-counselled fearful souls, young and old. I have played on stage and sung in choirs. I have been an art educator and have opened unseeing eyes to the beauty around and within...I am most healthy, most alive, when I am creating..."
Roy Wells Bishop
1947-2012 → Roy Wells Bishop was a respected Vancouver printmaker and graphic designer. He attended the Vancouver School of Art and also studied under Walter Dexter and Eldon Underhill at the Kootenay School of Art from 1969-1972. In the late…
Marion Evamy
“As an experimentalist, I allow mystery and magical moments to appear on the canvas...”
James Lindsay
In 1981 he moved into his Fan Tan alley studio in Victoria’s Chinatown, becoming a major part of the Victoria arts scene in the 1980s, along with other painters, poets and photographers...
J.H.O. Amess
1875-1955 → James Henry Osborne Amess was a British born Canadian artist who painted in oil, pastel and watercolour; mostly portraits, still lifes and landscapes. He attended LCC Central School of Arts and Crafts, and Goldsmiths Institute, both in London,…
Betty Jean Drummond
She was explorative with colour and texture, often beginning with memories or ideas and working directly on the plate.
Marianna Schmidt
She worked outside the limelight, with strong feeling for the precariousness of existence and with a particular eye for looks and gestures that create separation between people.
John Keith-King
"He was in many ways a little bit bigger than life.”
Veronica Plewman
“My early work was entirely photo-based and very detailed, but it has become looser and more intuitive..."
