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His experience on a 14-day expedition down the Snake River in the Yukon in 2003 marked a turning point, reinforcing his identity as a “northerner” and a “romantic,” and affirming his work as both homage and rallying cry for the preservation of wild places.
Her compositions might appear to be automatist at first glance, but are in fact highly deliberate and labor-intensive, sometimes requiring up to six weeks to complete.
The X-Files Art Director and multi-disciplinary artist who thrived in communities where art, music & storytelling intersected.
“It’s the timeless things that I’m looking for, it’s the things that don’t date.”
She spent much of her career traveling and working in some of Canada’s most remote regions, including Eureka on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut…
She had an interest in intimate, personal subjects drawn from her immediate circle…
…her practice synthesizes gestural abstraction with subtle nods to geometric structure and the influences of music and sound.
He quickly became known for his innovative use of large tubes of paint rather than tiny amounts of colour in a box, as well as all sorts of house painting brushes.
…creating my own world and my self out of that world was my only defense, my survival method in a world insanely bent on destruction.
“Even in the smallest forms, nature has a pattern, a system, an order, and that appeals to my personality.”
He was at the forefront of abstract painting experimentation in the 1960s and 70s in Victoria…
…Sim’s works whisper the poetry of place with a fan’s devotion to nature and a historian’s eye for detail.
When…the love of his life died, he donated countless paintings to hospitals and charities in her name, raising tens of thousands of dollars.
She infuses her work with family history and genetic or environmental identities or inheritance.
Drahanchuk’s work is an honest expression of the natural world, using glazes only as accents to his designs and only where function demands it.
…a dynamic force in Canadian printmaking, known for his irreverent, experimental approach and his dedication to expanding the creative boundaries of the medium.
In 1940, she was sent to Egypt by the British High Command to spy on the Germans in preparation for the invasion of El-Alamein.