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Her imagery reflects a lifelong assertion of feminine creativity, often resembling tapestries or quilts—compositions that honour traditional women’s work. Her subject matter is drawn from the intimate spaces of her life…
“The thing that sets contemporary art apart from decorative art is that the objective is to get conversations going about something.”
“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…”
“As an experimentalist, I allow mystery and magical moments to appear on the canvas…”
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…
A British born Canadian artist who painted in oil, pastel and watercolour; mostly portraits, still lifes and landscapes…
She was explorative with colour and texture, often beginning with memories or ideas and working directly on the plate.
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.
“My early work was entirely photo-based and very detailed, but it has become looser and more intuitive…”
“Inspiration for the artist is probably less in dreaming than in visualizing extensions from tangible possibilities.”
“There is so much richness and possibility of using the imagination when combining various materials…”
I’m interested in that transformative space between; between that momentary, fleeting glimpse, and then it’s translation with paint into marks…
Her life is a bit of a mystery. Do you have any information that might help us solve it?
Check out Art Canada Institute’s feature on Gershon Iskowitz’s life and art in recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan 27.
“In the 50s and 60s there was a lot of dialogue between the painters and the poets and the musicians.”
Topophilia, or a strong sense of and affection for a particular place…