Jane Adams
…her practice synthesizes gestural abstraction with subtle nods to geometric structure and the influences of music and sound.
Peter Ochs
…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.
Donald Harvey
He was at the forefront of abstract painting experimentation in the 1960s and 70s in Victoria…
Gary Sim
…Sim’s works whisper the poetry of place with a fan’s devotion to nature and a historian’s eye for detail.
Sydney Berne
When…the love of his life died, he donated countless paintings to hospitals and charities in her name, raising tens of thousands of dollars.
Terry Nurmi
She infuses her work with family history and genetic or environmental identities or inheritance.
Ed Drahanchuk
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.
Edith Leach
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Bettina Somers
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.
Lyle Wilson
“Of all the stuff I do, I actually find painting the most stressful…”
Edith Krause
“The thing that sets contemporary art apart from decorative art is that the objective is to get conversations going about something.”
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
He was a respected Vancouver printmaker and graphic designer…
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
A British born Canadian artist who painted in oil, pastel and watercolour; mostly portraits, still lifes and landscapes…
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.