Tag #artist

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..."

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...

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.