
Lyle Wilson
"Of all the stuff I do, I actually find painting the most stressful..."
"Of all the stuff I do, I actually find painting the most stressful..."
“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..."
He was a respected Vancouver printmaker and graphic designer...
“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.
"He was in many ways a little bit bigger than life.”