
Edith Krause
“The thing that sets contemporary art apart from decorative art is that the objective is to get conversations going about something."
“The thing that sets contemporary art apart from decorative art is that the objective is to get conversations going about something."
1947-2012 → Roy Wells Bishop was a respected Vancouver printmaker and graphic designer. He attended…
“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...
1875-1955 → James Henry Osborne Amess was a British born Canadian artist who painted in…
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.”
“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.”