Barbara Boldt
“Even in the smallest forms, nature has a pattern, a system, an order, and that appeals to my personality.”
Gary Sim
…Sim’s works whisper the poetry of place with a fan’s devotion to nature and a historian’s eye for detail.
Terry Nurmi
She infuses her work with family history and genetic or environmental identities or inheritance.
Edith Krause
“The thing that sets contemporary art apart from decorative art is that the objective is to get conversations going about something.”
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…
Betty Jean Drummond
She was explorative with colour and texture, often beginning with memories or ideas and working directly on the plate.
Veronica Plewman
“My early work was entirely photo-based and very detailed, but it has become looser and more intuitive…”
Jack Shadbolt
“Inspiration for the artist is probably less in dreaming than in visualizing extensions from tangible possibilities.”
Richard Reid
I’m interested in that transformative space between; between that momentary, fleeting glimpse, and then it’s translation with paint into marks…
Eric Metcalfe
“In the 50s and 60s there was a lot of dialogue between the painters and the poets and the musicians.”
Melissa H. Clarke
Topophilia, or a strong sense of and affection for a particular place…
Gordon Smith
“Current major forces, both in education and in our society, tend to ignore the value and contribution of art. We must, more than ever, support and encourage the arts in everyday life.”
Gary Merkel
“It’s not about clay so much as how it relates to our lives.”
Phyllis Serota
“I am interested in what the distance of time and space can do to distort and obscure the images.”
Irene Hoffar Reid
“I saw a large painting of a mountain by Lawren Harris, and I felt that I had never seen a mountain before.”
Sally Michener
“I always hope that my conscious intentions will somehow be transcended and that the work will take on its own life and vitality beyond my expectations.”
Arnold Shives
“Since early childhood I have explored the mountains around Vancouver and then later the Coastal Mountains of BC.”
Wayne Eastcott
“I have always been intrigued by… the relationship between chance, order, structure and randomness.”