Leyda Campbell
She spent much of her career traveling and working in some of Canada’s most remote regions, including Eureka on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut…
Edith Carter
She had an interest in intimate, personal subjects drawn from her immediate circle…
Jane Adams
…her practice synthesizes gestural abstraction with subtle nods to geometric structure and the influences of music and sound.
Michael Chase
He quickly became known for his innovative use of large tubes of paint rather than tiny amounts of colour in a box, as well as all sorts of house painting brushes.
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.
Barbara Boldt
“Even in the smallest forms, nature has a pattern, a system, an order, and that appeals to my personality.”
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.
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…”
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…”
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…
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.
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.”