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.
Tag #painter
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.”
Richard Reid
I’m interested in that transformative space between; between that momentary, fleeting glimpse, and then it’s translation with paint into marks...
