Toni Onley
“It’s the timeless things that I’m looking for, it’s the things that don’t date.”
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…
Gary Sim
…Sim’s works whisper the poetry of place with a fan’s devotion to nature and a historian’s eye for detail.
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.
John K. Esler
…a dynamic force in Canadian printmaking, known for his irreverent, experimental approach and his dedication to expanding the creative boundaries of the medium.
Lyle Wilson
“Of all the stuff I do, I actually find painting the most stressful…”
Edith Krause
“The thing that sets contemporary art apart from decorative art is that the objective is to get conversations going about something.”
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…”
Roy Wells Bishop
He was a respected Vancouver printmaker and graphic designer…
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.
Melissa H. Clarke
Topophilia, or a strong sense of and affection for a particular place…
Wayne Eastcott
“I have always been intrigued by… the relationship between chance, order, structure and randomness.”
Doug Biden
“I would describe my art making as primal imaging.”