
Roy Wells Bishop
1947-2012 → Roy Wells Bishop was a respected Vancouver printmaker and graphic designer. He attended…
1947-2012 → Roy Wells Bishop was a respected Vancouver printmaker and graphic designer. He attended…
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…
"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.”
I’m interested in that transformative space between; between that momentary, fleeting glimpse, and then it’s translation with paint into marks...
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"In the 50s and 60s there was a lot of dialogue between the painters and the poets and the musicians."
“I paint freely, but with formal restraints..."