Originally posted 2002-09-23 I met him while I was a student at Queen¹s University in Kingston, Ontario. Bieler (1896-1989) was the founder of... (more)
Originally posted August 2002 After 10 years in Vancouver, George Littlechild found the only time he could paint was at night, when he could re... (more)
'I’ve always painted,' Jorgensen began. 'My dad was a house painter.' As a young artist he progressed from an early passion for paint-by-numbers to th... (more)
In what passes for Victoria’s industrial area, Jo Ludwig’s tiny workshop occupies a few square feet at the back of the second floor in a nondescript b... (more)
It always amazes me how much potential Saskatchewan has when it comes to creating and expressing themselves through their artwork. Again this year, I... (more)
Duncan Regehr seems larger than life. He’s taller than average, and carries himself with the confident deportment born of a successful career on stage... (more)
The Stephen Lowe Gallery is going to close at the end of 2003. After 30 years as shopkeepers on the Humboldt side of the Empress Hotel, the Lowe Famil... (more)
Monochrome People in a Coloured Land is the engaging title of a show of tinted clay sculptures (monochrome people) surrounded by oil-stick landscape p... (more)
Jimmy Wright is blunt. 'This is my art factory,' he says by way of introduction to his studio. 'I’m an artist, but I’m more than that. My... (more)
Family Matters comprised a gathering of bookworks, textiles and photo-based pieces by Canadian artists Cheryl Pagurek, Judy Martin and Lisé Melhorn-Bo... (more)
Thanks to the Winchester Galleries, I don’t have to listen to that whining anymore. Whining about how impossible it is to succeed in the art gam... (more)
There has never been a better opportunity for artists to show and sell their work than the present. The same goes for art buyers. Coffee shops and res... (more)
I had assumed that every word Emily Car wrote is now in print: her five volumes of stories, her journals, her letters late in life. Susan Crean has di... (more)
I received an email the other day from one of the instructors of this urban youth program for Aboriginal youths in Saskatoon. Arnold Isbister has been... (more)
As in most cities the course has been set out in a true Olympic triathlon format. 17 venues await your visit throughout the city and downtown core, in... (more)
Herbert Siebner’s vision is one of a world in which every action, every event, every observable thing, is a vehicle of those deeper powers which... (more)
I was in a particularly receptive mood when I entered Rogue Art (on the fourth floor of the Bay Centre). Seven odd little tables were gathered at the... (more)
Victoria is blessed to be the home of Emily Carr, Canada's most important artist and a writer of enduring worth. On a recent visit to Carr House, her... (more)
Victoria is facing up to a new sculpture, of high visibility and considerable cost. It¹s far too soon to make any judgement on what our representative... (more)
In an exhibition of mixed media wall hangings that has been touring Canada for the last year, Toronto artist Lynne Heller elegantly argues a fecund re... (more)
Jerry Pethick was born in London, Ontario in 1935. His artistic education took place in London, England at the Chelsea College of Art and the Royal Co... (more)
Glass was developed in the middle of the third millennia B. C. in Mesopotamia, probably as an accidental offshoot of ceramics. In the beginning this g... (more)
The Group of Seven in Western Canada is a concert of seven individual exhibits with a common theme. Its thesis is this: yes, there is life beyond the... (more)
The most beautiful shapes are the simplest. Yet these are often the most difficult to produce. I delight in the challenge of creating contemporary ves... (more)
Georgia O¹Keeffe (1887-1986), Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) and Emily Carr (1871-1945) are all legendary, breakthrough artists. (more)
The work of Nova Scotia sculptor Dawn MacNutt's has, for the most part, focused on the human body. A textile artist by training and background, MacNut... (more)
Contrary to faded, romantic notions of roach-infested garrets and severed earlobes, plenty of artists uphold their integrity while they’re enjoy... (more)
Having put her art aside for twenty years, Kate Celis was driven by recent events to take it up again. The Asses of Evil, a series of 16 chalk... (more)
Fired Up! is a venerable gathering of some of the finest ceramic artists of this region, held for 19 years at the Metchosin Community Hall (4401 Willi... (more)
Was it the work of aliens?Years ago, it was quite common to hear about crop circles and unexplained geometric markings, that covered massive areas... (more)
Recently I went to the Edmonton Art Gallery to view 15 Post-Impressionist Masterpieces presently on loan from the National Gallery of Canada. It is pa... (more)
Have You Seen This Painting?Nancy Townshend has come to town to do some detective work. Among other things, she is looking for a painting by Maxwe... (more)
It's easy to appreciate Mary Pratt's photo realist painting of Trifle in a Dark Room, or Gathie Falk's canvas entitled Chair With Plastic Christmas Tr... (more)
In her studio I saw little quilts she had made of contrasting colours of fur. One had a maple leaf motif, and she pointed out another which is compose... (more)
I came back from Japan on February 18th, had a few days to recover from jet lag, and was off to Montreal on the 22nd to interpret at a conference unt... (more)
This is an invitation to you to come on a studio tour - you will find out about our local artists - are their studios neat or messy? Does she garden a... (more)
Over the many years I have known Nik Semenoff, I have had the good fortune of a great friendship. His studio is a humble workspace situated in the bas... (more)
A lot of you know what an awesome salesman Eugene was; he could sell prints to anyone. Discovering a newly opened medical building, he walked into the... (more)
After a week in Sapporo, I was finally able to see more than just Odori Park and bustling Susukino Street where dozens of large ice carvings were on d... (more)
Look up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's SUPERMAN. More powerful than a locomotive! Faster than a speeding bullet! Able to leap tall b... (more)
'There¹s nothing like watercolour,' Onley sighs, 'for the sheer pleasure of it. Nothing else gives me that immediate feedback. I'm like an addict - if... (more)
The winter went by so fast this year and I spent most of it away from Saskatoon where I live, in the middle of the Canadian Prairies. My first trip to... (more)
Ted Harrison's paintings are instantly recognizable: undulating waves, clouds and hills in hot colours of orange and mauve and ultramarine. Inscribed... (more)
Hans Fear was an artist of uncommon talent, a legend among the street people and skaters. On city walls, Fear's spray-bomb paintings of cartoon-like c... (more)
Robert Genn leads you step-by-step through the process of creating a commissioned painting. (more)
Endsville is a village of tiny cardboard buildings, illuminated from within and wired with an interactive soundscape. Walking into the gallery is a b... (more)
Canadian landscapes with no skies, horizons or vast expanses; how can that possibly depict a true believable Canada? Alexander continues to challenge... (more)
Anne Ehrlich spent her childhood in Bella Coola and came to Victoria to finish high school. During her grade eleven year she was asked by David Peacoc... (more)
When I arrived at her door, the afternoon sun was in full force and streamed in the southern exposure of her Calgary studio. Her intaglio press center... (more)
It¹s in my blood. I grew up in Ontario and went to summer camp, canoe tripping south of Algonquin Park. My family¹s summer cottage is in Muskoka near... (more)
When I first saw the work of Vancouver artist Pnina Granirer I found it humbly erotic, very bold and gutsy, somewhat abstract - yet realistic, always... (more)
Toronto-based artist TOM DEAN’s recent site-specific exhibition at the Toronto Sculpture Garden (May 30-September 15, 2001) was part of the 20th anni... (more)