An imperfect resolution to the problem of images being taken from artist and gallery sites has been reached. (more)
The production of Canadian war art was officially started in 1916, with the creation of the Canadian War Memorial Fund. Artists, often already servin... (more)
Recently, I attended a Graphic Designer's of Canada (GDC) Conference in Saskatoon - Frontiers 2005, which included a show of work by the attending des... (more)
Haren Vakil is a Victoria artist who was born in Bombay - now officially known as Mumbai. One of four children, he was “the oddball. I used to draw al... (more)
The people of Tibet live in the high barren land of the Himalayas, where trade routes from Persia, India, China and Russia cross. The people grafted a... (more)
Eva Campbell is a talented artist in the midst of her career. In the thirteen years sinced she immigrated to Victoria from Ghana, she has created a bo... (more)
For about 250 years - from Queen Elizabeth to Queen Victoria - Japan was virtually closed to the outside world. Then, in 1853, Commodore Perry of the... (more)
In 1972 I was living in Toronto, studying Fine Art at York University. One day a visiting artist named Dana Atchely arrived at school with his Ace Spa... (more)
Victoria’s architecture is part of its charm. Full length studies of Francis Rattenbury and Samuel Maclure have assured those architects a proper plac... (more)
Laura Harris, born in Sidney and now of Cadboro Bay, is having a show (with Ray Ward at the Main Street Gallery). There is a joyous sense of homecomin... (more)
One such evening in the mid 70’s, after two hours of uproarious conversation, I found myself sitting on the bottom step beside Pat Martin Bates. It wa... (more)
Joseph Kyle died in Victoria March 16, 2005. A Memorial service for him will be held at 2.30, Tuesday April 5, at the Interfaith Chapel at the Univers... (more)
The sculptor unwound the plastic wrap which keeps his clay moist, revealing a life-sized man, confidently stepping onto the emigrant ship. His piercin... (more)
Honda grew up in the Japanese countryside and then lived in the city of Osaka. Thus, a mix of nature and technology comes naturally to her. She remind... (more)
“Each time we act in service of our sacred intention, each time we align our energies and our actions with what we most truly love, we gain in persona... (more)
On the fourth floor of what we have learned to call The Bay Centre, Canada’s oldest commercial venture has installed an art gallery and historical dis... (more)
Bunzo Nakanishi died of a stroke in his home in Kyoto on November 22, 2004. He was 82 years old. Nakanishi is fondly remembered by many artists here.... (more)
Michael Lewis was brought up on the Sunday funnies - the colour comics that come in the weekend newspapers. He was a child in the early 1950’s w... (more)
When I was introduced to Steve Dickerson last week, I asked “why haven’t we met before?”. He’s a professional artist, with a s... (more)
'They’re exactly the same!' On a recent visit to the Pompidou Centre in Paris, I saw lots of drawings and sketches from the famed Surrealists -... (more)
I’ve given up watching television. Instead, I’m reading Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. Joyce’s Ulysses is considered the most import... (more)
Neil MacCormick recently sent me an invitation to an exhibition of his paintings (until January 15, 2005) at the O. K. Harris Gallery in New York City... (more)
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It was June 15th 1997 and Fathers Day. And it was a nice day for planting -- if you're a farmer or even a gardener. It was the kind of day you would t... (more)
Questions to Roy Hickling (project curator)The image changes dramatically and is quite distinctive throughout all the seasons. Was this variety of... (more)
The letters in this section were sent to ArtistsInCanada by artists. (more)
La production d'art de guerre canadien a officiellement débuté en 1916 avec la création du Fonds de souvenirs de guerre canadiens. Les artistes, dont... (more)