David Neel, born in 1960, is a professional photographer as well as a hereditary Kwakwaka'wakw artist. He works in a number of mediums including wood sculpture, photography, printmaking, and painting. He specializes in traditional mask about…

Born in Selsdon, Surrey, England, Robin Hopper began his art education at the Croydon College of Art, first studying printmaking until he commenced studies in ceramics in 1956. In 1968 Hopper immigrated to Canada working as a teacher and heading…

George Gaudette studied visual arts at the Banff School of Fine Arts and the University of Victoria, receiving his MFA in 1992. Interested in the narrative characteristics of photography, he recontextualizes personal photographic images into…

Born in Fergus Falls Minnesota in 1935, Sally Michener immigrated to Canada in 1973. An artist and educator working primarily in ceramics and sculpture, Michener holds an MSW from Columbia University (New York) and an MFA from the University of…

Mowry Baden was born in Los Angeles in 1936, and received a B.A. from Pomona College and an M.A. from Stanford University. In 1971, Baden moved to Canada, where he has both continued his art and worked as a teacher in post-secondary institutions…

Born in Victoria, BC in 1920, Bill Reid was brought up in a cross cultural home with a German/Scottish-American father (William) and an Anglican-educated Haida mother (Sophie). In his early life Reid was unaware of his Haida ancestry until his…

Richard Rondow was a mouth artist producing drawings and paintings from his home in Saanich B.C. Rondow’s work includes autobiographical themes related to physical ability and body image (Rondow was quadriplegic), and wry humour conveyed through the…

Ian Thomas’s career has been as an artist and a teacher. He received his initial training at Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts, going on to receive an MA in Art Education at the University of British Columbia. Thomas taught at a variety of…

Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Roy Green graduated in 1980 with an Applied Communications Diploma from Camosun College. In 1984 Green graduated with honours from the Emily Carr Institute of Art (now Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC), and…

Ian Thomas’s career has been as an artist and a teacher. He received his initial training at Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts, going on to receive an MA in Art Education at the University of British Columbia. Thomas taught at a variety of…

Fran Benton is a graduate of the Visual Arts Program at Camosun College. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr College of Art and Design (now Emily Carr University), and a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Victoria (UVic).…

Artist and educator Charles Brookman was born in London, England. He began studying art at Camberwell and Horsey art colleges in London. He worked for several years as an interior designer for Sanderson’s London. In 1958 he immigrated to Canada,…

Laurie Rolland graduated from Sheridan College School of Crafts and Design (Mississauga, Ontario) with honours. She is a professional potter and instructor, and has been active in the arts community as an instructor, artist in residence (Medalta…

Born and educated in Graz, Austria, Karl Spreitz attended the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara and as a guest at the Arts Centre School, Los Angeles, California. He immigrated to Canada in 1952, arriving in Victoria, British Columbia…

Laurie Rolland graduated from Sheridan College School of Crafts and Design (Mississauga, Ontario) with honours. She is a professional potter and instructor, and has been active in the arts community as an instructor, artist in residence (Medalta…

Cathi Charles Wherry is Anishinaabekwe and a member of the Rama Mnjikaning First Nation (Ontario), where her Father was born. Her Mother’s ancestors crossed the ocean from England five generations ago. Since 1979 she has lived on beautiful Coast…

Born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine in 1966, Taras Polataiko immigrated to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1990. Polataiko holds a BFA (painting and drawing focus) from the Stroganov Museum of Fine and Industrial Arts, Moscow, Russia, and a MFA from the…

Patrick Mahon is an artist, curator, writer, and a professor of visual arts at Western University, London, ON. Mahon’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions nationally (including Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; Katzman…

In 1987 Ken Flett received a diploma in Photographic Arts from the Alberta College of Art. Throughout his career he has used photography in his work, often building on top of selected photographic images with layers of various media (including paint…

Jane Martin was born in Montreal, received her BA (Hons) at Bishop University in 1965, and her MA at Carleton University in 1966. Martin has worked extensively as a painter, printmaker, and photographer representing images of the body and exploring…

Flemming Jorgensen was born in Aalborg, Denmark, in 1934, and in 1956 immigrated to Canada. Arriving in Victoria in the late 1950s, he studied commercial art with artist Herbert Siebner. Jorgensen began painting and teaching in the early 1960s,…

Walter Dexter was born in Alberta in 1931 and received his diploma in ceramics from the Alberta College of Arts in Calgary, after which he continued his studies at the Swedish School of Arts and crafts with the help of a Swedish government…

Qin Huilong is a self-taught artist known for his detail-oriented traditional realistic Chinese brush paintings and bolder free-hand brushwork pieces. Originally from Han Cheng in the Northeast Shaanxi province, his works, based on memories of his…

Born in Cheltenham, England in 1939, A. Murray B. Polson (Murray Polson) received his Bachelor of Science at the University of Oregon (1968) and his Master of Fine Arts at the Instituto Allende in Mexico (1972). He studied theatrical set design at…