Artists

Clayton Anderson was born and raised in West Vancouver, British Columbia.  Inspired by iconic Canadian painters such as Emily Carr and Lawren Harris, Clayton's paintings demonstrate a strong understanding of composition as well as a subtle yet luminescent rendering of light. His work evokes a distinct power of place.

Victoria, British Columbia

Nathan Birch was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1978. In 2000, Birch earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Alberta College of Art and Design. Birch's work has been exhibited across Canada and is held in both public and corporate collections across North America including; Canada Council for the Arts; Colart Collection, Montreal; Alberta Foundation for the Arts; Scotia Bank; TD Bank and Effort Trust, Toronto.

Nicholas Bott studied art at the University of British Columbia and holds a diploma from the Chicago School of Art. Inspired by the loose style of Vincent Van Gogh and the Canadian Group of Seven, and blending his traditional European values with contemporary developments of the new world, his paintings have evolved continuously into the impressionistic style of his current work.

Rick Bond is an established western Canadian artist. He currently lives and paints full time near Vernon, B.C. He was born in Victoria, B.C. and grew up in the Gulf Islands off the west coast near Vancouver. Rick started his painting career in 1980. Formally trained through the Emily Carr Outreach program, Okanagan University College, Pearson College Summer School, Victoria , Federation of Canadian Artists and other professional artists' workshops. 

Alan's studio art formation derives from selected courses at the Ontario College of Art; The Three Schools of Art; Faculty of Fine Arts, York University (Toronto), and the Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University (Montreal). Alan earned his Master's degree in Art Therapy at Concordia. He maintains both an art studio and an art therapy practice in Calgary. Previously an Adjunct Professor and Clinical Associate with the Nursing Faculty, University of Calgary, Alan has taught various courses at UC and the Alberta College of Art and Design (now U Alberta Arts), and has contributed to art therapy literature and research. Alan currently teaches on a sessional basis with the Art Department, UC.

Megan Dietrich is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver.

In Dietrich’s paintings, expressive compositions are woven together through context and instinct to create gestural arrangements that exist between the honest and the surreal. Through studies in colour and story, Dietrich employs an abstracted lens to free herself from the noise of exactitude. The goal is to ultimately give the viewer a space on which to impress their own narratives while delivering nods to a collective through line.

“I feel like I’m always investigating emotional tangibility, whether I like it or not. And that’s where my work tends to find itself. I obsessively avoid visual stasis, but I try to find peace in ambiguity.”

Dietrich’s work can be found in collections internationally as well as multimedia collaborations.

Collin Elder was born in Banff, AB and is currently based in Victoria, BC. Collin began oil painting while pursuing a career in

ecological restoration, which, along with a degree in biology, has focused his art on how we relate to landscape and wilderness. Visiting the locales of British Columbia's west coast, capturing and assembling those moments in landscapes has inspired Collin Elder to create works encompassing time and capturing the experience of

viewing.

David Ellingsen
b. 1969

David Ellingsen is an award winning photographer based in Victoria, B.C.
Creating images that speak to the relationship between humans and the natural world, Ellingsen's work often focuses on long term, cumulative projects that look at climate, biodiversity, and deforestation.

Ellingsen’s photographs are part of the permanent collections of the Chinese Museum of Photography, South Korea's Datz Museum of Art and Canada's Beaty Biodiversity Museum and Royal British Columbia Museum. They have been shortlisted for Photolucida's Critical Mass Book Award, appeared with National Geographic, and awarded First Place at the Prix de la Photographie Paris and the International Photography Awards.

Guthrie Gloag is a BC based artist with a background in biology. His work incorporates found driftwood and bone to create expressive animal and human forms. Gloag started creating this series of work in 2011 and is continuing to focus on evolving the sense of character in each piece.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Lesley Finlayson is an award winning contemporary artist currently based in Victoria, British Columbia. She recived her BFA from the Glasgow School of Art before moving to Canada in 1987 to persue her MFA at the University of Calgary. Following her studies, Finlayson taught in the Fine Arts Department at Langara College in British Columbia. Her own works have been exhibited in Canada and the United Kingdom and are included in private collections.

Already a respected artist in the middle east, Hashim Hannoon immigrated to Canada in 2009. Born in Basrah, Iraq 1957, Hanoon graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts-Baghdad in 1979. He received his Bachelor of Sculpture at the College of Fine Arts-Baghdad in 1999 and is a Member of Iraqi Artistic Forming Assembly and the Babylon Assembly of French Arts.

Meghan Hildebrand’s paintings, which she describes as, “story-maps of the imagination”, are constant exercises in innovation and improvisation. With her unique vocabulary of symbols, she translates the landscape into electrifying dreamscape scenarios, each image alluding to a much larger narrative.

Patricia Hindmarch - Watson is a Victoria based artist. She started her career in Vancouver in the 1970's. She has maintained a studio practice since that time and  worked in the Fine Arts faculty at St. George's School.

Hodgson has been a practicing artist for over 30 years.  He focuses primarily on Canadian landscapes and allows the essence and energy of the land shine. He is a graduate of the University of Guelph, Ontario, and has been collected internationally.

William Lazos is a Toronto-based Canadian photorealist painter and muralist, born in Cairo in 1964. Known for his meticulous detail and realistic paintings, he has built a career in fine art, murals, and public commissions.

Among his career honours are the First Place in Portraiture at the National Fine Art Competition and the 2011 Kingston Prize People’s Choice Award. His work is represented in public and private collections, including the City of Toronto Art Collection, Art Gallery of Peel, and Royal Canadian Mint.

John was born in Barrie, Ontario, later moved to the Toronto area and now resides in Central Ontario. He displayed a keen interest in art from an early age and after graduating from Leaside High School studied at the Ontario College of Art, and later the Art Students League of New York. 

Montague’s work is a paradox. Her unique voice, which incorporates a broad range of influences, presents itself through her highly intricate porcelain sculptures. Juxtaposing the beautiful and the macabre, her subject matter moves fluidly between dolls, flowers, hearts and lace to skulls, insects, and other elements. These facets, often subtle and sometimes hidden, allow for her figurative sculptures to be filled with suggestion and narrative.

Brad Pasutti is a Victoria based artist whose work focuses on the interplay of multiple realities. After receiving a 3 year diploma in sculpture at the Kootenay School of Art in 1979, Pasutti would go on to earn a BFA from the University of Victoria in 1983. Pasutti’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and is held in the permanent collection at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Canada Council Art Bank.

Born in Prince Rupert British Columbia, April Ponsford draws inspiration from the wild landscape of that region, and Vancouver Island as a whole. Her process combines the formality and technique of painting with intuition and artistic observance of the unique landscapes that surround her.

Luke Ramsey is recognized internationally for his art and design work. This Powell River-based artist has been featured in exhibitions from L.A. to Berlin. Luke describes his work as, "Organized chaos- a play with paradoxical themes. The content is influenced by a beautifully strange cosmos of organisms and comedy. The approach needs to feel fluid and not forced." Luke's ink on paper works inspire awe from anyone that sees them. They are finely rendered and visually engaging. The amount of detail and work in each piece will draw the viewer in to find an entire imaginary world in each of his creations.

Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Regehr has lived and maintained studios in Los Angeles, London, Madrid, Toronto and Victoria, Canada. He has established himself as a talented painter, actor, poet, and author whose paintings and written works can be found in the Smithsonian Institute (US), the Jilin Collection (China), The Kunstallen (Copenhagen), Focus on the Masters Archives for the Getty Museum (US) and the Syllavethy Collection of Scotland (UK).

Halin de Repentigny is an acclaimed artist with paintings held in national and international collections. Originally from Montreal, Halin first made his name when he moved to Dawson City, Yukon. He became well known for his depictions of life in Canada’s Klondike, interpreting the beauty and majesty of the remote northern wilderness and capturing it on canvas. His love of landscape, colour and light is now manifested in his winter home in Patagonia, Argentina, while the Klondike summers continue to inspire his work.

Schumm is an internationally exhibiting artist who has developed a broad base of collectors through his commitment to travelling to remote locations around the world to paint. produced an acclaimed series of work from the northern wilderness of Canada to Antarctica and back. He started his career in Alberta and now calls Vancouver Island home. 

Ernestine Tahedl R.C.A. O.S.A

Ernestine Tahedl was born and educated in Austria and received a Master's Degree in graphic art from the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts. Following graduation in 1961, she collaborated with her father, Professor Heinrich Tahedl, in the design and execution of stained glass commissions until she immigrated to Canada in 1963. Her work is represented in public, corporate and private collections and galleries in Canada, United States, France, Switzerland, Austria, and Japan.

Diana Thorneycroft b. 1956

Diana Thorneycroft is an artist based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has exhibited internationally, and her work can be found in noteworthy public collections such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Royal Bank of Canada, the Bank of Montreal, and TD Bank. Thorneycroft has won numerous awards, including an Assistance to Visual Arts Long-term Grant from the Canada Council, several Senior Arts Grants from the Manitoba Arts Council and a Fleck Fellowship from the Banff Centre for the Arts. Thorneycroft's photography was featured in the 2002 Phaidon Press publication, Blink, which presented the work of 100 rising stars in photography.

Wendy Wacko was born in Toronto in 1951, and after graduating from high school, she studied art at the Central Technical Art School and the New School of Art (1969 to 1972).

In 1972 Wendy traveled to Western Canada on a painting expedition and settled in Jasper, B.C. She has had seven one-person shows of her paintings since 1977. Wendy's painting has taken her around the world, and her most recent work has focused on Haida Gwaii and the Canadian West Coast.

Joshua Wallace is a B.C. based painter whose practice focuses on bringing art historical references to contemporary and figurative subjects. Wallace pulls from a wide range of influences from Caravaggio to Colville. His first solo exhibition, Midnight Walk was held at Madrona Gallery in April of 2023. He is a graduate of University of Victoria's Visual Arts program.

"Inspired by the West Coast and its many incredible cloud formations, my paintings are a direct response to the silent beauty of light penetrating the darkness which brings a sense of calmness to all it envelops. Traveling along the coast has provided an endless source of material from which I am creating a new West Coast Landscape series for future shows."

Madeleine Wood's paintings evoke a sense of intimacy. She chooses to include the viewer in private moments that could be snapshots of memories or fantasies. She captures the play of tension and release in her figurative works, while in her landscapes focuses on tiny details such as the curl of Arbutus bark.

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas was born in 1954 in Prince Rupert and grew up on Haida Gwaii. A descendant of iconic artists Isabella Edenshaw, Charles Edenshaw and Delores Churchill, Yahgulanaas' early training was under the exceptional creators and master carvers of Haida Gwaii. His work is collected internationally, including The British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum and Vancouver Art Gallery. Large sculptural works by Yahgulanaas are part of the public art collection of the Vancouver International Airport, City of Vancouver, City of Kamloops and University of British Columbia. His publications include national bestsellers Flight of the Hummingbird, RED: a Haida Manga and the upcoming War of the Blink.

Carollyne Yardley is an interdisciplinary artist, speculative designer and squirrel lover whose body of work entangles the boundaries between human and nonhuman systems and imagines possible futures in hybrid human development. Yardley teases out the unpredictable through Squirrealism, a neologism used in her practice to narrate origin stories of transformation that are not distinctly human. Her oil paintings portray a utopian/dystopian future of surreal beings who emerge from damaged worlds. 

Sean Yelland is a Toronto based painter whose work plays with a sense of mystery in everyday urban settings. His work has a power to it that plays with a sense of voyeurism and intrigue. By confronting the viewer with scenes that should be full of action but are shown in a state of stillness, he is removing the comfort of the expected, and questioning our relationship to our environment.