Painting

Canadian oil painter connecting rain-lit Vancouver streets, Coast Mountain landscapes and western Canadian wildlife through vibrant colour and palette-knife texture.

Painter and writer whose sustained engagement with the coastal environment made her central to the history of art in British Columbia.

Painter, teacher and writer whose modernist practice transformed natural forms and whose long teaching career shaped Vancouver art education.

Vancouver painter known for an evolving dialogue between abstraction, material surface and the experience of the West Coast landscape.

Painter, printmaker and designer whose restrained coastal landscapes are among the defining interpretations of British Columbia’s atmosphere.

Vancouver artist known for large-scale painting and works on paper that connect mapping, memory, geography and psychological space.

Artist examining architecture, pattern, visual convention and the politics of private and public space.

Painter whose stylized realism and close attention to working landscapes created a distinctive record of coastal British Columbia.

Artist and educator combining photography and monochrome painting while treating Vancouver as both social space and art-historical context.

Vancouver polymath whose photography, film, music and installations drew on literary, philosophical and popular references.

Cowichan and Syilx artist whose work addresses Indigenous sovereignty, colonization, environmental destruction and ancestral territory.

Ligwilda’xw Kwakwaka’wakw contemporary artist working across media to examine colonial history, popular culture, land and Indigenous presence.

Conceptual and representational artist whose work across text, portraiture, sculpture and public art examines identity, language and spatial politics.

Vancouver artist whose photography and archival work examine urban transformation, economic landscapes and the construction of history.

Vancouver artist using text, appropriation and exhibition conventions to examine how information circulates through art, media and popular culture.

Vancouver-based visual artist and writer using sculpture, installation, painting and public art to examine technology, identity and contemporary culture.

Vancouver artist whose sculpture, ceramics, performance and painting transform everyday objects and bodily experience through wit and repetition.

Figurative painter and collage artist exploring identity, gender, displacement and the representation of the female body.

Painter using observation, colour and spatial compression to turn everyday interiors, streets and objects into shifting pictorial structures.

Painter whose energetic floral and botanical forms move between observation, abstraction, colour and gestural surface.

Painter creating luminous, layered abstractions that suggest landscape, reflection, atmosphere and the instability of perception.

Painter examining how ordinary scenes, memory and photographic reference become unstable through paint, surface and perception.

Artist producing meticulously observed paintings of architecture and urban space that question the apparent neutrality of photographic vision.

Artist working across drawing, painting and photography with images that combine narrative uncertainty, humour and the uncanny.

Painter who works with woven and interlaced acrylic paint to test the boundaries between image, textile, surface and sculpture.

Artist moving between painting and sculpture while incorporating found objects, images and text into materially playful arrangements.

Vancouver artist using photography, painting and image manipulation to examine value, migration, representation and overlooked subjects.

Artist using dyed and sewn textiles to examine histories of modern painting, labour, gender and medium classification.

Artist examining subculture, activism, domestic architecture and civic space through painting, ceramics, sculpture and video.

Painter using layered text, humour and contradiction to explore communication, knowledge, belief and personal experience.

Painter working through abstraction, figuration and textile references to explore memory, intimacy and the construction of images.

Painter whose geometric and patterned abstractions use repetition, colour and hand-built structure to create shifting optical spaces.

Artist working across sculpture, drawing, painting and photography to examine artistic process, representation and the studio as a subject.

Artist extending painting beyond the canvas through layered monochrome surfaces, environmental actions, photography and installation.

Painter creating optical and spatial works in which simple forms, colour and installation alter the viewer’s bodily perception.

Artist whose drawing, photography and installation examine migration, labour, cultural memory and the changing spaces of cities.

Anishinaabe artist working through painting, sculpture and performance to explore memory, embodiment, cultural presence and urban Indigenous experience.

Dzawada’enuxw First Nations artist whose installations, paintings and light-based works address land, language, sovereignty and cultural continuity.

Michael Abraham works in oil painting.

Sorour Abdollahi works in painting. The practice engages city and architecture, identity and cultural memory, and place and memory.

Gaye Adams works in painting. The practice engages conceptual and language-based practice.

Fran Alexander works in painting.

Justine Andrew works in painting. The practice engages abstraction.

Patricia Banks works in painting. The practice engages landscape and place and memory.

Deborah Bakos works in painting. The practice engages landscape, abstraction, figure and portraiture, and identity and cultural memory.

Ellen Bang works in painting.

Riti Batra works across painting, photography, and mixed media. The practice engages abstraction and material practice.

Aurelia Bizouard works in painting.

Jordan Blackstone works across painting and photography. The practice engages landscape, wildlife, and figure and portraiture.

Mary Blaze works across oil painting, mixed media, and drawing. The practice engages abstraction and material practice.

Mark Boyko works in painting. The practice engages conceptual and language-based practice.

Dennis Brown works in oil painting.

Kris Brownlee works across painting and drawing. The practice engages wildlife.

Dianna Burns works in painting. The practice engages landscape, abstraction, and figure and portraiture.

Deb Chaney works in painting.

Chris Charlebois works in painting. The practice engages landscape and forest and coast.

Warren Chiu works across oil painting and photography.

Paul Chizik works in painting.

David Cho works in painting. The practice engages landscape.

Richard Cole works in painting. The practice engages landscape, mountain subjects, forest and coast, and figure and portraiture.

Kelly Crawford works in painting. The practice engages landscape.

Lorn Curry works in painting. The practice engages figure and portraiture and place and memory.

Painter whose listed work MY CITY-3 explores abstract architectural imagery; a North Vancouver artist profile provides a regional connection.

Christian Dahlberg works in painting. The practice engages city and architecture.

Dave Denson works across painting and drawing.

Elyse Dodge works in painting. The practice engages landscape and abstraction.

Tom Douglas works in painting. The practice engages place and memory.

Vancouver artist, illustrator and educator working across painting, drawing, printmaking and design, with landscapes, portraits and objects in her fine-art portfolio.

Penny Eisenberg works in oil painting. The practice engages landscape, city and architecture, and abstraction.

Marney-Rose Edge works across oil painting, acrylic painting, and watercolour. The practice engages landscape.

Victoria-based oil painter whose ecological-restoration and biology background informs his studies of coastal landscape and wilderness.

Melanie Ellery works in painting. The practice engages abstraction.

Denna Erickson works in oil painting.

Ken Faulks works across painting and drawing. The practice engages landscape and abstraction.

Deanna Fogstrom works in painting. The practice engages city and architecture, forest and coast, and identity and cultural memory.

Tim Fraser works in painting.

Roy Geronimo works across oil painting and acrylic painting. The practice engages landscape, city and architecture, and wildlife.

Wes Giesbrecht works in oil painting.

Lori Goldberg works in painting.

Harris Gulko works in painting. The practice engages landscape, forest and coast, and abstraction.

Drena Hambrook works in painting. The practice engages landscape, figure and portraiture, and place and memory.

Brent Heighton works in painting. The practice engages mountain subjects, wildlife, forest and coast, and place and memory.

Dana Irving works in painting. The practice engages landscape, conceptual and language-based practice, and place and memory.

Eri Ishii works in oil painting.

Patricia Johnston works in oil painting. The practice engages landscape and forest and coast.

Jan Kasparec works in oil painting. The practice engages landscape, city and architecture, identity and cultural memory, and place and memory.

Katsumi Kimoto works in painting. The practice engages landscape, forest and coast, and abstraction.

Vanessa Lam works across painting and mixed media. The practice engages identity and cultural memory and material practice.

Isaac John Lewis works across painting, ceramics, and drawing. The practice engages material practice.

Min Ma works across oil painting, acrylic painting, and drawing. The practice engages landscape and figure and portraiture.

Chris MacClure works in painting. The practice engages landscape and conceptual and language-based practice.

Joel Mara works in painting. The practice engages landscape, mountain subjects, forest and coast, figure and portraiture, and place and memory.

Anya Marnet works in painting. The practice engages landscape.

Richard McDiarmid works across oil painting, acrylic painting, and watercolour. The practice engages abstraction.

Abbotsford-based abstract painter working with cold wax, oil, encaustic and mixed media.

Jennifer Mitton works across oil painting, acrylic painting, and watercolour. The practice engages landscape and figure and portraiture.

Kirsten Nash works across oil painting, acrylic painting, sculpture, and ceramics. The practice engages sculpture and public space and material practice.

Eric Neighbour works across painting, photography, and sculpture. The practice engages sculpture and public space.

Christina Norberg works across painting, sculpture, and drawing. The practice engages sculpture and public space.

Vancouver painter making atmospheric, place-responsive work shaped by landscape, memory and experiences in the North Shore mountains.

Paul Paquette works in painting. The practice engages forest and coast.

Ross Penhall works in painting. The practice engages landscape, city and architecture, and abstraction.

Veronica Plewman works in painting. The practice engages abstraction.

Terri Rodstrom works across watercolour and painting. The practice engages landscape and wildlife.

Carole Rayer works in oil painting. The practice engages place and memory.

Sam Siegel works across oil painting and acrylic painting. The practice engages forest and coast.

West Vancouver artist and gallery owner working across landscape and figurative painting, sculpture and printmaking.

Linda Thompson works in painting. The practice engages landscape and wildlife.

Andrea Taylor works across painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, and drawing. The practice engages sculpture and public space and material practice.

Taisha Teal works across oil painting, acrylic painting, photography, ceramics, and drawing. The practice engages material practice.

Drew Van Unen works across painting and photography.

Ray Ward works in painting. The practice engages place and memory.

Caroline Weaver works in painting.

Terrill Welch works across oil painting and photography. The practice engages landscape and forest and coast.

Corrinne Wolcoski works in painting. The practice engages landscape, forest and coast, and place and memory.

Carollyne Yardley works in oil painting. The practice engages wildlife and figure and portraiture.

Alysha Yakimishyn works across watercolour and painting. The practice engages forest and coast.

Chin Yuen works in painting. The practice engages abstraction.