British Columbia Coast

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.

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

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.

Vancouver artist whose photo, video, performance and installation work examines identity, migration, memory, tourism and contested ideas of place.

Dane-zaa and Swiss-Canadian artist known for transforming consumer materials into sculptural forms that engage Indigenous culture, display and commodity systems.

Hunkpapa Lakota artist working across photography, video, performance and installation to address Indigenous presence, representation and cultural memory.

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.

Photographer whose staged figures and atmospheric landscapes draw on cinema, fashion and the emotional construction of place.

Ceramic artist building richly layered sculptural forms from clay, glaze, gathered materials and accumulated surface.

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

Haida and Québécois artist using text, photography and installation to examine language, Indigenous representation and cultural transmission.

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

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

Métis artist and writer using found materials, land-based knowledge and economic histories to examine property, value and survival.

Tsimshian/Gitksan and Cree artist working across performance, video, sculpture and installation with humour, critique and embodied cultural presence.

Syilx artist whose installations and moving-image works engage archival materials, land, family history and the instability of documentary truth.

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

Artist creating animation, installation, drawing and performance from oral history, family archives, migration and Japanese Canadian memory.

Interdisciplinary artist and researcher using sculpture, video, photography and tapestry to examine contested geographies and landscapes in transition.

Michael Abraham works in oil painting.

Michael Abelman works in acrylic painting. The practice engages landscape.

Justine Andrew works in painting. The practice engages abstraction.

Ellen Bang works in painting.

Chris Blades’s principal medium is not yet independently verified.

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.

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

Jenny Catton’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages landscape, forest and coast, and figure and portraiture.

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

Wei Cheng works in ceramics. The practice engages material practice.

David Cho works in painting. The practice engages landscape.

Sung ah Cho’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages landscape.

Birgit Coath’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages identity and cultural memory.

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

Sherry Cooper’s principal medium is not yet independently verified.

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

Dave Denson works across painting and drawing.

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

Kathleen Drumheller’s principal medium is not yet independently verified.

Louise Dzee works across acrylic painting and watercolour.

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.

Judith Fairwood’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages forest and coast.

John Ferrie’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages landscape and figure and portraiture.

Michael Fitzsimmons’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages figure and portraiture.

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

Tim Fraser works in painting.

Amelia Garvin’s principal medium is not yet independently verified.

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

Lori Goldberg works in painting.

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

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

Robert Held works in glass. The practice engages forest and coast and material practice.

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

Eri Ishii works in oil painting.

Sonya Iwasiuk’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages landscape, figure and portraiture, and place and memory.

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

Paul Jorgensen’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages landscape and figure and portraiture.

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.

Janna Kumi’s principal medium is not yet independently verified.

Bob Leatherbarrow works across glass and drawing. The practice engages landscape, forest and coast, 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.

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

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

Lauren Morris’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages identity and cultural memory.

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.

Michael O'Toole works in acrylic painting. The practice engages landscape, city and architecture, and place and memory.

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

Veronica Plewman works in painting. The practice engages abstraction.

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

Christine Reimer works in acrylic painting. The practice engages landscape and abstraction.

Lee Roberts works in sculpture. The practice engages wildlife, sculpture and public space, and conceptual and language-based practice.

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.

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.

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.

Peter Wyse works in acrylic painting. The practice engages identity and cultural memory and place and memory.

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

Chin Yuen works in painting. The practice engages abstraction.

Donna Zhang’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages figure and portraiture.