Vancouver Island

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

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

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

Canadian artist whose photography and installations examine consumer imagery, artificial nature, beauty and the construction of desire.

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

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

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

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

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

Eri Ishii works in oil painting.

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

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