Forest & Pacific 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

David Wilson’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages forest and coast and figure and portraiture.

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.

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