Jamie Evrard: Things Residual
For her new solo exhibition What Remains, Vancouver based artist Jamie Evrard eloquently ruminates on the evolution of her approach to painting and the reason for her continual return to floral subject matter.
Artist Q & A: Celia Lees
In our latest artist Q & A, abstract painter Celia Lees discusses the conscious act of selective seeing, the quieting effect of a muted palette, and her love of abstraction as a means of expressing her interior world.
Artist Q & A: Sheila Kernan
For her new solo exhibition Refresh, Calgary based artist Sheila Kernan offers a window into how she balances realism and abstraction with a refined, multi-layered approach, capturing the essence, energy and raw emotiveness of the Canadian coastal landscape.
Artist Q & A: Anthony Redpath
For his anticipated new solo exhibition Chance at Bliss, award-winning Vancouver based photographic artist Anthony Redpath offers enlightening technical details and behind-the-scenes insight on the making of his newest beach series images.
Artist Q & A: Vicki Smith
In anticipation of her new solo exhibition Peace of Mind, Toronto based artist Vicki Smith talks about the origin of her swimmers, the natural pull towards a meditative space, and her growing intention of representing the oneness of nature and ourselves in her works.
Artist Q & A: Anne Griffiths
In this new Artist Q & A, Vancouver Island based artist Anne Griffiths discusses how her new solo exhibition Following Echoes explores the deeper impulses behind her abstracted landscapes.
Artist Q & A: Nicole Katsuras
In anticipation of her new solo exhibition Atlas, Toronto-based abstract painter Nicole Katsuras delves deeply into her influence from historical Japanese art aesthetics, her approach to colour and colour harmony, and the meanings behind her unique juxtapositioning of flat colour planes and highly textural extruded forms.
Artist Q & A: Vicky Christou
For her new solo exhibition Ebb and Flow, abstract artist Vicky Christou discusses her early influences of textile aesthetics, her exploration of alternative panel shapes, and the inspiration she found in expansive natural systems.
Casey McGlynn: My Northern Life
For his new solo exhibition Life in a Northern Town, Casey McGlynn provides his own poignant descriptions of each work, distilling a deeply personal meditation on life, memory, and artistic voice beyond major art centres and drawing from everyday experience in Sault Ste. Marie and the surrounding northern Canadian area.
Kyle Scheurmann: A Lament for Sassin
For his highly anticipated upcoming solo exhibition We Could Have Been a Mountain, Kyle Sheurmann holds his focus on the urgency of attention to old-growth forests, detailing sobering discoveries about BC’s forest fires and articulating the engulfing heartbreak caused by the loss of Sassin and the life the forest once sustained.
Artist Q & A: Barbara Cole
For her new solo exhibition in Vancouver, Painting with a Camera, Barbara Cole delves into both the challenges and freedoms that underwater photography presents, and how the gentle, unpredictable shifts of water's movement constitute an ideal metaphor for the effects of time, experience and contemplation on the sense of self.
Artist Q & A: Janna Watson
In this new artist Q & A, Janna Watson reflects on Undercurrent, tracing how her bold, suspended compositions and centred gestures emerge from a deeply autobiographical process and the enigmatic nature of the subconscious.