For his new Upper Gallery solo exhibition Windswept in Vancouver, established Canadian painter Robert Marchessault explains his long-continuing fascination with and veneration of trees, and how he uses sculpted form and colour to elicit emotional connection and response from viewers.
In anticipation of his new solo exhibition The Northern Coast: The Second Time Around, David T. Alexander offers thoughts on a selection of these new images as well as insight into his processes, and discusses the unexpected effect of returning to the coast on his approach to depicting it.
In anticipation of her retrospective solo exhibition Repertoire, Sylvia Tait reflects on the enduring influence of colour and form in her life and artistic career.
In our new artist Q & A, Toronto based artist Janna Watson talks about her new solo exhibition Elementals and the enduring significance of nature, literature, and a light and playful approach to her iconic gestural abstract works.
In our latest artist Q & A, Vancouver mixed-media artist Andre Petterson recalls his earliest combining of paint and photography (and which of the two came first in his life), and talks about the significance of the artistic process itself.