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Graeme Shaw | Artist Video Interview

Graeme’s work employs a variety of mediums and runs a wide gamut of subject matter. Landscapes from the Arctic, the Rockies, and the west coast are favourites. He lives with his wife in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.
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Mike Svob | Artist Video Interview

Mike has painted professionally for more than three decades. He is a romantic, impassioned by the visual presentation that life has to offer. The power and movement of light is captured in his work, and nature interacting with people plays an important role in his art. 
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Janice Robertson | Artist Video Interview

Janice launched her career as a professional artist in 1989. She has received many awards over the years including The Foreign Award in the Houston Watercolor Society’s Exhibition in Texas in 2004, The Margaret and William Foley Award in the Adirondacks National Exhibition of Watercolors in New York in 2008, and she has won the Bronze Medal three times, in the Federation of Canadian Artists Annual Signature Members Exhibition in Vancouver. 
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W. Allan Hancock | Artist Video Interview

Allan has richly experienced the worlds inhabited by the creatures he paints: the lakes, rivers and woodlands of Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Frequent family moves during his childhood and youth enabled countless field trips into the outdoors. The natural world became imprinted on his heart early, and deeply. 
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Steve Coffey | Artist Video Interview

After finishing his formal training in 1990 (University of Regina, M.F.A.) Steve practiced as a metal sculptor in the very formalist setting of Edmonton. Eventually he gave in to his love of drawing and representation and was seduced by the immediacy and challenges of oil paint. He began exploring the medium full time in 1995. 

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Nikol Haskova | Artist Video Interview

A particular fondness for crows started after the artist observed not only their intelligence, but determination and adaptability in adverse conditions as well. Nikol has photographed, interacted with and painted countless crows and other birds, at times assigning them human traits, finding a satisfying metaphor between the two.

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Laura Harris | Artist Video Interview

Laura’s paintings are described as beautifully imperfect, and have the ability to stir powerful emotions, speaking to an inner voice often ignored. Often large in scale with strikingly bold colours and texture, each piece offers discovery. Her process is rooted in memory and imagination, and her emotions are palpable. 
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Renato Muccillo | Artist Video Interview

Artist Renato Muccillo's landscapes have often been compared to those of Dutch masters and 19th Century English artists. However, Muccillo’s images remind us how frequently today’s landscape has been affected and appropriated by man and industry. We are mesmerized at first by the luxurious colours and near miraculous use of light but, on closer inspection, we notice the culvert, the pilings, the log booms, or the distant plume of smoke stacks. 
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Robert Genn (1936 - 2014) | Artist Video Interview

Honouring a lifetime of painting - Robert Genn (1936 - 2014) Robert Genn's formal training as an artist included the University of Victoria, the University of British Columbia and the Art Center School in Los Angeles, California. Recognized as one of Canada’s most accomplished painters, his work is well known internationally. 
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Bill Boyd | Artist Video Interview

Bill Boyd's creative process began when he attended art school in Sweden, 1970. He was influenced by the Scandinavian aesthetic simplicity and clean lines, and  had worked with talented and successful potters. He began experimenting with decorative zinc-Silicate crystal glazes in 2002 and since then has been continuing this method of crystalline glaze. 

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Nicola Prinsen | Artist Video Interview

Nicola’s subject matter has been based on her surroundings, the island on which she lives. Forests, rural agriculture, the ocean, and the animals that live in this setting are Nicola’s focus. 
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Alan Wylie (1938 - April 2022) | Artist Video Interview

Here was a person whose every fibre worked in concert, decade after decade, with the singular purpose of creating art. He loved it all so much. Alan Wylie was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1938. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 1960 with a degree in Mural Design and Mosaics. 
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