Lois is a full time Encaustic Painter and teacher who creates one of a kind paintings in the ancient technique of beeswax. Encaustic is a Greek word meaning “burn in”. This ancient method of working with wax requires a quickness using a molten hot medium of beeswax, resin and pigment. Birch $380.00 SOLD Blue Ocean,...
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Gillian is an accomplished painter, best known for her vibrant and sensual floral images. These are inspired by her natural surroundings, and created by memory, fantasy and imagination. Florals have long been her main passion and she works primarily in watercolour, gouache and ink. She is an active member of the Island Illustrators Society and the Victoria arts community. In 1995 she was one of the featured artists at the Royal British Columbia Museum Illustrators Showcase....
Read MoreKeith Hiscock
Keith’s paintings are invitations to contemplation. His compelling acrylics draw you in, after they’ve drawn you across the room. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Keith found his niche in art early in life and worked for some time as an abstract artist, then as a film animation cell painter. When he discovered representational realism, Keith developed his own unique style, a dramatic combination of exquisite attention to detail and powerful scope. He is...
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Kimiko specializes in the medium of Nihonga, traditional Japanese painting. Instead of oils, the Nihonga artist uses powdered, organic mineral pigments that are bound to Japanese parchment with a natural glue. Kimiko prefers floral subjects but has also done extensive work in landscape and figures. She has completed a 12-painting series depicting the flowers of each month in Japan and is now at work on a similar series for the flowers of British Columbia. ...
Read MorePaul Grignon
Paul was always drawing and painting as a child, and began working in oils at the age of 13. Later, a year at Toronto’s New School of Art fully awakened his “artist’s soul”. In 1973, he moved to Gabriola Island in B.C. where he worked as a tree planter and at construction, as well as doing commercial and fine art. Divine Afternoon, Giclee...
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