Rohana Laing
resides on Gabriola Island BC
Rohana Laing developed her batik painting style in the 1970's by integrating her knowledge of drawing, painting, printmaking, and design. She received an Honours Diploma from the Vancouver School of Art honours and studied painting and print making with Jack Shadbolt, Don Jarvis and Orville Fisher. Until the mid 80's Rohana created large original batiks, limited edition wood-cut and silk-screen prints and acrylic paintings. With the help of a Canada Council grant she produced reproductions of her batiks, which along with the originals, sold internationally. She has taught textile design, design and drawing at Kwantlen College Surrey campus, at the World Crafts Association Workshops in Toronto and she lectures at the University of Eastern Washington. She exhibits and sells her art from her home studio and through local and international group exhibitions in galleries from BC to Toronto, England and Germany. Rohana Laing is also a United Church minister.
http://www.rohanart.com/index.php
http://www.gabriolaartscouncil.org/artickles.php?sub=4&artickle=105
http://www.dharmatrading.com/autogen/featuredartists/html/332/

Linda Frimer
born in 1947 in Wells BC - resides in Vancouver BC
Linda Frimer is an acclaimed artist and community facilitator, intimately involved in world, Jewish, and Canadian national and cultural pursuits. She gives generously to community and environmental causes, donating paintings for the Western Wilderness Committee, doing commissions for The Canadian Red Cross, the Nike Women’s run (against breast cancer), was the first artist commissioned by the Trans Canada Trail project and recently created a commemorative print for the Raincoast Conservation Society. Since 1982, her paintings have been in significant collections and benefited organizations like The Margaret Lawrence Women’s Transition Safe-house, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Holocaust Education Society, Canadian Cancer Society, Baycrest Hospital, Victoria Child’s Sexual Abuse Center, Children’s Hospital Foundation, Vancouver General Hospital, Louis Brier Home and Hospital, Simon Wiesenthal Centre and Hillel Toronto, Vancouver Jewish Women’s Foundation and Jewish Women International. She was the one woman chosen with three male artists to create art in support of the Aids Vancouver Memorial Project. Her awards include Woman of Distinction Nomination, Woman of Valor N’Shee Chabad, Woman of Honor-Israeli Bonds and Service Award: Canadian Red Cross. Linda co-authored the book "In Honor of Our Grandmothers", painting parallel issues of oppression and attempted genocide. Posters from this exhibit won first prize in a North American Jewish Community Centre Competition. She wrote of her own ancestral journey in "A Wilderness Journey" and her new book of paintings and poetry "Wedding Blessing" is in libraries across North America. Frimer has exhibited widely throughout BC, in Toronto Ontario, Texas, and at the United Nations, New York. From: http://www.lindafrimer.ca
http://www.cac1.com/artists/lindafrimer.html
http://www.wildernesscommittee.org/store/Posters/Frimer
http://www.lindalandofineart.com/
http://www.fullcirclestudio.ca/artists/linda.html

Linda Heslop
born in Scotland - resides in Victoria BC
Linda Heslop came from Scotland at the age of eight. Tutored by her artist/architect father (who was one of the architects responsible for the design of Victoria's Royal BC Museum), she has drawn and painted since early childhood. She joined the Island Illustrators in the early 1990's, working for years as a freelance illustrator. Her work encompassed technical illustration, portraiture, logo design and t-shirt designs, some for US Parks. A commissioned presentation hangs in the Guillian Karsts Museum in China. An introduction to caving in the early 1980's led to two decades of depictions of caves and cavers. The early work is pencil and ink and her portraits of cavers in action have been reproduced as cover art on numerous publications internationally. She has illustrated several books, including Lechuguilla Jewel of the Underground, Beyond Mammoth Cave, childrens books, and she also wrote and illustrated her own book, The Art of Caving, published by Cave Books in 1996. Her cave art was commissioned for the production of the television documentary "Riverbend Cave". Linda's work is in personal collections worldwide and she is represented by Canadian Art Connections who reproduce her work as limited edition prints, posters and art cards marketed throughout western Canada and the Pacific Northwest.
http://www.lionsbayartgallery.com/linda.html
http://www.cac1.com/artists/linda.html
http://www.cancaver.ca/art2/Heslop/linda.htm
http://www.islandillustrators.org/illustrators/heslop.asp?p=1&img=1
http://www.fullcirclestudio.ca/linda/index.html

Kristine Paton
born in Cowichan Valley BC - resides in Victoria BC
Kristine Paton was drawing "as soon as I could hold a pencil without poking my eye out". Years later, inspired by the art of Andrew Wyeth and influenced by the styles of Mary Pratt and Carol Evans, she painted photorealistic landscapes and still life watercolours on paper.
Eventually though, she was captured by the complex simplicity of works by artists like Mark Rothko, Gustav Klimt's landscapes and, more recently, Wolf Kahn's canvases layered with dry brush colour... "I fell in love with edges". Her work is in Corporate collectors including Investors Group, Saunders Book Company, Loopstra Nixon LLP in Toronto and Shawnigan Lake School. She created the Cover for the "Clipper Magazine", Victoria/Seattle. her work has been exhibited extensively, from the Sopa Fine Arts in Kelowna to the Adele Campbell Galery in Whistler, the Main Street Gallery in Sidney BC and throughout Vancouver Island.
Private collectors extend across Canada and the US, with many as far away as Japan, Australia, Norway, and Switzerland.
http://www.paton-place.com
http://kristinepaton.blogspot.com/
http://www.adelecampbell.com

Dorset Norwich-Young
resides in Victoria BC
Dorset Norwich-Young is an honours graduate of the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver. She and her husband inhabit the Sea Blossom Studio, where Dorset creates her award-winning watercolours and oversees the publishing and distribution of her limited edition prints. Her paintings have been featured in solo exhibitions and at art shows from Victoria to Beijing. Several of them also appear in the motion picture "A Day in the Life". A popular lecturer, Dorset was recently a guest speaker for the Federation of Canadian Artists and guest artist for a pilot art program at the BC Ferries Corporation. Public Collections of her work include the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, and the City of Victoria Collection, Victoria BC. Her work is in private collections in Canada, the US, England, the West Indies, Japan, Pakistan, Austria, and Germany. Her paintings resonate with the same vibrant energy that she brings to her life, including her lifelong passion for sailing and the sea.
http://www.cac1.com/artists/dorset.html
http://artists.ca/show/canvas_unbound_ii_2007/page/2/0
http://www.victoria.ca/cityhall/giftshop_cor.shtml
http://www.artactif.com/dordet
http://www.galendavison.com/fast_2008.htm