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	Helga Grove 1927 in Germany – resides in Victoria BC Helga Grove was born in Stettin, Germany. She studied three years at the studio of Gerd and Lu Grove (Jan's parents), in Lübeck, until 1949. In 1950 she began training at the School for Textile Design in Krefeld, Germany, under Georg Muche (Bauhaus). In 1952 she graduated from the Meisterklasse. After designing for several pottery studios, in 1958 she worked with her husband in their own studio. In 1960, they moved to Istanbul, where Helga worked as a guest at the School for Applied Fine Arts. Since coming to Canada in 1965 , Helga has worked with Jan in their studio as sculptor and designer. In 1981 she became a member of the Victoria Limners Society. http://www.groveartworks.com http://www.sidestreetstudio.com/catalog/index.php?manufacturers_id=68 - 16k http://www.aggv.bc.ca/explore/detail.aspx?item=13174 - 8k http://www.maltwood.uvic.ca/spreitz/inventory/inventory-2.html - 26k http://www.artistsincanada.com/php/article.php?id=398 - 37k
	Sue Coleman Sue Coleman has earned international recognition for her distinctive watercolor paintings. Especially popular have been her 'Interpretive' Northwest Coast Indian images, which have been reproduced and sold to collector's worldwide. Sue's years of research have culminated in a book entitled "An Artist's Vision". Many of her native interpretive paintings, accompanied by legends and history, are displayed therein. She was Author/ Illustrator of "Artist at Large in the Queen Charlottes" and "Artist at Large along the South Coast of Alaska". She was also the Guest Artist at "Epcot Center" - Walt Disney World, 1995. http://www.suecoleman.ca http://www.imwell.net/sue_coleman.html - 15k http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=7724 - 14k http://www.ravenpublishing.com/ http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/winners/1990 - 33k
	Sheena Lott Sheena Lott is best known for her crisp colourful oil and watercolour paintings. She has illustrated nine children’s books including the classic ‘Jessie’s Island ‘ and ‘Salmon Forest’, and has had many successful solo and group gallery exhibitions since 1987. She has won many awards including the Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic Award. Much of her work is now commissioned for private clients. Her work is in corporate collections including the Osborne Collection, Shell Oil, Peat Marwick Thorne, Vancouver Island Helicopters and the National Trust Company. http://www.sheenalott.com http://www.winchestergalleriesltd.com/artists/ http://www.orcabook.com/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=150 - 42k http://www.listingsca.com/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Arts_and_Crafts/Artists/
	Darlene Gait born 0n Vancouver Island - resides in Shawnigan Lake, BC Painting since childhood, Darlene Gait is inspired by Nature and her First Nations Heritage. Her paintings and poetry celebrate her love for her Coast Salish culture and bring to life the rich traditions and oral history of the First People of Canada. She is recognized internationally, her art is exhibited and held in private and public collections and her limited edition Giclees and prints are sold in galleries worldwide. http://www.onemoon.ca http://www.darlenegait.com/ http://www.natureartists.com/darlene_gait.asp http://www.indiangaming.com/istore/Oct06_Artist.pdf
	PK Irwin 1916 in England - resides in Victoria, BC PK Irwin is the poetess and writer known as PK Page. Her 1954 book of poetry “The Metal and the Flower” won the Governor General's Award. While living in Brazil with her husband in the 1950’s she explored drawing, oil pastels and goauch, eventually exhibiting in solo shows in Mexico and Canada. Her work is in the National Gallery of Canada collections. PK Irwin has an abiding interest in Surrealism, Sufiism and the oneness of everything, the force that unites everything. http://www.winchestergalleriesltd.com/artists/irwin/1/index.php http://www.winchestergalleriesltd.com/artists/ See too: The Broad Canvas by Linda Rogers http://www.sononis.com/book060.stm
	Shushan Egoyan Armenians Shushan Egoyan and her husband met as art students in Egypt. Shushan remembers Cairo as a very international European city, though girls study privately with artists in their studios rather than at the Art School (she recalls there were always live models to draw from). After their move in the 1960's to Victoria, BC, they supported their art and family by opening a furniture and design store whre Shushan became the interior decorator, picturing rooms as canvases. Shushan is highly influenced by her surroundings, especially nature and atmosphere. http://www.winchestergalleriesltd.com/artists/egoyan/1/index.php - 7k http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/122755/lang/ http://www.hedgerowpress.com/books/aub - http://www.timescolonist.com/business/Generous+artists+help/991235/story.html
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