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Gathie Falk   OC
 born 1928 in Alexander Manitoba - resides in Vancouver BC
Gathie Falk is an internationally acclaimed painter and sculptor best known for the imaginative, conceptual treatment she gives everyday objects. Her parents were German-speaking Mennonites who immigrated to Canada to escape persecution in Russia. Her father's death in 1928 left the family impoverished and Gathie's mother re-settled in Winnipeg with her children. Gathie began her first art lessons at the Winnipeg Art Gallery but abandoned them to draw on her own. She had a talent for music but at 16 she had to quit school and music lessons to work full-time to pay off family debt, finishing high school through correspondence in Vancouver. She attended teacher's college, working as a school teacher from 1953 to 1965. She now began her formal education in art with summer courses at the University of BC; studying with J.A.S. Macdonald; and art history with Ian McNairn. Her first solo exhibition was at The Canvas Shack in Vancouver. She left teaching to focus on art, travelling throughout Europe, then switching from painting to ceramics. Falk returned to painting in 1978. She received the Gershon Iskowitz Prize in 1990 and the 'Member of the Order of Canada' in 1997. Public collections include the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC; Art Gallery of Ontario; Glenbow Art Gallery, Alberta; McMichael Canadian Collection, Ontario; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal; Vancouver Art Gallery, BC; and the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba. A retrospective exhibition organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada, has recently toured to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina and the National Gallery of Canada.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/002026-509-e.html
http://www.burnabyartgallery.ca/Home/ArtRentalandSales/ArtistsandArtwork/GathieFalk.aspx
http://www.protocol.gov.bc.ca/protocol/prgs/obc/2002/2002_GFalk.htm
http://www.galleries.bc.ca/kelowna/2002/gathie_falk_visions.htm
http://preview-art.com/previews/09-2007/falk.html
http://projects.vanartgallery.bc.ca/publications/75years/exhibitions/1/3/artist/30/83.41a-i
http://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!791952!0


Denise Lemaster
born in Cranbrook BC - resides in Invermere, Columbia Valley BC
Denise Lemaster grew up mostly outdoors in the Kootenay and Columbia River Valleys in BC.
She attended UBC and the University of Calgary receiving a BFA, a BF of Education, and a degree in Environmental Design (City Planning). She moved to the Columbia Valley several years ago, and began to paint full-time, inspired by the Group of Seven and artists like Carl Rungius and Andrew Wyeth. Denise steps further into the shoes of these masters by working more towards painting “en plein air” (outdoors) to create a sense of immediacy and connection to the natural world. She paints Canadian landscape in reverence of what she sees disappearing from our world. The land is important to our Canadian identity, and her painting reaffirms the connection between the land and the viewer. Denise was a finalist in the 2008 Landscape/Interior Winner at the Artists' Network.
http://www.stephenloweartgallery.ca/artists/ld0603001.asp?selptr=24
http://www.artymgallery.com/index.php?option=com_gallery2&Itemid=27&g2_itemId=1216
http://www.aboutus.org/ElliottLouisGallery.com
http://www.artistsnetwork.com/article/2008-LandscapeInterior

Joice Hall  RCA
born 1943 in Edmonton Alberta - resides in Kelowna BC
Joice Hall is an Okanagan artist with a national reputation (as is her husband John Hall). She studied at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary from 1960-65. The Halls moved to their hillside home in Kelowna four years ago after John retired from a 25-year career teaching art at the University of Calgary. A visit to the Okanagan prompted them to abandon plans to live in Mexico, where they had kept a second home for a dozen years. Across the vineyards from their adobe-coloured rancher, the bells of the Mission Hill winery toll the hours like the churches of San Miguel de Allende, the Mexican artists’ colony where they used to spend half the year painting. Joice's career has spanned four decades and she has exhibited in Calgary, Mexico, Montana, Stuttgart Germany, Toronto, Quebec, Saskatchewan, London, Paris, New York and Montreal. Public collections housing her work include the Calgary Alberta Art Foundation, the Edmonton Canada Council Art Bank, Glenbow Museum, the Calgary Government of Canada, Saskatoon Petro-Canada Inc., G-Tec Corporation USA and the Inter-Provincial Pipeline, Edmonton. Her public commissions include the Alberta Panorama, Government of Canada Building (Calgary Alberta) and her 1982 Floral Landscape #3, Foothills Hospital in Calgary Alberta.
http://www.okanaganarts.com/fall07/ainslie2.php
http://www.wallacegalleries.com/display.php?image=302&artist=Hall
http://www.gallerieswest.ca/Features/CoverStories/6-94719.html
http://ccca.finearts.yorku.ca/cv/english/halljoice-cv.html
http://www.kelowna.worldweb.com/Galleries/CommercialGalleries/
http://www.wildflowersandwine.com/sustainability.htm
http://www.ccca.ca/artists/artist_info.html?languagePref=en&link_id=109&artist=Joice+Hall


Grace Gordon-Collins
resides in Vancouver BC
Grace Gordon-Collins has been a practising designer in British Columbia for over twenty-five years. Her award-winning skills encompass architecture, interior design and photography.
She is a self-described observer and storyteller, approaching photography from two points of view: as a search for the distilled essence of visual perception, and as a strong narrative structure. She earned her Masters of Architecture from M.I.T's Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1975, studying with the iconic photographer Minor White. In the summer of 2004, Grace graduated with a BFA in photography from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver. Her photography and a career in architecture have given her work a multi-layered quality that is often pragmatic and structured. As an artist, she writes, "I am deeply attracted to notions of opposites: good and evil, chaos and order, positive and negative, complexity and simplicity." Grace has a long history in the arts community. Her art consulting company ART IN ARCHITECTURE was responsible for the use of local artists for the tapestry commissions in the Daon and Park Place lobbies, and for the work of First Nations artists and glass artists in several commercial installations. She is a Past Board Member of the Canadian Craft Museum, The Howe Sound Round Table and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
http://www.dianefarrisgallery.com/artist/gordon-collins/index.html


Jo Priestley
resides in Mission BC
Jo Priestley has been a studio potter for 30 years and lives and works in a beautiful flower filled garden set in a landscape of forest and mountains in the rural highlands of Mission. Jo works exclusively on the wheel in high fire porcelain and Raku clays. Using her exceptional throwing skills, glaze and firing knowledge she produces elegant one of kind vessels and a limited edition of fine functional ware. She has exhibited widely both in public and private galleries and in numerous juried exhibitions and sales. Her work can be found in private collections around the world.
http://www.sidestreetstudio.com/catalog/jo-priestley-m-225.html
http://www.sidestreetstudio.com/catalog/horse-hair-raku-twig-p-36770.html http://www.caroun.com/Pottery/Canada/FraserValleyPotters.html


Joyce Kamikura  NWS, SFCA
born in Steveston BC - resides in Richmond BC
Joyce Harumi Kamikura is a painter and muralist who was born in Steveston BC and raised in Japan (until 1956). She is a Signature Member of the National Watercolour Society in the USA and a Senior Signature Member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. Joyce obtained her Bachelor of Commerce degree from UBC prior to studying art at Kwantlen and Langara colleges. Her mediums are oil, acrylic, watercolour, collage and mixed. Her mature style is realist with a fauvist use of vibrant, sometimes arbitrary, colours. Her works have been featured in books and magazines such as Painting Composition, Painting Colour, American Artists, Art Impressions, International Artists (Australia), Best of Watercolor, Watercolour Gazette, Asahi Graph (Japan), Viewpoint, and the dailies Vancouver Sun and Times Colonist. Her works are also published and distributed worldwide.
http://www.joycekamikura.blogspot.com/
http://www.stephenloweartgallery.ca/artists/kj0703001.asp?selptr=20
http://artists.ca/gallery/jkamikura.html
http://www.askart.com/askart/k/joyce_kamikura/joyce_kamikura.aspx
http://www.candlerartgallery.com/dynamic/artwork_display.asp?ArtworkID=2120

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