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Kristina Boardman
born in Lancashire, England - resides in Victoria BC
Kristina Boardman came to Canada amid Centennial celebrations in 1967, living on the prairies until the family moved to Victoria. She has her BFA in painting and drawing from the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. Her paintings are influenced by her West Coast surroundings, and she continues to be fascinated with the array of textures, surfaces and combinations of tone and shape along the beaches. Kristina is represented by the Canada House Gallery in Banff, Alberta; the Ian Tan Gallery in Vancouver, BC; the Peninsula Gallery in Sidney, BC; and the Halde Gallery in Widen, Switzerland. Her work can be found in private collections across Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.
http://www.canadahouse.com              http:// www.iantan.com
http://www.haldegalerie.com
http://www.pengal.com/find/artist/Kristina%20Boardman/thumbnails.phtml

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Lisa Samphire
Lisa Samphire is one of three artists who operated Starfish Glassworks in Victoria. It was a working glassblowing studio until 2007. Lisa studied at the Pilchuk Glass School north of Seattle and received a BFA at the University of Victoria and a Diploma in Art Therapy from the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute. She has shown across Canada and the US, known for her talent with all design techniques including the “aussie roll-up technique, glassblowing, fused flat glass and “murrini inclusions”.
http://www.mstreetgallery.com/artist/83/
http://www.petroffgallery.com/
http://www.douglas.bc.ca/__shared/assets/Through_The_Glass_pdf48922.pd
http://www.artistsincanada.com/php/article.php?id=351
http://www.emeraldfoxgallery.com/samphire/samphire_02.html
http://www.bcgaa.org/roundhouse2005exhibit.html

Waine Ryzak
resides in Victoria BC
 Waine Ryzak holds a BA from UBC and an MFA in painting and lithography from Mexico. From 1974, for 16 summers, she studied at the Pilchuk Glass School, north of Seattle, working with Bertil Vallien (inventor of sand casting technique) and Jaroslava Brychtova and Stanislv Libensky (lead crystal kiln casting glass.) History and lost knowledge inspire her: spirals, snakes, symbols of life, death and time. Ryzak has shown solo at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the recent “Lucent", a cross-Canada Glass Show at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery in Calgary.
http://www.aggv.bc.ca/Exhibitions+Archive.aspx?decade=1990&year=1993 - 30k
http://www.bcgaa.org/rdhs08.html
http://www.nativeonline.com/gather.html
http://www.artistsincanada.com/php/article.php?id=312


Morna Tudor
resides in Victoria BC
After an award-winning career as a glass artist, Morna Tudor has created a body of paintings titled "Year One – A Sense of Place" with oil bar on paper and board, reflecting a personal style that still leans toward abstract expressionism. Her
innovative works as a glass artist combined blown glass forms with encased painted imagery and have won her many awards and national recognition. Awards include Best of Show at Glassworks 1991 in Atlanta Georgia; Best in show Glass/Metal category at the Huronia Festival of the Arts in Barrie, Ontario. Her glassblowing studio and gallery, Starfish Glassworks, was a beloved staple of the Victoria art scene during its ten years of operation.
http://www.vetriglass.com/artists/mt_resume.html
http://aggv.bc.ca/pdfs/AIB-PremiumItems.pdf
http://www.gallerieswest.ca/Features/CoverStories/
http://www.iantangallery.com/mhofmanncv.htm


Michelle Miller
born 1962, Saskatchewan - resides in Victoria BC
Michelle Miller holds a BFA in Visual Arts, Triple Major in Painting, Drawing & Printmaking and a BA in Art History. A full time artist, she has exhibited in Canada, US and Asia, and her work is in private collections throughout the world. She teaches art internationally to students of all ages, and is a very well-known children's instructor, holding very popular children's art auctions in public venues annually.
http://www.michelle-miller.com/
http://www.tofinotime.com/festivals/tofinofoodandwinefestival.htm
http://www.pims.math.ca/pi/issue9/page04-08.pdf

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Mary Kerr
born in Winnipeg - resides in Victoria BC
Mary Kerr has taught theatre at the University of Victoria since 1998. The winner of seven Dora Mavor Moore Awards, she's one of Canada's top set and costume designers. Kerr was the production designer for the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the Victoria Commonwealth Games in 1994. She has created sets, props and costumes for the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival,the Canadian Opera Company and the National Ballet.
http://legacygallery.ca/Exhibits.htm
http://www.uvic.ca/index.php?view=day&month=9&day=12&year=2008&cal=1
http://www.coastalartbeat.ca/newsletters/The_Beat_August_2008.html

 
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