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ALAIN ATTAR

Born in Morocco and now residing in Vancouver, Alain Attar’s abstract paintings evoke feelings on many levels. Perhaps this is because, before he became a full-time painter, Attar worked as a...

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JEAN PILCH

“If I didn’t live in Alberta I might not be a landscape painter,” says Jean Pilch. A Calgary resident for 30 years, Pilch grew up on a farm in Northern Alberta and began painting when she was nine...

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MICHAEL MATHEWS

It is not very often that one finds an artist whose studio sits on a ridge 7,800 feet up in the mountains. For two weeks at a time in the summer, however, Michael Mathews works in a fire tower in the...

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KATHERINE LAKEMAN

Katherine Lakeman is inspired by the wonder of the natural world. A landscape painter in the summer, Lakeman works on location in the Columbia Icefields and the Monashees, where she can capture the...

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IAN RAWLINSON

Saskatoon artist Ian Rawlinson explores a seemingly mundane subject in his paintings: suburban neighbourhoods at night. Rawlinson’s luminous paintings take us to backyard vantage points, from which we...

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JOE FAFARD'S VISCERAL ART

Joe Fafard laughs easily. A mirthful laugh that fills a few seconds and then sits on idle. Ready to resonate with the next delightful thought or curious insight. That’s the way Fafard interacts with...

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WALTER JULE: Visual Jazz

Walter Jule was born in Seattle and has lived in Alberta since 1970. He is the recipient of 10 national awards and seven international awards for his outstanding work.

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JOHN SNOW, An Homage

The popular press has made much of the fact that John Snow established himself as an artist in Western Canada while simultaneously pursuing a successful career in banking.

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LIBBY WEIR

For watercolourist Libby Weir, art, nature and life are interconnected forces.

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JOANE CARDINAL-SCHUBERT, At the Centre of Her Circle

Joane Cardinal-Schubert is a story-teller. In conversation, in writing, in the way she approaches her work. Ask a question and you'll hear an anecdote.

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JOANNA MOORE

Watercolourist Joanna Moore delights in the beauty to be found in the urban landscape, particularly in the back lanes of residential neighbourhoods.

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BOB BOYER

Bob Boyer is a pow-wow dancer, a social activist, a professor and head of Fine Arts at the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College in Regina, a curator, and an internationally acclaimed painter and...

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LESLIE POOLE February 2003

In his spring exhibition, "Now and Then: Revisiting the Present," Leslie Poole blends still life with figurative painting and glimpses of landscape.

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JULIE DUSCHENES

Although landscapes and still-lifes are traditionally unlinked genres in artmaking, Julie Duschenes combines images of telephone receivers, bowls and plates with images of the coulees around Lethbridge...

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MARK C. MULLIN

Mark Mullin is quite happy to puzzle himself with perceptual dilemmas. He translates onto canvas those points at which water meets sky, matter meets light, and gas meets matter.

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JIM LOGAN

Jim Logan now lives in Ottawa following several years in Nova Scotia, but his show this spring at Bearclaw Gallery marks a return to his Yukon community paintings, says gallery owner Jackie Bugera.

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SUSAN UNGER

The Saskatchewan praire is the context for Susan Unger's acrylic paintings, particularly the landscapes and farms around Lampman where the artist grew up.

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JEINA MOROSOFF

The glassworks in Vancouver artist Jeina Morosoff's "Submerged Series" look like fossils of ancient marine lifeforms that have been retrieved from a mysterious undersea resting place.

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CATHY DALEY - March 2003

Deftly, with humour and affection, Toronto artist Cathy Daley creates whispers of the female form in black pastel upon translucent white vellum. Her images are exaggerated, impossibly thin renderings...

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MATTHEW WHEELER

Matthew Wheeler breaks all the rules of photography. He makes his own lenses out of river ice and cleans them with his fingers, rubbing and polishing with the palm of his hand.

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STEVE GOUTHRO

A respected artist and teacher, Steve Gouthro has influenced many young artists with his careful compositions, large-scale, figurative paintings and detailed cross-hatched drawings and prints.

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CHARLES MALINSKY

Fantastic, erotic, powerful characters inhabit the mind and art of Charles Malinsky, a former Alberta College of Art & Design instructor now living with his wife Marilyn in Madrid, Spain.

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GORDON SMITH

Gordon Smith has often described himself as being "one hundred artists deep" - meaning that he has always been open to the influence of others.

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WANDA KOOP, Steel and Compassion

Wanda Koop is one of the best-known painters in Canada. After 33 years, she paints with the ease, fluency and attentiveness of a Zen master.

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BOBBIE BURGERS

Sumptuous colours and swooping brushstrokes characterize the elegant floral paintings of Vancouver artist Bobbie Burgers.

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ROBERT LEMAY

Citing the late art historian and critic, Sir Ernst Gombrich, Robert Lemay investigates the play of light and shadow in his exquisite oil paintings of still-lifes.

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DAVID BOLDUC

The influence of the 1960s Plasticien movement in Montreal is an important component in David Bolduc's easel-sized paintings.

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PHILIP CRAIG

Philip Craig often sells out his shows on the first day, so expect a crowd at Diana Paul Galleries June 14 at the opening of a new exhibition of his work.

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LINDA BROCK

Linda Brock paints faces, not portraits. It is the mood of her subjects - not their likeness - that interests her.

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MARGOT THOMPSON

Margot Thomson captures "the atmosphere of her landscapes" in work that is informed by her childhood.

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LEE BRADY

Already a master of traditional stained glass techniques, Lee Brady is now pushing the glass envelope in his production of contemporary vessels.

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JORDAN VAN SEWELL

Ceramics artist Jordan van Sewell is a much-loved member of Winnipeg's visual arts community.

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TOM WILLOCK

Natural historian and photographer Tom Willock captures, in striking black and white images, the waterfalls, rivers, skies, mountain peaks and flora of Southern Alberta, particularly of the Waterton...

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HORACE COX

"Athens on the Fraser" - the Photos of H. G. Cox features photographs in the Pictorialist tradition taken in the Vancouver area and shown around the world in the 1920s and '30s.

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EWA TARSIA

Ewa Tarsia explains, "I was born into a family of artists in Starogard Gdanski, Poland. I studied at the School of Art in Gdynia, but my first prints were made at my uncle's large studio."

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COLETTE GOUIN "Seduction by Color" May 3 to 31, 2003

In "Seduction by Color," painter Colette Gouin, known to many as Colette Nilsen, offers large canvases filled with vivid florals.

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Interior Views: The Vivid Realism of Joice and John Hall

Artists John and Joice Hall have a home with a spectacular view. On a sunny day, the sparkling water of Okanagan Lake is as vibrant as one of John's paintings.

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BARRY BURDENY

Barry Burdeny is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and the Slade School in London, but he is a real-life example of the Free Trade Agreement in living colour.

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AUDREY PFANNMULLER

Since her early days growing up in a rural northwestern Alberta town, Audrey Pfannmuller has found art and design to be an important means of expression.

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TRACY KOBUS

Tracy Kobus is a BFA graduate from the University of British Columbia who has been showing her work in British Columbia and Alberta galleries for 10 years.

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GEOFFREY HUNTER

Geoffrey Hunter explains, with a bemused smile, the title of his upcoming show: King Works. The fiefdom of his studio is where one thought rules - one concept, one process - he says.

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CHRIS GERGLEY, "That's My Wonderful Town," September 20, 2003 to January 20...

Vancouver photographer Chris Gergley was born in Regina, Queen City of the prairies. Gergley records the everyday in a fantastic way.

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ELTJE DEGENHART

For Eltje Degenhart, retirement from teaching in 2001 has not only freed up time to paint but it has also allowed the artist's unique style to develop in a specific direction.

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IVAN EYRE

Ivan Eyre was born in Tullymet, Saskatchewan, in 1935. He studied with some of the best known art teachers at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Manitoba's School of Art.

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LAUREEN MARCHAND

Moving from figurative work to painting intimate garden views is a natural new direction for Saskatoon artist Laureen Marchand.

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NEIL PATTERSON

Neil Patterson is a decisive painter. Each landscape is an act of bold and generous expression in which colour is a liberating force.

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JIM DAVIES

Landscape has been an enduring theme in Jim Davies' 25 years of image making in Alberta.

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ROBERT FLORIAN November 5 to 30, 2003

A trip to Giverny, France, was life-altering for Robert Florian. It was during his visit to Claude Monet's garden that Florian decided to become a landscape painter.

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CHERRY HOOD

Cherry Hood's portraits capture the beauty and vulnerability of the male adolescent.

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WILLIAM EAKIN

William Eakin lives and works in Winnipeg's historic Exchange District. Eakin takes everyday life as his subject matter, examining the intersections of art and popular culture.

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