Halin de Repentigny

Halin de Repentigny

Halin de Repentigny is an acclaimed artist with paintings held in national and international collections. Originally from Montreal, Halin first made his name when he moved to Dawson City, Yukon. He became well known for his depictions of life in Canada’s Klondike, interpreting the beauty and majesty of the remote northern wilderness and capturing it on canvas. His love of landscape, colour and light is now manifested in his winter home in Patagonia, Argentina, while the Klondike summers continue to inspire his work.

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Tim Schumm

Tim Schumm

Schumm is an internationally exhibiting artist who has developed a broad base of collectors through his commitment to travelling to remote locations around the world to paint. produced an acclaimed series of work from the northern wilderness of Canada to Antarctica and back. He started his career in Alberta and now calls Vancouver Island home. 

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Frances Semple

Frances Semple

B. 1956

Frances Semple was born in Scotland and grew up in southern Ontario. After high school she moved to Toronto to study sculpture and mould making at OCAD University which included an exchange program in Florence Italy and a term studying at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. After college she worked as a scenic artist in theatre and the film business while maintaining her own art practice.

In 1989 Semple moved to Vancouver to concentrate on her own work and to continue her studies, completing her BFA at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She currently has her studio in Victoria BC.

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Ernestine Tahedl R.C.A.

Ernestine Tahedl R.C.A.

Ernestine Tahedl R.C.A. O.S.A

Ernestine Tahedl was born and educated in Austria and received a Master's Degree in graphic art from the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts. Following graduation in 1961, she collaborated with her father, Professor Heinrich Tahedl, in the design and execution of stained glass commissions until she immigrated to Canada in 1963. Her work is represented in public, corporate and private collections and galleries in Canada, United States, France, Switzerland, Austria, and Japan.

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Diana Thorneycroft

Diana Thorneycroft

Diana Thorneycroft b. 1956

 

Diana Thorneycroft is an artist based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has exhibited internationally, and her work can be found in noteworthy public collections such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Royal Bank of Canada, the Bank of Montreal, and TD Bank. Thorneycroft has won numerous awards, including an Assistance to Visual Arts Long-term Grant from the Canada Council, several Senior Arts Grants from the Manitoba Arts Council and a Fleck Fellowship from the Banff Centre for the Arts. Thorneycroft's photography was featured in the 2002 Phaidon Press publication, Blink, which presented the work of 100 rising stars in photography.

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Wendy Wacko

Wendy Wacko

Wendy Wacko was born in Toronto in 1951, and after graduating from high school, she studied art at the Central Technical Art School and the New School of Art (1969 to 1972).

In 1972 Wendy traveled to Western Canada on a painting expedition and settled in Jasper, B.C. She has had seven one-person shows of her paintings since 1977. Wendy's painting has taken her around the world, and her most recent work has focused on Haida Gwaii and the Canadian West Coast.

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Joshua Wallace

Joshua Wallace is a B.C. based painter whose practice focuses on bringing art historical references to contemporary and figurative subjects. Wallace pulls from a wide range of influences from Caravaggio to Colville. His first solo exhibition, Midnight Walk was held at Madrona Gallery in April of 2023. He is a graduate of University of Victoria's Visual Arts program.

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Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas was born in 1954 in Prince Rupert and grew up on Haida Gwaii. A descendant of iconic artists Isabella Edenshaw, Charles Edenshaw and Delores Churchill, Yahgulanaas' early training was under the exceptional creators and master carvers of Haida Gwaii. His work is collected internationally, including The British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum and Vancouver Art Gallery. Large sculptural works by Yahgulanaas are part of the public art collection of the Vancouver International Airport, City of Vancouver, City of Kamloops and University of British Columbia. His publications include national bestsellers Flight of the Hummingbird, RED: a Haida Manga and the upcoming War of the Blink.

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Carollyne Yardley

Carollyne Yardley

Carollyne Yardley is an interdisciplinary artist, speculative designer and squirrel lover whose body of work entangles the boundaries between human and nonhuman systems and imagines possible futures in hybrid human development. Yardley teases out the unpredictable through Squirrealism, a neologism used in her practice to narrate origin stories of transformation that are not distinctly human. Her oil paintings portray a utopian/dystopian future of surreal beings who emerge from damaged worlds. 

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Sean Yelland

Sean Yelland

Sean Yelland is a Toronto based painter whose work plays with a sense of mystery in everyday urban settings. His work has a power to it that plays with a sense of voyeurism and intrigue. By confronting the viewer with scenes that should be full of action but are shown in a state of stillness, he is removing the comfort of the expected, and questioning our relationship to our environment.

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