Originally from Germany, Ilka took drawing lessons as a teenager and spent 20 years studying, researching, and teaching biology. More recently, she studied environmental policy and law before she turned her focus to artistic practice. Today, the themes she explores…
Every piece of driftwood contains the unique and secret story of its origins and journey in its curves, colors and contours. The found-wood in these portraits, some of which comes from trees that lived to be hundreds of years old,…
I call myself a fibre artist, but I enjoy working with many other media such as acrylic painting, ceramic sculpture, papier-mâché, altered books and large installations. I prefer to work with recycled materials – I feel they bring an energy…
Margaret works in acrylic and watercolour. She loves to create something that touches a viewer’s memory. Many of her paintings are landscapes that travellers recognize, carrying them back into reminiscing similar scenes. Recent works include undersea-inspired water-landscapes considering what is…
I recently moved back to Victoria (via Calgary) from London, UK, where I lived and worked for 30+ years – first as a theatrical propmaker and then as teaching artist at Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London. My practice, like…
Gage Gallery Board Member. Margo is a former resident of Penticton, B.C. There she was a member of the Tumbleweed Gallery, where she enjoyed the camaraderie and support of a small artists’ collective. Her family relocated to Victoria in 2006…
Rose Cowles is a Governor General Award-nominated artist who creates full-time from her rooftop home studio in Esquimalt, BC. She earned a three-year diploma in Illustration from Sheridan College in 1990 and has won many awards for fine art, illustration,…
Floral and Landscape Artist Donna Rose Law Donna Rose Law is a floral and landscape painter whose work is rooted in a lifelong connection to nature. Growing up on the edge of a forest in Northwestern Ontario, she was shaped…
Living on Vancouver Island, I am surrounded by diverse landscapes that continually inform my creative process. I explore the contrasts of destruction and renewal—whether it’s the tangled beauty of an overgrown garden, fog rolling in over a harbour, or wildflowers…
Karen Guilbault enjoys painting birds she sees on the Gorge Waterway each day while paddling. She loves to create an abstract, multimedia landscape with realistic birds superimposed. Karen also paints local landscapes, rock compositions, and small wildlife paintings with highly…
Beverly is an expressionist, figurative, portrait artist. Painting instinctively and intuitively, rarely drawing before painting she often changes directions mid stream, always happy for the surprises that are gifted her when paint collides with canvas. She explores human connection and…
Born in Berlin, Germany, I was raised and educated in Toronto where I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University. After completing my degree I promptly stopped painting and drawing and didn’t start again for nearly 20 years.…
I moved from Ontario to Victoria in 2001. My career as an artist ignited when I was introduced to an art medium that excited me and stirred my imagination.Healing from grief and loss is at the heart of my body…
Ever since my introduction to a darkroom during my BFA at Queens University, I have been interested in the incorporation of photographic images into painting, printmaking, and sculpture. At various times I’ve worked with watercolour, collage, photocopies, oil and acrylic…
I started painting 29 years ago, when my daughter began the art careers program in high school, thinking that it might be something that we could do together. At the time, I had no idea how significant art-making would become…
Clare works in photography, watercolour, and mixed media. She’s inspired by the street, the natural world and her life experiences. She holds Certificates in Painting, Visual Arts and Drawing from the Emily Carr University in Vancouver. Clare mainly works in…
When I was little, I used to always ask for nature calendars or day planners illustrated with scenic views around Canada and the world, all beautiful to my eye. The world was so full of colours and textures. I was…
Liz Saunders is a Canadian painter and sculptor who draws on her experience of living with chronic illness to create work that explores parallels between the human body and various systems that we depend on in modern life but tend…
What is an artist today? Dallas Segno is a multi-media conceptual artist. Music, film, cartoons, wall art, architecture, digital design, there is no limit to Dallas’s reach. Known for figurative pattern paper mosaics and iconographic metal screens, Dallas is represented…
My current work is largely impressionist landscape in acrylic and oil mediums. I approach painting as an opportunity to study color, dynamic brush movement, and light. Painting is an expression of my experiences in the world. The images I work…