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Kim Bruce

kim — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:33:22 +0000

In my most current series I meld, mold and cast incongruous materials in the form of a head (or figure), I seek to probe and expose the dichotomy between inner and outer self. Repetition of this generic – yet charged – form suggests the many guises of a single individual and/or a collective of many. [...]

Lorna Dockstader

kim — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:31:03 +0000

Lorna is an artist who works in a variety of media. Her current work includes the visual elements of shape, pattern and colour. She likes to optimize the full potential of her colour palette. Her imagery conveys her fascination with design, and how she can best express the seasonal variations of the Canadian landscape. Visit [...]

Ron Eady

kim — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:19:33 +0000

Eady’s vision is ultimately about place as a location-less state of mind, be it memory, aspiration or self-delusion. On occasion it’s easy to feel that the artist is pulling our leg in the name of religion and mysticism. At other times, we begin to perhaps see a bit more clearly now, to borrow from the [...]

Laurie Steen

kim — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:33:43 +0000

Raised in Millarville, Alberta. Laurie grew up with a deep understanding of and a respect for nature; specifically the relationships we as human beings have with it. A purist in many ways, Laurie’s drawings are as emotional as they are intellectual. Her pieces seek to embrace and demonstrate a subtle stillness and movement in life, [...]

Sheila Norgate

kim — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:59:18 +0000

“I had no intention of becoming an artist. There was no childhood dream, no revelationary moment, no intuitive flash, and no channeling of Emily Carr. It was more that the specter of art-making appeared before me as an inflatable raft to a drowning woman and I hauled myself onto it [...]

Dale Kirschenman

kim — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:07:11 +0000

Dale’s paintings depict landscape and sky in terms of colour, atmosphere and light. While they do allude to photographic imagery, their soft minimalist qualities embrace impressionism and abstraction. Dale’s site is a slightly altered version of Artbiz#1 template. What’s different is that we added and archive page that goes back 8 years. The archive album [...]

Jan Boydol

kim — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:25:35 +0000

Jan Boydol Photography Jan Boydol is Calgary based photographer, multimedia artist, writer whose passion for visual imagery, story and travel has taken her to many exotic parts of the world. Jan is an extremely busy person working in the oil industry as well as an instructor in Creative Journal Expressive [...]

Cecilia Gossen

kim — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:50:20 +0000

Our houses are projections of ourselves, shelters for our daydreams, containers for our souls, extensions of our unconscious and refuge for our memories. Cecilia’s house constructions are symbols for the human figure, structures which reveal the identities of their imaginary occupants through the pictorial metaphors of personal histories. This is [...]

Bev Tosh

kim — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:26:40 +0000

Warbrides.com Bev Tosh’s exhibition is about the rite of passage of leaving home physically, emotionally and psychologically, and about the passage of time and lifetimes. The following is an excerpt from the Warbrides site. To see the amazing work in this one woman’s quest to document these turly epic lives please visit warbrides.com The term ‘war [...]