Officer of the Order of Canada, Royal Canadian Academy of Art, Saskatchewan Award of Merit.

A number of documentary films have recorded the life of Allen Sapp.

Robert Randall is a Victoria-born artist whose representational oil paintings frequently incorporate visual elements associated with history, culture, advertising and the mass media.

A major theme in his painting is the dialogue between the man-made and the natural world in the form of paintings depicting ordinary objects like buildings, homes, fields and animals set in a landscape conveying an ambiguous narrative.

His largest body of work consists of an ongoing series of small paintings of middle-class suburban houses culled from real estate advertising.

Robert combines traditional oil painting techniques with frequent use of industrial materials such as plywood, reclaimed industrial palette wood and polyester drafting film.

Robert graduated from the Victoria College of Art’s four-year fine arts program in 1996.

Lara is currently working on the Thread&Paint Revolution series, an exploration of complimentary and contrasting media; it draws attention to the contradicting effect of soothing traditional textiles and unsettling figurative images, reticulated within a labyrinth of thread and paint. This series is also an exploration of the mental struggle between accepted social aesthetics and the individual’s unrefined aesthetic ideals; aiming to prove that beauty must really lie within the eye of the beholder…

“This series is a playful exploration of media, specifically media that tends to be classically stereotyped and therefore confined within creative possibility and audience type. I am attempting to break those boundaries and illustrate the potential deviant nature of fabric art; it can be edgy and strange, even alarming. And now I’m watching it carve and anomalous pathway into the art world.”

“What I see when I look out the window are trees.  When I look to the sky I see branches.  I typically encounter more trees per day than people.  These are my portraits”.

Cheryl was born in Winnipeg Manitoba, but has lived and worked in Victoria, B.C. most of her life. She graduated with a Fine Arts Diploma from the Victoria College of Art in 2004 and has been showing her work in juried and non-juried exhibitions since then. From 2003 to 2005, along with three other contemporary artists, Cheryl opened and operated an artist-run gallery and studio, The Store Studio, in downtown Victoria. During its two years of operations she exhibited a diverse body of work comprised of drawing, painting and sculpture.

Cheryl’s work in mixed media painting, printmaking and drawing on mylar explores the theme of relationship, specifically the process of moving between cycles of decay and renewal. Another recurring theme is the examining of the hidden aspects of self in an effort to experience them more clearly.  Her work can be found in both national and international collections.

For the past ten years I have used non-traditional print-making methods (hand cut stencils and a Japanese screen printing toy called a Gocco printer) as a starting point for original mixed media pieces. I work primarily with spray paint (coupled with the stencils), acrylics, gouache, and inks. I print on antique papers preferring handwritten love letters, envelopes, journal pages, sheet music and maps.  My surfaces have also included 100 year old cedar shingles, barn boards, rusty metal, wooden and metal boxes of various origins, and discarded cabinet doors. I am most satisfied when I can make a tangible or visceral connection between the materials used and the image rendered. My work is deeply layered, often both literally and figuratively.

My imagery, nostalgic and wistful, is largely biographical and reflective of my pensive nature. I draw inspiration from childhood memories growing up on a Midwestern farm, the urban community in which I live now, bicycles, street art, gardening, random found objects, collective endeavours that challenge hierarchy, acts of compassion, downright silliness and things with wings.