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	Pat Martin Bates RCA 1927 in St John's, New Brunswick – resides in Victoria, BC Using light as her primary medium, she is known internationally as a Master Printmaker, famous for her mystical lightboxes & perforated backlit prints. She studied in Antwerp, the Academie Royale Des Beaux-arts, Belgium & New York. The CACGV, through a BC 150 grant, has commissioned Patricia Bovey - FRSA, author/art historian/former Director of the AGGV – to write a monograph on the life & works of PMB to celebrate her life, the CACGV's 40th Anniversary & BC's 150th. See also the article by Robert Amos at: http://www.artistsincanada.com/php/article.php?id=701 http://collection.aggv.bc.ca/explore/results.aspx http://www.artspartners.ca/fundedprojects_studio.html Artists In Their Studios by Robert Amos: http://www.touchwoodeditions.com http://www.vcad.ca/happenings.html http://www.gallerieswest.ca/Departments/ExhibitionReviews/6-106727.html See too:The Broad Canvas by Linda Rogers http://www.sononis.com/book060.stm
	Carole Sabiston RCA, OBC 1939 in England - resides in Victoria, BC In 1947, 8-year old Carole Sabiston & her family crossed the Atlantic on the “Empress of Canada" to Halifax, Canada. On the boat & train across Canada she fell in love with horizons. Though she began her career as a painter she moved into fabric & textiles to better express her love of light, movement& texture. She is internationally renowned for her large-scale murals, tapestries and aerial sculptures. She has lived in Victoria, BC, since 1952. Quote: “Hand-stitching is like drawing to me”. http://www.protocol.gov.bc.ca/protocol/prgs/obc/1992/1992_CSabiston.htm http://www.civilization.ca/arts/bronfman/traeng14.html http://www.munrobooks.com/about.cfm Artists In Their Studios by Robert Amos: http://www.touchwoodeditions.com http://www.vex.net/~kmcvay/obc-92-recipients.html http://ring.uvic.ca/95jun01/honorary_degree.html See too: The Broad Canvas by Linda Rogers http://www.sononis.com/book060.stm
	Phyllis Serota *View videos of Phyllis Serota: http://www.cacgv.blip.tv/#1904171 http://www.cacgv.blip.tv/#1904146 1938 in Chicago - resides in Victoria, BC As a child, Phyllis Serota attended the Art Institute of Chicago, where her family had arrived from the Ukraine in 1912. Her first memories are about light & dancing. Important exhibitions have been “Memory, Prayer, Celebration” at the Wings of Peace Gallery and her holocaust series “Order and Chaos” at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre. She is a featured artist in “Artists in Their Studios: Where Art is Born” by Robert Amos, a compendium of some of Canada’s best known artists living on Vancouver Island & the Gulf Islands. http://www.phyllisserota.com http://www.heritagehouse.ca/press_releases/artists_studios.htm http://www.artistsincanada.com/php/article.php?id=637 http://www.aggv.bc.ca/Exhibitions+Archive.aspx?year=-1&id=1909 http://www.maltwood.uvic.ca/mcw/artists/serota_p.html Artists In Their Studios by Robert Amos: http://www.touchwoodeditions.com http://www.vhec.org/pastexhibits.html See too: The Broad Canvas by Linda Rogers http://www.sononis.com/book060.stm
	Rachel Berman born in New Orleans - resides in Victoria, BC Rachel Berman is a self-educated artist who has lived & worked in Canada, the U.S. &Ireland. Her paintings have been likened to the poems of Leonard Cohen, her subjects a sometimes seedy – but always intriguing – cast of characters who inhabit a curious urban landscape. She has distilled her colour sense to a rich & nourishing palette of black/brown. Once known as Susan King she discovered her original birth name, birthday & birth parents 10 years ago. She reclaimed her birth name, Rachel Berman. Rachel has illustrated the book "Bradley McGogg, The Very Fine Frog", by Tim Beiser. It will be launched - and the original paintings sold - on March 5th, 09, at the Ingram Gallery in Toronto. The book will be distributed on March 10th. To view the book go to: http://www.tundrabooks.com/authors/author.pperl?authorid=81447 and http://www.ingramgallery.com/ http://www.mastersgalleryltd.com/webroot/website/artists1.cfm?artistID=352 http://www.tundrabooks.com/authors/author.pperl?authorid=81447 See too, by Robert Amos':http://www.artistsincanada.com/php/article.php?id=250
	Gwen Curry 1950 in Victoria - resides in Brentwood Bay, BC Gwen Curry is an installation artist whose work explores the environment as subject matter, with a special focus on flora & fauna, both living & extinct. The idea of “witnessing” has been important resulting in diversemediums including printmaking, drawing, large mixed media works, sculpture & installations. She taught at the University of Victoria & has participated in almost 100 group & solo exhibits in Canada, the US & Europe. http://www.gwencurry.com/ http://www.cpawsyukon.org http://preview-art.com/features/threerivers.html http://www.virginiachristopherfineart.com http://www.troik-san.com/visual/threerivers.html
	Carrie Joe Taylor 1952 in Montreal - resides in Victoria, BC Carrie Joe Taylor is best known as CJ Taylor, author & artist/illustrator of 15 children’s books. Born to a Mohawk father & a British-German mother CJ discovered her Mohawk culture at six. The Oka crisis was a revelation - she has been writing, touring, telling the stories of First Nations peoples ever since. On her weekly Mohawk Radio show she interviewed artists & writers. She began ArtSmarts, bringing artists into schools to do long term projects, a program that is now in western Canada as ArtStarts. http://www.cjtaylor.meridian1.net/default.asp http://www.mcclelland.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=30644 - 59k http://www.search.barnesandnoble.com/All-the-Stars-in-the-Sky/C-J-Taylor http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/aboriginal/ http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/taylor.html - 29k http://www.sicc.sk.ca/native_arts/links2.htm - 43k
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