Goward Exhibit March 12 to April 2, 2012, Arts Centre at Cedar Hill
Saanich residents Elizabeth and Owen Goward were successful portrait, landscape and commercial artists from the late 1940s through to the 1980s and left a significant and lasting legacy to the Greater Victoria visual arts community. In 2007 the Goward family generously donated a significant collection of family records, photographs, letters, sketchbooks, and paintings to Saanich Archives. In addition to the works by Owen & Elizabeth, the collection includes works of art by the Beales (Owen’s mother’s family) dating back to the 1840s.
Visit the Goward exhibit online or in person at the new Arts Centre at Cedar Hill from March 12th to April 2nd, 2012.
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Anne Alice Girling (1880-1953)
Annie Girling was born in Suffolk, England in 1880. In her early twenties she studied photography in London and produced many accomplished botanical studies, landscapes and portraits. She came to Canada with her family in 1912 and settled on the shores of Swan Lake in Saanich on land that would later become part of the Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary. Girling's photographs document the family's experience in their new environment. The collection of more than 900 glass plate and film negatives was generously donated to Saanich Archives in 2008 by Mr. Lindsay Lambert. Descendents of the Girling family have been working with the Archives to identify the images.
View the online exhibit.
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