Main Floor Gallery

Grant Hughes, Don’t Blink: Coastal Moments at Dawn and Dusk

Main Floor Window

Allison Bigg, Recent ceramic work

Second Floor Gallery & Administration

Keith Taylor, Ducks of B.C. (to Jan. 6, 2023)

About the Artists and Exhibitions

Grant Hughes, Photographer

My photographs feature landscapes and seascapes of British Columbia captured at special moments. I bought my first SLR camera in 1977 and have been developing my photographic skills ever since. 
My academic training in biology helps
me combine my love of the outdoors with photography.

My works have been exhibited at the Sooke Fine Arts Show, the Sidney Fine Art Show, and published in Canadian Geographic, local newspapers, as a local contest winner and on stock photo websites.
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Allison Bigg

Alison Bigg (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist who works with found objects, ceramics, printmaking and installation. She graduated from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, took an Independent Studies year at Victoria School of Art and is now working full time in her studio on the traditional territories of the Lkwungen peoples, also known as Victoria, BC. 

Over the last few years of her 30-year relationship with clay, she has learned to let the clay behave as it intrinsically wants to,
without a preconceived idea
of what is being built; letting
go of the struggle and partnering with the clay. As with the expressionist style of painting and drawing, the clay form and surface evoke a nonverbal communication, cueing their own gestural prompts; speaking their own language.
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Keith Taylor

Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, art and ornithology have monopolized Keith’s life quality. His childhood was split between Saskatchewan and Ontario, with brief stays in Alberta and British Columbia. After his studies majoring in art, he immigrated to Australia where he worked for the University of Queensland banding birds. Art and ornithology linked when he returned to Canada and joined the Royal British Columbia Museum as a curator of collections and illustrator of publications. He later became self-employed as a freelance bird illustrator, stone carver, and watercolour painter.  He has produced several books and articles for birding and natural history magazines. Upon retirement, artwork has become a priority once again, focusing on small high-realism acrylic landscapes and bird paintings in gouache on watercolour paper.

His paintings have been exhibited around the region. Several pieces have been accepted into juried shows including the Sooke fine At Show and the Mary Winspear Fine Art Show.

His most recent project illustrated 38 species
of duck that have occurred on Vancouver Island in the past 2 ½ years.
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