Art Writing, Reviews and Videos by Robert Amos
Featured Artist: James Joyce
The James Joyce Quarterly has kindly allowed me space to introduce my “written on with dried ink scrap of paper”. I am an artist and author who lives in Victoria, British Columbia, a little city on a rather large island off the West Coast of Canada. I discovered James Joyce in .... Keep Reading
Stephen Lowe
Stephen Lowe spent most of his life in Victoria, beloved by students and collectors here. It’s inexplicable how he achieved such skill and produced so much in the short time he had. And it is even more surprising to realize that his work and his example are enormously appreciated in the burgeoning world of Chinese art..... Keep Reading
Ted Harrison
One of Harrison’s illustrations from his book, O Canada
A few years ago the papers of the artist Ted Harrison were deposited in the University of Victoria’s “Artists Archives”. For months I sorted through his correspondence, read his reviews, arranged his photographs and even laid out the paints, brushes and the paper plates he habitually used as palettes. I catalogued heaps of his correspondence, written in neat italic hand, with more than 20 galleries which had hosted his sell-out shows. It was an honour to write....Keep Reading
Emily Carr - Winds of Heaven Video
At Goldstream, on the set of Winds of Heaven - Emily Carr’s “Elephant” on the left.
It’s magic!
Michael Ostroff’s new feature film Wind of Heaven weaves a living, breathing evocation of Emily Carr from a basket of disparate elements, bringing us into the presence of a woman of complexity. This is Carr for the 21st century, and Ostroff does this without using an actress to dress up like the feisty lady “on the edge of....Keep Reading
Pat Martin Bates
Pat Martin Bates enjoying being eighty years old
Pat Martin Bates is one of our best-loved artists. She was an inspiring teacher at UVic, a Limner, a founder of what became XChanges, the soul of the Community Arts Council and much else. In recent years she has been the subject of two major shows at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. A book of childhood reminiscences, titled It is I, Patricia (Hedgerow Press, 2010) was followed....Keep Reading