Works by M. Vaughan Hoy
M. Vaughan Hoy works as an architect and visual artist. His practice is located in Paradise Valley. He has won national and international awards in architecture and has studied and lived abroad. Landscapes, its forms and a perspective particular to living in Western regions, permeates his art and architecture.
The Midden Series: In 1996 he was living on the south end of Salt Spring Island, where he became aware the middens left throughout the Gulf Islands by West Coast natives. An excerpt from the original show of 14 prints are in this exhibition. The images are a non-literal visual perspective to the description of artifacts and forms in the midden-fossilized animal and plant material, hand worked stone, bone, arrow and spear heads.
Castle Rock: This 700-foot-high bread-shaped outcrop of basaltic rock is found in the bottom end of Western Australia. The distinct feature is the mid-point and highest elevation known as Castle Rock plateau. Here large oval and prismatic shaped rock formations rise above the forest piled against each other or standing balanced in isolation. The plateau is one of a chain of rock outcrops in western Australia that were used as aboriginal ritual sites. This landscape was the inspiration for this group of prints.
Rick Bowerman
Rick Bowerman Antiques is located in Squamish. He has filled the display cases with a collection of primitive folk art of the late 20th century from Doukhabor and Ukrainian settlements on the Canadian prairies and the rural villages of Quebec. These pieces were made by self-taught artists to provide furnishings for their local churches and homes. The carved wooden icon holders, picture frames, stools, toys and candle holders are colorful, whimsical and unique examples of folk art.
