Janet Nicol

1 month ago | montecristomagazine.com | Janet Nicol

Kihl ‘Yahda Christian White was 14 when he began carving with argillite, a fragile sedimentary rock quarried by Haida artists on the archipelago of Haida Gwaii. White learned at the side of his father, the late chief of the Edensu (Edenshaw) Eagle Clan of Kiusta, Morris White. By the age of 17, White was a full-time artist, his work reflecting the stories, songs, and dances of Haida culture.

2 months ago | gallerieswest.ca | Janet Nicol

One of Canada's best-known and most beloved abstract painters, the late Jack Bush was born in 1909 and spent his youth in Toronto painting landscapes and figurative works, influenced by the famed Group of Seven. Following the Second World War, Bush made annual visits to New York, drawn to the flourishing Abstract Expressionism movement. By the 1950s, he was filling his studio was his own abstracts.

Nov 5, 2024 | bcstudies.com | Jon Taylor |Janet Nicol |Michael Drouin

Michel Drouin’s memoir recounts his youth on the north-east coast of Vancouver Island during the heyday of British Columbia’s fishing and logging industries. The author was a toddler when his family moved from Quebec in 1953 to the small logging settlement of Port Hardy, “past the end of the road” as the book’s title states. Access to the town was limited to boat and plane until the expansion of the Island highway in 1979.

Oct 11, 2024 | montecristomagazine.com | Janet Nicol

There was a time when businessmen and lawyers sipped Scotch whisky in elegant rooms at the Vancouver Club surrounded by pastoral oil paintings and portraits of British royals. The building’s opulent Edwardian façade remains, but inside, the club has changed dramatically. Founded as an exclusive gentlemen’s club for those of British heritage around 1890, by the late 1970s membership had expanded to include men from other backgrounds. In 1993, their doors quietly opened to women as well.

Oct 4, 2024 | gallerieswest.ca | Janet Nicol

How does an artist create something from nothing? New York magazine editor-turned-visual artist Adam Moss poses this question to 43 creatives across a variety of media to satisfy his own curiosity and illuminate the artistic process for others. A specific piece of work forms the nucleus of each interview, most artists in mid-career, others — such as Stephen Sondheim, Tony Kushner, Gay Talese and Twyla Tharp — longtime masters of song, play, journalism and dance.