In many ways, the story of Lilias Torrance Newton - portrait painter, art teacher, abandoned wife and mother - reads like a story of the 1990s. But what seems banal today was exceptional sixty years ago when divorce was frowned upon and married women were not expected to work outside...

For Kathleen Morris there was never a question of painting with anything other than her heart. Away from the proverbial 'madding crowd,' at once condemned to and enamoured of her closest surroundings, she painted her own path into art history, and into the heart of anyone who wants to peek...

No one, perhaps, embodied that pioneering spirit more than Emily Carr. Her solitary and eccentric existence is the stuff of legends. To reduce her to a symbol would be to do a disservice to a great artist, and a fiercely independent being, whose work transcended time, gender and national image...

In 2004, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff hosted an Homage à Philip Surrey, a non-selling exhibition in his honour. The exhibition was accompanied by a highly informative catalogue written by Terry Rigelhof, a former neighbour of Margaret and Philip Surrey. Mr. Rigelhof's research and study of Philip Surrey is ongoing. To our...

The secrets of the life of John Young Johnstone may never be known. Possessed with a dichotomous angst to be at once famous and yet unknown, he lived in estranged oblivion from society and died unwept. There are no substantive records chronicling his life anywhere. We must therefore depend on...