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Solstice 2001 (Roy Henry Vickers)

Posted: Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 @ 5:56 am in Arthur Vickers, Canadian Art, Canadians in the Arts, Formal Elements of Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art, Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art, Roy Henry Vickers | 1 Comment »

Solstice 2001 image from Roy Henry Vickers’ “Copperman: The Art of Roy Henry Vickers” Solstice 2001 belongs to a period in Roy Henry Vickers’ art long after the highly traditional forms of Raven and Whale, and yet there is still much to be appreciated in terms of traditional forms and subjects, quite apart from Vickers’ [...]

The New Header Image

Posted: Sunday, November 8th, 2009 @ 11:07 am in Arthur Vickers, Canadian Art, Canadians in the Arts, Housekeeping, Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art, Personal, Roy Henry Vickers | 2 Comments »

I created the current header image* for this blog from my own photograph of Roy Henry Vickers’ Eagle Aerie Gallery in Tofino, BC. This gallery was built by Arthur Vickers, himself an accomplished artist and Roy Vickers’ younger brother. I am not adept at “photoshopping” images, but I added black-and-white effects using Microsoft Windows Live [...]

Arthur Vickers Gives the Premier of BC a New “Leadership Desk”

Posted: Thursday, October 29th, 2009 @ 11:17 am in Arthur Vickers, Canadian Art, Canadians in the Arts, Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art | No Comments »

Resized image of the Arthur Vickers-made Leadership Desk taken from the Vancouver Sun First Nations artist Arthur Vickers has designed and made a new “Leadership Desk” for the Premier’s Office in Victoria’s Parliament Buildings (see the story in the Globe and Mail, and also the story and photo gallery in the Vancouver Sun). The desk [...]