Close-Up: Mark Heine, Award-Winning Victoria Painter
by Christine Clark Victoria-based painter, writer and environmentalist Mark Heine recently received the Haynes Galleries Award at the 14th International ARC Salon Competition, for his oil painting Labyrinth. The competition honours works of contemporary realism. Here, Heine talks to…
Close-Up: Alexander Dawkins, Author Understanding Northwest Coast Indigenous Jewelry
by Robin Laurence “Basically, there was always a need,” Alexander Dawkins says, explaining what motivated him to write Understanding Northwest Coast Indigenous Jewelry, published by Greystone Books. An art historian and co-owner of Vancouver’s…
Close-up: Nicholas Dorman, Conservator extraordinaire
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM By Matthew Kangas Seattle followed Vancouver, Portland and Los Angeles in attaining its own in-house, art museum painting conservation department, but when Seattle Art Museum (SAM) director Mimi Gardner Gates hired Nicholas Dorman out…