Tony Bounsall
"Creativity is like a muscle ... it needs to be exercised."

Tony brings a background rich in 27 years of photography and graphic design experience to his teaching position at the Victoria College of Art. Along with his expertise in photography and design, he has worked as a technical illustrator and cartoonist. Over the years he work has been published in many magazines and he has photographed many notable people such as His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, Roberstson Davies and Brooke Shields. Tony is a graduate of the Ryerson University's Photo-arts Program in Media Studies (B.A.P.A). He is a multiple HCPRA awards winner and a PPABC winner of " Most creative in Show" and a national award for "Digital Composition".

Steven Dickerson
"It is the job of the Art Student to be visually literate."

Working as a Professional Artist in a highly realistic style for over 25 years, Steven's work has ranged from Fine Art to Illustration and Design. As he enjoys the personal aspects of the Artist / Client relationship, Steven prefers to work on a commissioned basis.

When it comes to teaching, he believes the students must learn to be honest with themselves about their art so they can see through their mistakes, both good and bad, and arrive at a place where they can start to control all aspects of their works, Steven is a graduate of the 3 year Illustration program at Sheridan College.

Danielle Hogan
"My classes are about exploration and discovery. The more a student explores their abilities the more they discover."

Danielle prepared, with awards and honours, for hands-on art making at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (Diploma in Fine Craft), the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (B.F.A.) and University of Victoria (M.F.A.). She has taught both two- and three-dimensional design, exhibited extensively in Alberta and New Brunswick and recently shown in Seattle and the Rogue Art Gallery, Victoria. Her work is in the Canada Council for the Arts collection.

Carole Thompson
"Painting for me is a journey which reveals new realities."

Carole Thompson is a visual artist, primarily a painter of large and smaller works who lives on Vancouver Island. Her work is informed by dreams, memories, photography, metaphysical interests and symbology. A recent series, "From the Beginning" explores Sacred Geometry and the five associated elements. Current works, inspired by an Australian residency, involve themes of Earth Connections evoked through geometric forms and personal symbolic languages. One intent in both series is to create and support unity conscious in viewers.

Carole is the recipient of Canada Council Awards and a Honours graduate of Vancouver School of Art (ECCAD). Her work is found in many private and corporate collections, nationally and internationally including Art Bank-Ottawa. She has taught privately, at Arts Umbrella-Vancouver, Art Gallery Greater Victoria and Quadra Arts Centre-Victoria. Carole is represented by Fran Willis Gallery-Victoria Gallery-Victoria.

Jenn Robins
"It's like pulling treasures out of a bag, sharing them ... showing how they work, what they do ... handing some over and watching others reshape the treasures with their own creative identity. That, for me, is what teaching art is all about."

Jenn obtained a music degree in the UK, emigrated to Canada and had a successful business career, before completing her Fine Arts degree at UVic. She has developed new and innovative techniques in print-making, and combined them with traditional methods to create hybrid art forms. She continues to explore the possibilities of the etching press. "It is the intense darks, magnificent textures, and translucent light in the printmaking process that keep me engaged with this medium."

Jenn's work is found in permanent collections at UVic, Okanagan University College, and private collections around the globe. She teaches privately and gives workshops as close to home as UVic and MISSA/Pearson College, and as far afield as Tuktoyaktuk.

"I love to teach - or perhaps 'mentor' would be a better word because I believe that everyone already possesses the creative abilities. I show what's possible - they run with it. Each person develops their own creative persona. I just show, coax, and support. I learn a lot from those I mentor."

Andrew Wooldridge

Born in Egypt, Andrew was then raised and educated in England where he augmented his student grant by painting miniatures. He has lived and painted in Israel and Australia and also exhibited there. In conjunction with Alcheringa Gallery, he visited Papua New Guinea to paint a series of works on the life and myths of the Sepik River region.

Joyce Kline
"Life drawing teaches us how little we truly observe the world around us. It is the basis of all art education because it requires us to open up our powers of observation, concentration, empathy and reflection."

Joyce's interdisciplinary approach stems from her eclectic career as an installation and performance artist, arts writer, dancer and dance teacher, journalist, community organizer, playwright, and lecturer on contemporary art. She has exhibited in artist-run centres and public galleries across Canada and Finland and has been the recipient of awards from the Canada Council, Ontario and Toronto Arts Councils, as well as two Ontario Arts Council Arts Writing grants.

Joyce has been a visiting lecturer in the graduate schools of Tampere and Helsinki Universities in Finland and the University of La Laguna in Tenerife, Spain. She ran and delivered the slide talk program for Toronto's Women's Art Resource Centre, Canada's largest slide collection of contemporary Canadian women's art. In addition to her BFA with distinction from York and Cornell Universities, she has traveled widely, studying everything from folkloric dance in Tunis, to post-graduate studies at the University of Art & Design Helsinki, along the way dabbling in such traditional art world pursuits as puppetry and stand-up comedy. She enjoyed 15 minutes of fame and a week of respect from her teenaged daughters when she was featured on the cover of Toronto's NOW Magazine.

Paul Peregal

Paul Peregal attended the School of Art and Design in Montreal at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, under directorship of the founding member, Arthur Lismer of the Group of Seven.

Peregal has traveled and lived in the United States, Canada, England, Denmark, Israel and France. His subjects are most often people and cityscapes. Some of Peregal's portraits include Leonard Cohen, Rostropovich, John Mortimer, Dylan Thomas, Irving Layton and several of jazz greats including Bird, Simms and Holiday. Peregal's works figure prominently in collections around the world.

David Hunwick

David Hunwick was born in Kent, England in 1963, and studied Sculpture at Ravensbourne College of Art. During this time, he was selected to take part in the New Contemporaries Exhibition at the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, and also had public artwork placed at the Civic Centre, Bromley, Kent.

David then studied to become a teacher in Yorkshire while still fulfilling art commissions and projects, including having a sculpture sited at he renowned Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Public and private commissions and projects ensued and his work can be found in public parks, in and around public buildings, and in private collections in the UK, Canada, Australia, United States and Jersey.

David worked as Artist-in-Residence near Stirling, Scotland, and exhibited regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, and in several other galleries.

Upon moving to BC in 2001, David continued to exhibit, producing a number of bronzes in association with the Harman Foundry. He now lives and works in Victoria, BC, producing sculptures in various media. In 2007 he exhibited at the Sidney Fine Art Show and won the 'Best 3-D Award' and also exhibited at the Sooke Fine Art show;Butchart Gardens Gallery; Sooke Harbour House; State of the Art Exhibition. He is also a member of the Sculpture Guild. David also is on the teaching faculty of Victoria College of Art offering sculpture workshops.

Jessica Michalofsky
"Writing is a way of imagining the world so that it makes sense."

Jessica attained a B.A. in English Literature from the University of British Columbia and followed that with a degree in Education. She is currently working at an M.F.A. in Creative Writing through UBC. She works at Camosun College and at VCA where she teaches and supports adults in both creative and academic courses in writing. She is published in Canadian journals such as Event, The Malahat Review, CV2, and in chapbook and anthology form. Jessica is most widely known for her work in prose poetry, but has recently turned her focus to short fiction under the wise tutelage of East-Coast novelist Lisa Moore. She believes writers benefit from being around other writers and that practice is the best sort of talent. Her teaching methodology encourages students to find their authentic voice through a supportive workshop process, invigorating writing exercises, and study of the masters.

Yvonne Owens
Yvonne Owens obtained her B.A. in Art History from the University of Victoria, and her M.A. in Cultural Studies from the University of York in the U.K. She was awarded a Marie Curie Ph.D. Fellowship in 2005, and is currently completing dissertation in Art History for the University College of London. Yvonne has presented papers to many academic perspectives and disciplines, and has published articles and reviews on art for international arts, academic, and literary journals.

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