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Patrick Hughes
Patrick Hughes was born in Warfield, BC, in 1951. He attended Selkirk College, Caribou College, and UBC. He started showing in the early 1970's in venues in Vancouver, Victoria, New Orleans and Montreal. His first solo show in Vancouver was in 1980 at the Unit Pitt Gallery... the Pitt or Helen Pitt was the gallery for the Vancouver School of Art (now ECI, or the Emily Carr Institute).

In the 1980's and 1990's Hughes had many group and solo shows in and around Vancouver in both alternative and commercial galleries. In 1986 he was artist-in-residence at the Western Front and created the 666 O'Clock News, a computer animated video which travelled to festivals around the world. He also worked with several Vancouver dance groups doing sets, costumes, posters and props, most notably with Lola MacLaughlin Dance, EDAM (for whom he created a computer animated set at Expo 86), Karen Jameson and Judith Marcuse.

As an active Vancouver-based artist, he was involved in the first Warehouse Show which became the October Show and Artropolis, and became involved with Mail Art through his friendship with Artropolis curator Ed Varney. Hughes' 1994 second solo show at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre recieved the Gillian Loundes Award, a memorial award created in 1981 and given to artists for long-standing achievement, innovation and recent growth in their field.

Hughes has also participated in many charity events, including Benefits for Childrens Hospital Vancouver, Fashion Cares for HIV, Friends of the Caren Old Growth Forest, and This Is Not A One Night Stand for Aids. Since 2000 he has continued to show in numerous exhibitions throughout BC, including the 2007 Mayworks at the OCAC.

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Shelley Little | Artist's Statement & Bio:
My love for incredible pictures came early in life; my realization of becoming a photographer came much later. My view of photography is that it's an adventure that can easily take up one's lifetime, filled with never-ending choices and consistent change, and something about that made it become more than just a simple fascination for me.' Of course, I was incredibly blessed where I live.

Born in the beautiful city of Vancouver, British Columbia, my memories of childhood were of a hobby farm in south Langley with a large, loving and constant family. From there my teens took me back to Vancouver to experience the next fifteen years of city life. My husband, Brian, and I live out in north Qualicum Beach area and have done so for the couple of years now. When our family was young we lived here for six years. We have a son and a daughter, both recently graduated, and who we feel fortunate to have both stayed with us with our move back to this beautiful Island. Also living with us is our little passel of animals. Our daughter was actually bom here. There Grandmother is retired here in Parksville and says it's the best place on earth

I love framing my own work, however, since it is costly and everyone has their own taste, I choose to purchase inexpensive frames and mattes more to show-off my photographs so they would be more appealing, than just being viewed on pages in my portfolios. In this way, I can keep the cost of my photographs down and if someone prefers a different colour or sort of frame, or if they wish to have it professionally framed, they will find this easy to do.

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Muriel Patterson
Muriel Patterson was born and raised on the prairies, but has called British Columbia home for many years. She is an artist, a draftswoman and a mother.

Muriel studied extensively in design and the visual arts while attending the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and Art. She has also attended the Banff School of Art and the Sarasota, Florida School of Art, and has participated in many workshop in various media over the years.

Many of her paintings hang in private collections in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Iceland. The subject matter is as varied as the medium. Muriel is not only an artist, but a teacher and has taught in all the communities in which she has lived.

We are pleased to present a retrospective of Muriel's work from the past 50 years. She has retrived art from every decade and will be in attendance in the gallery to talk about it.

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The Oceanside Community Arts Council acknowledges the financial assistance of the City of Parksville, The Regional District
of Nanaimo, the Vancouver Foundation, the British Columbia Arts Council and the Province of British Columbia.

Site last updated August 30th, 2008. Images of artwork © 2008 by the respective artists