Wayne Wilson

Born in Lillooet, BC in a house his father built out of railway ties, Wayne grew up in the Okanagan (Oliver) and, after moving around British Columbia as a school teacher, they moved back to the Okanagan (Kelowna) in the 1960s. “I have worked as a cowboy, truck driver, lounge singer, purchasing agent, college professor, film and talking book narrator and at many other jobs – I spent most of my career, however, in the Museum field and loved every day of that work.”

“Ephemera art, landscape and panoramic imagery clearly dominate my current art work. For the most part, this grows out of a strong notion that there is something attractively primal in the panoramic format. The eye, sweeping side to side, pays a kind of homage to the horizon – and in every culture, it seems to me, the horizon both pushes and pulls us to its brink and beyond. Some of my other compellingly strong tendencies, however, are more strongly drawn toward the eclectic and bring influences from still life and the abstract. As a geographer by training, it has always struck me that the nature of space and/or place are never merely important to the expression of who we are; they are critical. I try to find that in my art; to distil the place and reveal its own rhythm.”