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Canadian artist John Taylor was born on Vancouver Island, BC on July 2, 1946. Taylor majored in media studies photography at Ryerson University, Toronto, ON. John Taylor’s “photographic focus is architecture – spaces of people and human interaction. Taylor divides his work into two main categories, conceptual images which describe new ways of perceiving existing spaces and auto-biographical work which places personal experience into symbolic context”. Taylor’s artwork has appeared in numerous exhibitions within Canada and internationally and he has been the recipient of various awards, including being inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2015.

Taylor was involved in the creation of Mount Allison University’s accredited BFA photography program. Taylor has also taught and been a guest artist at post-secondary institutions and organizations within both Canada and the United States during the span of his career, including, but not limited to, Rice University (Houston, TX), Texas School for the Deaf (Austin, TX), University of Texas at Austin, Western Academy of Photography (Victoria, BC), and Victoria College of Art (Victoria, BC).

John and his wife Vijaya co-founded Eclectic Gallery in Victoria, BC, which they ran from 2008 until they sold the business in 2017. Eclectic Gallery focused on contemporary art and represented over 100 individual artists. John and Vijaya’s association with artist Anthony Thorn resulted in several exhibitions of his work at Eclectic Gallery during their time operating the gallery.

Ted Godwin was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1933 studying at the Alberta Institute of Technology and Art in Calgary from 1951 to 1955. He also attended several Emma Lake Artists Workshops, including those led by Barnett Newman (1959), John Ferren (1960), Jules Olitski (1964), and Lawrence Alloway (1965). From 1955 to 1964 he worked in the commercial art field as Art Director for CJLH Channel 7 in Lethbridge, and a neon designer, winning 2nd prize at an international neon design competition, N.E.S.A. in 1958.

In 1962-63 he spent the year sketching and painting in Greece on a Canada Council grant and was hired by the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus to teach at the School of Art in 1964.

Godwin remained at what became the Visual Art Department at the University of Regina for the rest of his working career. He exhibited with Ken Lochhead, Art McKay, Ron Bloore, and Doug Morton as one of the Regina Five. Following the Regina Five years he became known for his large Tartan paintings. A heart condition (which eventually forced him to retire in 1985) produced the Dying Orchids series in 1974. From the mid 1970s to the present, Godwin has produced several series of large and vivid landscape paintings.

In 1991 Godwin mounted exhibitions of new work simultaneously in four Canadian cities: Vancouver, Calgary, Regina, and Toronto. The show was known as the Lower Bow project and Ted was present to open each of the exhibitions; Calgary Thursday evening, Regina Friday, Toronto on Saturday, and Vancouver on Monday. In 1999, The Nickle Arts Museum of Calgary mounted and toured a major examination of Godwin's Tartans and in 2008 the Nickle mounted a major touring exhibition of Godwin’s Regina Five Years, 1957 to 1967.

Ted Godwin was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 1974, and was awarded the Queens Silver Jubilee Medal 1978. For his Messages from the Real World A Handbook for the Emerging Artist, (1999) Ted won the Sask Book Award for best new publication (Educational). He was awarded the Alberta College of Art and Design Board of Governors Award of Excellence and was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Regina in 2001. In 2004, for his excellence in the field of visual arts, Ted was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 2010, he was chosen Artist of the Year by Trout Unlimited.

Ted Godwin has been exhibiting his work since 1955 and has had more than 60 solo exhibitions. He currently resides in Calgary where he devotes himself to writing, painting, fishing, Tai Chi, and Alcoholics Anonymous.

William (Bill) Lobchuk was born in Neepawa, Manitoba in 1942. He received a Diploma of Art from the University of Manitoba in 1966. In 1968 he opened the Screen Shop at 50 Princess Street in Winnipeg and by the early 1970s he had operated the Screen Shop, the Printmakers Gallery as well as the Sunnyside Sign Company. In 1973, with partner Len Anthony, he formed the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop. This screen shop became a focal point for other Winnipeg artists like Ted Howorth, Chris Finn, Don Proch and Tony Tascona; from Saskatchewan David Thauberger, Vic Cicansky, Joe Fafard and Russ Yuristy; and from Quebec Pierre Ayotte.

Lobchuk is not only an artist but also a facilitator for other artists and their work. From 1972 to 1975 he was President of the Canadian Artists’ Representation, Manitoba, and National Representative of Canadian Artists’ Representation from 1976 to 1978, and the National Director from 1978 to 1980. Bill Lobchuk was a member of the Manitoba Arts Council from 1974 to 1976, President of the Canadian National Committee of the International Association of Art, (1977 to 1980) and was on the Advisory Committee to the Gallery Oseredok.

The work of Lobchuk and the others produced out of this Winnipeg screen shop have received much notoriety in Canada; these works of art have been exhibited in Poland, Yugoslavia, Holland, Norway, Japan and France. The Great Western Canadian Series ’78 and Series ’80 were significant co-operative efforts that were typical of this screen shop.

Anthony Thorn is the pseudonym of Arthur Goldman, the son of Leon and Dorothy Goldman, born in Regina in 1927. He is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan (BA, 1947) and pursued graduate studies in English literature at the University of Chicago.

Thorn began to paint in 1948. His first studies in painting were in Regina with Kenneth Lochhead followed by studies in figure drawing at the Chicago Art Institute, studies in oil painting techniques with Frederic Taubes at the Banff Centre, studies in stained glass design at the Centre d’Art Sacré, Paris, and drawing at the Academie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris. In 1955 Thorn was apprentice to the muralist David Alfaro Siquéiros in Mexico and studied in acrylic technique with Jose Gutierrez. In later years he studied watercolor and sumi painting with Mataichiro Isoda in Kyoto, Japan, and metal-smithing in Corfu, Greece.

His work has been exhibited with galleries across Canada but also in France, Mexico, the Canary Islands and the United States. About 40 of his works are in corporate and public collections in Canada. Notably in the collections of the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Greater Victoria Public Library; they consist of paintings and carved works in gold leaf, ivory and other precious materials. Eight of his works in public collections have been honored with the designation “of outstanding significance and national importance” by the Canadian Cultural Review Board.

As an educator, along with various teaching in Toronto, Thunder Bay and Victoria art classes, his main academic teaching was as a Lecturer in Fine Arts at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay (1977 to 1979) and an Instructor in painting for the Department of Extension of the University of Victoria (1981 to 1984) He wrote as an art reviewer and critic for the publication Toronto Citizen (1971 to 1972)

Anthony Thorn lived in Victoria, British Columbia until his death in July 2014.

Jan Gerrit was the second son of farmer, Harmen Otto Wijers and Johanna Kets, he was born on July 20, 1888 at Emmer, a community within the Municipality of Steenderen, 16 kilometers northeast of Arnhem, in the Netherlands.

At the age of 12 Jan had to quit school to work on the family farm. In 1913, Jan and three friends left home for the United States. Working through North and South Dakota threshing on various farms, he got the idea to rent a farm but discovered that would be too expensive. Wyers came to Canada with a thousand other immigrants as the Canadian government was actively promoting settling western Canada.

He acquired 1/4 section of land near Windthorst in 1916. During the 1930’s Wyers became the area bootlegger and “did time” in the Correctional Centre in Regina for defaulting on a $200.00 fine for being in violation of the liquor act. Wyers was an inventor of sorts, - on March 11 Wyers filed an application for a patent on an animal trap “particularly adapted to catching gophers and other rodents” when there was a bounty of one-half cent for each gopher tail.

Jan started painting while convalescing after surgery on a ruptured appendix in 1937/38, in the winters he would paint and in the summer he would farm – until 1960, when he quite farming at the age of 72.

In 1969 Windthorst’s new library named a portion of the building the Jan Wyers Arts Centre and in October 1970 Jan Wyers moved to the Willowdale Lodge in Kipling and continued to paint in watercolor despite being crippled from arthritis, in 1973 he moved to a nursing home in Regina where he died on July 4, 1973.