Question 9

Q: If you were a Hollywood star and could spend any amount, which contemporary artists would you collect?

Question 8

Q: Which colour do you think is the trickiest of all to work with in a painting?

Question 7

Q: If you were a curator, how would you go about choosing works to add to the permanent collection?

Question 6

Q: Do you remember the first time you saw a work of art that excited you? Can you describe the experience.

Question 5

Q: What, to you, is a definition of portraiture? Does it necessarily involve a naturalistic likeness?

Question 4

Vaughan Grayson
Cousens Bay, Kalamalka Lake, Okanagan Valley, B.C., nd
oil on panel
Collection of the Kelowna Art Gallery
Gift of David and Carolyn Grayosn, 1999

Q: Why do you think so many Canadian artists have been pre-occupied with landscape painting?

Question 3

Q: Why do you think artists use the nude body as their subject? Do you support this or disagree?

Question 2

Q: What is your favourite art medium and why?

Question 1

Welcome to the first of a series of questions we will be posting often until the opening of our 30th anniversary exhibition, NEXUS: histories and communities.

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Gwen Lamont
Portrait of Bunty Bradford, 1932
oil on canvas
Gift of Eain Lamont
Collection of the Kelowna Art Gallery


Q: What does the permanent collection of our gallery -- or another gallery where you live or have visited -- mean to you?