Graham Scholes

In January of 2020 the CEO of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria visited Graham’s Scholes’ studio. He choose a complete body of woodblock prints for the Art Gallery’s collection. This archive is considered an important contribution to Canadian Art.

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In 1993 Graham was inspired to start a series of innovative prints of the British Columbia lighthouses. He needed to experience and have personal contact with his subjects, so with the co-operation of the Canadian Coast Guard, he visited all lighthouses on the British Colombia coast in order to get the material necessary to represent these majestic beacons. 

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The series of prints of the manned lighthouses took him 15 years to complete and is a critically acclaimed record of some of these manned beacons, many of which are now automated.