Luke Ramsey
Born and raised in the capital region, Luke Ramsey is a renowned, award-winning interdisciplinary artist working in illustration, design, animation, paint, murals and public art installations. His work has a contemporary reverence for animal form and nature, especially relating to the West Coast Canadian landscape and wildlife. Luke was a founding member of the Pender Island artist residency Islands Fold (2005-2010), and became The City of Victoria’s first Artist in Residence (2016-2018). In this position he created over twenty projects, including eight significant pieces of public art with six murals and two installations.
Luke has collaborated with over 100 different artists to date and exhibits his work internationally, participating in over 200 group shows and 10 solo exhibitions around the world. He has also published an illustrated book, (Intelligent Sentient?), taught youth drawing workshops across Vancouver Island, and been invited as a guest speaker at the 2010 Pictoplasma conference in Berlin, Germany. His client list includes The Cartoon Network, Patagonia, The New York Times, The BC Children's Hospital, The City of Victoria, The Government of Canada and more.
Meghan Hildebrand
A contemporary Canadian painter born in Whitehorse, Yukon, Meghan Hildebrand was raised within a community of artists. Encouraged from an early age, she has long been motivated to express her experience of the world, the small-town slice of Canada between the Yukon and the Sunshine Coast of BC where she now resides. Megan draws on her northwest environs, painting vivid landscapes bursting with life. Merging representation with imagination, she constructs worlds that are richly abundant yet never untouched by the reach of human activity.
Meghan has been painting and exhibiting since 1997. She has studied at the Kootenay School of the Arts, and Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. She's participated in over 25 group shows and over 40 solo exhibitions all across Canada and Internationally. Her work has been acquired by both public collections and international private collections.
