In recent years, Salmon Arm-based artist Amy Modahl has focused on painting, a practice for which she was awarded the 2023 Tanabe Prize for a mid-career painter. Modahl’s work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions at the Kelowna Art Gallery; Kamloops Art Gallery; the Alternator Centre (Kelowna); Stride Gallery (Calgary); Vernon Public Art Gallery; and Soo Visual Art Center (Minneapolis, MN). She has an Interdisciplinary Masters of Fine Art in Visual Art from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus; a Masters in Applied Linguistics from Northern Arizona University; and a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art, Art History, and Spanish from St. Cloud State in Minnesota.
Herald Nix (b.1951) brings a sincere and experimental exploration of beauty into his intimate landscapes, set in British Columbia. Returning to particular landforms over the course of his career, Nix interprets each subject through a rhythm of repeated motif to reveal shifts in lighting, weather, season, and mood over time. Through this contemplative approach to landscape, Nix’s brush strokes, carvings, and textures create a space for the viewer to wander through the emotive process of discovery hidden within the familiar. Herald Nix lives and works in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. He attended the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art + Design) and has exhibited in Canada, United States and the UK in solo and group exhibitions at galleries that include: Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, ON; Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC; TrepanierBaer Gallery, Calgary, AB; Steven S. Powers | Joshua Lowenfels Gallery, New York, NY; Frieze No. 9 Cork St. London, UK, and FELIX Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA with Wilding Cran Gallery.
