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Roy Henry
Vickers - Brentwood Bay
Born
in 1946 in Greenville, B.C., artist Roy Henry Vickers studied traditional
art at the Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Indian Art in Hazelton.
His father was a Tsimshian fisherman, his mother a teacher of British
ancestry. Fond is he of his childhood days spent in the ancient
Tsimshian village of Kitkatla. His art evokes the stylized tradition
of his Native ancestry, yet it marries the abstraction of that tradition
with the realism of European art. Vickers has participated in exhibitions
at prestigious art shows in Canada and the United States. His has
completed monumental works at the Vancouver International Airport
and the Saanich Commonwealth Centre in Victoria. His work is included
in the collections of royalty and presidents. Once a victim of substance
abuse, in 1992 he initiated VisionQuest, a non-profit organization
designed to help those with addictive personalities.
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