Our presenters are curated for their quality, depth, integrity, and alignment with our educational purpose. Since 1982, a distinguished faculty of authors, educators, activists, artists, performers, and practitioners have shared their work at our Cortes Island campus and in Vancouver.
Jeremy Herndl
Jeremy Herndl was born in Surrey, BC and has lived across Canada and abroad. He earned his BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art in Design in 1996 and his MAA in Painting at Emily Carr University in 2011. In recent years, Jeremy has received funding from the Canada Council, BC Arts Council and a third Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant. He has been artist in residence at the Banff Centre, The Brucebo Residency Award in Gotland, Sweden, Tombstone Territorial Park AiR in the Yukon and the Vermont Studio Center (Helen Frankethaler Fellowship).
In the past few years his work has been exhibited at Michael Gibson Gallery (London, On.), the Surrey Art Centre in Surrey BC, Open Space Art Society in Victoria, BC, Two Rivers Gallery in Prince George BC and numerous other group shows. His work is in collections such as the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Surrey Art Centre, The University of Victoria, The West Vancouver Museum, the Brucebo Foundation, Sweden, The City of Surrey, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and many corporate and private collections.
Events with Jeremy Herndl
Painting Between Person and PlaceAugust 2 - 6, 2023
Painting outdoors (or plein aire) was popularized in the mid 19th century with the advent of portable paint in tubes. It was the latest, most radical departure from the standard academic practices at the time as it sought to represent the realities of contemporary life in the industrialized West in…
