TouchWood Editions
Art/biography
ISBN: 978-1-894898-58-4
10.125" x 9.375", 160 pages
colour throughout
$44.95, hardcover
Available October

Artists in their Studios
Where Art is Born
Robert Amos

With his latest book, artist Robert Amos gives readers a fascinating insider’s tour of studios on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands where some of Canada’s best-known artists create works.

Spanning more than 15 years of interviews and photographs, Amos has created panoramic collages of these artists' creative spaces, and even more revealing images with his words. 

Not merely biography, Amos includes examples of completed works, and the insight that only another artist, and talented arts writer, can. 

Artists in Their Studios is both a stunning compilation of our Canadian artistic heritage, and proof that art work in progress is art in itself. 

Enter the studios of:

Robert Amos is a full-time professional artist. Born in Belleville , Ontario , he began painting professionally in 1980. Focussing his work on the city of Victoria , British Columbia , he became, in his words, “a sort of expert on the urban reality” around him.

He has written four books about his paintings. Since 1986, he has written a weekly art column in Victoria ’s Times Colonist.

He was made an Honorary Citizen of Victoria in 1985, was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of the Art s in 1996 and was the official artist of the Royal Victoria Marathon in 2003. He lives in Victoria , B.C.