4th of
6 works found
- Artist
- Portelance, Don
- Title
- Islands
- Technique
- lithograph
- Date
- 1981
- Dimensions
- 51cm height x 28cm width
- Type
- Accession Number
- 1988.38.603
- Owner
- City of Burnaby
- Collection
- Permanent Collection
From the Malaspina Printshop Archives of the City of Burnaby Permanent Collection|Gift of Milton and Fei Wong
Don Portelance was born and raised in Vancouver BC. He began his formal art education with night classes in the Vancouver School of Art, and continued focusing on studio art during his Bachelor degree at the University of British Columbia and Master's degree at Western Washington University. In 1976 he completed a year of Post-Graduate studies in Lithography at the Vancouver School of Art, and in 1997 completed Simon Fraser University graduate field studies on Queen Charlotte Islands focusing on the Art and Culture of the Haida.
From 1958 to the present Portelance has focused on teaching art, and has continued an active exhibition schedule. Presently he continues to be employed in the Education Department at the University of Victoria, and also teaches artistically gifted young adults for Place des Arts in Coquitlam.