Prolific B.C. artist was enthralled by beauty and strangeness

Gathie Falk was a tireless innovator, a painter, sculptor, superb colourist, inventive ceramicist and performance artist, who from impoverished beginnings became one of the hardest working and most celebrated artists Vancouver has ever produced.

Her art revealed the miraculous in the commonplace: a slippery fish, a red apple, a watermelon, the night sky full of stars. Over a long lifetime, she remained enthralled by the world’s beauty and strangeness.