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GARRY KAYE was born and raised on Salt Spring Island, the seventh of ten children. His love of nature was established early in life, and his recent paintings express those feelings.
Garry attended the Vancouver School of Art, studying under Roy Kyooka, Takao Tanabe, and Leonard Epp and graduated in 1964, majoring in sculpture.
In 1966 he was commissioned to build a 10-foot sculpture of a lumberjack for the town of Chetwynd, where it stands today. He also exhibited drawings in Victoria and sculptures in the Mary Frazee Gallery in West Vancouver.
After 4 months in Europe and several years in Vancouver he returned with his wife to Salt Spring Island to live and to work as a farmer and log house builder. He began painting landscapes in acrylics in the late 1990s with his main theme being that of the often overlooked richness of the forest, woods and lake edges.
Since then his work has been acquired by private collectors on Vancouver Island, in Seattle and in the Okanagan Valley. He has exhibited in local Salt Spring venues through the Alliance of Saltspring Artists. His painting "Split Cabbage" won an honourable mention in the Look 2001 Exhibition on Salt Spring as did "Lake Edge" in the 2001 Fall Exhibition. The painting "Woods" won Jury's and Peoples' Choice awards in the 2004 Continuum/Parallel-to-Bateman exhibitions held in celebration of ArtSpring's 5th anniversary.
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