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Hot Dates: BC Legends Emily Carr and Charles John Collings at Vancouver Art Gallery

Photo by Blaine Campbell, Vancouver Art Gallery, of “Home in Trees, Canada” by Charles John Collings, collection of Vancouver Art Gallery, promised gift of Uno Langmann

To May 26

It’s water, water everywhere at the Vancouver Art Gallery this season. Hope at Dawn: Watercolours by Emily Carr and Charles John Collings highlights the ethereal efforts by two major British Columbia artists with differing styles. Carr used her watercolours primarily as an intermediary before an oil painting, whereas Collings was a trained watercolourist with a subtle hand (“Home in Trees, Canada,” pictured).—Kristina Urquhart