Wayne Ngan at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 2013 (photo by Goya Ngan)
West Coast artist Wayne Ngan, known for his ceramics and sculptures, is dead at age 83.
Ngan, who lived on Hornby Island for more than 50 years, died June 12 due to lymphoma, said his daughter Goya.
“He enjoyed each step of making an object,” she told the Victoria Times Colonist. “I don’t recall him ever complaining about his work, unless it was the business side of things.”
Born in China, Ngan immigrated to Canada in 1951. He grew up in Richmond and attended the Vancouver School of Art.
He received the Saidye Bronfman Award for Masters of the Crafts in 1983 and the British Columbia Creative Achievement Award of Distinction in 2013.
Jon Tupper, director of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, said Ngan played an important role in the development of art in B.C. Ngan had a solo exhibition at the gallery in 1970.
Source: Victoria Times Colonist