The Halloween opening was deliberately chosen for this exhibition which featured a number
        of artists drawing from their inner sense of mystery to put to flight the notion that an art
        evolving from the magical is no longer  valid.

        The worlds of mythology, Symbolism, the Fantastic, and Surrealism mixed together at this most
        significant time of the pagan calendar. Patricia Van Oyen and Marilyn Mylrea produced works
        which invlolved dream-like mythological imagery with overtones of ceremonial magic and the erotic.

        French-born artist, Francis Thenard exhibited his red landscapes which mingle a dadaist sensibility
        with an intimate knowledge of the occult and the Fantastic.  His work was complemented by that of
        English-born miniaturist, Ted Kingan, and that of Ladislav and Martin Guderna, originally from
        Slovakia, who have been central to the neo-surrealist groups in Vancouver in the 1970's and 80's,
        and continue to publish their magazine Scarabeus.

        West Coast veterans,  Al Neil, Gordon Payne, Ed Varney and Gregg Simpson exhibited their
        idiosyncratic works which freely mix metaphors from Pop and Dada, Surrealism and neo-Surrealism.