Wayne Eastcott is one of Canada’s foremost experimental print makers, best known for intertwining technological imagery with elements of the created universe in expressive and often spiritual ways. He is also an outstanding educator who teaches printmaking at Capilano College in North Vancouver, BC.

Robert Wayne Eastcott was born July 20, 1943 in Trail, British Columbia. As an only child growing up in nearby Rossland, BC, he recalls a serious interest in science and math in school, but it was visual art which finally captured his imagination. In his senior secondary years art teacher Bob Borsos recognized his natural talent and convinced him to go to art school in Vancouver upon graduation; launching what would become a lifelong and highly successful career as an artist.

Eastcott attended the Vancouver School of Art from 1962 - 1966 and graduated with honours in print making and painting. He studied with Jack Shadbolt, Don Jarvis and Orville Fisher, but credits Roy Kiyooka with having the greatest influence upon his work with his very spiritual and philosophical approach to art and life. The “Pop” art influences of Robert Rauschenberg and Claus Oldenberg combined with the music of Glenn Gould has also been a constant source of inspiration for his imagery.

Following art school he established a studio in Vancouver and worked part-time as a commercial artist at KVOS (a local television station) to support his artistic endeavours. It was there that he fine tuned his silkscreen techniques and discovered the potential of Xerox images as an expressive form. Xerography quickly became instrumental to his creative search in both form and content, manifesting itself in images of machines produced in multiple through print making.

In 1971 he joined the studio art faculty of the Capilano College, was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy (RCA) and, in the same year, established the Dundarave Print Workshop with the late Bert Binning which still operates on Granville Island in Vancouver. In 1979, he established the printmaking Department of Capilano College where he continues to teach aspiring printmakers to this day.

Eastcott is a prolific artist with an impressive exhibition history. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including in New York, Japan, Yugoslavia, Poland, Germany, Spain, India and Brazil. His work is found in numerous private, corporate and public collections across Canada including the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and of course the Artists for Kids Gallery in North Vancouver.