Abbotsford Art Gallery | Gallery | Brian Croft

Brian Croft's popular historical scenes of Vancouver are a result of painstaking research and meticulous attention to detail. He claims that about 80% of the work involved in creating a painting is research which he accomplishes with the help of local historians, internet research and trips to museum archives.

Brian has had an unusual background for an artist, his first career was as a pilot, initially with the Canadian Armed Forces as a fighter pilot then later as a commercial airline captain.  He retired from flying in 2009 and now devotes much of his time to his art.