Thank you everyone for making our 15th annual Arts and Music show at Glendale such a great success - see you all again in 2010 |
Chris Paul Salish Artist Chris Paul is a Coast Salish artist who is gaining international acclaim
for his limited edition giclee prints, cedar panels, and glass
sculptures.
Born near Victoria, British Columbia in 1969 as a member of Tsartlip nation, Chris was immersed in Coast Salish art as a child. Before the age of thirty, Chris had completed one year of intensive training at 'Ksan, the Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Art, and had completed a two year apprenticeship under celebrated Tsimshian artist, Roy Henry Vickers. In 2007, Chris completed a major commission for the Sidney Pier Hotel and Spa. This project resulted in the creation of three large scale etched glass panels for the lobby of the hotel, as well as smaller panels placed in each of the hotel's 55 rooms. Chris has also gained exposure through the hit television series Grey's Anatomy, in which a number of his prints have been featured. Chris' pieces often reflect flora, fauna and mythologies associated with his culture and his home on Vancouver Island. Phone: (250) 544-0224 Website: www.chrispaul.ca |
Artist Biographies:
Painters
Carole Amo painting on various mediums
Born and raised on the island, started painting about 8 years ago to relax from a stressful job, retired from that job and now paint because I am relaxed. Being a self-taught painter canvass seemed to intimidating so decided to look for other mediums. Found out people throw away lots of things that can be painted on so to do our part my husband and I started to work together on items that can be “put” together and then painted and made to look good again. It was our small way of keeping things out of the landfill. Now paint on metal, paper, wood, tile and glass.
| Email: | c.amo@shaw.ca |
| Phone: | (250) 474-1480 |
Maureen Atkinson painter/fibre art
Maureen heads the art department at Kitimat High School. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from UVic. She specializes in water colour and fibre art and had a recent art show in Terrace, BC. Maureen will be showing her art with her father, Glen Atkinson (woodturner)
| Email: | kinnick4021@shaw.ca |
Jesi Barron Al Frescos Plein Air artist
Born Montreal, Quebec. Attended art classes at the museum run by Arthur Lismer, Moved to Victoria B.C, continued her interest in the arts. She was involved in Victoria Theatre Guild designing clothes for plays. Later she went to the Vancouver School of Art 1962-4. She loves to draw and paint in many mediums. She looks to the light and nature for inspiration. Presently member Al Frescoes Plein Air, Victoria, BC.
Kristin Grant acrylic painting, drawing, collage
My current works are inspired by the many layers of music, nature and love: rhythm, pattern, flowing basslines and various forms of energy. Together, they showcase a collection of materials, found objects and techniques including pen drawing, acrylic painting and collage. These pieces demonstrate my interest and exploration of bringing together many pieces to form a fantastic and unique whole.
My training includes 5 years of part-time classes at Vancouver Island School of Art in Victoria, coupled with a deep passion to explore and refine my styles, mediums and expressions. Current & future endeavours:
- Artistic Direction of Earthdance Victoria 2009
- Sunset Room Mural Project 2009
- studying cob & earth building techniques
- leading art classes for children and teens
- creating innovative, eco-friendly designs
| Website: | www.urbanheart.ca |
| Email: | kristin@urbanheart.ca |
Helen Jaques oil painting
Helen is a native Victorian who feels we live in the ideal place to enjoy art and develop it. She combines her hobbies of travel, walking, photography and art. It’s a great lifestyle.
Helen took art in school but did not feel successful and did not continue in this field. She trained as a teacher, then took time out to have a family. Her daughter, Sheila, showed an interest in art and took classes in oil painting with Ivah Bryant. Helen joined the classes too and enjoyed them so much that she went back to university and got a degree in art education. She worked as a Teacher-on-Call developing programs as an art specialist. She loved encouraging children to grow as artists but felt frustrated that she did not have enough time to develop her own art. Helen did manage to fit in classes in pastels and water color. She belonged to the Gilded Palette Art Club and the Victoria Society of Artists and exhibited with them. She has participated in Gorge on Art since 1998 and has had a show in the Saanich Municipal Hall in 2006-2008. In 2007 she was accepted into the Sooke Fine Arts Show. Four years ago Helen retired and scheduled art back into her life. She has focused on her first love, oils, and is excited to see a new style evolving. Her work reflects her love of the outdoors. She prefers to work on site but usually has to resort to taking pictures to refer to. She now teaches art to private students and occasionally volunteers in the schools in her grandchildren’s classes. She finds that teaching others stimulates new ideas and adds to the creativity.
| Email: | hjaques@shaw.ca |
| Phone: | (250) 479-7872 |
Olga Lang fine art
A delight to my senses, Life excites me! I have chosen to celebrate it through the use of colour and line, in such mediums as oil and water-colour. Presently, I enjoy creating art with acrylic on canvas or oil pastel on archival matt board. I have been an active, juried member of the Island Illustrators Society for over a dozen years, exhibiting my artwork in their shows as well as in galleries and at community events. You can see the full range of my work on my website.
| Website: | www.olgalang.com |
| Email: | info@olgalang.com |
| Phone: | (250) 477-5596 |
Arlene Lazar miniature paintings/jewelry
Arlene Lazar had fine art training in Montreal at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Concordia, and Ottawa at the Ottawa Municipal Arts Centre, Algonquin College and in art history at Carleton University.
Arlene has exhibited in various art galleries and Ottawa City Hall 1970-1993 and taught art courses in elementary and high schools and at art centres.
From 1990-97 she created and operated her own business, “Handpainted Surfaces”, which focused on painting, restoring, and designing, including commissioned works for clients in Canada, U.S.A., Germany, France, Italy, and Holland.
Arlene is currently working on commissions, painting, and creating jewellery.
| Email: | arlene.lazar@shaw.ca |
Roy Mercer watercolours/pet portraits/prints
Roy is a fourth generation Victorian who has been interested in art and music since childhood. Art has been his chosen profession for the past forty years and music is still very much another creative outlet as a hobby. Roy was a student of Allan Edwards from 1961-63 at the Art League of Victoria majoring in Industrial Design. While there, he was taught watercolour techniques by Allan, a master of the medium.
Roy attended the The Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles between 1963-67. He majored in Industrial Design and minored in Graphic Design. After graduation, he worked in Los Angeles for two years as a package designer and then moved to Vancouver where he worked in various art agencies as a graphic artist. In 1979, Roy moved back to Victoria and worked for the design agencies Alston graphics and TTC.
In 1983 Roy put together his first one-man show, and has had several more since then.
Roy has been freelancing as a graphic designer and architectural illustrator since 1984 with his company New Moon Design. He is situated in Fairfield, Victoria, and is now focusing on his fine art.
Roy has recently been concentrating on commissioned pet portraits. His love for animals shows up in his paintings, and with his wonderful ability, captures the intelligence and beauty of these lovely creatures.
Many of his other paintings contain humour and a slightly tongue-in-cheek attitude with a hint of erotica and wonderful catchy titles that make us look at ourselves in a way that no other species can appreciate.
| Website: | www.roymercerart.com |
| Email: | newmoon@shaw.ca |
Marilyn Wallace encaustic mixed media
I try to bring to my mixed media and photography the same elements of colour, texture and design that are important to me in my job as a Garden Designer.
Lately, I have been working with encaustic medium. The ability to add, texturize and scrape away wax results in pieces that have depth and luminosity.
My mixed media work enables me to use my photographs, found or hand finished papers and even detritus from my garden. Meanwhile, my photography has also undergone a shift. While starting with impressionistic, almost abstract, close-up photos, I am now excited about recording the urban neighbourhood in transition. This is not a record of what was as much as a statement on the ongoing homogenization of our culture.
| Website: | marilynwallace.com |
| Email: | mw@marilynwallace.com |
| Phone: | (250) 519-0519 |
Matthew Wolferstan watercolour painting
Matthew Wolferstan's representational watercolours are mostly of local scenes familiar to any who know and love Victoria and BC's coastal waters. Born and raised in Victoria, Wolferstan gives an insider's look at the area through his paintings. His water-colours are very precise, with close attention to detail, while still maintaining a feel for the subject and overall mood of the piece.
Mostly self-taught, Wolferstan's formal training includes completion of the Foundation year at Emily Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, instruction in portrait painting in oils with local portraitist David Goatley and one week in Italy with British watercolourist Alan Reed.
Roberto Maralag III Socio-Realist Artist
Born in Tondo, Manila, Philippines, the artist expresses his inner self through paintings. His exposure to life in Tondo, involvement with Aetas Tribe Community Services in Canauan, Morong, Bataan and several years working with the Indo-Chinese refugees have inspired him to become a Socio-Realist Artist. In 1983, he worked as an Artist Illustrator for the International Catholic Migration Commission under the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees. He also worked as a free lance Illustrator for the Norwegian Literacy Book and designed/illustrated an inspirational book entitled “The Living Breakthrough”. From 1983 to 1989, he participated in various group shows in the Philippines as a member of the International Media Services.
In 1989, he migrated to Toronto, Canada, where his worked was later featured in “Art in Magical Philippines” sponsored by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1992. In 1997, his work was displayed in the “Mabuhay Philippines” at the Canadian National Exhibition. On September of that same year, the artist was selected to participate on a juried show entitled “Reflections”, an exhibition to celebrate Canada's Year of Asia Pacific. He also had numerous group exhibitions with the Philippine Artist Group in Toronto in different major cities across Ontario from 1995 to 1997. Sari-Likha “Watercolour in Nature and Prelude to Socio-Realism” is the artist first solo show. The exhibition will feature landscape in BC and around Victoria as well as the Philippine Refugee camp. It also includes a small study of his Socio-Realism. Some of the landscapes have messages that deal with social issues around the community and current events.
His works are now in private collections in Canada, United States of America, Australia, Norway, Sweden and the Philippines.
Exhibitions:
February 2009 “Sari-Likha” Watercolour in Nature and Prelude to Socio-Realism (Collective Works Gallery, Victoria, BC)
September 1997 “Reflections” An exhibition to celebrate Canada’s Year of Asia Pacific (Cedar Ridge Studio Gallery, Toronto, ON)
August 1997 “Mabuhay Philippines” The Philippine Artist Group (Toronto) (Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, ON)
June 1996 “RIZAL” The Philippine Artist Group (Toronto) (Neilson Park Creative Centre, Etobicoke, ON)
December 1995 “Markham Winterlude” The Philippine Artist Group (Toronto)
(Town of Markham City Hall, Markham, ON)
July 1995 “LIKHA” The Philippine Artist Group (Toronto)
(Neilson Park Creative Centre Etobicoke, ON)
February 1992 “Art in Magical Philippines” Sponsored by the Hudson's Bay company (Toronto, ON)
1983 to 1989 International Media Services Artist Group (Philippine Refugee Processing Centre, Morong, Bataan, Philippines)
Carole Leslie acrylics & mixed media
Zendotstudio - Carole Leslie works in mixed media and acrylics, assembling images out of paper, text and vibrantly coloured acrylics. Working initially as a technical writer she began her exploration of the visual arts as a card maker gradually increasing the size of her pieces over the last 12 years. Her work, which can be found on-line under the name of Zendotstudio, is informed by her Buddhist practice. It includes the exploration of Buddha images and abstracts, sometimes merged with text and bits of paper or recycled prayer flags. Her interests lie in integrating life and art into one whole, creating pieces that bring serenity, tranquility and life to the spaces they inhabit. She has learned that one of the great mysteries of life is that you never know where that blank canvas will lead and everything has a life of its own! Her work has appeared in the Buddhist publications, Tricycle Magazine and Buddhadharma Magazine.
| Website: | zendotstudio.blogspot.com |
Colleen Hammond Allison painter
Colleen Hammond Allison is known for her vibrant watercolour, the translucent and luminous qualities of which capture the essence of light.
Painting and drawing since early childhood, Colleen was influenced by the creativity of well-known Victoria artists and friends of the family: Herbert Seibner, Michael Morris, Ricky Ciccimarra and Karl Spreitz. She studied formally at Malaspina College.
After more than a decade of living on lighthouses on the central coast of British Columbia, neighbourhoods, people’s homes, and the astounding flowers and gardens of Victoria currently inspire Colleen.
Colleen’s work can be found in Malaspina College (now Vancouver Island University) permanent collection, in addition to private collections.
| Email: | snapdragonstudio@shaw.ca |
| Phone: | (250) 384-7948 |
Prints
Edie Miller hand-pulled etchings
Edie has become one the West Coast’s most accomplished printmakers. Edie perhaps is best known for her miniature etchings. These not only demonstrate her superb sense of craftsman-ship and intricate care for detail, but also her sense of humour that almost inevitably appears in at least the title of the print. She creates the good old fashioned way, too. Everything, from idea scribbles and etching the plate to pulling the prints one at a time, is done by hand. Even the prints are individually hand coloured to achieve a softness and subtlety you just can’t get any other way.
Edie has held workshops and numerous one-man shows. Her work can be found at galleries in Canada and in private collections.
| Phone: | (250) 746-6284 |
Helen Stewart printmaker/books
Helen works in the traditional printmaking process known as intaglio. She combines techniques to create images on multiple copperplates, handwiped and handprinted. The resulting works are uniquely layered and richly textured (see illustrations from A Child's Enchanted Garden and Berkeley to the Barnyard). 'The printmaker is a most peculiar being. He delights in deferred gratification and in doing what does not come naturally. He prefers the difficult and arduous approach to expression. He takes pleasure in working backward or in opposites. The gesture that produces a line of force moving to the right prints to the left and vice versa; a deeply engraved trench in a copper plate prints as a raised line,while a raised line on a plate prints as a depression in the paper. Left is right. Right is left. Backward is forward. The printmaker, peculiar as he is, must see at least two sides to every question.' - Jules Heller, Printmaking Today: A Studio Handbook
| Website: | www.hestewart.com |
| Email: | hestewart@shaw.ca |
| Phone: | (250) 477-1034 |
Jenny Waelti-Walters printmaker/painter
After thirty years teaching at UVic and three at the Victoria College of Art, Jenny Waelti-Walters is now a printmaker and painter, best known for monoprints of layered figures in motion. (Her prints have been chosen for shows in Tokyo, Madrid, Sophia, Montreal and Vancouver.) She also paints people and poppies with attitude and recently, for the first time, she did illustrations for a book: Carol Matthews, “The C-Word”, Hedgerow Press, Sidney, BC, 2007.
Coordinator of the Scattered Artists Studio Tour in Saanich, member of Ground Zero Printmakers and Collective Works Gallery, she welcomes visitors to her studio behind Playfair Park.
| Website: | www.jwaelti-walters.com |
Photography
Rasma Bertz photographer
Rasma vividly remembers the first photo she took - the back end of a jack russel - at the age of 3. Since then she has always had a camera and looked at the world as through a lens. Growing up in BC, with its phenomenal scenery and an active father, eager to explore the wilderness, was a perfect match for a budding photographer. Later, Rasma became the yearbook photographer in high school, and captured stage performances through university. Rasma has also enjoyed the opportunities provided in her travels around Africa, Antipodes, and Europe, particularly while living in Scotland.
Rasma is inspired by textures, reflections and patterns in nature, as well as the juxtaposition of man's influence on the natural world; she most often uses macro or zoom to get to the heart of the shot. Rasma enjoys the immediacy of a digital camera, and believes that the secret to a good photo is still in the eye of the beholder without computer manipulation. Her website www.galleryrasma.com is currently being upgraded.
Rasma will be sharing a display with her mother Shirley-Ann (pottery)
| Website: | www.galleryrasma.com |
George Clement photographer
GEORGE CLEMENT graduated from the University of Victoria’s Fine Arts program in the Visual Arts (graduation in 1976 with distinction) and was fortunate to have world renowned artist, Pat Martin Bates, as a professor, a mentor, and a friend. He has been involved in the visual arts and music ever since his graduation, often blending the two. He exhibited his art in the juried travelling exhibition called Young Canadians which toured Canada in 1976 right after his graduation. He then went on to pioneer 2 productions, also in 1976, mixing music and photographic visuals through the use of multiple programmed projectors at the University of Victoria’s University Centre Concert Hall. After a post graduate scholarship in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1977, his art
was in many international juried and invitational shows in Lubljana, Slovenia (the former Yugoslavia); Krakow, Poland; Bradford, England; Tokyo, Japan; Virginia Beach and Stockton, USA.; across Canada in a travelling group exhibition; in the Yukon, and of course, in Victoria, British Columbia at the Emily Carr House, the University of Victoria’s University Centre and the MacPherson
Library, Open Space, “Kids and Kows at the Burnaby Art Gallery, as well as in the Sooke and the Sidney Fine Art Shows.
Working as a professional photographer, he honed his skills in that field to produce masterful land and cityscapes, finding abstraction in nature as well as in concrete and steel, but always having the preference for unadulterated nature in all its glorious forms. In the mid 1980’s he entered the computer world, using computers to notate original orchestral and chamber music, and at the same time continued with his photography, painting, and works in other media.
His work also includes such media as gouache and pen and ink on cotton rag paper, graphite on cotton rag paper, and acrylic paint on canvas.
His most recent creations are a collection of “Triptych” and “Triptych Minus One” (I don’t like the sound of the word Diptych!) photographs; a chamber music suite called Conversations With the Moon, written originally for string trio – violin, viola and violoncello - but played earlier this year by the full Acadia University String Ensemble; and a trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano entitled “Couple Carrying Night”.
| Website: | www.sunelectric.ca |
| Email: | photos@sunelectric.ca |
| Phone: | (250) 383-6925 |
Mary Coakley and Matt Lambert photography
| Email: | maryecoakley@gmail.com |
Sculpture
Bill and Helen Bushell
SUMMER HOUSE STUDIO: Bill and Helen Bushell, along with their son Eric, create original and very unique cast stone sculptures from their home and studio in Victoria . All three artists attended the Alberta College of Art and Design. The inspiration for their sculptures ranges from old gargoyles and green men, to floral themes and art deco. Each piece is hand cast and hand finished to the highest degree. Their website features not only the sculptures but paintings, mosaics, mosaic classes and a humourous blog which has as major themes: artistic inspiration, the artist in the garden and creative recycling. | Website: | www.summerhouseart.com |
| Email: | info@summerhouseart.com |
| Phone: | (250) 380-6334 |
David Hunwick sculpture
David studied Sculpture at Ravensbourne College of Art, London, UK, from 1981-1985.
David has been producing, and exhibiting sculptures for over 27 years and his work can be found in public parks, in and around public buildings, and in private collections in the UK, Canada, Australia, United States and Jersey.
David was selected to take part in the New Contempories exhibition at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, and exhibited regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. Recently, David won the best 3D award in the Sidney Art Show in 2007 and an honourable mention at the Look Exhibition in 2008 in Victoria. David enjoys working in figurative and semi abstract styles, experimenting with line and form, and texture. He uses both animal and human forms. Recent work includes casting in cold-cast resin and also bronze. Currently, David’s work can be seen at the Sooke Harbour House, and also the Winchester Gallery in Oak Bay. David also is on the teaching faculty at the Victoria College of Art where he teaches sculpting and mould-making and casting techniques.
| Website: | www.davidhunwick.com |
Birgit Piskor sculpture
In 1999, Birgit Piskor moved back to her childhood home in Victoria,
B.C. and began to create what has become an internationally acclaimed
garden. During the latter stages of this process, with no formal arts
training, Birgit began to construct concrete sculptures to enhance and
complete her design.
In 2002, her private passions took on a more public overtone when Victorian Garden Tours began bringing garden lovers from around the world to visit her garden and sculpture gallery.
Continually inspired by the glowing feedback from tour patrons and customers alike, Birgit is constantly exploring many different forms and styles of sculptural works for both interior and garden design use.
With the maturing of her work has come multi-media exposure including the filming of an episode of the Gemini award-winning and internationally televised Recreating Eden devoted to her life story, garden and sculpture.
Today, her unique concrete creations have found an enthusiastic international audience with pieces being held in private collections in Canada, the US, Mexico, Germany and Australia.
| Website: | www.birgitpiskor.com |
| Email: | birgitpiskor@gmail.com |
| Phone: | (250) 858-4334 |
Nathan Scott figurative bronze sculpture
In 1998, after spending 9 years in the Yukon gold fields, I returned to Victoria and soon realized I had a God-given gift for sculpting.
Since then, I have completed over 60 private, public and limited edition sculptures that reside in every continent of the world!
In addition to learning the techniques of sculpting, mold-making and casting for a variety of mediums, I have now started my own bronze foundry.
At present I am best known for the Terry Fox sculpture at Mile 0 and at the moment I am working on the much-anticipated Navy’s 100th 'Homecoming' Memorial.
| Website: | www.sculpturebynathanscott.com |
Metalwork
Karen Lancey metal sculptor
Metal Mermaid Welding is whimsical collection of metal art for the home and garden designed and created by Karen Lancey. Function or fun, the pieces can be large or small and are always one of a kind with great attention being paid to detail and craftsmanship. Having a strong background in Graphic Design and a love of the ocean and nature gives Karen many amazing examples and ideas to expand from. Be it a life sized metal mermaid, gleaming scales, hair entwined with kelp and sea creatures, a humorous collection of animal stakes for the garden or something functional like a gate, arbour, clocks or hooks, you are sure to find something that you love and makes you laugh.
| Website: | www.metalmermaid.com |
| Email: | weldsea610@yahoo.com |
| Phone: | (250) 658-0415 |
Heather Gunning and Gord Langston cold cast bronze and metal art
Together Gord and Heather are Pleasant Street Studio - Everything they create is re-cycled, re-claimed metal sculpture and also painting, to cold-cast bronze for garden features. Put a smile on your face, or in your heart - with a visit to our display at Arts & Music at Glendale - "a unique, one of a kind experience"!
Call for an appointment.
| Website: | www.pleasantstreetstudio.com |
| Email: | gordl@shaw.ca |
Marianne and Jim McDonald lead-free pewterware
Blackfish Pewter is a small, artisan-operated Pewter workshop, located in Parksville, on beautiful Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Each originally designed piece is created and crafted in our studio, with particular attention given to quality and detail. For years we have been committed to bringing a ‘Pacific Northwest presence to the work that we produce with pride. Our Canadian ‘fine pewter’ is lead-free.
| Website: | www.blackfishpewter.com |
| Email: | info@blackfishpewter.com |
| Phone: | (250) 954-1939 |
Nancy Powell artist blacksmith
"Nancy the Blacksmith" Nancy began to forge metal at the Sooke Region Museum in 1991. Enchanted by the dirt, smell and fire, she forged herself a career. Some of her artwork is created with shiny new steel, and some with old metal found on the local beaches. For 6 years she was the Artist in Residence for the Sooke Harbour House (1999-2005) and now she works exclusively from her shop in Metchosin. Much of her work is by custom order and is suitable for gardens. She has work in collections around the world. She was recently chosen by the City of Victoria to make a large sculpture placed into Wark Park (Quadra and King) in Spring 2008. Nancy has also movie props, public art for the city of Victoria and numerous private commissions. Her work can be found in private collections around the world. Nancy teaches small classes in her shop in Metchosin. Nancy will be bringing a portable forge to "Arts & Music at Glendale".
| Website: | www.nancytheblacksmith.com |
| Email: | bcforge@telus.net |
| Phone: | (250) 478-4725 |
Ceramics-Pottery
Shirley-Ann Bertz
Shirley Ann was born in London, England. She first studied pottery in Toronto with Gordon Barnes and David Long. After moving to BC, she attended workshops at Pearson College with David Leach, Harry Davis, David Eales and Robin Hopper.
She was one of the founding members of Side Street Studio in Oak Bay, has had long standing affiliations with Pacific Rim Potters and Esquimalt Arts & Crafts, and is planning to become a member of the Salt Spring Potter's Guild in the near future. She specialises in functional-ware, porcelain, raku and pit fired pottery, and is known for her trademark mouse.
Shirley-Ann will be sharing a display with her daughter Rasma Bertz (photographer).
Cindy Gibson ceramic artist
Internationally known ceramic artist Cindy Gibson has a B.F.A. honours degree from the University of Manitoba, with a double major in painting and ceramics. Spanning 27 years, her art career has taken her to live and work in eight locales across North America and Europe. As a potter, Cindy is known for her attention to detail, which is reflected in the quality of finish in her high-fire porcelain and stoneware pieces. Her current work focuses on colourful, functional and decorative pieces for the garden. Cindy returned to Canada and settled in Victoria, B.C. in 2003.
| Website: | www.gobc.ca/CindyGibson |
Penny Jones pottery
Clay items range from the functional to the whimsical. Her pots and bowls are perfect accents for the home. Lanterns/masks/mushrooms make interesting decorations to the garden. most Saturdays, she is at the Duncan Market in the Square.
| Email: | johnpauljones1@shaw.ca |
| Phone: | (250) 715-1403 |
Don Haug ceramic masks/garden pieces
A prairie native, 57, with a BFA (theatre scenic design). I have been playing with clay for several years. My works are either sculptural or a combination of mouldings and sculpture. The faces of Green man, Gaia, and various flowers are where I draw creative inspiration. My colour palette is as varied as flowers.
| Website: | www.donhaug.ca |
| Phone: | (250) 479-7967 |
Pamela Truscott-White & Priska Stabel potters
Pamela Truscott-White is a recently retired special education Middle School teacher who, for many years, spent every spare moment learning the nuances of clay. Her first teacher, Diana Battie, gave her an excellent foundation. Currently she is studying with Muriel Sibley. She sells her work through various craft and art shows.
| Website: | www.gobc.ca/priskastabel |
| Email: | pitw@shaw.ca |
Glass
Dena Carroll fusion glass
Dena Carroll offers unique designs in fusion glass jewelry and functional glass art pieces. She loves to experiment with bright, bold colours and various techniques including wire wrapping, milleflore, dichroic glass, and etching. Dena works from her home studio at 3627 Revelstoke Place. Custom orders available.
| Website: | www.gobc.ca/denacarroll |
| Email: | dcarroll@telus.net |
| Phone: | (250) 472-3554 |
Terry Harrison glass art and wearable art
If it is a flower, Terry will paint it onto glass, onto clothing, onto table linens and tiles. Wild flowers, cultivated garden flowers and even weeds in bloom are subjects for her work. Her lifelong love of flowers is evident in the garden she and her husband tend after a 20-year career as a florists.
All the glass plates, glasses, vases, jugs and dinnerware are fired so that they can go into the dishwasher and all the clothing and linens are machine wash-and-dry.
Her background prior to glass and fabric painting includes, painting in watercolours, a career in journalism, floristry, sheep farming, dog breeding, and a musical life that continues today in voice, flute and harp.
Terry’s work is available in her Glass Art Studio in Mill Bay, at Imagine That! on Craig St. in Duncan, and at Glendale Gardens at the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific on Quayle Rd. in Saanich.
| Email: | harrisonglassart@shaw.ca |
| Phone: | (250) 743-3862 |
Renate Inkpen glass - all types including jewelry
Renate is a Victoria glass artisan with many years of experience in stained glass, having made custom designed windows, panels and many decorative items.
The fun and creative possibilities of fusing glass and colours are an endless expansion of the art of stained glass. Each piece is meticulously handmade, unique, functional, decorative and whimsical. All Renate's fused glass items are food safe and dishwasher-friendly, although they need to avoid the microwave.
Dichroic (meaning 2 colours) glass was originally developed for the US space program. It is produced by spraying a thin layer of metallic oxides onto the glass surface at very high temperatures in a vacuum furnace. It has the unique property of reflecting one colour while transmitting another colour. Although it is one of the most expensive types of glass available, its unique beauty has made it very popular: while dichroic glass comes in a wonderful range of colours, each colour is unique as it is impossible to duplicate a specific shade. Thus each piece of jewellery made by Renate is one-of-a-kind.
Patti Wilson stained glass
My desire to create stained glass pieces happened about 18 years ago. At that time I lived in an isolated community and had the time and opportunity to venture into this art form. Without any previous background in art, I bought the basic tools required and a "How to" book and started the hands on learning process. It has been a very fulfilling journey and one of which I have never tired. | Email: | pattiwilsonglass@shaw.ca |
| Phone: | (250) 334-1958 |
Wood
Glen Atkinson woodturner
Glen is a retired Biology teacher and has been a wood turner for 6 years. He belongs to the wood turner guild and spends many happy hours weekly at his lathe. He has taken part in the Saanich South Gallery tour the last three years.
Graham Cox woodturner
My name is Graham Cox, and I've been a wood turner for approximately 17 years. I'm a member of both the Vancouver Island Wood turners Guild, and the Vancouver Island Woodworkers Guild. I'm an active member of their Urban Wood Recovery program. Much of my work is done using local woods sourced through this program or from wind fallen trees etc..
I enjoy demonstrating using my foot powered lathe as it connects me to the roots of my craft and provides an interest for the public.
The inspiration for my work comes from the wood I am turning, and the wood often dictates the end design of the piece
Hermann Edler wood folk art
Hermann Edler grew up in Austria and studied graphic design and European Folk Art at the University of Fine Arts in Linz/Austria. He worked as a graphic designer and art director and collected Folk Art and wooden toys from different regions of Middle-Europe.
In 1997, he and his family moved to Canada, where he started to carve whimsical wooden folk art figures. His work is collected in Canada, Australia, Austria, Germany, N’Ireland and the USA. “If somebody looks at my creations and smiles, I think I have made a good piece”
| Website: | www.gobc.ca/city-of-victoria-travel/hermann-edler_1074 |
Joanne Taylor and John Holm wood sculpture
An introductory wood carving course in 2000 quickly led to Joanne's passion for wood sculpting. A retired R.N., she initially participated in several friendly groups of like-minded people. With these new friends she entered competitions in Nanaimo & the Parksville Brandt Festival & won several ribbons & awards. 'Art on the Gorge' is another venue where she has enjoyed displaying her art.
Courses given in Alberta by renowned artist J Christopher White broadened Joanne's vision to an appreciation of both stylized and abstract sculpting. ‘Found’ wood - be it burls, beach driftwood or a neighbour's tree that had to be removed are now Joanne's favourite wood sources. Giving a second life to wood is an ongoing fascination and joy.
Weaving
Monika Hawkes-Frost and Friends weaving, spinning, fibre arts
FIBRE CREATIONS: Monika has been weaving and spinning for about 20 years had numerous exhibits and participated in number of shows gave workshops and lectures over the years. She is currently the President of the Victoria handweavers’ and spinners’ guild.
Monika will be displaying her works along with those by Brenda Nicolson and some other weaver from around the Saanich area.
Ada Oegema handweaving – wall hangings
Ada, a self taught weaver, resides in Victoria, British Columbia and has been weaving professionally since 1996.
Her weavings have been juried into various art shows and her works have also been exhibited in galleries in Santa Ana, California; Toronto, Ontario; and Vancouver, British Columbia. After receiving a commissioned work a couple in Chicago wrote: “As art, your weaving stands the test – it is continuously interesting the more we live with it.” Ada has also been invited to participate in the internationally renowned Florence Biennale to be held in Florence, Italy in December 2009. Weaving has become her passion and she has dedicated much of her time to perfecting the techniques involved in block weaving. The only materials she works with are wool for the weft and linen for the warp. Ada enjoys watching her creations of fibre, colour and design move along on the loom and looks forward to the moment of "truth" when the finished weaving is cut off the loom and viewed, for the first time, in its entirety. All her weavings function very well on the wall and, in addition, some weavings make a striking statement on the floor.
EXHIBITIONS & SHOWINGS:
- “Expressions 97” at the Belleville Public Library, Belleville, Ontario (1997)
- “Island Tides” at Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, BC (2002)
- “LSB Art Show” at Community Arts Council, Victoria, BC (2005 & 2007)
- Assunta Fox Gallery, Santa Ana, California (2006 & 2007)
- Arta Gallery, Distillery District, Toronto, Ontario (2007)
- FibreEssence Gallery, Vancouver, BC (2007)
- Sooke Harbour House, Sooke, BC (2006-2008)
- Sidney Fine Art Show, Sidney, BC (2003-2008)
- Sooke Fine Arts Show, Sooke, BC (2001-2009)
- Received Honourable Mention award in 2005
- Received Juror’s Choice award in 2008
- Quiddity Studio and Gallery, Picton, Ontario (1998)
- Cornerstone Fine Arts, Kingston, Ontario (1998)
- Out of Hand Gallery, Victoria, BC (1999)
- Sager’s Fine Furniture, Victoria, BC (2000)
- The Gallery at Matticks, Victoria, BC (2000, 2008 & 2009)
- Oak Leaf Gallery, Chemainus, BC (2004)
- Saanich Peninsula Studio Tour, Saanich, BC (2006)
- Goward House, Victoria, BC (2007) Chalet Estate Winery, Victoria, BC (2006 & 2007)
- Scattered Artists Studio Tour, Victoria (2005, 2006, 2008 & 2009)
| Email: | ada@canadianhandweaving.com |
| Phone: | (250) 380-7374 |
Jewellery-Beads
Jane Bryony-Shaw
Jane Bryony-Shaw emigrated to Canada from England in 1969, and, since retiring from teaching in the Cowichan Valley in 2003, has been enjoying living in Victoria
Jane’s passion for colour is expressed by melting brightly coloured canes of Italian glass using a surface mix torch. Beads are formed onto metal mandrels through the magical alchemy of hot flame in the age-old lampworking tradition. Glass, melted and pulled into skinny sticks of glass, called ‘stringers’, is used for surface decoration of the beads which are then annealed in a kiln. Jane’s handmade beads are featured in one-of-a-kind creations which may incorporate tiny seedbeads, gemstone pieces, sterling silver beads, Chinese porcelain and other bought beads. Jane designs unique items of jewellery, full of colour and life, which sell under the name BRYONY.
Findings are always of high quality sterling silver. All work is satisfaction guaranteed. Custom designs are often individually created for her customers.
Jane has been making beads for over 9 years and has sold her work at juried Christmas fairs on Vancouver Island as well as summer fairs on Gabriola Island and at the Glendale Gardens! Jewellery has been sold in retail stores in Chemainus, Duncan, Mill Bay, Victoria and on Saltspring Island.
Jane loves making colourful, eclectic jewellery that is both romantic and funky and will bring joy and a sense of fun to the inner child of the wearer!
Linda Rajotte fine silver and other jewelry
SILVER OCEAN DESIGNS
Linda loves to create one-of-a-kind wearable art pieces, striving for asymmetrical balance using inspiration from nature, in particular, the ocean. Stones, shells, feathers, leaves and other natural objects from local islands and seashores are incorporated in her striking silver designs. She finds the ever-changing green/blue colour of the Paua shells (abalone) from New Zealand very pleasing integrated with her silverwork. These colours also inspire her to use many varieties of turquoise stone in her work. Linda wants it to “breathe West Coast”!
Linda studied art at university, while working on her degree in mathematics, and over the years she has taken courses in drawing, watercolour painting, acrylic painting, fabric art, theatre, writing, dance. She also has taken courses in working with precious metals, including two levels of Precious Metal Clay Certification, an Intensive Metalwork course using both silver and copper, and a course in Viking Knit. She likes to demonstrate the technique of Viking Knit at the show venues she attends. She has found sharing her art with people at exhibitions to be a fulfilling and exhilarating experience.
| Website: | www.lindarajotte.com |
| Email: | lrajotte@shaw.ca |
| Phone: | (250) 388-3807 |
Valerie Singbeil
BEADSENSE: My childhood love of collecting beach stones and agates evolved naturally into a passion for collecting gemstone beads.
These precious and semi-precious stone and metal jewelry pieces are all individually hand-crafted and one-of-a-kind. The inspiration comes from the stones themselves as they reveal endless possible variations of colors, shapes, sizes, textures and energies, resulting in an eclectic mix of designs to suit differing styles and tastes. As these stones provide endless joy to those who work with them, so too will they bring long-lasting pleasure and unique qualities to the wearer.
I use standard bead-stringing material (nylon-coated, multi-strand wire for strength and flexibility), and sterling silver or 14k gold-filled and vermeil spacers, findings and fastenings. Into some pieces I incorporate focal lampwork beads (hand-blown glass) made by Island artists.
Mary Lou Moffat and Jill Rockwell mixed media jewelry - metal and bead art
Backyard Beads is the collaborative effort of Mary Lou Moffat and Jill Rockwell, two jewelry artists who live and work in Victoria, British Columbia. Several years ago, we met and discovered a mutual interest in mixed media artwork. It was a natural transformation to visualizing that into jewellery pieces, a very unique and personal type of art. Our first shows were held in Jill's garage studio, thus the name Backyard Beads. Both women have continued to develop individual and unique styles as our work became recognized on the West Coast.
Viking Knit is an ancient Norse metal weave which we often incorporate into our pieces. It is a process of hand weaving wire in a knit stitch and pulling it through a drawplate. Unlike knitting and crocheting, this technique does not compromise the strength of the wire by repetitive stretching.
Silver Metal Clay is pure silver, pulverized and bound into a clay form. It is shaped by the artist, and through a laborious technique, textures are raised on the surface in a process that simulates etching, as opposed to the commercially available texture plates which are pushed down into the clay. The piece is then kiln-sintered and oxidized to create a unique and complex finish.
We are also quite involved in metal work. We work with bronze, copper, brass, and sheet silver, which is hand-textured, cut and worked to create one of a kind pieces.
We purchase handmade lampwork beads, gemstones, and recently have added new glass to our associations with artist-created beads, glass beads made of vintage French glass in Paris by the artist who has developed a specialized technique. All these components are chosen carefully to compliment our own artistic handiwork.
| Website: | www.backyardbeadsvictoria.com |
Mosaics
Anne Swannell mosaicist
Anne's flower mosaics (patio panels) hang in many private collections. Public art commissions include an eight-foot mosaic mandala for the Seapark Aquatic Complex in Sooke , a mosaic orca for the Royal Bank Group in Victoria, and an 8-foot mosaic panel for a school in Oak Bay.
These 24" x 24" mosaic panels are triple-sealed against the weather; they are ideal for hanging in a breeze-way or under the eaves. A little rain won’t hurt them, but getting wet and freezing will. So we recommend taking them in during the winter months. Each weighs 30 – 35 lbs.
My mosaics, paintings, public art and published work may be seen on my website.
| Website: | www.anneswannellart.ca |
| Email: | anneswannell@shaw.ca |
Bruce Kellow and Kelly Zozula mosaicists
Unique mosaic creations: stepping stones, bird baths, tables. Regular displayers at Glendale Gardens.
| Phone: | (250) 479-6321 |
Textiles
Dorrie Collins textile artist
I was born in the UK and have made Victoria my home for the last 30 years.
Arts, crafts, drawing and water-colour painting have always been a significant part of my life. I have been fascinated by sewing and embroidery since childhood.
Between l994 and l998, I attended the City and Guilds Embroidery and Design course with Gail Harker at Coupeville Arts Centre on Whidbey Island. This has been the foundation for my latest creative explorations with stitchery and textiles.
I am particularly inspired by the natural world and by beautiful textiles. I love colour and texture and experimenting with layering of fabrics. Lately I have been moving away from traditional stitchery methods to a looser approach in which I alternate painting and stitching to create more three-dimensional effects.
I have been creating my work on a commercial basis since 2004. In 2004 and 2005, I exhibited and sold my work at Art in the Garden in Vancouver. In November 2005 I participated in Out of Hand, Victoria and in August 2006, I participated in the Filberg Festival (Comox). In 2007, I participated in the Sidney Artisan Show and exhibited and sold my work at the Sooke Fine Arts Show and at the Glendale Gardens Art Show; In 2009 I exhibited at the Sidney Fine Art Show. I also sell privately and take commissions.
| Email: | dcollins@islandnet.com |
| Phone: | (250) 598-1807 |
Susan Teece quilting
Susan has a passion for cutting up fabric and stitching it back together. She also has a passion for beautiful scenery. The challenge is to capture the moment in textile landscape art.
Influences have come from education and travel - a degree in Textile Science including courses in Art History and Anthropology. She has also enjoyed numerous travel adventures and feels very fortunate to be a resident of Vancouver Island.
Susan’s philosophy is that her quilts should look like something or some place. They have perspective, interesting details, and draw the viewer into a beautiful landscape.
Plus
Jane Morris-Wyatt painted aprons
My childhood home was in Aurora Ontario. Summers were spent at our cottage on Lake Simcoe. I have had the privilege of being a stay at home mom to raise 4 wonderful children. Since the early 80's I have been in British Columbia--Vancouver, Whistler and now Vancouver Island. Skiing in the mountains or kayaking the oceans are two of my favorite sports.My competitive spirit and love of the outdoor is now being channelled into my art. I have studied at Victoria College of Art and attended many wonderful workshops. I have received an award of excellence in a juried show. I love colour and happiness in my work using oils, encaustics, acrylics and now fabric painting. My hand painted aprons can be found in homes all around the world.
Jane gives both with her art and energy to cancer events and the Duncan hospital each year.
| Email: | janemorriswyatt@shaw.ca |
Jenny Taylor eggshell carving/decorating
One of the oldest and most powerful symbols in our world is the egg. From
the smallest to the biggest it puzzles us with its perfect shape and beauty.
Present in many ancient traditions, the egg represents, healing, rebirth,
abundance and creation of life. From Faberge to painted eggs one finds a
wide range of imagination and styles.
Why is egg decorating so captivating?
First, it is not an art or craft in itself, it is rather a medium on which many arts and crafts can be applied. Pysanky and scratch-carving have been around for a long time as well as engraving and jeweling the egg. In fact nearly all arts and crafts are applicable to eggs, from decoupage to beading, painting to carving the list is almost endless and there is great pleasure in creating an original design for someone else to enjoy.
I have been decorating eggs for about 18 years now, starting out on my own learning from books and magazines, to forming a group of like-minded enthusiasts in England, to share ideas attending seminars and workshops run by experts. I now work on my own once again since we moved to Canada in 2005, but get great support and inspiration from the Eggshell carvers group site.
Recently, I have moved into 3 dimensional carving, engraving and filigree work on ostrich, rhea, emu and goose eggshells. I find the experience fascinating as the result is never the same twice, hence :- UNIQUE EGGSHELLS
Simone Vogel-Horridge art conservation
Simone Vogel-Horridge is an art conservator working in Victoria. She received her degree in art conservation after completing a six year masters program at the University of Applied Science and Art in Hildesheim, Germany. Originally from Germany, Simone moved to Canada in 2000 to establish Vogel-Horridge Fine Art Conservation. She specializes in conserving and restoring paintings and polychrome wooden sculptures. Her clientele includes Museums, Archives, Art Galleries, Art Collections and private clients. She has worked on works of art by artists such as A.Y. Jackson, Emily Carr, Maurice Utrillo and Andy Warhol.
| Email: | mone29@shaw.ca |
| Phone: | (250) 383-8653 |
Donald Kozak bonsai art
ISLAND BONSAI: For the past 9 years we have been the excusive market orientated " one stop" Bonsai retailer/supplier on Vancouver Island. We offer easy to maintain bonsai and novelty plants for home and office with care and pruning instructions to all bonsai enthusiasts. For the more experienced practitioner, a complete inventory of bonsai supplies, such as pottery, wire, tools, books, mud men and bonsai growing medium are displayed. We also offer on site bonsai pruning services and yearly "Beginner Bonsai courses" in Victoria, Duncan and Nanaimo.
Luis Martin and Mark Paterson bonsai art
Mark Paterson and Luis Martin are bonsai collectors and enthusiasts. They create bonsai trees from nursery stock for themselves and for others; they will bring for sale fine examples of their work, as well as top quality Japanese bonsai pots. Mark and Luis are both active in the Vancouver Island Bonsai Club, and always enjoy the opportunity to promote the art of bonsai.
Young Artist
Keri Brunskill art for children
With a playful style geared towards children and the young at heart, Keri Brunskill has been hard at work creating illustrations, linograph prints, and sewn creations. Drawing and painting on anything she could get her hands on since birth it was only natural that she graduated in 2008 with a degree in Illustration from Sheridan College. After recently relocating to beautiful Victoria, Keri is finding much inspiration from the creative community and the appreciation for the arts that our city has to offer.
Land Art Display by Victoria Flower Arrangers' Guild
A contemporary Ecological Floral Art/Design medium where larger floral
art structures/sculptures form a harmonius relationship between the
natural and found materials used and their positioning in an outdoor
setting. Freedom of expression plays a part in Land Art manifestations,
where Floral Art/design was taken from inside settings to outdoor
natural settings. Basically we use anything and everything, driftwood,
dried materials, fresh materials, wire, metal etc. as long as the
elements and principles of floral art/design are adhered to. Emphasis
is usually given to collective work because of the scale of the designs
but some smaller solo works can be included.
Land Art is simply Floral Art/Design done on a larger scale in an
harmonius outdoor setting of which Glendale Gardens fit the bill
perfectly.
European floral artists and various other countries have produced Land
Art Shows but the Victoria Flower Arrangers' Guild is the only Floral
Art Association that has accomplished this east of Toronto. A first for
B.C.
Plein Air Artists
Come and meet Ann Wheatcroft of Victoria's Plein Air Artists as paints
in the Glendale Gardens on both Saturday and Sunday. Plein Air Artists
is an an independent 'non-group' of individual artists whose only
affiliation is that they paint OUTSIDE.
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