1 THE ART OF LOSS Loss is woven into the tapestry of our lives. The repeated experience of loss becomes a template for managing the loss of those we love and, ultimately, our own demise. GPAG and the Hospice Society invited a number of local artists to consider how experiences of grief and loss can inspire us to live more fully. These works in painting, sculpture, mixed media and videography will inspire reflection and discussion on this intimate, and frequently avoided, topic. A portion of the proceeds from art sales will benefit the work of both GPAG and the Hospice Society.
The Hospice Society
Loss Loss comes to all of us if we are fortunate enough to spend time here on Earth, in this world full of wonder and potential.
Loss of many things, of anything once valued and cherished... Loss of identity, loss of freedom, loss of childhood dreams... Loss of income, health, mobility... Loss of environment...
Loss of loved ones. Loss of a child, a parent, a cherished lover, a life partner... Loss of a young person, gone too soon and before their time... Loss of an old life, of a life well lived, a skin well lived in, creased with the many lines of adventures taken along the way.
Is the glass half full or half empty? A sense of grief can surround those who have lost those beloved but also a sense of joy for having loved or having been loved. Surely that is the most wondrous gift of all.
Paula O’Brien, Curator
SELECTED ARTISTS Donna Balma Shain Jackson Charly Mithrush Paul Clancy RoseAnn Janzen Paula O'Brien Pat Crucil Trisha Joel Dionne Paul Liz De Beer Carol La Fave Cindy Riach Jen Drysdale Kim La Fave Miyuki Shinkai Mary Lou Guest Ian MacLeod Donna Stewart Kristjana Gunnars Marilyn Marshall Robert Studer Gordon Halloran Sheryl McDougald Marleen & Dolf Vermeulen Roger Handling Janice McFegan Alanna Wood Jane Hennessy Tim McLaughlin
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Donna Balma website donnabalma.com
ARTIST STATEMENT ONE My vision is stronger than my eyesight; and because my physical strength is lessened, I now make art that takes into account my limitations. Throughout my life I have re-invented themes, shapes, patterns, colours, and deeply felt impressions and obsessions that manifest my personal vision. I rely on instinct, insight and intuition to stay true to my originality.
BIOGRAPHY Donna Balma is an innovative and prolific Canadian artist currently living in the Pacific Northwest Rainforest of B.C., Canada and is a member of the West Coast Surrealist Group. Her work is profoundly affected by nature and her internal visions. She has established herself as an imaginative artist whose work has been variously described as fantasy, naïve, outsider, visionary, classical, folk, cosmic pop, and surreal amongst others. 3 EXHIBITION CV SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 Retrospective, Gibsons Public Art Gallery Gibsons, BC 2013 Artom Gallery Rome, Italy 2011 Seaside Centre Sechelt, B.C. 2011 Goldmoss Gallery Robert’s Creek BC 2002 Gift of the Eagle Gallery Gibsons, BC 2000 Beachcomber Gallery Gibsons, BC 1999 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC 1998 Gallery Gachet Vancouver, BC 1996 @ Studio Gallery Vancouver, BC 1995 Gumboot Garden Gallery Roberts, Creek, BC 1992 British Columbia Hall Salthouse, Norfolk, UK 1989 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC
TWO & THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2005 Nanaimo Art Gallery Nanaimo 2003 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC 1994 Newton Gallery Victoria, BC 1994 Quay Works Gallery Gibsons, BC 1992 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC 1988 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 F.O.G. Sunshine Coast Arts Council Sechelt, BC 2014 Metamorphosis Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC Existential Elders Nanaimo Art Gallery Naniamo, BC 2013 Untamed Goldmoss Gallery Robert’s Creek BC R.C.A.C. Goldmoss Gallery Robert’s Creek BC 2012 Body of Snow Goldmoss Gallery Robert’s Creek BC North American Visionaries Museum of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia Dayism Goldmoss Gallery Robert’s Creek BC Obsession Goldmoss Gallery Robert’s Creek BC 2011 Infinity Goldmoss Gallery Robert’s Creek BC Annual Outsider Art Exhibition Gallery Belage Westhampton Beach, NY USA 2010 Annual Outsider Art Exhibition Gallery Belage Westhampton Beach, NY USA Ordinary Miracles Slaughterhouse Space Gallery Healgsburg, California, USA Continuum Leighdon Studio Gallery Vancouver BC 2008 Art Singuleur Show Roquevaire, France Annual Outsider Art Exhibition Gallery Belage Westhampton Beach, NY USA 2007 Society for Art of Imagination International London, England Juried Traveling Show Touring Show Internal Guidance Systems 10 cities in U.S.A. and Canada Art Singuleur Show Roquevaire, France Annual Outsider Art Exhibition Gallery Belage Westhampton Beach, NY USA 2006 Thrown, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Vancouver, BC Touring Show Internal Guidance Systems 10 cities in U.S.A. and Canada Society for Art of Imagination London, England International Juried Traveling Show Art Singuleur Show Roquevaire, France 2006 Annual Outsider Art Exhibition 2005 Gallery Gachet Exhibition Vancouver, BC 4 2005 SAI Festival and Exhibition London, England Harmony Gallery International Juried Exhibition Hollywood, USA Blake’s Gallery Vancouver, Canada Society for Art of Imagination London, England International Juried Traveling Show Art Singuleur Show Roquevaire, France Annual Outsider Art Exhibition Westhampton Beach, NY USA 2004 Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery UBC Vancouver, Canada Annual Invitational - Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC International Juried Show “Singuleur” France Silver Anniversary Show - Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC Society for Art of Imagination London, England International Juried Traveling Show Art Singuleur Show Roquevaire, France 2003 Society for Art of Imagination London England, Scotland International Juried Traveling Show New York, USA Friends of the Gallery - Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC Self Portrait Show - Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC Art Singuleur Show Roquevaire, France 2002 Mariners Gallery International Cornwall, England The Gallery London, England Hofstra Gallery New York, USA Artropolis Vancouver, BC 2001 Evergreen Cultural Center Coquitlam, BC 2001 American Visionary Art Museum (year long) Baltimore MD, USA 2000 International Arts of Imagination Show London, England 1999 Mall Galleries London, England 1998 Gallery Gachet Vancouver, BC 1997 St. Brannocks Gallery Norfolk, Mundelsley, England Kelling Festival of Music Arts & Flowers Norfolk, England Surrey Art Gallery Surrey, BC Gallery Gachet Vancouver, BC Head Bones Gallery Vernon, BC 1996 Syracuse University Firenze, Italy Headbones Gallery Vernon, BC Arts Council Gallery Vancouver, BC Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC 1995 Headbones Gallery Vernon, BC Quay Gallery Gibsons, BC Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC Gumboot Garden Galley Roberts Creek, BC Hoi Polloi Victoria, BC Quay Gallery Gibsons, BC Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC Craft Museum Vancouver, BC Headbones Gallery Vernon, BC Presentation House Gallery North Vancouver, BC Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC Headbones Gallery Vernon, BC Quay Gallery Gibsons, BC Simon Patrich Vancouver, BC 5 1994 Quay Gallery Gibsons, BC Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC Silk Purse Gallery West Vancouver, BC BC Festival of the Arts Campbell River Eaton Centre Victoria, BC Newton Gallery Victoria, BC Quay Gallery Gibsons, BC Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC Simon Patrich Gallery Vancouver, BC Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC 1993 Simon Patrich Gallery Vancouver, BC Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC BC Festival of the Arts Trail, BC Quay Works Gallery Gibsons, BC Del Bello Gallery Toronto, Ontario 1992 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC 1991 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC Trail Bay Mall Sechelt, BC Brackendale Art Gallery Brackendale, BC Western Front Gallery Vancouver, BC 1990 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC BC Festival of the Arts Victoria, BC Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC 1989 Sunshine Coast Art Centre Sechelt, BC
Represented By: 2005-present ARTROM, Rome Italy (http://www.artrom.com) 2004-present Anne Grgich Raw Visions Art 2002-present Survivors Art Foundation 2002-present Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 1999-2005 Society for Art of Imagination, London, England
AWARDS 2003 Canada Council Travel Grant to New York – participant in exhibition 2000 Klein Award (Visual Arts) 1992 Gillian Lowndes Award (Visual Arts) 1983 Canada Council Explorations Grant (Writing and Drawing)
INTERVIEWS Vancouver Art Gallery Catalogue, Vancouver Art and Artists, Scott Watson (1983) N.F.B. Is It Hot in Here? Laura Alper, Vancouver (1985) Western Front Video, Letter From the Front, Vera Frenkel, Vancouver (1983) Paintings filmed on CBC Film, Beachcombers, Gibsons (1990) Channel 10 Video, Balma and MANDAD, Sechelt (1992) Sechelt Arts Council Video (1993) Referenced in book, Whispered Art History - 20 Years at the Western Front, Vancouver (1993) Channel 10 Video, Arts Update, Kaye Bonothan (1997 & 1998) Referenced in Novel, The Invitation, Joan Haggerty COOP Radio Vancouver, Jay Hamburger (1990)
6 PUBLISHED WORKS Cover for Literary Journal, New York (1976) – Graphic art Short Story, Vol. 5, No. 3, BC Monthly, Vancouver (1981) Drawings Vol. 5, No. 2; Vol. 5, No. 3, Interface Magazine, Winnipeg (1984) Short Story Women’s Press, Toronto (1988) Short Story Vol. 38, BC Monthly, Vancouver (1986) Article Contact Magazine, No. 94, Calgary (1993)
LENTIS BOOKS Reconciliation, The life and work of Donna Balma (2007) Beloveds (2014)
PUBLISHED REFERENCES Whispered Art History – 20 Years at the Western Front (1993) The Invitation, Novel by Joan Haggerty The Leach Legacy St. Ives Pottery and Its Influence, by Marion Whybrow “Inscape” Society for Arts of Imagination magazine by Brigid Marlin New York Times “Arts in America” ”Art Against the Odds” by Edward M. Gomez (07/10/02) “Visions” American Visionary Arts Museum magazine “Treasures of the Soul” by Marcus Schubert 2001
SOLO PUBLIC READINGS Literary Store Front, Vancouver (1983) Main Source, Vancouver (1984) CFRO Radio Station, Vancouver (1987) R2B2 Bookstore, Vancouver (1987) Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Vancouver (1985) Western Front Gallery, Vancouver (1986) Firehouse Theatre, Vancouver (1987) Sechelt Arts Centre, Sechelt (1989)
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Paul Clancy website www.flickr.com/photos/paulclancy
ARTIST STATEMENT
QUANTUM - A ZEN IMAGE
THE CUP IS HALF FULL AND HALF EMPTY THEREFORE BOTH.
SCHRODINGERS CAT IS BOTH ALIVE AND DEAD UNTIL THE LID IS LIFTED,
ENERGY CAN BE WAVE OR PARTICLE,
NEUTRINOS CAN BE IN ANY POSSIBLE STATE UNTIL OBSERVED.
MAYBE ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.
PAUL CLANCY PHOTOGRAPHER
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Pat Crucil
ARTIST STATEMENT Memorial to My Garden
In 2013 we sold our house that we had lived in for over 40 years. During that time, I had spent many hours building a beautiful garden. The garden was like a symphony with things coming up in all the season. It heralded the spring, a blaze of colour in the summer and rust colour in the fall. We built a new house and the new owners come to live in the old house in the summer and long week-ends. Gardening was not their love. Slowly the gardens began to die and become overgrown with weeds. As a textile artist, I had to mourn my old garden with a wall hanging.
EDUCATION Painting and Drawing- Manitoba School of Art Extension program- Emily Carr School of Art and Design Textile program- Capilano College
9 EXHIBITION CV GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1986-2017 Have exhibited in Canada, USA, and Japan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2000- Sechelt Art Centre, Sechelt 2003- Gibson Fibre Art Festival- Featured Artist 2007- Featured artist- Sunshine Coast Quilters Guild Show 2008- Fibreworks- Pender Harbour
AWARDS 1992- Sunshine Coast Image and Object Show- Honourable Mention 1995- Sunshine Coast Quilters' Quilt Show- Viewers' Choice 1997- Canadian Quilt Ass, Montreal show, Color and Design Award 2004- Canadian Quilt Ass. Winnipeg-Judges Choice Award- Kathleen Bisset 2006- Canadian Quilt Ass- Ottawa-Judges’ Award- Margie Davidson
PUBLICATIONS Curves in Motion by Judy Dale
JUROR 1999- Canadian Quilt Ass. Charlottetown Show 1994- Vancouver Contemporary Quilt Show, Vancouver
JUDGE 2000- Whitehorse Millennium Show, Whitehorse, Yukon
Canadian Quilt Association • 1986 Victoria • 1996 Saskatoon • 1997 Montreal • 1998 Vancouver • 1999 Charlottetown • 2000 Toronto • 2004 Winnipeg • 2006 Ottawa • 2007 Kamloops • 2008 St Johns, Newfoundland
Sunshine Coast Quilters' Guild, Sechelt 1989, 1990,1992, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007
Pacific Northwest Quilt Show, Seattle, WA 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
Canadian Show in Yokohama, Japan,1998
10 FIBRE ARTS NETWORK SHOWS 2000- Horizons, Penticton, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Vernon, West Vancouver, Nanamio 2002- Fanfare, Edmonton, Alberta 2004- FAN- Winnipeg & Brandon, Manitoba 2006- Fibre Essence, Vancouver, Abbotsford, 2007- La Conner Museum, La Conner, WA 2008- St Johns, Newfoundland 2008- Seattle 2009- Calgary
OTHER SHOWS 2000- Y2 Quilt - Victoria 2002- Coastlines and Passages, Bowen Island 2002- Crafthouse, Granville Island, Vancouver Sunshine Coast Art Centre Invitational Show, Sechelt, B.C 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998,1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 2004- World Quilt Competition- Penn, Hawaii 2004- Fibre And Pushing the Boundries- Sechelt 2004-5 Touring Manitoba and Saskatchewan 2005, 2007- Grand National- Waterloo, ON 2005- Surface Design Symposium Invitation Show, Columbus, OH 2006- Canada Uncovered, Puduka, Kentucky 2007- Fan- La Conner Museum, La Conner, WA 2008- Contemporary Crafts- Excellence within Diversity, Vancouver Museum, Vancouver
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Liz De Beer website lizdebeer.com
ARTIST STATEMENT Pitcher
As a cancer survivor, I have spent most of 2017 fighting this disease on both a physical and an emotional level. I met some wonderful people on this journey and quickly learned that I was not alone as many others were on a similar path. Sadly, the journey was also paved with grief as some of the wonderful people I met has since past away. The jug represents a container that holds water which is the key to life itself.
12 BIOGRAPHY As a potter, Liz de Beer has always been intrigued by natural products and processes. Growing up in Africa she was surrounded by a rich resource of wonderful design elements in nature from which she draws inspiration.
Liz is the Studio Manager of a pottery studio at a community center in North Vancouver, Canada. This studio came into being in September 1999 and has been developed under her guidance into one of the best community studios available to the public.
“My passion for pottery has no limit, so when I am not at the community studio you will find me potting at my home studio on the Sunshine Coast where I also have a small gallery”.
Liz has a preference for vessels that are simple in shape and uses a combination of oxides and glazes to produce surface coloration on the raw clay surface that is striking but not distracting. She also has an interest in surface manipulation through carving and use a variety of different techniques such as sgraffito to create graphic imagery reminiscent of African woodcarving.
EDUCATION Formal Arts Education: Graphic Design - East London Technical College (South Africa)
EXHIBITION CV Juried Exhibits Galleries: Circle Craft, Granville Island Gallery of BC Ceramics, Granville Island Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver Ferry Building, West Vancouver (Solo exhibit Sep 2017) Silk Purse Gallery West Vancouver Cityscape Gallery, North Vancouver Studio 2, North Vancouver BC Potters Guild “Finger Play” Traveling Exhibit BC Potters Guild “Up the Garden Path” Gibsons Public Art Gallery Ceramics on the Edge, Doris Crowston Gallery, Sechelt
Festivals: Harmony Arts Festival, West Vancouver Arts in the Garden, West Vancouver POCO Garden Festival, Port Coquitlam
Community: North Vancouver Credit Union - Featured Artist (12 month touring exhibit) PNE Prize Home – interior design display Shadbolt Centre, Burnaby Fan’s Awards Exhibit, District Hall of North Vancouver Art in Public Places, District Hall of North Vancouver Ron Andrews Recreation Centre, North Vancouver Parkgate Library, North Vancouver. “Just Push Play” – Vancouver Renaissance Hotel, Vancouver
13 Work in Permanent Collections North Vancouver Credit Union
Works Auctioned (fundraisers) West Vancouver Rotary Club Seycove Secondary, Deep Cove Sunshine Coast Conservation Society, Sechelt Sunshine Coast Dance Society, Sechelt Linwood House Ministries, Roberts Creek (Downtown Eastside Women) WaterCan, Canada (African Water Project) National Arts Center Youth Orchestra (Ottawa)
Works Published Lark Publications – “500 Pitchers” (2 Jugs) Lark Publications – “500 Raku” WaterCan Donor Cards – image of fish tile
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Jen Drysdale website jendrysdale.com facebook JenDrysdaleArt Instagram jendrysdaleart
ARTIST STATEMENT Nine, Ten, Begin Again
“He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.” Annie Dillard
While working on my painting “Nine, Ten, Begin Again”, I contemplated my own experience of grief and loss. What struck me at the time was the intense lack of control I felt about what was happening. I understood intellectually that we never really, truly have control over our circumstances but I’d never felt the reality of it so intensely before. I realized the only thing I could do was give myself over to the experience and let go, that’s all.
For me, the process of working with oil and cold wax is about striking a balance between controlled and random mark making. I have an idea, I build a surface, layering and scraping with little planning, then attempt to pull the elements together into a cohesive form based on my idea. Sometimes all falls into place or I must release my grip and throw caution to the wind.
15 BIOGRAPHY Jennifer Drysdale was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec in the 1960’s surrounded by artistic opportunity and support. Her greatest artistic influences were her parents who were illustrators and painters also working in the commercial art industry. Some recent artistic influences are contemporary artists Henry Jackson, Jules De Balincourt and Balcomb Greene. Other artists that have inspired Drysdale’s artistic growth throughout the years have been J. M. W. Turner, Käthe Kollwitz and Betty Goodwin.
Drysdale has taught art classes and workshops for nonprofit organizations in Toronto and most recently at the Arts Building in Gibsons. Other classes include private and semi-private workshops held in her own studio on Stewart Rd. and an upcoming painting workshop for the Gibsons School of Art in 2019. She studied visual arts at Dawson College in Montreal, H.B, Beal Tech. in London, Ontario, the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, and the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.
Working almost daily in her studio on Stewart Rd. in Gibsons, BC, Jennifer draws significant influence from her local environment and enjoys the abundantly creative community in which she lives.
EDUCATION 1982-85 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, ON: Diploma in Experimental Art, A.O.C.A 1983 University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Fine Arts Program 1981-82 H.B. Beal Tech., London, ON, Certificate of Special Arts 1979-81 Dawson College, C.E.G.E.P., Montreal, PQ, Fine Arts Program 1970-79 McGill University Conservatory of Music, Montreal, PQ, Classical Piano
EXHIBITION CV SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO 2018 Recent Wax Worx, Gumboot Cafe, Roberts Creek, BC This Earth, SCAC, Sechelt, BC 2014 Into the Wilderness, SCAC, Sechelt, BC 2001 Paintings, Levity Bakery & Cafe, Toronto. ON 1999 Banners, Levity Bakery & Cafe, Toronto, ON 1997 Down to Earth, Rebecca Gallery, Toronto, ON
SELECTED GROUP & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2018 The Art of Loss, GPAG, Gibsons, BC Into the WIlderness, Gibsons Public Market, Gibsons, BC 2017 ORIG INS, Legacies of the Coast, curated by Diana Robertson & Jessica Silvey, Sechelt Arts Festival, Sechelt, BC FOG, Friends of the Gallery, SCAC, Sechelt, BC 123, Kube Gallery, Gibsons, BC Present Tense, Members Exhibition, GPAG, Gibsons, BC 50 Canadian Things, SCAC, curated by Ian MacLeod, Sechelt, BC Anonymous, Kube Gallery, Gibsons, BC 2016 It's Not All Black & White, Christy Sverre Studio & Gallery, Gibsons, BC One View TImes Two, with Marina Crawford, Landing Gallery, Sunshine Coast Artists Co-op, Gibsons, BC 2015 FOG, Friends of the Gallery, SCAC, Sechelt, BC Somewhere Out There, Feature Artist, with Cindy Cantelon & guest speaker Candace Campo, Landing Gallery, Sunshine Coast Artists Co-op, Gibsons Zocalo WInter Pop-Up Art Show, with Jan Poynter & Christy Sverre, Gibsons BC 4 Points of View, Christy Sverre Studio & Gallery, Gibsons, BC 16 Small Works, member’s holiday exhibit, Landing Gallery, Sunshine Coast Artists Co-op, Gibsons 2014 Anonymous Art Show, CityScape Gallery, North Vancouver Community Arts Council, BC FOG, Friends of the Gallery, SCAC, Sechelt, BC Metamorphosis, SCAC, Sechelt, BC, juried exhibition 2013 Carte Blanche, SCAC, Sechelt, BC, juried exhibition 2010 Salon 4, Propellor Gallery Toronto, ON 2009 Annual Christmas Exhibit, Strand Fine Art Services, London, ON Recent Works, Rebecca Gallery, Toronto, ON 2007 Choices, Woodstock Public Art Gallery, Woodstock, ON 2000 Loop + 1, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON The Bar Show, Rhino Bar & Grill Inc.,Toronto, ON 2000 Art Gig 9, curated by Judith Wilkinson, Club We’ave, Toronto, ON 1999 Fictions, Rebecca Gallery, Toronto, ON, two-person exhibition Art Gig 8, Club We’ave, Toronto, ON Art Gig 7, Club We’ave, Toronto, ON 1998 Art Gig 6, Tropicana 88, Toronto, ON Bealart: 80 Years of Experiment, curated by Paddy O’Brien, The London Regional Art & Historical Museums, London, ON 1997 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, ON, juried exhibition 1996 Fibreworks, Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, ON, juried exhibition Annual Open House, MacNeill Edmundson Barbato Chartered Accountants, London, ON Homely, The Poor Trade Union Artist Collective, Toronto Carpet Factory, Toronto, ON 1994 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, ON, juried exhibition Four Voices, Lindsay Public Art Gallery, Lindsay, ON
BIBLIOGRAPHY Local Artist to Stage Three Exhibitions, Anna Nobile, The Local Weekly, Arts & Culture Review, pg.8, May 10th, 2018 Present Tense, GPAG Newsletter, Sept. News Update, Sept. 8, 2017 50 Canadian Things at the Arts Centre, Anna Nobile, The Local Weekly, Arts & Culture Review, pg.8, Aug. 2nd, 2017 Four Points of View, art show times two, Jan Degrass, Arts & Entertainment, Coast Reporter, pg.39, July 3rd, 2015 An Entertaining Year (in review), Jan Degrass, Arts & Entertainment, Coast Reporter, pg.28, Dec. 2014 Men and Good Old Boys, Jan Degrass, Arts & Entertainment, Coast Reporter, pg.68, Oct.16, 2014 Choices, Maria Ricker, Director, Woodstock Public Art Gallery Newsletter, pg.1, 2007 Bealart: 80 Years of Experiment 1912-1992, Exhibition Catalogue, The London Regional Art & Historical Museums, London, ON, pg. 67, 1998
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2019 Massive to Minute, painting workshop, Gibsons School of the Arts, Gibsons, BC 2017 Sea Cavalcade kids’ colouring placemat design, Gibsons, BC 2016 Juror, SCAC, Sechelt, BC On Solid Ground, acrylic painting class for beginners, The Arts Building, Gibsons, BC Open Studio, painting workshop, March Break, Jen’s studio, Gibsons, BC Open Studio, semi-private painting workshop, Jen’s studio, Gibsons, BC 2015 Zocalo WInter Pop-Up Art Studio, workshop, demo, artist talk, with Christy Sverre, Gibsons, BC 2014-18 Juror, Kid’s Annual Art Exhibit SCAC, Sechelt, BC Executive Board Member & Artist Member, Landing Gallery, created social media platforms, maintained website, Sunshine Coast Artists Co-op, Gibsons, BC 2000-11 Floor Manager & Buyer, The Centre Shop, Canadian & International Art & Design, Harbourfront Centre Corp., Toronto, ON 17 1997-05 Art Instructor, Senior Adult Services, Toronto, ON 2000-01 Assistant, Moya Gillett Art Restoration Services Toronto, ON 1996 Illustrator, B & A Literary Magazine, Toronto ON 1993 Assistant Outdoor Sculpture Installation, Cecilia Varga, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto ON 1993 Assistant Outdoor Sculpture Installation, Cecilia Varga, Artspace, Peterborough, ON 1987 Assistant for Art Performance, Alexandra Z,, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, ON 1985 Assistant Art Sculptor, John MacGregor, Isaac’s Gallery, Toronto, ON
AWARDS 1994 Best Fibre, Terry Martel Real Estate Ltd., TOAE, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, ON 1982 Highest Standing in Drawing, C.F.P.L. TV, Grad Exhibition, H. B. Beal Tech., London, ON 1979 First in Visual Arts, Graduating Year, Riverdale High School, Pierrefonds, PQ Professional Affiliations & Art Related Events 2018 Art of Healing, exhibit & event, Sechelt Hospital Foundation, Art Donation, Sunshine Coast Golf & Country Club, Roberts Creek, BC 2018 Banner Project, SCAC, Sechelt, BC 2016 Coats of Paint, art-fashion show, sale & fundraiser event, Roberts Creek Hall, Roberts Creek, BC, with Trisha Joel 2015-18, Volunteer, Power of Paint, Eleven Equal Artists Annual Art Exhibition, Seaside Centre, Sechelt 2015-16, Annual Wine & Art Festival/Auction, Gibsons Rotary Club, Gibsons, BC 2014-16, Sunshine Coast Artists Co-op, Member, Executive Board Member, The Landing Gallery, Gibsons, BC ARTBomb, online art auction, Vancouver, BC 2014 The Federation of Canadian Artist, Active Member, Vancouver BC 2013 to present , Sunshine Coast Annual Art Crawl, Gibsons, BC, open studio 2013 Art Stroll in the Landing, SWISH, Gibsons, BC 2013 Ginny Vail Design Gallery, Swallow’s Nest, Gibsons, BC 1998 Dufferin Mall Youth Centre Fundraiser, Arts & Letters Club, Toronto, ON, silent auction On-going member of the SCAC, CCA, Purple Banner & GPAG, Sunshine Coast, BC
18 Mary Lou Guest website guestmosaics.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
Little Altars
On the death of my daughter, at the age of 25. Our only child. I see little altars everywhere.
To A Daughter Leaving Home
When I taught you at eight to ride a bicycle, loping along beside you as you wobbled away on two round wheels, my own mouth rounding in surprise when you pulled ahead down the curved path of the park, I kept waiting for the thud of your crash as I sprinted to catch up, while you grew smaller, more breakable with distance, pumping, pumping for your life, screaming with laughter, the hair flapping behind you like a handkerchief waving goodbye.
Author Linda Pastan
BIOGRAPHY I can't explain my life.
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Kristjana Gunnars website kristjanagunnars.com
ARTIST STATEMENT The Stoneworker Memory boxes are traditionally boxes that mark life's major events. They contain symbolic objects to remember the occasion by. They are not always sad; they sometimes are boxes of memory regarding someone's passing, but they also are made to remember life's happiest times.
This box was a long time in gestation. It is a general box marking a lifetime of losing people, even opportunities, or a shift in the road where something is left behind. It is not about a specific event or person. The box itself is an old wall cabinet that has been stained. The glass is vintage as well as the box.
Inside are placed stones and pebbles I picked up over the years on the Oregon coast. My family had a Beach house in Depoe Bay on the Oregon coast and we spent many years walking along the big white sands with the huge waves roaring in. I often picked up stones, pebbles, sand dollars and other beach objects on these walks and I have kept them all these years.
When my parents passed, the house was sold and our connection to that beautiful coastline ended, but I have the stones and pebbles to remember it all by. When it came to creating a memory box for this exhibit, I took out some of these pebbles and placed them around in a circle. In the middle I put a carved wooden Asian hand and in the upper right corner another smaller carved hand going in the opposite direction, which I painted black. They give the sense of an embrace when you look down on them.
In the wooden hands I have put the beach stones. The big hand holds two desert roses, which are formed in the desert when the wind blows the sand and it gets encrusted into these roselike forms. Into the smaller hand I have placed one pebble from the Oregon coastline. There are also three pebbles from the Sechelt beach to signal a connection between where we are now and where we were then.
When you look at the box from above you will see your own reflection in the glass. That is designed to make the viewer part of the experience of the box itself. 20 BIOGRAPHY Kristjana Gunnars studied studio art at Oregon State University with artist and teacher Shep Levine, and later art theory at the University of Regina with teacher Eugene Dawson, before turning to literary studies. She has been a practicing literary writer since 1980, and studied aesthetic and literary theory with writer and teacher Robert Kroetsch at the University of Manitoba. She taught writing and English in various universities before joining the University of Alberta as Professor of English and Creative Writing.
Her work with writing in the context of literary theory expanded into art theory and aesthetics, which became a full time art practice upon leaving the university. More lately she has been learning cutting edge acrylic techniques from various artists and teachers in workshops. She paints from both a position of poesis and from an intellectual perspective, but her choice of color and method have a direct relation to the sensibilities of the present moment--the colors of nature and the interplay of forces around. The landscape, the weather, the mood and tone of the day or night are as present in her paintings as they are in her poetry, and for her there is a direct relation between writing and painting.
Her work has been shown in galleries on the Sunshine Coast, B.C., at Gallery 5, LaCabana Gallery; the Doris Crowston Gallery in Sechelt; Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC.; as well as at the Silk Purse Gallery, West Vancouver; the Centennial Theatre, North Vancouver; and the East Vancouver Cultural Centre (The Cultch) in East Vancouver. Her work has been on view at the Rockwater Resort in Secret Cove, B.C. and at the Sundowner Gallery in the Sundowner Inn, Garden Bay, B.C. Her paintings are in private collections in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Originally from Iceland, she now makes her home in Canada.
EXHIBITION CV 2018 Sechelt Arts Council banner, 2018, image from watercolour series “Paper Lanterns” 2016 “Perceptions." Guest artist show. The Landing Gallery, Gibsons, BC. 2015 Works carried by Windows on the Water in White Rock, BC. WOW Art Gallery and Gifts, White Rock, BC. "Elementary BASIC: A Steampunk Primer." Group show. Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, BC. "Darkness to Light." Duo show with Marlise Witschi. Silk Purse Arts Centre Gallery, West Vancouver. "River Rain." Solo show. Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC. Participant, Sunshine Coast Art Crawl, Sundowner Inn and Gallery, Garden Bay, BC. Works from the "Arctic" series featured. 2014 Sechelt Arts Festival. Collaboration with Heiltsuk Native artist Dean Hunt, "Mind Over Matter" showing six collaborative projects of Sunshine Coast artists featuring aboriginal and non-aboriginal Coast artists working in collaboration to tell six unique stories. "Metamorphosis," group exhibit, juried and curated by Janice McFegan. Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC. Small Works. Sechelt Visitors' Centre, Seaside Centre, Sechelt, BC. 2013 "Here and Now." Group exhibit juried and curated by Karen Benbasat Ali and Karen Duffekat. Seaside Centre in Sechelt, BC during Sechelt Arts Festival. Two paintings included in the Roberts Creek Arts Festival at Goldmoss Gallery. Paintings at the Rockwater Resort in Secret Cove, B.C. 2013-2015. "Honorable Mention”, Juried Art Show and Art Acquisition Award exhibit, Seaside Centre, Sechelt, BC. 2011 Sechelt Festival of the Arts Juried Art Show and Art Acquisition Award. Seaside Centre, Sechelt, BC. Group show, curated and juried by Greg Bellerby, Director of the Scott Gallery at Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC. Two paintings, “The Moment” and “Driftwood Impressions” selected for the short list of the Sechelt Festival of 21 the Arts Juried Art Show and Art Acquisition Award. “Dialogue: Surface and Depth.” Solo show. Vancouver East Cultural Centre (The Cultch), Vancouver. “Distant Geographies,” solo show; exhibit of paintings at the Centennial Theatre, North Vancouver. “Tree Series,” exhibit of paintings in Upstream Medical Centre, Wilson Creek, BC. Works on show at DU in Gibsons, BC. Works on show and for sale at Wood’s Showcase Gallery, Sunnycrest Mall, Gibsons, BC. Works on show and for sale at Redfish in Sechelt, BC, 2010-2012. “Alternate Light.” Solo show. Doris Crowston Gallery, Sechelt Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC. 2010 “Positively Petite” miniature art exhibition, participant, Place des Arts, Coquitlam, BC. “Artists on the River,” participant, Fraser River Discovery Centre, New Westminster, BC. Works on show and for sale at the Will Cummer Gallery, Sunnycrest Mall, Gibsons, BC. Works on show and for sale at Redfish in Sechelt, BC and at Slō in Sechelt, BC. Sunshine Coast Art Crawl, participant, 2010 and 2011. Works on show and for sale at the Will Cummer Gallery in the Sunnycrest Mall, Gibsons, BC during winter Olympics. 2009 “Textures 2009,” new paintings. Duo show with Laurie Rollins, potter, LaCabana Gallery, Sechelt, BC. 2007 Some Fragments Concerning the Poetic, by Benedikt Gröndal (1854), translated by Kristjana Gunnars. Published as part of Steingrímur Eyfjörð’s exhibition “The Golden Plover Has Arrived” at the Venice Biennale. http://www.eyfjord.com/work/the-golden-plower-has-arrived/ “Water of Life.” Solo show, Gallery 5, Roberts Creek, BC.
PUBLIC TALKS 2016 Five public talks on "Abstract Painting in Canada: The First Hundred Years." Once a week for five consecutive weeks. Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC. Covering: Early Stirrings, Toronto and Vancouver; Montreal Automatsm; Toronto Abstraction; Vancouver Lyricism; Regina Post-Painterly. 2014 Two public talks on "Preparing, Launching and Maintaining an Art Career," at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC. 2011 Eight public talks on current art movements, from abstract to concept, one per month for eight months, at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC. 2008 Three public talks on abstract art at Gallery 5, Roberts Creek, B.C., once a week for three consecutive weeks.
PUBLICATIONS (art-related writing; images in books and journals) The Quint, 5.1, December 2012, Universtiy College of the North, Manitoba. Illustrated throughout with images of paintings by Kristjana Gunnars.
Prairie Fire Magazine, 33.2, Summer 2012. Winnipeg, Manitoba. Cover image of the painting "The Crossing" by Kristjana Gunnars.
Entry in Artists of British Columbia, Vol. 3. Vancouver: Leighdon Studio Gallery, 2012.
Recesses of the Mind; On Aesthetics in Guðbergur Bergsson´s Work by Birna Bjarnadóttir, translated by Kristjana Gunnars. Montréal: McGill Queen’s University Press, January 2012. (Study of aesthetic theory and the work of Guðbergur Bergsson).
22 MEDIA "From Darkness to Light at the Silk Purse." North Shore News, North Vancouver, B.C., July 21, 2015.
"Artists step up for contemporary show; Sechelt Arts Festival," by Jan de Grass. Sechelt: The Coast Reporter, Oct. 25, 2013.
“Voice of the Artist, Alternate Light,” by Jan de Grass. Sechelt: The Coast Reporter, Feb. 18, 2011.
Interview, Coast Cable Channel 11. “Sunshine Coast Magazine” with Ingrid Abbott. January 6, 2011, 7:30 p.m. Topic: GPAG art café lecture series.
“Positively Petite” miniature art exhibition snapshots. Snap Coquitlam, Dec. 2010.
“The Reinventing of Kristjana Gunnars” by Bill Valgardsson. Logberg-Heimskringla; Winnipeg: August 2010. Article on Kristjana Gunnars’ shift from writing to painting.
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Gordon Halloran website gordonhalloran.com lotusinmotionproject.blogspot.com
ARTIST STATEMENT Judgement Day Judgement Day is a video work that explores human sensations resulting from peer judgement; how the internalization of criticism and the isolating grief it tends to create affect our ability to understand the value of a life?
BIOGRAPHY Gordon Halloran is well known to world audiences as the creator of Paintings Below Zero. In 2006, the international artist was Canada’s official representative to the Cultural Olympiad for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin with these monumental paintings in ice. These were followed by enormous installations at Chicago's (Millennium Park 2008), Toronto City Hall (2007), Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games and other international locations.
Mr. Halloran's work deals with the ephemeral nature of existence and how it intersects with contemporary issues of Climate Change.
In 2015, Halloran embarked on a theatrical/filmic exploration of healing and wellness called Body of Light and presented the multi-media work at the Sechelt Arts Festival. It was followed by a feature-length documentary also called Body of Light, premiering in Sechelt and Calgary, February 2016.
Halloran has worked in theatre for many years directing original touring shows with Third Coast Theatre. He adapted for the screen, directed and edited Singing the Bones, a feature length motion picture that premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival and screened around the world since 2001. Halloran is also known internationally for his lifelike portraits; in 2012 he won the Jury Prize for three panels of a series of paintings called Hung Jury, and the Municipality of Sechelt purchased the artwork for their permanent collection.
24 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Three years on the faculty of the Ontario College of Art and Design University Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
One year on the faculty of Emily Carr of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
INTRODUCTION Mr. Halloran is an international artist based in Canada artist who is well known to world audiences as the creator of Paintings Below Zero, monumental public art installations.
In Turin, Italy, Halloran was Canada’s official representative to the Cultural Olympiad for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, where his site-specific installation filled an entire church with Pitture Sotto Zero.
In 2008, more than 176,000 people visited his site-specific (100' long, 14' high, double-sided) : Museum of Modern Ice.
Toronto City Hall hosted over 50,000 visitors to Paintings Below Zero, a site-specific installation (80' long by 10' wide) of frozen paintings in 2007.
At the Cultural Olympiad of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, he created Ice Gate, a 100' long by 14' high site-specific installation.
Halloran was the feature artist for public art at the Miami International Art Fair and Art Palm Beach. He also created a monumental outdoor installation of floating paintings situated in the lakes at VanDusen Botanical Gardens in Vancouver, BC.
Mr. Halloran’s work deals with the connection between the ephemeral nature of existence and issues of Climate Change. The affect these transformations are having on our planet and more specifically in our cities, provides the focus for his explorations in wide range of media..
He is interested in exploring the connection between the ephemeral nature of existence and contemporary issues of Climate Change. He uses a wide range of media to engage his audience with Public Art Projects that present a response to these in a wide range of media
"Artwork that promises to be a monumental addition to the Winter Games." Marsha Lederman Globe Review - The Globe and Mail.
"Dazzling abstract paintings." Michelle Tarnopolosky Macleans's Magazine
"New frontiers of totally experimental contemporary art, where beauty is shown to be less ephemeral than the material it is made of. Beauty that opens our hearts." Piero Addis Chief Curator and Head of the Cultural Olympiad for the Olympic Winter Games, Torino 2006
"A really unique and unforgettable dialogue between man and nature, technology and emotion." Giorgetto Giugiaro Founder and chairman, Italdesign-giugaro SPA
25 EXHIBITION CV SELECTED WORKS 2015-2016 Gordon Halloran – Black Forest/Regeneration – a permanent sculpture commissioned by the District of Sechelt, BC. Two blackened trees recovered from a forest fire set in a public plaza. 12'x12'x24'. Gordon Halloran – Drawing Water – a site-specific copper tube installation 24'x22'x6' for Sechelt Arts Festival. Gordon Halloran – Drawing Water – a site-specific copper tube installation 15'x16'x8' for GPAG. 2013-2014 Body of Light writing and directing a feature length Stage production at the Ravens Cry Theatre for the Sechelt Arts Festival and subsequent writing and direction of a feature length documentary called Body of Light. A film that connects Contemporary art with the art of healing. 2011-2012 Gordon Halloran, June and July - Sun Yat Sen Chinese Garden, Vancouver BC – Site-specific installation in the pools of Sun Yat Sen - Lotus in Motion - Floating Paintings - UV inks, expanded PVC and epoxy. In the Gallery - 12 mixed media paintings. Curator Bronwen Payerle. Gordon Halloran, October – Mr. Halloran's series of paintings called Hung Jury - Wins the Sechelt Arts Festival Juried Art Show. 2010-2011 Gordon Halloran, VanDusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver BC - Site specific installation in the lakes of VanDusen - Lotus in Motion - Floating Paintings - UV inks, expanded PVC and epoxy. Curator Bronwen Payerle. Gordon Halloran, Featured Artist at the Miami International Art Fair, a site specific installation 55' by 20', Floating Paintings, Acrylic and expanded polyethylene - Curated by Aldo Castillo. Gordon Halloran, Featured Artist at Art Palm Beach, a site specific installation 55' by 20', Floating Paintings, Acrylic and expanded polyethylene - Curated by Aldo Castillo. 2009-2010 Gordon Halloran, Ice Gate, a site specific sculptural installation 100' by 12' by 4' Curated by the Richmond, BC arts commission for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. 2008 Gordon Halloran, Museum of Modern Ice, a site specific sculptural installation 105' by 14' by 4' Curated by Valentine Judge for the City of Chicago Cultural Department, Millennium Park and City of Chicago. 2007 Gordon Halloran, Paintings Below Zero, a site specific sculptural installation 90' by 12 by 10' - for the City of Toronto at City Hall Plaza, Toronto Ont. Canada. Gordon Halloran, Paintings Below Zero, a site specific sculptural installation 80' by 5' by 8' - for The Shaw Festival Theatre - Niagara on the Lake, Canada. Gordon Halloran, Prints From the Halloran Torino Collection - The Shaw Festival Gallery - Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, Canada. 2006 Gordon Halloran, Pitture Soto Zero, a site specific sculptural installation for the Cultural Olympiad of Olympic Winter Games in Italy, Turin, Italy. Curated by Piero Addis. 1996 Site specific installation - 25 paintings, 4’ X 5’; installed as a 200’ x 85’ finished work - World Figure Skating Championships at the Edmonton World Trade Centre. 1995 Site-specific installation, City of Richmond, British Columbia. One inclusive 200’ x 85’ painting & performance sponsored by the Richmond Art Gallery, The Canada Council and the City of Richmond. 1993 A site-specific installation, sponsored by City of Calgary and the Glenbow Museum, Department of Contemporary Art, Calgary Olympic Plaza, Alberta. One inclusive 110’ x 100’ painting & performance 1993 A site-specific installation, sponsored by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program & The Canada Council. One inclusive 120 x 75 painting & performance at the West End Community Center, Vancouver, BC. 26 MIXED MEDIA EXHIBITIONS 1985-1993 University of British Columbia Faculty Gallery, Hung Jury Series - Figurative, mixed media on panel, paintings, solo show, Vancouver, BC. Collier Street Gallery, Figurative, mixed media on panel, paintings, group show, Toronto. Third Coast Gallery, Hung Jury - Figurative, mixed Media on panel, paintings, solo show, Chicago. Ecole Des Beaux Arts, Non-representational mixed media paintings, solo show, Montreal, QC. The Nancy Poole Gallery, mixed media paintings, solo show, Toronto. The Macdonald Block Gallery, Salon Des Artistes, group show, Toronto. The Toronto Central Library Gallery, Salon Des Artistes, group show, Toronto.
FILM DIRECTION, WRITING AND DESIGN - Gordon Halloran 2000 Singing the Bones, Feature length film, Montreal World Film Festival, Director, Writer and Designer, Montreal. 2000 Singing the Bones, The Mill Valley Film festival - Feature length film, Direction, Production Design and Editing. Mill Valley, CA. 2001 Singing the Bones, The Ojai Film Festival - Feature length film, direction, Production Design and Editing. Ojai, CA. 2001 Singing the Bones, The Lake Tahoe Film Festival, Feature length film, Direction, Production Design and Editing. Lake Tahoe, CA. 1987- 1999 Clouds, New York Film Festival, Production Design for feature length film. Six Palm Trees, Nexus Theatre, Writing, Directing and Design, Edmonton. Six Palm Trees, Prince Rupert Centre of the Performing Arts, Terrace Concert Society, Whistler Community Arts Council, Kamloops College Arts Program. Showing Size, Firehall Arts Centre, Touchstone Theatre, Writing, Directing and Design. Vancouver. Showing Size, The Music Gallery, Writing, Directing and Design, Toronto. Six Palm Trees, The American Zephyr Theatre, San Francisco.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS "Putting Olympic Art on Ice" The Globe and Mail - review/article - by Marsha Lederman – 2010 "Extreme cold produces brilliantly coloured art" The Vancouver Sun - review - by Kevin Griffin – 2010 "Beautiful, Bold Ice Gate Takes Shape" The Vancouver Sun - article - by Jack Keating – 2010 "Ice Gate comes with a message" The Province - article - by Damian Inwood – 2010 "A hot reception for cool Halloran paintings" The Coast Reporter - article - by Brent Richter – 2010 "Museum of Modern ice" - The New York Times - article – 2008 "How Cool is That" - The Miami Herald - article – 2008 "Chilling Beauty" The Chicago Tribune - article - Noreen Ahmed-Ullah – 2008 The Chicago Tribune - review - "Mosaic a metaphor for the ephemeral" by Alan Artner – 2008 "Cool as Ice" The Chicago Sun-Times - article/review - 2008 The Daily Herald newspaper / Chicago - article - "The Big Chill" by Pam DeFiglio – 2008 "Ice Art in Chicago" The Washington Post - article – 2008 "Keeping its Cool" Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - article – 2008 Sunday Post Dispatch/St. Louis - Museum of Modern ice - article 2008 "An artist not afraid to put his talents on ice" - The Gloge and Mail - article by Anthony Reinhart – 2007 "Rothko on Acid" Maclean's Magazine - article - by Michelle Tarnoplosky – 2007 "Pitture Sotto Zero" ItalyArt - Magazine of the Cultural Olympiad - by Piero Addis – 2006 "Painting in the Ice" The Province Newspaper - article by Damien Inwood – 2005 "The Ice Man Cometh" Westworld Magazine - article – 2004
27 “Art puts freeze on Artic Thaw” The Toronto Star - by Thulasi Srikenthan – 2007 “Cool artform makes use of cold canvas” Arts and Life - by Alison Bell – 2006 “The Ice Painting Project” Artichoke Magazine - review - by Paula Gustafson – 1993 “The Quintessential Canadian Art Form” Toronto Globe & Mail/Weekend Arts Report, Chris Dafoe 1993 “Gordon Halloran Turns Ice Into A Unique Canadian Art Form” - review - The Calgary Herald / by Arts Reporter Allison Mayes, 1993 “The Ice Painting Project” The Edmonton Journal - article - by Alan Kellogg – 1994 “A New Canadian Art Form Emerges” The Georgia Straight - article - by Verne McDonald – 1993 “Creating On Cold Canvas” The Vancouver Province - article - by Tom Hawthorn – 1993 Singing the Bones, The Montreal Gazette - review - 2001 Singing the Bones, Arts Report CBC Radio - review – 2001 Showing Size, The Edmonton Journal - review - 1990 Showing Size, The Vancouver Sun - review by Lloyd Dykk - 1990 Six Palm Trees, The Globe and Mail - review - by Lisa Rochon – 1986 Six Palm Trees, The San Francisco Chronicle, - review - by Bernard Weiner - 1986
SELECTED BROADCAST DOCUMENTARIES NBC Television National Network - documentary - Ice Gate – 2010 Discovery Television Network - documentary - Ice Gate – 2010 Global TV - National feature story - Ice Gate - Sharon Bates – 2010 CBC Television National interviews - documentary - Ice Gate - Ian Hanomansing – 2010 CBC Television News - documentary - Olympic Ice Art - Bob Nixon -2010 CTV Television National News - documentary - Ice Gate – 2010 WGN National Network - Museum of Modern Ice - documentary – 2008 Austrian Public Television - documentary - Pitture Sotto Zero – 2006 CBC Television National News - documentary - Paintings Below Zero in Italy - Sasha Petracik - 2006 CTV National News - documentary - Paintings Below Zero in Fenestrelle – 2006 Global Network - documentary - Paintings Below Zero – 2006 CBC STEREO National Arts Report, Produced by Mark O Neil CBC TV ALBERTA Arts Report – 1994 CBC Television - The Ice Painting Project - Prime Time News, World News Network - Producer Grainger – 1992 CBC RADIO Morningside with Peter Gzowski - The Ice Painting Project – 1992
GRANTS Heritage Canada - Chicago, Millennium Park installation 2008 The Sprott Foundation Grant for development of Paintings Below Zero 2006 Heritage Canada Cultural Olympiad installation 2006 Foreign Affairs Canada - Italy 2006
TEACHING AND RESIDENCY Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Faculty of Drawing, Vancouver, BC. The Western Front, Artist in Residence, Vancouver, BC. Ontario College of Art, Faculty of Drawing, Toronto.
28 Roger Handling
ARTIST STATEMENT
The Sari Dress
Every one hundred years or so the whole human population of our planet turns over to a new set of people—between now and 2118 that will amount to 7 billion departed souls in that time alone. Meanwhile the Population Reference Bureau estimates that from the emergence of our species about 107 billion people have ever lived.
That’s a lot of loss.
It’s next to impossible to relate to those sort of numbers in a collective way. But on a personal level it is entirely different. I have known those who have passed out of my life in a way no one else has or ever could have, we are such subjective beings that it could be no other way. Hence for me loss is an entirely personal phenomenon.
“The Sari Dress” is an expression of how I assimilate the living with the departed—parts of past lives intermingle with present ones in a way that I find very satisfying and rewarding. The past is forever embellishing my present life in a manner that is never sad but inevitably uplifting.
29 Jane Hennessy website janehennessystudio.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
Night Bird in the Forest with Mist and Moonlight
The raven, one bird, so many mythological associations. The brilliant lively trickster or the harbinger of death and despair.
Beautiful bird, perhaps innocent of the weight it carries between those powerful black wings.
Maybe not.
There are two who live in the cedars across the street. They play to a reward of peanuts, chattering and posturing and vocally mimicking neighbourhood cats.
They appear to know something that I would like to know. So I paint them along with thousands of other artists. Trying to define their fascination.
The raven seemed a fitting subject for a painting associated with grief and loss.
The painting started dark with despair but the bird would not allow it.
Mystery is fine it said. Paint me in the moonlight and mist but make me hopeful.
Because
Along with my association with death.
Let us not forget, I also returned the sun to its rightful place.
30 EDUCATION Vancouver School of Art (Now Emily Carr), Commercial Design Emily Carr Certificate Program (2004 – 2007) Ongoing work with senior level artists including: Robert Liberace, David Kassan, Jay Senetchko, Justin Ogilvie
EXHIBITIONS AND INVITATIONS: 2017 Invitation to submit a painting used as a set for the production of Life Skills (Advanced) held at the Gibson’s Heritage Theatre. 2017 Invitation to submit a painting for a juried exhibition, “50 Canadian Things”, Interpretations of Jane Urquhart’s book by the same name. The exhibition was in Sechelt during the 2017 writer’s festival; to honor Canada’s 150th. 2017 An invitation to join an exhibition in September 2017 of selected works from figurative painters at the Art Centre in Sechelt. 2016 Modus Operandi, an exhibition of the figurative work of four Vancouver artists that showed the working process between concept and finished piece. The exhibition was held at the Basic Enquiry gallery in Vancouver. 2012/15 Vancouver East Side Culture Crawl, Parker Street Studio. 2015 “Parker Street Salon”, group show of the work of twenty “1000 Parker Street” artists. 2014/15 Kimoto Gallery, Vancouver, represented my work 2014 Chair of the group exhibition of figurative artists at Basic Enquiry Life Drawing Studio in Vancouver. 48 artists participated 110 works were exhibited
Multiple group exhibitions since the late 1990’s, when I returned to my art practice.
31 Shain Jackson website authenticindigenous.com/artists/shain-jackson
ARTIST STATEMENT
Transcendence and Beauty
Butterflies are a beautiful reminder of the constant transition and development life takes within our realms of existence. We are in never-ending evolution. To this world we come from seemingly nothing; we develop in our mother’s womb all the things needed to take our place among our fellow beings here on Earth. We can take these developments (arms, legs, senses, consciousness….) and master this new domain, and if we are lucky we will soar.
But it is here in this worldly womb that we are meant to continue the development process and embody further things that will benefit us in our new and upcoming domain. Whether one considers the next journey to be the Spirit World, or Heaven we will need to master the immaterial. The saying “You can’t take it with you”, takes on special meaning in this context.
It is this artist’s belief that as we leave our physical shrouds behind our souls transcend. Our only tools to begin our next journey are the teachings we have embodied here. When we are born into the next life we must ask ourselves what tools will benefit us best. Love, compassion, empathy, justice, and other virtues can be described as virtues that will assist us in navigating through a spiritual space and like the butterfly, spreading our wings to fly.
32 BIOGRAPHY Shain Jackson (Niniwum Selapem) is Coast Salish from the community of Sechelt. He is an artist and also a lawyer who has represented the interests of Indigenous communities and organizations throughout British Columbia in relation to a broad array of issues. After years devoted to the legal profession Shain decided to leave his practice to focus his attention on the many facets of BC’s Indigenous art. He is currently the president of Spirit Works Limited, a company focused on the design creation and distribution on authentic Indigenous art products. He is heavily involved in the movement to protect Indigenous intellectual property and the rights of Indigenous artists.
Artistically, Shain works in Coast Salish design using a wide range of mediums such as Cedar, copper, glass, aluminum, acrylic with work ranging from small carved pieces of jewelry to large scale sculpted public art pieces. As he has continued to develop his own artwork to a higher level, he has had the privilege of collaborating with many amazing local artists. On his own, and in partnership with these artists Shain has garnered numerous awards and acclaim both locally and internationally.
The theme existing almost invariably in Shain’s work is that of unity - bringing together diverse groups and working toward a common vision. Revisiting old Coast Salish stories and teachings, he not only incorporates these messages into his artwork but also into all areas of his life. Aside from being an accomplished artist Shain has taken very seriously his responsibilities to his own community of Sechelt and the urban Indigenous community at large.
Further to this, through his company Spirit Works, Shain: has developed programs aimed at providing employment and training to Indigenous youth; donates space, equipment and expertise to Indigenous artists in need; consistently donates time and artwork to numerous charitable organizations; has designed and facilitated workshops aimed at providing cultural teachings for at-risk Indigenous youth; and much more.
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RoseAnn Janzen website rajanzen.com
ARTIST STATEMENT La La Land LA LA LAND is the image that came to me when I was asked to participate in ‘The Art of Loss’ show. The painting depicts someone (maybe me) departing this world and being surrounded by all the wonderful things and pets & people that are loved and important to us when we leave this life and venture into the unknown. A fantasy.
BIOGRAPHY "Too erotic!" "Too exotic!" That's how Vancouver City officials viewed Rose Ann Janzen's work in 1984. They ordered the painting in question removed from a City Hall Public Exhibition of British Columbia Artists. Art critic Max Wyman, among others, rallied in support of Rose Ann but to no avail. The painting remained "banned from City Hall." RA Janzen Studio in Roberts Creek
Although mainly self-taught, RoseAnn has studied art in the Netherlands, at the Banff School of Fine Arts and at the University of British Columbia. Whether exploring the medinas of Morocco, trekking through the jungles of Costa Rica or sailing the South Pacific, she is the irrepressible traveler, never without sketch book in hand. View opposite is of her Studio/Gallery in Roberts Creek on the beautiful Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.
RoseAnn's paintings can be viewed at the Dr. Vigari Gallery on Commercial Drive in Vancouver, The Gibsons Public Art Gallery in Lower Gibsons, Eco Freako in Roberts Creek, at the Coastal Art Gallery in Sechelt and at her studio by appointment.
34 EXHIBITION CV 2017 "Present Tense" group show at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery 2016 Solo show Gumboot Garden Gallery, Roberts Creek 2015 "Both Sides Now" group show at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Participant in Sunshine Coast B.C. Art Crawl 2011 Group show at the Gumboot Garden Gallery, Roberts Creek, BC 2010 Solo show at the Gumboot Garden Gallery, Roberts Creek, BC 2008 Opening: Agnes Road Studio, Roberts Creek, BC 2004 Acre of Art, exhibitor, Roberts Creek, BC 2003 Acre of Art, exhibitor, Roberts Creek, BC 2003 Karma Gallery, Vancouver BC 2001 Solo Exhibition: "Big City Pants" Yew Street Studio, Vancouver BC 2000 Solo Exhibition: "Easy Feelings" Dr. Vigari Gallery, Vancouver BC 1998 Paintings featured in Women Artists' Calendar and Daytimer, Cedco Publishing 1997 Solo Exhibition: The Gumboot Garden, Roberts Creek, BC 1996 Three Person Show: Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, BC 1996 Solo Exhibition: Coast Books, Gibsons, BC 1995 Solo Exhibition: "Fresh Faces" Yew Street Studio, Vancouver, BC 1995 Solo Exhibition: "Spring Fever" Mathews & More, Gibsons, BC Group Show: "Against the Grain" A Walk Is Gallery, Vancouver, BC Profile: TV Documentary "The Creators" by Ilene Hoeter 1994 Solo Exhibition: "Naked Brunch" Vancouver East Cultural Centre Paintings featured in award-winning film "Tokyo Cowboy" Solo Exhibition: "Animal Crackers" Dr. Vigari Gallery, Vancouver, BC Group Show: Edith Lambert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1993 Solo Exhibition: "Coyote in the Kitchen" Yew Street Studio, Vancouver, BC Three Person Photographic Exhibition: Park Gallery, Vancouver, BC Group Show: Mussi Artwork Gallery, Berkeley, California 1993 Solo Exhibition: "Continental Drift" Dr. Vigari Gallery, Vancouver, BC Full-page review and photos by "The Vancouver Sun" Solo Exhibition: "Mescalita Luna II" Galaria, Chur, Switzerland 1992 Solo Exhibition: "Tropical Illusions" Park Theatre Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1992 Solo Exhibition: "Mescalita Luna" Yew Street Studio, Vancouver, BC 1992 National Geographic: Mention & picture in Vancouver article 1991 Two Person Show: "Sit Down I Love You..." Yew Street Studio, Vancouver, BC 1990 Solo Exhibition: "D-Bambu-Lites", A Walk Is Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1990 Profile: "Continental Drift", Step Magazine 1990 Solo Exhibition: "Beans and Rice", Yew Street Studio, Vancouver, BC 1990 Profile: "Sunstrokes", Vancouver Magazine Solo Exhibition: "Jungle Blues", Ottokars Gallerie, Basel, Switzerland Book cover design for Futurisms: Twenty-five Essays, Birkhaeser Group Show: "Images & Objects VIII", Community Arts Council, Saanich, BC 1989 Solo Exhibition: "Bombay Black", Yew Street Studio, Vancouver, BC Three Person Show: "Painting, Photography & Performance", Ottokars Gallerie, Basel, Switzerland Group Show: "B.C. Women Artists", Community Arts Council, Vancouver, BC Two-page review in Plus Magazine Book cover design for The Breasts of Tiresias, by Buillame Apollinaire, nominated 1989 Leipzig Book Fair, Cover Design Solo Exhibition: "Angel Blues", Yew Street Studio, Vancouver, BC Two-page review in Gallerie, Women's Art Magazine Group Show: "Erotica II", Ottokars Gallerie, Basel, Switzerland 35 1998 Solo Exhibition: "Exotica Erotica", Ottokars Gallerie, Basel, Switzerland 1987 Solo Exhibition: "Picnic of Paintings", Target Canada, Vancouver, BC 1985 Solo Exhibition: Target Canada, Vancouver, BC 1984 Solo Exhibition: "Hey What About Me", Firehall Theatre Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1983 Photographic Exhibition: Frederic Lassere Gallery, Vancouver, BC Paintings featured in Arts Society Review #4
EDUCATION 1980-83 Fine Arts Department, University of British Columbia Photography, Painting, Scene Painting 1978-79 Banff School of Fine Arts Diploma in Printed and Dyed Textiles
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Trisha Joel website trishajoel.ca
ARTIST STATEMENT Gratitude
My work has recently brought together a love of exploring calligraphic marks and natural dyed textiles. Here I have chosen the phrase “And my life is blessed” as a way to respond to the experience of loss. There is gratitude for the life of the friend/relative as we mourn them and thoughts naturally arise as to the preciousness of this one life we each have- with all its challenges but also its simple and tender blessings. “And my life is blessed” has become a wonderful way to find balance at times of struggle & lack.
BIOGRAPHY Trisha Joel has been working in fibre art for over 20 years and has had work exhibited on the Sunshine Coast and in the Lower Mainland. Her work is currently available through FibreWorks Gallery in Pender Harbour and the Craft Connection in Nelson, BC. She is a member of the Sunshine Coast Artists’ Coop and the local chapter of the Surface Design Association.
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Carol La Fave carollafave.ca
ARTIST STATEMENT After all this time
After all this time…. I still miss you every day. I believe that love lives on forever.
BIOGRAPHY Carol La Fave is a contemporary collage artist, inspired by nature, cityscapes, colour, pattern, texture and shape. Driven by exploration, her quirky and spontaneous works offer a kaleidoscope of playful surprises, spirited expression and oddball symbolism. Similar to puzzle solving, each piece alludes to a magnified meditative process designed to draw the eye deeper and delve beyond the obvious, creating multi-dimensional compositions of wit, wonder and delight. Carol formerly held a practice in Toronto as a professional artist and illustrator, and studied at the Alberta College of Art. Today she works from her home studio, near forest and sea in beautiful Roberts Creek, BC.
38 EDUCATION 1975-1976 Alberta College of Art and Design 1974 Capilano College, Graphic Design and Illustration
EXHIBITION CV 2018 "Power of Paint 7” by Eleven Equal Artists Seaside Centre, Sechelt BC (group show) Kube Gallery showing with Kim LaFave 2017 "Power of Paint 6” by Eleven Equal Artists Seaside Centre, Sechelt BC (group show) 2016 "Power of Paint 5" by Eleven Equal Artists Seaside Centre, Sechelt BC (group show) June “Simply Warehouse 4” Wilson Creek BC (group show) “It’s not all Black and White” Christy Sverre Gallery, Gibsons BC (group show) 2015 "Power of Paint 4" by Eleven Equal Artists Seaside Centre, Sechelt BC (group show) June “Simply Warehouse 3” Wilson Creek BC (group show) 2014 “Our Forest Show” Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons BC (group show) "Power of Paint 3" by Eleven Equal Artists Seaside Centre, Sechelt BC (group show) “Simply Warehouse 2” Wilson Creek BC (group show) Opus Outdoor Painting Challenge; winner, first prize 2013 “no title” Omega Gallery, Vancouver BC (group show) "Power of Paint 2" by Eleven Equal Artists Seaside Centre, Sechelt BC (group show) “Simply Warehouse” Wilson Creek BC (group show) 2012 "Power of Paint"by Eleven Equal Artists Seaside Centre, Sechelt BC (group show) “Juried Art Show” Seaside Centre, Sechelt BC (group show) 2010 “What is a Still Life” Westwind Gallery, Gibsons BC (group show) 2008 "Our Common Connection" Westwind Gallery, Gibsons B.C (group show ) 2007 “My solo exhibition” Gallery 5, Roberts Creek BC (solo show)
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Kim La Fave website kimlafavepaintings.com
ARTIST STATEMENT Blackberry "Loss is nothing more than change, and change is Nature's delight.” Marcus Aurelius
Kim LaFave is moved to understand the world through ideas and conversations in drawing and painting, capturing and abstracting key moments in time, landscapes and themes via dynamic, gestural imagery. Constantly evolving his vision and expression, Kim’s artistic process is one of discovery, reflection, deconstruction and re-assembly. By questioning each subject, through investigations in material, texture, line and colour, he distills essential meaning, value and power. The end result is at once grounded and complete, evocative and expansive.
40 BIOGRAPHY As well as his painting practice, Kim La Fave has had a prolific career illustrating children’s books such as Amos’s Sweater (by Janet Lunn), which won the Governor General’s Award for Illustration, the Ruth Swartz Children’s Book Award, and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award. He also illustrated Shin- chi’s Canoe (by Nicola I. Campbell), which won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award; Fishing with Gubby (by Gary Kent), shortlisted for several awards; and dozens of other beloved children’s books.
Kim grew up in North Vancouver. He studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Capilano College (1973-4) the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary (1975-6) and the Illustrators Workshop in New York (1976) before moving in Toronto to start his career as a freelance artist. As well as book illustration, he also had a successful advertising and editorial career, with clients like American Express, IBM, and Bell Mobility. He’s won many design awards from the Vancouver Art Director’s Club and the Advertising and Design Club of Canada, CA Magazine, Studio Magazine Awards and the Marketing Awards.
He now lives in Robert’s Creek, BC, dividing his time between illustrating children’s books, and painting. He is represented by Kurbatoff Gallery in Vancouver.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2018 Represented by Kurbatoff Gallery (Vancouver) Power of Paint : Eleven Equal Artists annual Exhibition (group) Kube Gallery (group) 2017 Power of Paint:Eleven Equal Artists (group) 50 Canadian Stories (group) Sechelt, BC 2016 Visions of Home (group) Gibsons Public Art Gallery Power of Paint: Eleven Equal Artists (group) Gibsons Public Art Gallery "Safe Harbours" (solo) Gibsons, BC 2015 Sunshine Coast Art Crawl Power of Paint: Eleven Equal Artists (group) Sechelt, BC 2014 Sunshine Coast Art Crawl Power of Paint: Eleven Equal Artists (group) Sechelt, BC Our Forest Show: Gibsons Public Art Gallery (group) 2013 Power of Paint: Eleven Equal Artists (group) Sechelt, BC Gibsons Public Art Gallery (group) 2012 Power of Paint: Eleven Equal Artists (group) Sechelt, BC 2011 Juried Art Show Sechelt, BC 2010 Westwind Gallery: “What is Still Life” (group), Gibsons, BC 2009 National Gallery of Canada, CCBC, Group Exhibition, Ottawa, Ontario Westwind Gallery (solo) Show, Gibsons, BC 2008 Westwind Gallery: “Our Common Connection” (group), Gibsons, BC 2007 Westwind Gallery (solo) Show, Gibsons, BC Bellevue Gallery Children’s Illustration Show (group) 2005 Westwind Gallery (solo) Show, Gibsons, BC 2004 “Happily Ever After” Touring exhibition (group) organized by Surrey Art Gallery Group Show
41 Ian MacLeod website ianmacleodpaintings.blogspot.ca
ARTIST STATEMENT My Epiphany (Loss of Self)
I have come to realize, or see in some abstracted manner, my new series "Epiphany" - paintings and works on paper are a reflection of my life.
I was given up at birth and adopted by loving parents (my parents). Even after their deaths I never wanted to search out my birth parents because it felt like a betrayal.
This conflict shows up in my art in the fragmented and broken patterns that are sometimes incomplete and unresolved.
Now in my 70's, I see that not only my current work, but all my art has undertones of this somewhat separated life and loss of self.
Everything I've done, the way I connect or don't connect with people, places and things are all there to keep me safe and from being lost.
The art shows me this - I don't believe I saw it until I read something written by an artist friend about himself for an exhibition I curated in 2017. His words, filled with emotion and honesty opened something in me and I will be forever grateful.
And here I thought I was just throwing paint. 42 BIOGRAPHY I take painting seriously and am committed to my growth as an artist and therefore disciplined - it's all I do.
My abstract painting utilizes a mix of materials and mediums.
I seek unintentional results, never over-thinking the process, my sense of placement and form dispel accidental configuration.
The work occurs through the energy and act of doing.
I studied fine arts at the University of Manitoba and graphic design at Red River College in Winnipeg.
Before moving to the Sunshine Coast (where I paint full time) I worked as an illustrator, graphic designer, exhibit designer and art director in Winnipeg, Ottawa, and Vancouver for over 30 years.
During this time, I was fortunate to have been part of some extremely interesting and fulfilling design projects for a vast range of clients including Canadian Government, Carleton University, National Arts Centre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Habitat (UN Conference on Human Settlements), Canada Post, Expo 86, Equity Magazine, 7-11 Canada, Vancouver Magazine, Bing Thom Architects, Simon Fraser University, BC Business Magazine, the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre and the Vancouver East Cultural Centre.
EXHIBITION CV - Ian MacLeod 2017 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Friends of the Gallery" - group show. Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "50 Canadian Things" August group show - (curator). Seaside Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Power of Paint" - Eleven Equal Artists, August group show. 2016 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Friends of the Gallery" - group show. Seaside Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Power of Paint" - Eleven Equal Artists, August group show. 2015 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Friends of the Gallery" - group show. Seaside Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Power of Paint" - Eleven Equal Artists, August group show. The Cultch - Vancouver, BC - September group show. 2014 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Friends of the Gallery" - group show. Deluxe - White Rock, BC - solo show. Siena - Vancouver, BC - solo show. Seaside Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Power of Paint" - Eleven Equal Artists, August group show. Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Abstract Aesthetics" - September solo show. Sunshine Coast Art Crawl - Sundowner Inn - group show. 2013 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Friends of the Gallery" - group show. Smoking Dog Bistro - Vancouver BC - solo show. Seaside Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Power of Paint" - Eleven Equal Artists, August group show. 2012 Sopa Fine Arts - Kelowna, BC - April - group show. Gumboot - Roberts Creek, BC - June/July solo show. Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Obsession" - group show. Seaside Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Power of Paint" - Eleven Equal Artists, August group show. Seaside Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Sechelt Arts Festival Juried Art Show - group show.
43 2011 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Friends of the Gallery" - group show. Sopa Fine Arts - Kelowna, BC - April - group show. Gumboot - Roberts Creek, BC - June - solo show. Impact Artist Gallery - Buffalo, New York - August - works on paper - group show. Gumboot - Roberts Creek, BC - August - solo show (Sudoku digital mono-prints). Seaside Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Sechelt Arts Festival Juried Art Show - group show. 2010 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Friends of the Gallery" - group show. Sopa Fine Arts - Kelowna, BC - April - group show. Gumboot - Roberts Creek, BC - June - solo show. Seaside Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Sechelt Arts Festival Juried Art Show - group show. Gumboot - Roberts Creek, BC - August solo show. 2009 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Friends of the Gallery" - group show. Sopa Fine Arts - Kelowna, BC - April - group show. Westwind Gallery - Gibsons, BC, - May - solo show. Gumboot - Roberts Creek, BC - July - solo show. Seaside Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Sechelt Arts Festival Juried Art Show - group show. Gumboot - Roberts Creek, BC - October - solo show. Leighdon Gallery - Vancouver, BC - "Winter Exhibition" Dec. 1 - Jan. 29 - group show. 2008 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Friends of the Gallery" - group show. Sopa Fine Arts - Kelowna, BC - April - group show. Westwind Gallery - Gibsons, BC, - May - group show. Malaspina University - Powell River, BC - June - solo show. Seaside Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Sechelt Arts Festival Juried Art Show - group show. 2007 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Friends of the Gallery" - group show. Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Invitational Exhibition" - group show. Seaside Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Sechelt Arts Festival Juried Art Show - group show. 2006 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Friends of the Gallery" - group show. Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Invitational Exhibition" - group show. Seaside Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Sechelt Arts Festival Juried Art Show - group show 2004 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Friends of the Gallery" - group show. Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "25th Anniversary Exhibition" - group show. 2003 Artesia Gallery - Gibsons, BC, January - solo show. Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC, "Friends of the Gallery" - group show. Sunshine Coast Arts Centre - Sechelt, BC - group show (with Beth Jankola).
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Marilyn Marshall
ARTIST STATEMENT Song Above Shadow
My paintings have mainly to do with figurative and other organic ideas in compositions that speak clearly to my dwindling vision. I try to push the meaning of ideas to an edge that clarifies their significance.
The elements of Song Above Shadow reflect my love for the shapes of musical instruments and my inclination to combine figurative with other shapes in a surreal way. The painting refers to the straining effort to find hope and light against a background of darkness and despair.
BIOGRAPHY I began drawing and painting seriously after I retired from a career in teaching and research, mainly at Carleton University in Ottawa. My training was in experimental psychology.
I began drawing with the Life Drawing group in Sechelt around 1998 and continued that practice for 18 years. Early on, the artist Thomas Anfield offered a workshop on drawing the human figure and I was inspired by him to work harder to develop my drawing skill. When Anfield returned to give a short course on figure painting I signed up and began my painting career. Later, I also benefited from workshops and short courses offered by Dick Phillips, Maurice Spira, David Langevin, Suzanne Northcott, Jason Ogilvie and others.
I am a lifetime lover of nature and of the forms and colours which are casually tossed off for us to see around the year. My partner, Vera Wall, is an avid gardener, and the plant forms she finds and nourishes have played a large role in my development as an artist. I see the human figure as one more natural form among many others, vegetables included, and I am inclined to combine these forms in ways that emphasize their kinship.
45 Sheryl McDougald website sherylmcdougald.wordpress.com instagram sherylmcdougald
ARTIST STATEMENT The Beauty of Damage
I have become adept at changing my methods of creative output. I have also become good at accepting accumulating inability. Luckily, there is always some new and interesting technique, some different way of interpreting a creative thought, and an endless choice of new possibilities for art- making... isn’t there?
So I thought - until this June, when I hung many of my older, large scale paintings in a show at SCAC. I can no longer work at that monumental scale, and I had just accepted that. Except that obviously, I hadn’t because every single painting brought back how much I had loved the work, from beginning to end. Loss caught up with me, and it was so much harsher for my avoidance. Honestly, I still don’t know how to think about it.
But, if I am to continue, I have to find a way past Loss, which is really Change, and ultimately Life... and it will happen again, and probably again. No more shoving it in a cupboard and pretending it doesn’t exist.
Damage is beautiful, and whether I use a 3” paintbrush on a 6 foot canvas, or a humble ballpoint pen on paper, I will keep seeking beauty.
BIOGRAPHY Sheryl McDougald lives in Roberts Creek on the beautiful Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. She sketches, paints, photoshops, collages and collects bones and feathers, always fascinated with the natural world that surrounds her. She has had MS for over 20 years, which creates challenges and constantly changes her methods of art-making.
Sheryl’s enduring love for the Italian Renaissance body was the focus of her painting for many years.
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Janice McFegan
ARTIST STATEMENT Colour my world This song performed by Chicago with the lyrics and music written by member James Kankow thrilled me and went to my heart. It expresses the love, the loss and then the memories that never fade. A date, a piece of clothing, a day of rain all bring back the memories of loss. My etching reveals the long ago memories that are always with me and my joy of turning to music.
EDUCATION Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree The Art Institute, Capilano College, North Vancouver BC Graduate Studies Diploma of Printmaking
EXHIBITION CV International Exhibitions: 2016 Arising, Yoko Ono Exhibition, Reykjavík Art Museum 2005-2015 International Print Exhibition, Proof Gallery, Toronto Ont 2005 4th International Print Exchange juried, Schorndorf, Germany Intimate Impression: Art from Pan America, juried exhibition 1997 International Triennial of Graphic Art-Bitola, Republic of Macedonia, juried exhibition 1997 The Fourth Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints 1997, Bhopal, India, juried exhibition
47 Selected Exhibitions: 2016 Island Mountain Arts, juried exhibition and mentorship with Jeffrey Spalding and Anong Migwans Beam, Wells BC 2015 Joni Mitchell-Gibsons Public Art Gallery Shades of Grey- Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt BC 2014 Metamorphosis, curate/organize, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre 2013 Printers by the sea with Nena Braathen, Russ Tkachuk, Sunshine coast Arts Centre 2013 Carte Blanche: Sunshine Coast Arts Centre 2012 Halleluiah, Gibsons Public Art Gallery 2012 Obsessions; Sunshine Coast Arts Centre 2011, 2012 Seaside Centre, Sechelt Juried exhibition; shortlisted for purchase 2007-2015 Proof Gallery Toronto; Etchings, woodcut, linocut 2007, 2017 Life drawing Exhibition; Sunshine Coast Arts Centre 2004-2018 Friends of the Gallery, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt Artist Block, Avenue for the arts, sculpture, Vancouver 20 Years of Printmaking Celebration Invitational, Grande Forks, BC The First 25 years-invitational Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC 2003 Artropolis 2003, juried selection “Residue” Pauline Conley 20 Years of Printmaking Celebration Invitational, Ceperley House, Burnaby BC Drawn to Life, life drawing exhibition, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre. Sechelt, BC Facing Ourselves- the self-portrait- curate/organize, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC 2002 911- Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC Globalization and the Environment, Invitational, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC 2001 Graduation, Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC Colonization, Invitational, Emily Carr College of Art & Design Printmaking Exhibition, Emily Carr College of Art & Design Go Figure-Life Drawing Exhibition, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC Landscape Invitational, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC 2001 Artropolis, Ed Varney, self portrait, Vancouver, BC 2001 Friends of the Gallery, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC 2000 Printmaking Exhibition, Emily Carr College of Art & Design Friends of the Gallery, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC Invitational, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC 1999 Two Women- Two Passions-joint show with M. Perez- Capilano College, North Vancouver, BC Arts Council of Surrey, juried Exhibition, Surrey, BC, prize Life Moves On-Life Drawing Exhibition, Sunshine Coast Arts Council, Sechelt, BC Artropolis, Ed Varney, artist influences, Vancouver, BC Friends of the Gallery, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC 1998 Guest artist- Gambier Island art festival Malaspina Printworks- Havana Café- Vancouver, BC, juried show Invitational, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC Art Institute, Capilano College, North Vancouver BC Art Institute, Science World, Vancouver BC Proof Positive-with N. Braathen, M. Napp, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC Friends of the Gallery, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC 1997 Artropolis 97, Round House, Vancouver, BC Women’s Spirituality, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC Malaspina Printworks-Evergreen Gallery, Vancouver, BC juried show Invitational, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC Arts Council of Surrey, juried Exhibition, Surrey, BC Friends of the Gallery, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC Black & White, Juried exhibition, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt 48 1996 Printworks- Art Institute, Capilano College, North Vancouver BC Malaspina Printworks- Foto Base Gallery- Vancouver, BC On Paper- Yale Gallery- Vancouver, BC Juried exhibition, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt Invitational, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt BC Images and Objects- Reginal juried exhibition, Penticton, BC Lifelines- Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC Visual Edge- North Vancouver Arts Council, N. Vancouver, BC Erotica-Quay Gallery- Gibsons BC Friends of the Gallery, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC 1995 Collaborative Exhibition, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC Small Works- Yale Gallery- Vancouver, BC Juried Exhibition, Ed Varney juror, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC Presentation House Theatre Gallery-North Vancouver, BC Art Institute Presentation, Ferry Building Gallery, N. Vancouver Dog & Cat Exhibition, Quay Works Gallery, Gibsons, BC Erotica-Quay Gallery- Gibsons BC Friends of the Gallery, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC
Awards and Bursaries: 2009 Year of the Ox selected for poster Print Gallery Toronto Ont 2008 Waterfall etching purchased by New York actor Jay Sanders 1995-99 Deans List, Capilano College, North Vancouver, BC 1997 Surrey Art Gallery-juried award, honorable mention 1995 Bursary, Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts
Curating: 2014 Metamorphosis, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC 2003 Self Portrait Exhibition, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC 1996 On Paper, Yale Gallery, Vancouver, BC Art Rental Presentation, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC The Annual Art Auction, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC
Catalogue and Published Work: 2003 20 Years of Printmaking Celebration, Ceperley House, Burnaby BC 2003 Artropolis 2003, “Residue” Pauline Conley 2001 Graduation, Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC 1999 Intimate Impression: Art from Pan America 1997 International Triennial of Graphic Art-Bitola, Republic of Macedonia 1997 The Fourth Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints 1997, Bhopal, India
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Tim McLaughlin website ampersand-and-company.com
ARTIST STATEMENT The Day is Infinite There is a magnetism in photographs. My hope is to elucidate the lines of force radiating from the image with text. I have found the best way to do this is through making my own ink and writing with a traditional dip pen. Often this writing is done on the photograph itself.
50 BIOGRAPHY Born: 1965, Mississauga, Ontario.
EXHIBITION CV SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PRESENTATIONS 2017 Torah. Sunshine Coast Arts Centre – “50 Canadian Things” 2016 Banjara. Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC 2014 Visage. Ferry Building Gallery, BC 2013 Portraits. Gibsons Public Art Gallery, BC 2011 Portrait of Giorgio Magnanensi. Sechelt Festival of the Arts. BC 2002 Stain, SITU, Western Front Online, BC 1997 Banff Centre Deep Web Project, Banff, AB <
BOOKS Textiles of the Banjara: Cloth and Culture of a Wandering Tribe. Thames and Hudson (2016) Portraits: Found and Taken. Self-Published (2014) Notes Toward Absolute Zero Eastgate (1996)
RECENT WRITINGS ON TEXTILES “Wandering Cloth” Hali Magazine (2016) “Masters of a Complex Patterning Calculus” V&A Magazine (2015) “The Hidden Lives of Textiles” Surface Design (2015)
PRESS Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada, Author entry, (2002) Front Magazine, review of SITU (2001) Parachute Magazine, review (1999) New York Times, review (1997) The Globe and Mail, review (1996) Vancouver Sun, review (1995) La Times, review (1995) Shift Magazine, feature (1993)
EDUCATION University of Western Ontario, Masters of Arts, Philosophy of Science. 1992
51 Charly Mithrush website charlymithrushart.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
A Wish In The Wind
What Does the Dandelion Flower Mean? The common and humble Dandelion has a surprising amount of different meanings. The Dandelion means: • Healing from emotional pain and physical injury alike • Intelligence, especially in an emotional and spiritual sense • The warmth and power of the rising sun • Surviving through all challenges and difficulties • Long lasting happiness and youthful joy • Getting your wish fulfilled Since the Dandelion can thrive in difficult conditions, it is no wonder that people say the flower symbolizes the ability to rise above life’s challenges.
BIOGRAPHY Acrylic, mixed media, & encaustic artist. Charly Mithrush is a contemporary artist working predominantly in acrylic, mixed media and encaustics. She has attended Emily Carr as well as a variety of college level programs, and continues to hone and learn new skills through attending and giving private workshops. Her works consist of bold colours, objects and textures on various surfaces and she is presently exploring encaustics.
Charly primarily works in her home studio on the Sunshine Coast in B.C., Canada. Her artwork has been featured in over 20 group and solo shows, and in Artists of British Columbia Volume 3.
52 Paula O’Brien website paulaobrien.com facebook PaulaOBrienArt Instagram paulaartist6
ARTIST STATEMENT Countdown to Goodbye It was my privilege to have the most wonderful partner and husband for 39 years. It was my duty and pleasure to have been able to offer him the smoothest possible final year of life after his diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis. This piece depicts parts of his final journey - from portable oxygen tanks to enable him to get around as comfortably as possible to little furry stuffed friends who cuddled with him at every opportunity in his last year.
The main center image captures all the friends and family who stopped by in his very final days. The Canadian Legion women came to his bedside to induct him as a member to the Legion and they had the most wonderful chatty time as the rest of us cheered him on as a very proud new member, even though he had an appointment for his own exit from this world 4 days later.
The final images reveals his hand in mine after the gift of Medical Assistance in Dying MAiD was granted to him to pass peacefully and lovingly at home. He had requested a simple cedar coffin and we delivered him lovingly back to the Earth in that.
Above the piece are images from his long, adventurous and very full life. Below is the Little Suitcase of Happiness, bursting with memories and love that we were so fortunate to have built up in our life together. What a gift we shared to have found and built our loving life together. The oxygen tubing drips with bejeweled drops... of tears or life-giving water....
53 BIOGRAPHY Originally from Montreal, travel, adventure and love lead me to Europe, the Caribbean and England where I continued my Fine Arts education at Goldsmiths College. We planted ourselves with our growing family in Gibsons, BC in 1989.
Family and business life with Kidzsmart took precedence but I always approached my artwork seriously and continued to find ways to exhibit by myself and with others. I established a reputation and following as a textile artist with my wearable art, art textiles and sewing pattern line Pavelka Design.
I returned to life drawing in 2007 and my paintings shifted from works from imagination to figurative works from direct observation. My current body of work has shifted to the West Coast World with images of fishing boats and landscapes coming into view. Eleven years of life drawing and four years of plein air painting have built my sturdy foundation and anchor my artwork.
I mainly work in oils on canvas. I use a lot palette knife, working very fast in a loose alla prima style. My mark making is very deliberate and individual. My favorite mark making tools are cold wax, silicone tip and wooden skewers to squiggle through lines.
Digital painting with Adobe Sketch and Procreate on iPad now allows me to take my full painting kit into even the most hallowed locations where splashy paints are not welcomed.
EXHIBITION CV SOLO SHOWS 2018 Urbanity - Vancouver 2017 Dancers at the Playhouse - Heritage Playhouse, Gibsons, BC 2012 Red - Gibsons & District Public Library 2010 Red - Gumboot Restaurant, Roberts Creek 2009 After The Circus - Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, BC 1992 Surface / Resurface - Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, BC
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 2018 The Art Of Loss - GPAG, Gibsons, BC – Curator Paintings From My Travels - Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, BC Slice of Life - Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, BC FOG Friends of the Gallery - Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, BC 2017 Life & Limn Group Show - Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, BC 50 Canadian Things - Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, BC Present Tense - GPAG, Gibsons, BC Westcoast Figurative - GPAG, Gibsons, BC – Curator 2016 FOG Friends of the Gallery - Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, BC 2015 30th Anniversary Life Drawing – Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, BC Both Sides Now - GPAG, Gibsons, BC 2013 Figures On The Coast - GPAG, Gibsons, BC – Curator Modern Masterpieces - Guest artist, live painting event, Sunshine Coast Concert Band Life Drawing Group - Sechelt, BC 2012 Red - Gumboot Restaurant Roberts Creek 2008 Wearable Art Show - Vancouver Museum Artists At the Nest - Swallows Nest, Gibsons, BC FOG Friends of the Gallery - Sunshine Coast Art Centre 2004 TEXTiles - The Ferry Building, W. Vancouver The First 25 Years - Sechelt Art Centre
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2002 9/11 - Sechelt Art Centre Come Rain Or Come Shine - Seymour Art Centre, Burnaby, BC Bernina Wearable Art Fashion Show - Houston, Texas Friends of the Gallery - Sechelt Art Centre 1999 Fairfield Wearable Art Fashion Show - Houston, Texas Harmony Festival - Vancouver, BC 1993 Regional Juried Show - Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, BC Images & Objects - Trail, BC 1992 Summer Invitational Show - Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, BC Creative Sewing & Needlework Festival - Chatelaine Celebrity Expert, Vancouver 1991 Junque Jewellry - Honourable Mention, Imagination Market, Vancouver, BC Annual Juried Show - Honourable Mention, Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, BC Made By Hand - Paper & Felt - Harbourfront, Toronto VGFA Group Show - Sinclair Centre,Vancouver, BC The Wild West Postcard Show - Body Currents Gallery, Tlell, BC 1990 Made By Hand-Paper & Felt - The Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, BC 20 x 20 x 20 - BC Crafthouse Gallery, Vancouver, Vancouver Guild Of Fabric Artists Junque Jewelry - Award Winner, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC 1989 VGFA Group Show - Queen Elizabeth Theatre Mezzanine, Vancouver, BC 1984 Young Designers - The Fashion Centre, London, England Invitational Auction - Band Aid Famine Relief, Bradford, England 1983 Dressing Up - Rufford Art Centre, Nottinghamshire, UK Silk Week - Oakwood Art Centre, Maldon, Essex, UK Women & Textiles : Their Works & Their Lives - Battersea Art Centre, London Goldsmith¹s Diploma Show - Goldsmiths College, London
PUBLICATIONS 2018 Cover art, Medical Journal College of Family Physicians of Canada 1995-97 Sew News and Woman’s Day Magazines, invited artist 1985 Book cover, German version, Beauty Secrets: The Politics Of Beauty – Wendy Chapkiss 1984 Work reproduced in Women¹s Contemporary Art Diary - 1986, California
EDUCATION 2015 Mark Heine, Gibsons School of the Arts 2012 David Goatley course, Gibsons Summer School of the Arts 2009 Nicholas Pearce course, Gibsons Summer School of the Arts 2008 Justin Ogilvie course, Gibsons Summer School of the Arts 1981-1983 Goldsmiths Diploma, Embroidery / Textiles, Goldsmiths College, London 1973-1976 Fine Arts, John Abbott College, Montreal
COLLECTIONS Coast Paper, Vancouver, BC Caladrius Physiotherapy Centre, Sechelt, BC The Express Newspaper, London Private Collections of The Electrum Gallery, London, England, France, Italy, South Africa, Canada, USA
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Dionne Paul
ARTIST STATEMENT Mend the Stinging Within I was taught the protocol of harvesting plants and this includes a prayer ceremony thanking the plant for sharing its gifts and/or giving up its life. Gathering natural materials in the forest is a very special time and I have been harvesting plant medicines since I was a child.
This particular season I was going through a very painful transition. I was transitioning from being a married woman to being a single woman. I woke up very heartbroken one morning and went for a walk in the forest. I wasn’t planning on harvesting any plants. I just needed to be alone in the forest. Along my walk I noticed a cedar tree that was healing from being stripped of its outer bark the year before.
Instead of offering a prayer to the tree, as I was not the one who had taken the strip from this tree, I walked up to the tree, placed my hand on the exposed inner bark and offered an empathetic prayer of understanding. I felt I could relate to the healing process of this tree - the outer bark being stripped away leaving a raw exposed inner bark. My inner bark was also raw and exposed from my marriage stripped away from me. This inspired me to create “Mend the Stinging Within”.
I went home and gathered my harvesting kit, some red thread and my camera. I spent the rest of the day co- creating healing art with this cedar tree and stinging nettle plants. Stinging nettle leaves have stinging hairs that inject histamines and other chemicals into the skin cause an itching, stinging sensation. First Nations people have long used stinging nettle plants topically as a pain reliever. I find it interesting that pain can be used to treat pain. I touched the stinging nettle leaf and wanted to feel the physical effect of the itching, throbbing pain and my mind equated this pain to the emotional hurt in my heart.
I started a prayer ceremony by offering tobacco and then talked to the stinging nettle plant sharing my pain and asking for some relief. I carefully tore the stinging nettle leaf then I mended it with red thread. I photographed what I had created. I harvested select stinging nettle leaves and went home to make some fresh stinging nettle tea and consume the medicine and completed the ceremony.
I intended this piece to be visual representation of my request from the stinging nettle to mend the stinging within me. 56 BIOGRAPHY Dionne Paul (Ximiq) is a proud member of the Nuxalk Nation and Sechelt Nation. She is a member of the Eagle Clan and her ancestral name is Ximiq and translates to the first eyelash of sunlight that comes over the mountain to greet everyone in the morning.
She has a Masters of Applied Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her thesis research focused on traditional special effects in potlatch performances. Through intense investigation she has created a unique lens to view Northwest Coast art and thereby opening a window to new possibilities of art objects and the relationship to performance with her research on the mechanisms behind ceremonial performances.
Her artworks are an investigation into representations of First Nations narratives and situations as well as depictions and ideas that can only be realized in art. She makes work that deals with the documentation of events and the question of how they can be presented. Her works feature connections between traditional ways of knowing and the condition of the contemporary First Nations state of being. She has found successful ways of expressing her love of Northwest Coast form, cultural art object functions and weaves them together to create multilayered pieces that reflect a feminist sensibility with hints of humour to explore erotica, addiction, residential school, and gender roles in ceremony and time.
EDUCATION 2016 Emily Carr University of Art and Design Master of Applied Arts 2009 Nicola Valley Institute of Technology Native Adult Instructor Diploma 2006 Emily Carr University of Art and Design Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
EXHIBITION CV GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 Arrive, Reach, Revisit… Charles H. Scott Gallery 2014 Year of Reconciliation Vancouver 2013 Residential Reconciliation Conf Vancouver 2013 RezErect: Native Erotica Bill Reid Gallery 2013 Magic Flute Opera Queen Elizabeth Theatre 2013 Net-Eth: Going out of Darkness Skwachays Lodge Gallery 2012 Art en Capital Salon du Dessin Grand Palace, Paris et de la Peinture a l’eau 2012 Talking Stick Festival Gerry Thorne Gallery 2010 S.M.A.S.H Victoria Art Museum 2010 S’abadeb: The Gifts… Seattle Art Museum 2009 Killarney C. Centre V.A.N.O.C 2009 S’abadeb: The Gifts… Royal BC Museum 2005 Trademark Concourse Gallery 2005 Weaving with our Ancestors Tems Swiya Museum 2004 Indian – Unquote Gerry Thorne Gallery 2004 Urban Spaces Concourse Gallery 2003 This is my War Shirt Gerry Thorne Gallery 2003 Re-representation Concourse Gallery Co-Curator 2002 Urban Redwire Gerry Thorne Gallery 2001 Band Together Concourse Gallery 2000 Bingo Concourse Gallery
57 SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2004 Ximiq in Progress Tems Swiya Museum Curator
AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS 2015 American for the Arts Public Art Network, Chicago 2015 Canada Council Travel Grant for Aboriginal Collaborative Project 2015 Irving K. Barber Scholarship 2014 BC Arts Council Scholarship 2014 Irving K. Barber Scholarship 2013 Irving K. Barber Scholarship
COMMISSIONS 2018 Underwater Totem “Guardian of the Ocean” for PODS 2014 Year of Reconciliation City of Vancouver 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games 2007 Iris Griffith Interpretive Centre
PUBLICATIONS Art en Capital Salon du Dessin et de la Peinture a l’eau Paris, France Salish Seas: An Anthology of Text and Image S'abadeb: The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists O SIYAM: Aboriginal Art Inspired by the 2010 Olympic and Paralympics Games SMASH: International Indigenous Weaving
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Museum of Anthropology Vancouver Museum of Anthropology Vancouver Killarney Community Centre Vancouver Iris Griffith Interpretive Centre Pender Harbour Tems Swiya Museum Sechelt Nation Elders Center Sechelt Nation
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Charlotte Hoelke Ottawa Connie Watts Tseshaht & Kwakwaka'wakwa Mr. and Mrs. Jim Mealia-Budd Sechelt Cassandra Langlois Seattle Chief Ian Campbell Squamish Nation Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Campo Sechelt Nation/ Squamish Nation Marcia Guno Nisga’a Nation Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Paul Sechelt Nation Mr. Darwin Douglas Sto:lo Nation
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Cindy Riach website cindyriach.com
ARTIST STATEMENT Those were the days
I’ve painted people for years and they still fascinate me. Everyone is unique …. everyone has a story. I keep looking ….
59 EDUCATION 1971–78 BA-BPHE, BEd, MSc. Queens University, Kingston, ON 1985 PhD University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON Dundas Valley School of Art (DVSA), Hamilton, ON International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Umbria, Italy
EXHIBITION CV Selected exhibitions 2018 “Power of Paint VII”, Seaside Centre, Sechelt BC 2017 “Sensuality” One Flower One Leaf, Gibsons BC 2017 “Power of Paint VI”, Seaside Centre, Sechelt BC 2017 “50 Canadian Stories” Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt BC 2017 “Connect the Lines” Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt BC 2017 “Westcoast Figurative”, GPAG, Gibsons BC 2016 “Power of Paint V”, Seaside Centre, Sechelt BC 2015 “Power of Paint IV”, Seaside Centre, Sechelt BC 2015 “Guest Artist”, The Landing Gallery, Gibsons BC 2015 “Places & Spaces”, Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt BC 2014 “Our Forest”, Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons BC 2014 “Power of Paint III”, Seaside Centre, Sechelt BC 2013 “Power of Paint II”, Seaside Centre, Sechelt BC 2013 “Figures on the Coast”, Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons BC 2012 “Power of Paint I”, Seaside Centre, Sechelt BC 2010 “Ourselves and Others” Sechelt Art Centre, Sechelt BC 2008 “Solo Show”, Westwind Gallery, Gibsons BC
Selected Awards 2007 “Landscape” Open Juried Show PAC, Saltspring Is., BC 2003 “Richeson Gold Pastel Award” Open Juried Show PAC, ON
Corporate Collections Ronald McDonald House Hamilton ON Scarfone Hawkins LLP, Hamilton ON Numerous private collections
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Miyuki Shinkai website facebook.com/MellonGlassStudio
ARTIST STATEMENT Soul Rising Blown glass and new year’s greeting cards drawn by my father in Japan. He passed away peacefully in Nov 28, 2017, age of 74. He was a hyper active, heavy smoker, drinker, and hard-working contractor. He loved outdoor experience, temples pilgrim tours, fishing, hiking, pottery making (shigarakiyaki), and building structures in nature. His creativity continues to live inside myself and our children here in Canada.
The environmental sustainability and the growth in local economy has become a mainstream concern to the general public. It seems to be the industrial age is coming to the end after we have gone through the saturation of materialism and consumerism. I feel strongly we are going through the transition period before the new era to come. As the artisan who works in traditional medium, it has been a challenge up against mass production economy, but I also see it as the opportunity to work in natural resource and emphasize on truthfulness on slow process of creation.
Through my visual art practice, I have been searching for unity. I believe that we are all together as one, while respecting many diverse cultural traditions and the uniqueness of individuality. Freedom of thoughts and creativity promotes innovation. I am interested in evolving flow. Art expression allows me to overcome the differences in language and in our foundation of human beliefs. It has always been an ultimate communication method for me to feel closer to my higher self and interact with the rest of society. The presentation of the creation has been an important event for my personal development, integration and participation in the community.
61 BIOGRAPHY I was born and raised in Shiga, Japan in 1969. After earning a BA in English and Comparative Culture in Osaka in 1991, I relocated to the United States where I studied in Hawaii, California and Vermont, earning an MA in Social Administration at Georgia Southwestern State University in 1994. While there, I developed an interest in glass and earned a minor in glassblowing. This interest led me to the Pilchuck Glass School, Washington and a career in the art of glassblowing.
I moved to Gibsons on the Sunshine Coast in 2003 after having a studio in Vancouver’s Strathcona area for a number of years, looking for a place that was closer to nature to raise our young family. I have had numerous exhibitions of my work at galleries and public spaces around the world.
EDUCATION 1994 Georgia Southwestern State University, Americus, Georgia. MSA - Social Administration Minor - Glass Blowing (mentor: Mr. Ralph Harvey). 1992-1994 Work as Japanese Language Instructor (University, public schools programs in Georgia.) 1991 Kansai University of Foreign Studies, Osaka, Japan. BA – English and Comparative Cultures 1988 ESL Short Term Program, Kansai University of Hawaii. 1989 ESL Summer Program, UC Riverside, California. 1990-1991 Exchange Student at Saint. Michael's College,Winooski, Vermont. 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington. (mentor: Mr. Rene Rubicheck, Mr. Petre Novotny, Mr. Randy Walker, Mr.Therman Statum, Mr. Italo Scanga, Ms.Fay Jones, Ms.Jerry Pethick) 1994-1995 Chihuly Studio, Seattle, WA. (mentor: Mr. Dale Chihuly) 1996 Vancouver Contemporary Artworks, Vancouver, B.C. (mentor: Mr. George Ketterl, Mrs. Claudia Cuesta) 2015 Capilano University, Sechelt, BC. Education Assistant Certificate.
EXHIBITION CV Selected Exhibitions 2017 Circle Craft Anniversary Show, Vancouver, BC. 2016 Sechelt Arts Festival, Sechelt, BC. 2016 Sasaki Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2015 Woodland Project, Gibsons, BC. 2014 Aquifer Project, Gibsons, BC. 2014 Mind Over Matter, Sechelt Arts Festival, BC. 2014 Balance, Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC. 2014 City Atrium Gallery, North Vancouver City Hall, BC. 2013 Foyer Gallery, North Vancouver District Hall, North Van, BC. 2013 Circle Craft – The 40th Anniversary Show, Pendulum Gallery, HSBC, Vancouver. 2013 Synchronicity Arts Festival, Gibsons, BC. 2013 Roberts Creek Art Festival, Roberts Creek, BC. 2012 Sechelt Arts Festival, Juried Exhibition, Honorable Mention Award by the juror, Robin Mayer. 2012 Synchronicity, Gibsons, BC. 2012 Asian Heritage Month, New-Small & Sterling Glass Gallery, Van. 2012 Arts Building, Gibsons, BC. 2011 In Your Dreams, Whistler Arts Council, Whistler, BC. 2011 Synchronicity, Gibsons, BC. 2011 Port Moody Arts Centre, Port Moody, BC. 2011 Container Arts, PNE, Vancouver, BC. 62 2011 Heat, North Vancouver Arts Council, North Vancouver, BC. 2010 Kizuna, Japanese Canadian National Museum, Burnaby, BC. 2009 Reflection, Gibsons, BC. 2008 Numen Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2007 Gallery 5, Roberts Creek, BC. 2007 Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC. 2007 Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo, ON. 2005 Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC. 2005 New-Small & Sterling Glasswork Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2003 Starfish Glassworks Gallery, Victoria, BC. 2003 Artcite, Windsor, Ontario. 2002 Yukon Arts Centre, White Horse, Yukon. 2002 Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC. 2002 The Old School House, Qualicum Beach, BC. 2001 Evergreen Culture Centre, Coquitlam, BC. 2001 Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA. 2001 Powell Street Festival Group Exhibition, Vancouver, BC. 2001 Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s NF. 2001 Maple Ridge Art Gallery, Maple Ridge, BC. 2001 Centre A, Vancouver, BC. 2001 Artropolis, Vancouver, BC. 2001 Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA. 2001 Squamish Public Library, Squamish, BC. 2000 Art of Steel Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 1999 The Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC. 1999 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC. 1999 Unexpected Collaboration, Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver. 1999, 1998, 1997,1996, 1995 Lead Gallery, Seattle, WA. 1998 A Walk Is Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1998 ArtsEdge, The Seattle Center, Seattle, WA. 1997 Community Arts Council of Vancouver, BC 1997 A Space Gallery, ON. 1996 Images & Object XIV., Penticton, BC. 1995, 1996 Battery Street Gallery, Seattle, WA. 1995 Bubba / Mavis Gallery, Seattle, WA. 1994 Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA.
Commission & Public Art 1998 Whistler Public Art, Whistler, BC. 1997 Community Public Art, "Glass Hand Project", Vancouver, BC. 1996 Dunbar Community Center, Vancouver, BC.
Grants 2001 Vancouver Foundation Visual Arts Development Award 1997, 1999, 2003 Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Grant 1998, 1999, 2005 British Columbia Art Council, Visual Arts Grant 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001 Pilchuck Glass School Scholarships and Assistantship. (mentor: Ms. Fay Jones, Mr. Jerry Pethick) 2008 BC Arts Council, Visual Art Jurying Duty
63 Awards 1997, 2000, 2008 Corning Museum Glass Art Competition 2015 Culture Day Ambassador
Art Teaching 2005-2012 Art workshop at Summer Reading Club, GDPL. 2009-2014 Spring Break Art Class at Gibsons Public Art Gallery. 2011, 2014 Mixed media art making for Children at the Arts Building. 2012, 2013 Japanese Language and art making Summer Camp at SCRD. 2013, 2014 Deer Crossing Art Farm Outdoor Art Workshop. 2014 DanceWorks Academy, Art Camp, Gibsons. 2013-Current Gibsons Area Community Schools.
Studio Operation 1996-2003 Hot Glass Studio, Vancouver - owner and operator. 2003-Current Mellon Glass Studio, Gibsons – owner and operator.
Major Craft Fairs and Trade Shows 1993-Current Philadelphia Buyer’s Market, Bellevue Art Fair, Seattle Gift Show, Toronto One of a kind show, Vancouver Circle Craft Show, Portland Gift Show, Georgia State Fair, West Vancouver Harmony Arts Festival, Japanese Powell Street Festival, Filberg Festival.
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ARTIST STATEMENT PUZ - ZLE
Life is like a jigsaw puzzle wrapped in a drawn string bag…. There is no box or picture to guide you. You simply set the edges in place and build the picture yourself. Sometimes that picture changes pieces get lost or go missing. It might take some time to rearrange or shift pieces to rebuild.
That is what the Art of Loss is to me….
This piece represents the strength, harmony and unity to make your picture whole again.
BIOGRAPHY Donna Stewart is a self-taught artist born and raised in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan. Donna currently resides on the Sunshine Coast BC and works from her home studio. She chose the laidback lifestyle of the Sunshine Coast not only for its dynamics, the endless inspiration in her surrounding environment and its great artistic vibe. As a self-taught artist, she has explored all mediums, but has found her niche working in concrete and stains. Rules are not her idea of capturing the creative spirit. Experimentation is her favorite form of expression. Each painting begins with no particular plan, she works from instinct, using texture, staining techniques and processes. She lets the painting evolve until it achieves its final destiny…..
Donna has recently attended a one on one advanced concrete technique training course at the Decorative Concrete Institute in Atlanta, Georgia. This course has expanded her creative avenues and now the sky is the limit.
Donna is a bit of a socialite who enjoys the outdoors and staying active. Her favorite days include creating art with friends in a nearby studio, enjoying the creative atmosphere, music and the imagery she creates. Every day she continues to pursue her painting opportunities in the art world and embracing the encouragement that her fellow artist friends provide.
65 Robert Studer website thisisit.ca
ARTIST STATEMENT
Decorated Soldier
What are the costs for disrespecting our relationship with nature? Humanity and our entire species are irrevocably dependent upon its graces. From Medieval Latin soldarius "a soldier", literally means "one having pay”. Will the systems we create enhance our connections to nature or ultimately be our downfall? What is the price to pay?
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY this is it design. inc. Established 1996 / Principal Broad based art and design service with an emphasis on creative explorations of glass and light that bridge the gap between art and design. The studio accepts commissions to design, build and install works of art, sculpture and environmental design. Other services include industrial and graphic design. Scope of activities include; Commissioned works of art for public, private and cultural projects, both interior and exterior applications; Design, production and marketing of handcrafted products sold in finer retail stores internationally; Exhibition design and content development for temporary and traveling exhibitions.
66 BARK Design Collective Established 2002-2009 / Founding Member and Director Non-Profit organization focused on raising the profile of Canada’s Material Culture on the International stage. BARK achieves this mandate through the creation of exhibitions, talks and publications about Canadian design and innovation. Projects have included Exhibitions in Tokyo Japan, London England, Atlanta, Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Toronto, and Ottawa. Speaking engagements in Seoul Korea. Publishing, BARK Book- 2004
Professional Artistic Practice 1989-Present Condensed Highlights of Career
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 Golden Years this is it. design studio / Sunshine Coast Art Crawl 2014 A Curious Nature this is it. design studio / Sunshine Coast Art Crawl 1996 Empty Vessels at the Opera Queen Elizabeth Theater, Vancouver 1995 Study of Natural Occurrence John Ramsay Contemporary Art, Vancouver 1992 (Reason/Being) = John Ramsay Contemporary Art, Vancouver 1991 Fragments John Ramsay Contemporary Art, Vancouver
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 Vibrancy, Gibsons Public Art Gallery, BC Canada 2015 The Six Sense of Cedar, Sechelt Arts Festival 2015 Coast Modern, Gibsons Public Art Gallery, BC, Canada 2014 Balance, Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons BC, Canada 2012 Paquime Gallery, San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico 2009 ContainerART. Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver BC 2006 Swell Exhibition. 30 days of Sustainability, Vancouver, BC All Terrain Cabin Exhibition. BARK Design Collective -Vancouver, Calgary, Atlanta, Ottawa, Toronto, Victoria 2004 Movers + Shapers. Vancouver Museum, Vancouver BC. Red & White. Design from Canada. Bark Design Collective. Canada House, London, Eng. 2003 Pure Canadian. Totem Gallery, New York Raw Potential: Design From Canada, Vancouver No Apologies Necessary: Design From Canada, Tokyo, Japan Canadese Aurora / Canadian Dawn. Milan Triennale, Milan, Italy 2002 Majiska. AD Core- Tokyo Design Week, Tokyo, Japan 2001 Peepshow in Tokyo. AD Core- Tokyo Design Week, Tokyo, Japan 1998 British Columbia Glass Biennial. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC 1996 British Columbia Glass Biennial. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC 1993 Glav Union Glass Symposium Exhibition. Teplice Museum, Czech Republic Microsoft Art Exhibition 8. Seattle, USA Contemporary Western Canadian Art. Galleri Pallas, Prague, Czech Republic 1992 B.C. Glass Art Recording Exhibition, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC Art Glass 1992 Invitational. John Ramsay Contemporary Art, Vancouver BC 1991 West Coast Glass Art. Langley Centennial Museum, Langley BC 1989-96 Glass Art I, to VIII. BC Glass Arts Association, Vancouver BC Education, Achievements & Exploration 2012 Pecha Kucha Night- Gibsons, Speaker 2011 TEDx Sechelt, Set Design 2006-08 Design & curation, All Terrain Cabin, An exhibition of Canadian Design + Technology, Canada/USA. 2003 Curation, No Apologies Necessary: Design from Canada, Tokyo, Japan 67 2002 Established BARK Design Collective 1997 Established this is it design. inc. 1995-96 President, B.C. Glass Arts Association 1996 Board Member, North Vancouver Community Arts Council 1994 Docter-Glas Hutte International Design Symposium, Gehlburg, Germany 1993 Glav Union International Glass Symposium, Teplice, Czech Republic 1991-92 Designed series of Hand loomed Carpets, Hanoi, Vietnam 1991 Experimental Kiln Casting, Pilchuck Glass School, WA, USA 1990 Pilchuck Glass School, WA, USA 1988 Established Sterloff, Studer & Brown Glass, Vancouver, BC 1981-86 Industrial Pipefitting, Steamfitter Journeyman, BC
AWARDS & GRANTS 2011 Vancouver Mayors Awards, Honouree for Craft and Design 2009 Western Living Designer of the Year - Eco Design and Industrial Design 2005 Balle BC - Entrepreneur of the Year Award- Innovation, Vancouver BC 2001 Virtu National Design Awards, Design Exchange, Toronto 1992 B.C. Glass Art Recording Exhibition - Simon Fraser University 1990 BCGAA - Full Scholarship Recipient Pilchuck Glass School
PARTIAL LIST OF COLLECTIONS *HRH Queen Elizabeth II *Their Royal Highnesses, The Duke & Duchess of York *His Excellency, Taro Nakayama, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan *City of Yokohama, Japan Simon Fraser University, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA, B.C. Gas Inc., Olga Havel Foundation, Czech Republic, Yamaha Corporation, Japan *Gifts presented by the Federal Government on behalf of the Citizens of Canada
PUBLIC ART Shaw Tower – Cathedral Place 925 Georgia Street Vancouver, BC Clovedale Recreation Center, Surrey, BC Whistler, BC Canada
68 Marleen & Dolf Vermeulen website marleenart.com Marleen is represented by the Kurbatoff Gallery www.kurbatoffgallery.com in Vancouver.
ARTIST STATEMENT Focus
My reality is altered,
it is not so beautified any more,
it is minimized.
I feel the rawness,
Making the board on which I paint
Visible.
My reality?
It used to be lush and textured.
Supported by an underlying knowledge of abundance,
It is still there.
Focus, I say to myself.
The trunk is solid,
It belongs,
grounded deep in its existence.
The witness-
eternally creating.
I am.
69 BIOGRAPHY Marleen Vermeulen received most of her art education in the Netherlands where she was born. She is a graduate of the Design Academy in Eindhoven and the Academy of Fine Arts in Utrecht.
In the 80’s and early 90’s Marleen enjoyed an extensive international and award-winning career in graphic design; she was based in The Netherlands and United Kingdom until 1994, at which point she moved with her family to Canada and settled on the Sunshine Coast.
Inspired by the natural beauty of the Pacific West Coast she began to focus her talent towards creating large oil paint canvases. The sheer scale of the canvases and the texture of the oil paint interpret the expanse and rawness of nature. Over time she has developed her own signature style; up close her work feels impressionistic, sometimes almost abstract, while from a distance it takes on a realistic perspective.
EXHIBITION CV RECENT SHOWINGS 2018 Power of Paint Group show SPLASH Live Art Auction. Vancouver, BC Solo Show. Kurbatoff Gallery. Vancouver, BC 2017 Power of Paint Group show SPLASH Live Art Auction. Vancouver, BC Solo Show. Kurbatoff Gallery. Vancouver, BC 2016 Power of Paint Group show SPLASH Live Art Auction. Vancouver, BC Solo Show. Kurbatoff Gallery. Vancouver, BC 2015 Power of Paint Group show SPLASH Live Art Auction. Vancouver, BC Solo Show. Kurbatoff Gallery. Vancouver, BC 2014 Power of Paint Group show Solo Show. Kurbatoff Gallery, BC Solo Show. Gibsons Public Art Gallery, BC 2013 Power of Paint Group show SPLASH. Live Art Auction. Vancouver, BC Solo Show. Kurbatoff Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2012 Power of Paint Group show SPLASH Live Art Auction. Vancouver, BC Solo Show. Kurbatoff Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2011 SPLASH. Live Art Auction. Vancouver, BC Solo Show. Kurbatoff Gallery. Vancouver, BC 2010 Solo Show. Kurbatoff Gallery. Vancouver, BC 2009 Solo Show. Kurbatoff Gallery. Vancouver, BC 2008 Pendulum Gallery, HSBC Building, Georgia Street, Vancouver Solo show; Within Expanse-Expanse Within 2007 Gibsons Public Art Gallery Solo show; West Coast Impressions
70 Dolf Vermeulen website dolfvermeulen.com
ARTIST STATEMENT Focus Quite simply, getting outside makes me happy. It gives me a fresh perspective, makes my problems feel insignificant, and it energizes me in a way nothing else can.
Using my camera I try to capture these feelings and pass them on in the form of a photograph. I hope that my work will remind people to slow down, reconnect with nature, and let the little things go. To enjoy the moment, protect our wilderness, and look forward to the unknown.
BIOGRAPHY Dolf is self-taught photographer residing on the beautiful Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. He has been lucky to call this place home ever since his family moved to Canada just a year after he was born in England, in 1992.
After completing high school on the Sunshine Coast, he quickly transitioned to attending UBC Okanagan’s business management program, specializing his degree in marketing and project management. It was during this time that he discovered photography and not until his third year that he purchased his first DSLR. Dolf quickly found that the majority of his free time was spent taking photos and watching YouTube tutorials. After graduating with honours in 2015 he worked for the provincial government battling BC’s largest forest fires in order to fund a full frame DSLR and a winter of travelling. Since then he has been lucky enough to visit and photograph 20 countries, all of which have left him with valuable insights and incredible memories!
During the summer of 2016 Dolf had his first opportunity as a professional photographer, working at Peregrine Lodge Fishing Adventures in Northern Haida Gwaii. Once that season came to an end he returned to the Sunshine Coast and started Dolf Vermeulen Photography which would grow into Dolf Vermeulen Creative as his services expanded to offer video as well. He is delighted to be back on the Sunshine Coast! Travels have given him a whole new appreciation for this slice of paradise and he is incredibly thankful to be working in such a supportive and scenic community.
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Alanna Wood
ARTIST STATEMENT Saying Goodbye
Saying Goodbye” was created as a response to a friend who committed suicide. I was compelled to express my feelings in a letter to my departed friend. I wanted the letter to be private, so I obscured the words with visual symbols, a language my friend understood. I imagined a stream of particles, soft with a vibrant core moving through a neutral space; a dust to dust reference.
72 BIOGRAPHY I graduated from Emily Carr College of Art and Design, where I studied film, video and photography. I exhibited a body of photomontage work in private and public galleries across Canada while at school and after graduation.
The Sunshine Coast has been my home since 1989. I have maintained my art making practice while working at various jobs and have managed to exhibit and participate in other artistic endeavors. I was a Curator at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt for 10 years, where I had the opportunity to meet and work with many artists from the Sunshine Coast, other regions of BC and Alberta.
I have always been visually sensitive, it is the sense I have relied on to express my ideas. I have a visceral response to the world I see, a keen awareness of light and shadow, repeating patterns and the energy in colours. I enjoy learning new techniques and have explored many different media. My repertoire includes: photography, digital image manipulation, collage, assemblage sculpture, drawing & painting, handmade paper and fiber arts. The idea will determine the medium used to depict it.
EXHIBITION CV SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2018 Elemental Detail / Solo SCAC, Sechelt 2017 50 Canadian Things SCAC, Sechelt 2015 Both Sides Now GPAG, Gibsons 2015 Shades of Gray SCAC, Sechelt 2014 Metamorphosis SCAC, Sechelt 2012 Halleluiah GPAG, Gibsons 2012 Obsession SCAC, Sechelt 2011 Sechelt Festival Juried Exhibit Seaside Centre, Sechelt 2010 Words and Images GPAG, Gibsons 2010 Art Olympix Havanna Gallery, Van. BC 2009 MayWorks Exhibition Oceanside Gallery, Parksville 2008 Digital Gibsons Public Art Gallery 2007 We Are Assembled Oceanside Gallery, Parksville 2007 MayWorks Exhibition Oceanside Gallery, Parksville 2007 Enigma GPAG, Gibsons 2006 Put Yourself on the Map Alternator Gallery, Kelowna 2006 Art Bra Challenge Sew Easy, Sechelt 2006 In Your Face Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 2006 Journeys and Explorations / Solo Oceanside Gallery, Parksville 2006 MayWorks ATC Exhibition Oceanside Gallery, Parksville 2005 artShots Tsawwassen Arts Centre, Delta 2005 Global Images Show Gallery twenty-four, Berlin, Germany 2005 Artist Trading Cards Exhibition Blackberry Gallery, Port Moody, BC 2005 Evolution - 80th Anniversary Alumni show ECIAD Concourse Gallery, Van. BC 2004 Artist's Block Britannia Library, Van. BC 2004 Juried Digital Art Gibsons Public Art Gallery 2003 Artropolis CBC, Vancouver, BC 2003 Juried Digital Art Artesia Gallery, Gibsons 2000 Annual Recycled Art Exhibition Flying Cow Café Gibsons, BC 1999 Art and Artists of the 20th Century Vancouver East Cultural Centre Life Id But A Dream / Trio Sunshine Coast Arts Centre 1998 Hello Again Vancouver Museum Art Car Fest Somar Gallery, San Francisco 1993 Artists in the Kafe Kafe Kitago, Sechelt, BC 73 1993 Coast Artists Gumboot Café, Roberts Creek 1992 Other Artists Other Art, Prince George, BC 1991 Reformed Rubble / Solo Imagination Market, Vancouver, BC 1989 New Eyes, Old Expressions / Solo Other Art, Prince George, BC 1988 Self Portrait Show Other Art, Prince George, BC Modern Love Neutral Ground, Regina, Sask. Erotica Saskatchewan Cultural Centre, Regina 1987 B.C. Artists at the Square Robson Sq. Media Centre, Van. Capricorn Conspiracy Pitt International, Vancouver, BC 1986 Last Dance Neutral Ground, Regina, SK 101 Vancouver Artists Pitt International, Vancouver, BC 1985 Women in this Decade Open Space, Victoria, BC Robson Square, Vancouver, BC Photo Montage Ovo Gallery, Montreal, Quebec 1985 E.C.C.A.D. Grad Show Charles Scott Gallery, Van. BC Lonely Hearts Pitt International, Vancouver, BC 1984 Photo Perspectives Presentation House, N. Van., BC 1983 866 Artists KraK Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1982 Arts Club Theatre Seymore St., Vancouver, BC Four More Concourse Gallery, ECCAD Van. 1980 Herotica Unit Pitt, Vancouver, BC
Group Exhibitions at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Sechelt, BC 2018 Friends of the Gallery 2017 50 Canadian Things Friends of the Gallery 2016 Friends of the Gallery 2015 Shades of Gray Friends of the Gallery 2014 Metamorphosis Friends of the Gallery 2013 Carte Blanche Friends of the Gallery 2012 Obsession Friends of the Gallery 2011 Friends of the Gallery 2010 Friends of the Gallery 2009 Friends of the Gallery 2008 Friends of the Gallery 2007 Summer Invitational - On the Horizon Friends of the Gallery 2006 Summer Invitational - Marks of Distinction, Friends of the Gallery 2005 Power of Place, Point of Departure Friends of the Gallery 2004 Fibre and... Pushing Boundaries The First 25 Years Friends of the Gallery 2003 Facing Ourselves, 1st BC Wide Artists Trading Cards Exhibition 2002 9-11 Commemoration The Globalized Environment - Photography exhibition Friends of the Gallery 74 2001 Friends of the Gallery Lay of the Land 2000 Waste? Not! Friends of the Gallery Art and Artists of the 20th Century 1999 Feedback Please Friends of the Gallery 1998 Summer Invitational Friends of the Gallery 1997 Who am I Friends of the Gallery Women’s Spirituality 1996 Summer Invitational & Annual Juried Show Friends of the Gallery 1995 Summer Invitational Friends of the Gallery 1994 In Black and White Friends of the Gallery 1993 Images and Objects, BC Festival of the Arts Friends of the Gallery 1992 Images and Objects, BC Festival of the Arts Friends of the Gallery
Exhibition curated by Paula O’Brien. Thank you to our generous sponsors.
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