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'Bring Your Own', March 12
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VSC Annual SHOW
March 19 - 24, 2019
110th Annual Show
45 years at GLN
MANY THANKS TO ALL THE VOLUNTEERS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!
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THE SHOW DIRECTORS:
Maureen Ness and Anne Bowen
BIG Thank you for doing an excellent job!
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OPENING NIGHT, MARCH 19, 2019
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Opening Speech by Oak Bay Mayor Kevin Murdoch
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REFRESHMENTS by Joan and Myra
Much Appreciated!!
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The SHOW--Opening Night, March 19
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Press Releases, Interviews, Sooke News Mirror, Breeze Media (Vivian Su), Black Press Media: Oak Bay News, Saanich News, Victoria News, etc.
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Victoria Sketch Club hosts 47th annual art show and sale in Oak Bay
by Christine Van Reeuwijk
Nine professional artists are a part of an event that marks 47 years in the same spot when more than 100 artworks take the spotlight starting March 19.
“The show usually takes about a year to prepare for,” said Maureen Ness, show director of the annual art event at Glenlyon Norfolk School. The five-day show, highlighted with professional lighting and door prizes, also serves as a fundraiser for the club that features a juried membership of about 50.
“We sell at least 30 per cent of our art at this show,” Ness said. “It’s also our fundraiser. It helps with all of our expenses for the year.” The club promotes its membership by providing demonstrations or nude models during its regular gatherings at Windsor Pavilion.
“Within the group, the profile is a combination of art hobbyists, emerging artists and established artists, but all well-seasoned. It’s not a learning club,” Ness said. They’re found painting en plein air during the warm months in places such as Gorge Park, Finnerty Gardens and Government House.
The Victoria Sketch Club itself is 110 this year, having operated under a handful of monikers over the years and boasting some high-profile names. Past members include notables such as Emily Carr, Jack Shadbolt, Max Maynard, Samuel Maclure, and Ted Harrison. Current members continue the tradition and include prize-winning members of the Federation of Canadian Artists and are hanging in several galleries throughout Victoria.
The oldest art group in continuous operation in Western Canada, the VSC is formerly named Island Art and Craft Society since 1909, and then in 1952 the Victoria Sketch Club.
The Victoria Sketch Club show runs March 19 to 24 at the Glenlyon Norfolk School junior campus 1701 Beach Dr. Opening night is Tuesday, March 19 from 7 to 9 p.m. with guest speaker Oak Bay Mayor Kevin Murdoch. The show continues Wednesday to Saturday, 10 a.m to 7 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Yellow cottage captures artist’s eye, lures guests to Oak Bay show
by Christine Van Reeuwijk
The Victoria Sketch Club show runs March 19 to 24 at the Glenlyon Norfolk School junior campus.
Anne Nolte won’t paint from photographs, she’d rather return to a scene a dozen times and tweak her work. The Oak Bay artist is even known to paint over a work if her perspective changes.
One work of a little yellow cottage captured the attention of her peers in the Victoria Sketch Club and they quickly alerted her not to paint over it.
That work appears in this year’s annual art show and sale, and is highlighted on the advertising poster.
“I live in Oak Bay and I walk down all the back lanes. There’s one where there’s a little house where she keeps plants and things. It looks like an old garage,” said Nolte, a 22-year member of the club.
Roses and other flowering vines cover the cottage, and the day she finally first stopped, the gardener had even added a perfect watering can to the scene. “I stood out there on a very hot day last summer and finally got it down. This one I worked on a bit longer, it looks a bit more finished. A lot of my paintings are more impressions,” she said.
Like many members of the club, Nolte joined after retirement.
“I really enjoy the Sketch Club. I like the people and there’s a lot of good artists. In the summer we have a day where we go and paint all day and take our lunches. I really enjoy that because I like painting outside,” Nolte said.
The oldest art group in continuous operation in Western Canada, the Victoria Sketch Club celebrates its 110th year with its annual spring show opening Tuesday, March 19 at Glenlyon Norfolk School.
”I think it’s become a benchmark or something because people come from all over,” Nolte said of the show that marks 47 years in the same location. “The local people know about this show so they turn up. People come in and have a look and then they come back and have another look, then they come back and have another look and maybe buy something.
“It’s always an interesting show because of the mixture of styles.”
The Victoria Sketch Club show runs March 19 to 24 at the Glenlyon Norfolk School junior campus 1701 Beach Dr.
Opening night is Tuesday, March 19 from 7 to 9 p.m. with guest speaker Oak Bay Mayor Kevin Murdoch. The show continues Wednesday to Saturday, 10 a.m to 7 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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The 47th annual art show is taking place until March 24
Picture and painting: Ruth Beninger
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Bonjour Victoria Interview with Joan Head
On March 15, Radio Victoria's Louise Alepin sat down with VSC Member Joan Head on Friday's #bonjourvictoria to talk about the Victoria Sketch Club and the upcoming Annual Members Show and Sale. |
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Art takes a personal tone during the 110th anniversary of the Victoria Sketch Club
by Nicole Crescenzi
Virginia Hutzuliak has been working on a series of paintings called “Friends” in order to commemorate the people who supported her while she was undergoing chemotherapy.
“I had 16 months of chemo and radiation,” Hutzuliak said as she stood before her painting, titled “High Tea,” which showed three ladies enjoying afternoon tea together. “So I’ve been doing a series of paintings of friends going through things together. It’s a celebration of friends.”
Just moments later, some of her very own friends purchased the painting, surprising Hutzuliak and bringing tears to her eyes.
Hutzuliak’s paintings were on display at the 110th annual Victoria Sketch Club art show and sale. The prestigious club has seen notable members such as Emily Carr, Jack Shadbolt, Max Maynard, Samual Maclure and Ted Harrison. While the club has held several names, it’s been the Victoria Sketch Club for 47 years, and hosted the event at the Glenlyon-Norfolk elementary school for the same amount of time.
Members may join after a panel of judges analyzes their work, though any style of painting can be included. Artists joining the club as official members are expected to have a fairly good grasp of painting, explained president Larry Gollner, so that the weekly meetings can allow artists to learn from each other.
“Because artists are all trained when they join, they all paint differently,” Gollner said. “Sometimes we’ll be at a scene and ask them to paint it, and you’ll get 40 different images.”
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Gollner himself is one of seven honorary members, while there are 43 official members.
“I have no formal training other than a wife who keeps a grip on me,” he laughed. “But, if you have a truck being involved in an art club … that helps.”
At this year’s show there are 162 paintings on display, and usually 30 or 40 will sell, helping to fund the club’s activities.
Content varies from a heavy focus on West Coast landscapes, to scenes from across the world.
Anne Bowen’s painting of a line of pregnant zebras was inspired by her recent trip to the Serengeti.
“I went on a trip to Tanzania in January and all the wildebeests and zebras were pregnant, and they were just so comical because they were trying to get into a position of comfort,” Bowen said. When asked how long it had taken her to make the painting, she laughed.
“I feel like it’s taken me eight years to paint it, because it’s taken me eight years to figure out how to do it.”
The show continues daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. until Sunday, March 24 when it closes at 4 p.m., in the Glenlyon-Norfolk School gym, Beach Drive Campus at 1701 Beach Dr.
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PAINTINGS PICK-UP, 'TAKE-DOWN', March 24
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PIZZA PARTY at the Lawn Bowling Clubhouse
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CONGRATULATIONS!!
to the following persons, who sold their painting(s)
Ann R-N (3), Caroline (2), Rand (2), Niramon (2), John (2),
Larry (2), Robin (2), Ray, Nirmala, Virginia, Agnes, Mary, Sharon S, Amy, Maureen, Liz, Susan, Andy, Myra, Pat, and Pam.
We sold 29 paintings!
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Saanich Peninsula Arts and Crafts -- SPAC
Anne Bowen sold two of her paintings and Virginia Hutzuliak
sold one of her paintings at the Saanich Peninsula Hospital Exhibits.
Congratulations!
See article below.
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TENTATIVE VCS WINTER/SPRING PROGRAM 2019
Jan 8 - Model
Jan 15 - Still Life - Abstract
Jan 22 - 'Bring Your Own'
Jan 29 - Portraiture
Feb 5 - Art Appreciation of Masterpieces--Amy and Christine
Feb 12 - 'Patterns' and EC Meeting
Feb 19 - Critique by Andy Wooldridge
Feb 26 - Model
Mar 5 - Still Life
Mar 12 - Framing and Show Review
Mar 19-24 - SHOW
Apr 2 - Model
Apr 9 - Still Life
Apr 16 - Character Model
Apr 23 - AGM
Apr 30 - Luncheon
Thank you very much, Programme Director Nirmala, and convenors Franny and Ruth for an excellent programme, resulting in record attendance!!
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Joan Head
will exhibit 19 of her paintings at the Office of Carole James, MLA,
at 1084 Fort Street
MONDAY-THURSDAY, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
from January 8 - April 9, 2019.
Congratulations!
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Oak Bay Community Artists Society
SPRING STUDIO TOUR
Saturday, April 13 and Sunday, April 14
noon-4:30 pm
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1. Name of the Art show
2. Location
3. When the Art Show will take place (beginning and end date)
4. Opening hours of the show
5. Brochure (by email or a hard copy)--optional
Thanks! Agnes |
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Quote by a Famous Artist:
"Food is Art, and my other favourite medium."
Joan Head
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