September 17 to December 3, 2019
Duration: 12 weeks
Time: 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Location: Windsor Park Pavilion
WANTED: A VSC volunteer to assist with the models, timing and room setup
Sep 17 EC briefings; members bring summer paintings to show; Still life
Sep 24 nude model (female)
Oct 1 CRITIQUE
Oct 8 Still life
Oct 15 Model character
Oct 22 Interactive demo and BYO*
Oct 29 nude model (male)
Nov 5 Still life
Nov 12 Model character
Nov 19 BYO *
Nov 26 Still life
Dec 3 Luncheon
*Bring your own paintings to get feedback and/or to continue working on
Thank you!
Nirmala Greenwell, Program Director
Indoor program convenors: Ruth Beninger, Franny Kerridge, Joan Head and Niramon Prudtatorn
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Scenes from August's plein air sessions
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| Bonnie Myer's Garden, August 6 |
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| Many thanks from VSC members to Bonita for letting us explore the beautiful gardens at her Oak Bay home, and for treating us to a lovely luncheon! Muchas gracias! |
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Sea Cider is 10-acre farm-based cidery located on the Saanich Peninsula. It's home to over 1,300 apple trees, including over 50 varieties of heritage apples, and the cidery bottles over 7,000 cases of cider a year. VSC members met up in the tasting room afterwards for some wonderful cider sampling!
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| Oak Bay Village, August 20th |
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Oak Bay Village is a regular hangout for many past and present VSC members, and remains a favourite plein air location. We had a good turnout for the last outdoor session of the season.
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| Members scattered up and down Oak Bay Avenue in search of worthy subject matter, then all came together for a group lunch at the wonderful Pennyfarthing Pub. |
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Oak Bay has been the home of our club as long as most of us can remember. Along with James Bay, it was a popular place of residence for our original society members, and many were clients of their fellow member, architect Samuel Maclure. One of these was Thomas Sinclair Gore for whom Maclure, on a magnificent site on a hilly rise on York Place off Oak Bay Avenue, oriented a chalet design, “Arran,” in 1906-1907 to capture the eastern views to distant Mount Baker. The natural granite foundations rose through a massive arch to support the first storey.
Gore, a civil engineer, was not only a distinguished land surveyor who worked on the preliminary survey of the future transcontinental railway, but was also a well-recognized photographer who r  ecorded the landmark picture of the arrival of the first CPR train to complete the transcontinental journey at Port Moody in July 1886. Following retirement, he was President of the Corporation of Land Surveyors of BC. His elder brother William, also a civil engineer, had been Surveyor-General of BC in 1878.
Born in Ontario of Irish parentage in 1851, Gore was a talented painter, and exhibited in watercolour and oils in virtually every society annual show from 1912 to 1934. He painted many scenes in Oak Bay and the Saanich peninsula, as well as in Europe while on holiday visits. Gore served as Society President from 1926-30. He died in Victoria in 1937.
John Lover, VSC Historian
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House on Beach Drive, by Thomas Gore (c. 1931)
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 Christine Gollner:CONNECTING WITH THE LAND
Show Dates: September 20 - October 19, 2019 Opening: Friday September 20, 5 - 7 pm; Artist's talk 5:30 pm Venue: The Chapel Gallery, St Matthias Address: 600 Richmond Ave. Victoria, corner of Richmond & Richardson (parking available); Gallery Hours: Saturdays, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10 am - 2 pm
Artist in attendance Saturdays
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| On August 22, VSC members were treated to a very special event, indeed -- tea at Government House with our Lieutenant Governor! Janet Austin OBC is the 30th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, having served since April 24, 2018. |
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VSC Member Avis Rasmussen shows off her article, "The Illustrated Chapbook," in the latest issue of Art & Technology, the BC Art Teachers' Association Journal for Art Teachers (vol 61, number 1, 2019). Congratulations, Avis!
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Maureen Ness
VSC member Maureen Nesswas Artist in Residence for the month of August, 2019 at Delta Marriott Hotel, at 100 Harbour Road.
For the month of September, Maureen will be at the Coast Victoria Hotel & Marina on Kingston Street for her second time.
Congratulations, Maureen! |
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| If you're an Artist in Residence or are participating in a show or workshop, please send your details to the newsletter editor |
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