A Key Decision Made By Members During our Recent AGM
As you may have heard, we had strong participation in our on-line AGM, with 88% of the active club members voting.
We the Members of Victoria Sketch Club approved our Club dues for the coming 2021-2022 at $75 per Ordinary Member. Honorary Members, in accordance with our Constitution, are called upon to make an appropriate donation.
We had hoped to receive payment of dues and donations on-line, but we are in the throes of changing our Treasurer and our bank staff are working from home under Covid-19 regulations. What is usually a simple process to meeting changing names and signatures on bank documents will take some time to orchestrate. However, we need to pay our dues. Please send your cheques by mail to our Treasurer.
Details below.
As some member's banks no longer provide cheques, please contact the Treasurer and rest assured he will find a way to collect your dues.
Michael Pipes, 2410 Nottingham Rd, Victoria, V8R-6C3 Telephone 250-592-9847
Email: Michael Pipes
J. Gollner
President |
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Jill Slagboom and Eric Jones
We have learned recently that sadly two former members of the Victoria Sketch Club have passed away. Eric Jones and Jill Slagboom were both fine artists and club members for a number of years. Additional information may be obtained from the Victoria Times Colonist obituary recent listings. A letter of condolence on behalf of the Club will be sent to their respective families. |
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Thank you to everyone for their contributions and participation in the program over this last extraordinary year. A special thank-you to Larry Gollner for providing superb leadership and guidance, and to all the EC members and convenors and others who contributed to make our program a success : the VSC came through with flying colours.
Our Zoom meetings will be one for the history books! Thank you, Amy Nohales-Kezes, for managing all the sessions from November to April with grace and aplomb!
The 'mahl stick' baton has been passed to Pat Hindmarch Watson, our new Program Director, and Summer plein air will soon commence the first week in May (the first session will be held at Playfair Park), as arranged by Rand Harrison.
Many thanks to both of you.
All the best to everyone,
Keep safe and healthy
Cheers
Nirmala Greenwell
ex Prog.Director
April 26th 2021 |
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Scenes from April 13th
Critique with Andy Wooldridge |
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Welcome Andy Wooldridge!
Critiques were provided to many of our members, including Agnes Oosterhof, Avis Rasmussen, Larry Gollner, Caroline Hunter, Rand Harrison, Christine Gollner, Myra Baynton, Joan Head, John Lover, Vicky Turner, Nirmala Greenwell, Janice Graham, Terry McBride, Ann Nolte, Victor Lotto, Bonny Myers, Niramon Prudtatorn, Mike Pipes, Mary Brackenbury and Liz Milton |
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History Corner
by John Lover |
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One of the many joys of our Centennial Year in 2009 was its promotion of a widespread spark of interest from the past. Just one example was a query from Michael Checkley in England, asking if we had any information about his great-uncle Arthur Checkley, an artist who he knew had emigrated to Canada early in the last century. Indeed, we were able to let him know that Arthur Checkley had played a significant role in our Club’s history.
Born in Handsworth, Staffs in 1873, he was a product of the Birmingham School of Art and arrived in Canada in 1913. It was testament to a reputation as an artist in eastern and central Canada that in 1928 the Island Arts and Craft Society (IACS) arranged a special social event to welcome him and his wife as they came to make their home in Victoria. They were guests of honour for the occasion, and several Checkley paintings were put on show. He first exhibited at the Society’s Annual Show in that same year, and doing so frequently until 1940, and he was soon elected to the Executive Committee.
In 1929 he mounted a solo exhibition in Victoria depicting Vancouver Island, Canadian Rockies and Saskatchewan scenery, and drew the following comments from a critic in the Daily Colonist: “(his) art has a strong interpretative quality, giving distinction to each thing, the artist having the advantage of a style which is mobile, versatile and facile. His work is not photographic, it being more truthful in that it conveys the feeling of nature more than it emphasizes the absolute dimensions of nature. He uses whatever medium seems best suited to his subject, handling water colours or palette knife as occasion demands.”
Along with other artists, including fellow IACS members, he was signatory in 1932 to an agreement to boycott the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. The complaint was that the Gallery in its selection of paintings was favouring a chosen few artists at the expense of the great majority of Canadian practitioners.
He is remembered not only as a notable artist – he went on to annually exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery from 1933 to 1941 -- but as an art educator and organizer. For some years he directed the art section of the annual Willows Fair in Oak Bay, Victoria, and, in this capacity, he gave Emily Carr a whole section of the 1933 exhibition to herself. This proved to be the last year in which Emily exhibited at the Fair.
On his death in Victoria in 1964, it was reported that Checkley had “retired” from his profession of “Artist Painter” in 1940. His work currently features in the collections of the Art Gallery of Victoria, the BC Royal Museum Archives and the Maltwood Gallery of the University of Victoria.
Illustrations
1) Camosun College with Normal School and Tolmie Electric Traffic Shelter.
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Takaya the lone wolf lived on Discovery Island for about eight years and could, it's said, occasionally be heard by neighbouring Oak Bay residents saying his peace (by howling). Fans of this famous wolf we re invited to submit original artwork and / or writings, inspired by Takaya, to a contest held by Russells Books, Rocky Mountain Books and author/wolf-watcher extraordinaire, Cheryl Alexander.
VSC member Val Lawton submitted her version of Takaya to the adult art category, based on a beautiful photograph of Ms Alexander's, and was successful. Val encouraged her junior nature sketching class to submit memorial sketches of Takaya the lone wolf, using the sketching techniques learned in their online classwork, run through the Bateman Foundation where Val instructs. |
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 | | Virginia Hutzuliak found this fun rendering of Starry, Starry Night... could it be Furry, Furry Night?? |
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Sooke Art ShowThe Sooke Art Show 2021 online show takes place from July 23 - August 2 at sookefinearts.com. They have developed a new and more robust website to improve the quality of the event, and will be open for submissions starting March 17 - May 25. Check out their website for more detail. |
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Beach Acres, Parksville, is the venue for 2021, September 7-14, 2021. There are lots of painting sites in and around Parksville and Qualicum Beach.
For more information, please go to the website at www.beachacresresort.com. If you are interested in joining us, please make your booking ASAP.
Guest Services and Sales, call 1-800-663-7309 |
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