2023 Program
IMPORTANT DATE FOR SPRING! May 9 : AGM and lunch at Windsor Park Pavilion
May 16 going forward: see from Rand Harrison below for spring en plein airdetails
Thanks all!
Pat Hindmarch-Watson |
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 | The VSC gang gathered April 2 at Carnarvon Park Lawn Bowling Club for The Show Wrap Up Party, a relaxed get-together organized by Terri McBride.
Members mingled with before-dinner drinks, toasting the success of the club's 114th annual art show, before feasting on pizza and cake. |
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| Message from the President |
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 I’d like to extend a personal invitation to all members of the Victoria Sketch Club to the Annual General Meeting scheduled for May 9th at 11 a.m. at the Windsor Park Pavilion. This meeting will wrap up our sessions at the Windsor Park Pavilion until after the Paint Out at Beach Acres during the second week in September. VSC profits so much from the active involvement of its membership as witnessed from the Art Show at GNS this year. Your amazing teamwork made the whole show run smoothly --thank you!
In closing, a polite reminder that if you had a painting in the Exhibition at Government House, it will be available for pick up at the WPP on MAY 9. If you can’t make it, please arrange for someone to pick it up for you. I hope to see you all there.
Warmest regards,
Gillian President, VSC |
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VSC Summer 2023 en plein airs |
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This year’s en plein air sessions begin Tuesday, May 16, with members congregating at Clover Point.
We’ll continue at different localities every Tuesday morning until the end of August, with a possible extension into mid-September, for a total of 16 - 18 weeks (post Paint-Out).
An overview of this program will be emailed to members May 1; and site-specific information for the first five weeks will be distributed approximately May 11.
Many thanks!
Program coordinator: Rand at randharr@telus.net |
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2023 Sessions
Windsor Park Pavilion |
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| The day's subject matter was "Still Life Spring," organized by Nirmala Greenwell and Agnes Oosterhof, and members were asked to bring in flowers and vases. And as you can see from Christine Gollner's collage, everyone did as they were asked!! People had a plethora of petals to paint! |
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| Character Model (a bike theme), hosted by Terry McBride, featured Ironman Jim Brackenbury who did a marathon on his stationary bike, switching direction, in bike-wear and helmets midway for a second pose. Many fine sketches by members who rose to the challenge of sketching a moving figure! |
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 | | Character Model Jim Brackenbury in action! |
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| Today's session was on the topic of watercolour masking fluid (a.k.a., resist, frisket, fisquet...), hosted by Val Lawton. Val shared how she likes to use the stuff to keep her illustration characters nice and tidy! |
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| Today's session, Rocks! hosted by rock-expert Christine Gollner had a great turnout! |
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History Corner
by John Lover |
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 In a review of the IASC Annual Exhibition of 1925, the Victoria Times art critic made this note of one of the first-time exhibitors: “Mrs. Drummond’s studies of wild animals are arresting. This artist is already well known for the method of her work as well as for the work itself, as she made long journeys into the wilds by dogsled, in order to study the wild animals in their native haunts.”
Nora Georgina Drummond, born in Bath, Somerset in 1862, was an artist and illustrator, whose work typically featured dogs and country pursuits, such as hunting, in Britain and Ireland and later in Canada. She was a member of an impressive family of artists, growing up surrounded by art. Her father was a former Master of the Bath School of Art and Design and an art tutor of the Royal Family, and two of her uncles were painters of some distinction and influenced her choice of subject matter.
Drummond was already an established artist in England when. together with her husband, Daniel Davies, she emigrated to Canada shortly before the turn of the century. Initially they lived in Banff, Alberta, where she worked as a private tutor in painting and illustrations, adding Canadian wild animals to her repertoire. One of her pupils was Peter Whyte, who later set up the foundation for the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. He recalled her as an eccentric woman who lived with eleven dogs and hordes of cats, but also as an excellent teacher. In the 1920s Drummond also taught at the Banff Public School. 
She became best known for the illustrations she produced for Raphael Tuck, a British publishing company with interests in the US and Canada, which produced an extensive range of art postcards.
Drummond subsequently moved to British Columbia, where she also enjoyed landscape painting. She joined the Island Arts and Crafts Society, exhibiting in its annual exhibitions from 1925 to 1932 and at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1933. Allegedly she was rather unfairly referred to by a waspish fellow artist Emily Carr as “the old tabby who paints cats and dogs.”
She died in 1949 at Goldstream, Vancouver Island. Her works are in the collections of the New York Public Library, the Whyte Museum and the University of Victoria.
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Avis R asmussen's 2023 Retrospective, entitled 'The View From Here,' has now officially opened and will remain up until May 28, at the Victoria Arts Council Gallery, 1800 Store Street.
Avis had an excellent turnout of general public and some VSC members for the official opening ceremony on April 15th. Congratulations, Avis!! For more information and Kate Cino's interview with Avis, go to this site
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 Maureen Ness will be the Artist in Residence at The Union Club of British Columbia, located at 805 Gordon Street, starting April 1, 2023 and running through to May 31, 2023.
Maureen will be onsite painting every Thursday 10am until 2pm.
Please contact her at this email address if you would like to see this art show as you will need an appointment for viewing. |
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2023 SPAC Spring Show
At least three VSC members will be exhibiting work at this year's Saanich Peninsula Arts and Crafts show. Look for the works of Rand Harrison, Sharon Stone and Virginia Hutzuliak. Congrats, all!
SPAC runs April 29 & 30, at the Mary Winspear Centre. For more details about the show go here |
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Paint Out 2023For those of you considering participating in the September paint out, the week of September 12 - 19 at Beach Acres in Parksville, please book as soon as possible as accommodation is now limited. Quote the group rate number GRP#5.
Beach Acres and surrounding area has multiple great painting spots and the resort itself is a wonderful place to relax and paint with fellow Club members. There is other accommodation in the area of Beach Acres and the possibility of sharing with other members.
Please contact Anne (bowena@shaw.ca) if you need help teaming up with another club member.
You can make reservations by calling 1 800 663-7309 or at www.beachacresresort.com. |
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