Hello VSC members,
Here we are, finally reunited at Windsor Park Pavilion! The timing is great, as we have lots to do to focus on the upcoming show, with paintings to finish and new ones to start.
We have nine sessions at the pavilion before we start our spring / summer plein air painting sessions.
The plan is to continue on a week-to-week basis, bringing what you love to paint. Getting quick feedback from others at the beginning if needed on a continuing work and at the end on finished paintings also. Along with our week-to-week painting, there will be some short demos by members, a Canadian Art History presentation by Mary, and, we hope, a formal critique.
We're still required to follow Covid protocols so please bring vaccine passports and check-in when you arrive. Masks and distancing are mandatory. Bring your own refreshments and remember to dress warmly as we will have fresh air from open windows.
Sessions run from 12:30 to 4:30.
March & April sessions at Windsor Park Pavilion are as follows:
March 1 - Framing requirements demo for show -Rand
March 8,15
March 21-27 Show - Opening March 22
No Session March 29 (Spring Break Camps at WPP)
April 5
April 12
April 19
April 26 - AGM
Demos by members TBA
Be inspired, come and life draw members as they stay in one place working, bring items for your own still life, check the trees out though the windows, bring a work in progress, bring those materials bought long ago that have been sitting on a shelf... play... practice... explore... perfect... have FUN! And bring a painting for feedback.
Pat
Any questions? Email pghwatson@gmail.com |
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February 1Zoom, zoom, zooming... |
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| Clockwise from upper left, artwork from Sharon Stone, Virginia Hutzuliak, Christine Gollner and John Lover |
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| Myra Baynton's Maltese scene, and Anne Nolte's Beacon Hill Park scene (Anne later added flying ducks!) |
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February 8One last Zooming session! |
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| From upper left: Deborah Hartwick, Myra Baynton, Christine Gollner, Victor Loto, Joan Ware, Pam Orman |
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February 15Back to Windsor Park Pavillion!!! |
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| First day back at WPP after a long pandemic haul, and the turnout was good. Below is Terry McBride collecting members' submission documents in preparation for the March show, our first in two years. |
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| Cool weather kept numbers down to about 20 today, but being back at Windsor Park is a wonderful chance to reconnect with colleagues and with art. |
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Call for Tulip art  Have you painted a tulip? If not, there's still time to create one for April!
 April is Parkinsons Awareness Month.
The goal and vision is to have a wall filled with tulips in the Fine Arts Gallery in the Parkinson Wellness Project Building at 202- 2680 Blanshard Street (near Douglas and Hillside).
Tulip pieces will be exhibited from April 1st - June 30th, 2022. Fifty percent of sales are happily donated to Parkinson Wellness Project.
PWP is a non-profit organization where people like myself join others with Parkinsons in an effort to slow its progress through a variety of exercise classes and informative lectures led by amazing coaches, neurologists and staff… to mention just a few.
The Tulip Exhibition is open to all PWP members, friends and family as well as local artists. Please contact me before March 7th if you would like to participate.
Or are you interested in exhibiting your regular artwork on a 3-month rotation in PWP art gallery?
Please contact me for further information at:
head_675@hotmail.com
Thank you!
Joan
Joan Head
PWP Fine Arts Coordinator |
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Oak Bay BannersThe Oak Bay Business Improvement Association is inviting artists to submit pieces for consideration for use on the summer banners on Oak Bay Avenue.
These banners are installed from June to August and will be used for the next four to six years in the summer season.
Submission guidelines:
- Submitter must be an Oak Bay resident
- All styles are considered
- Images suggestive of summer are requested
- Preference given to Oak Bay scenes
- Maximum of 4 images of 2MB or less each
- Images should be sent in jpeg format as individual attachments
- Due to the nature of the fabric and the print we are not accepting photography submissions
Submit images to oakbaybia@gmail.com with Banner Submission in the subject line. Deadline to submit images is March 31, 2022 at 5 PM. |
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History Corner
by John Lover |
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From its outset in 1909, the Island Art Club was to include in its membership representatives of the most distinguished families in the province. One of these was Rose Bullen, a granddaughter of Sir James Douglas, the first Governor of British Columbia.
Born in New Westminster in 1863, as Annie, Amelia (Rose) Bushby, she followed in the footsteps of her aunt, Martha Douglas Harris, youngest daughter of Sir James, and one of the Club’s Charter Members. The multi-talented M artha specialized in still life and portraits and was also a writer and proficient in weaving and lacemaking.
Like Martha, Rose was sent to England for schooling, where she studied drawing and music, receiving further art instruction in Germany.
In 1884, after her return to Victoria, Rose married Arthur Fitzherbert Bullen founder of the BC Marine Ways shipbuilding firm, which ultimately became Yarrows. The family home was “Oakdene” in Esquimalt, and the local Bullen Park was named for the family.
As an artist, Rose was noted for her oils and watercolours, taking inspiration from the BC landscape during her frequent travels. The watercolour shown here, entitled “Arbutus Trees,” painted in the Goldstream region, is one of the three of her works owned by the Union Club of Victoria.
Her work appeared at the Island Arts and Crafts Society’s annual exhibitions from 1917 to 1936.
She died in Victoria in 1936.
Illustrations: (1) Arbutus Trees, Watercolour on Paper (2) Rose Bullen. BC Archives, F-09364 |
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 | | A Man for all Seasons! Our esteemed president, Larry Gollner, working to get VSC's 2009 show off to a great start in spite of the less than helpful weather. Image compliments of John Lover. |
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Artist of the WeekIf you would like to be VSC's Artist of the Week and be featured on our social media channels, here's your big chance! If you've got any questions, feel free to contact Vicky Turner.
Here is what we'll need you to do:- Attach 3 of your art photos to an email which you will send to victoriasketchclub@gmail.com
- Subject line should read: Artist of The Week
- Include a 2-3 line artist statement
- Be a social media superstar
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