As of press time, it’s been determined that our online zooming will continue until February 8, and then on February 15, we will meet up in our old haunt, the WPP. Programing for the balance of the winter is forthcoming. Our focus starting mid-Feb will be, of course, on our March 21 - 27, 2022 show.
With falling COVID cases, it’s becoming evermore reasonable to assume the show will be going ahead, preparations for which are well underway. Our focus, therefore, will be on these preparations.
Should another outbreak or variant crop up and disrupt our March show plans, we have another show window booked for late June. Most of the work we are doing now can be used then.
Various show crews are busy and are delighted with members volunteering or accepting an invitation to do so. Thank you all for stepping up! But be assured, more calls for volunteers are coming as preparations evolve.
We will need three small paintings donated as door prizes. The same rules apply regarding framing and the painting’s medium is open to those interested in donating. Please contact me or Anne Bowen if interested in donating.
Key Dates- February 15 we meet in the WPP with arrival starting at 1230 hrs. Bring your Covid Passport.
- Feb 15 is the last day for your choice of Painting Option and the details of your entries for our show being submitted to Terry McBride. Have a question? now is the time to ask!
- March 21 is the show set up day and we will all be busy.
- March 22 we will finish the set up and open the show.
- March 27 the show ends and is dismantled. March 28, we put everything away.
If you have questions on the above then ask me or any of the executive committee members.
Best!
Larry Gollner
President, VSC |
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CNIB Eye Appeal Art Gala As discussed in our January 25 Zoom session, I encourage VSC members to donate a work to this event. For many years, VSC members have been steadfast supporters of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. More recently there were some troublesome issues over the issuing of proper and timely tax receipts for art donated by our members and other artists that donated paintings to the CNIB as part of a fund raising event. The CNIB has made a conscious effort to clarify its policy regarding tax receipts.
More details regarding this event will be available soon -- in the meantime, here's the date and venue.
CNIB - Eye Appeal Art Gala
Saturday, May 7th, 2022
Union Club Ballroom
805 Gordon Street, Victoria |
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SHOW TALK
March 22 - 27, 2022 |
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Thinking about what paintings to submit to this year's show? Here's a guide on sizes and the numbers you, as a VSC member, are entitled to include. One choice only.
SIZE, INCLUDING FRAME:
LARGE: 32” X 42" INCLUDING FRAME
MEDIUM: 26” X 26" INCLUDNG FRAME
SMALL: 14” X 15” INCLUDING FRAME
Option 1: You may submit up to 3 paintings of the following sizes or smaller:
2 Large paintings, MAXIMUM size 32 x 42 inches (including frame) and
1 Small painting, MAXIMUM size 14 x 15 inches (including frame)
Option 2: You may submit up to 4 paintings of the following sizes or smaller:
1 Large paintings, MAXIMUM size 32 x 42 inches (including frame) and you may choose a total 3 of M and/or S with a MAXIMUM size of 26 x 26 inches (including frame)
Option 3: You may submit up to 4 paintings of the following sizes or smaller:
4 Medium and/or Small size paintings, MAXIMUM size 26 x 26 inches (including frame).
NOTES:- when submitting round or oval shaped paintings, please go by measured length and height, including the frame.
- canvas paintings less than 1½" deep MUST be framed.
Below is an example of the form you'll be asked to submit. |
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January 11Back to Zooming with our VSC colleagues... |
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 | | We had a good turnout -- 24 screens at one point -- for today's session, with plenty of submissions to critique. In addition to the Omicron threat, we're also experiencing yet another "atmospheric river" out there! |
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| Clockwise from upper left from Janice Graham, Ruth Beninger, Mike Pipes, Christine Gollner |
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| Joan Head and Agnes Oosterhof's paintings both rendered in a beautiful vertical format. |
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| Block print of a nearby Yellow House by Rand Harrison ; and a first place winning landscape scene from Macaulay Point (!) by Sharon Stone |
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January 18More Zooming with for VSC members... |
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| From upper left: a polyptych by Ruth Beninger ; Trees at Mt Doug by Amy Nohales-Keze ; a French scene by Christine Gollner ; Niramon Prudadtorn's lovely winter scene ; and Agnes Oosterhof's forest path. |
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| Another good zoom turnout today -- we had 23 on at one point -- and lots of wonderful art was discussed. Works from the top are a beach scene from Terry McBride, Ni Prudadtorn Japanese gardens ; Nirmala Greenwell's charcoal figure sketches (on foolscap paper!); Virginia Hutzuliak's dragonfly ; a beautiful forest scene by Joan Wales : another French scene by Christine Gollner ; Anne Nolte's lovely green pathway scene ; and one of Pat Hindmarch-Watson's abstracts. |
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Saanich Municipal Hall 2022 Exhibition Program Saanich Municipal Hall Exhibition program invites artists to apply and to share with fellow artists and groups for a 2022 exhibition at Saanich Municipal Hall. For more information on this, and other Saanich-based arts events, go to www.saanich.ca/arts |
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History Corner
by John Lover |
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It was at the 1927 Island Arts and Crafts Society’s annual show that Miss E. Bainbridge-Smith, a first-time exhibitor, submitted seven oil paintings, one of which, entitled “A Forest Trail,” sold for the princely sum of $20. Despite a record attendance of 1,000 that year at the Belmont Building, this piece was one of only nine sales, a modest outcome from the 287 pictures on display, which included an unsold four from an “outsider,” Fred Varley, an original member of the “Group of Seven” and recently appointed to the Vancouver School of Art.
Bainbridge-Smith’s promising contribution seemed to tail off in subsequent years, accounting for just ten more paintings up to and including the 1940 exhibition. However, thanks to a history of Cordova Bay - “Sea-Lake” - by author Anne Pearson - we are offered an insight into a very interesting character, described as “a slightly eccentric, intelligent, wealthy woman, who dared to smoke cigarettes and drive English cars.” This was a lady of parts, of which a love of paintings was only one component of a determination to live life to the full.
Bainbridge-Smith was in fact a niece of Lord Haliburton, also being related to the author Richard Haliburton. After cultivated land became available on the Cordova Bay Ridge in 1908, she bought a substantial plot in the area with the bright notion of establishing a girl’s a gricultural school for “refined young English girls immigrating to Canada.” This institution appears in the “Englishwoman’s Year Book, 1914” under the more pretentious moniker of “Haliburton College for Gentlewomen.” The lucky students were to be housed in an adjacent red barn.
This ambitious project was enthusiastically supported by another pioneer and neighbour, one Major Barton, a retired parson of independent wealth, with a passion for agricultural pursuits. He tried, with some proven success, to teach the girls some of his skills, including laying apple and cherry orchards, some of which being still in evidence today. In the event, although the school survived for only a few years, it could boast some success as a marriage bureau as some of the farm trainees, perhaps showing where their true interests really lay, won the hearts of local farmers.
Unphased, the colourful Bainbridge-Smith lived in her Wesley Road house for another thirty years, enjoying world tours, happily painting the local scenery, generously presenting her works to friends and neighbours, and perhaps denying the IACS some of her best artistic talent. |
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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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