Larry Gollner officially stepped down as president of Victoria Sketch Club at this year's AGM, and we the membership thank you for wonderful service!
We are pleased to welcome our new executive
President: Gillian Rhodes
Vice President: Anne Bowen
Secretary: Amy Nohales-Kezes (until Sept)
Treasure: Michael Pipes
Programme Director: Patricia Hindmarch-Watson
Communications Director: Vicky Turner
Director at Large: Ruth Beninger
Show Director: Under Review |
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Note from the President
I hope you have had a prosperous time painting and doing your art over the past month!
I’m delighted to announce further details regarding the Reception at Government House. As you will recall, the event that was initially scheduled for November 15th of 2021, was delayed due to COVID. Here're the updated details:
When: July 5, 2022
Time: 2 - 4:30 pm (please arrive by 1:45 p.m.)
The invitation has been extended to all members who are in the show at Government House plus one guest. RSVPs will be forthcoming from Government House over the next few weeks.
We are moving forward on one important project – the making of new screens for displaying paintings for next years Art Show. Our esteemed Past President, Larry, has taken on this task, for which we can all be very grateful.
Another project underway is the organization of the storage locker at the Windsor Park Pavilion. We are settings up our space so that we have one locker for the Annual Art Show and one locker for program materials.
If you are interested in helping with this project during the month of June, please contact Pat.
Wishing you all a very pleasant June with high hopes of improved weather for our en plein air sessions!
Gillian Rhodes
VSC President |
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2022 Summer Outdoor Program
This year’s summer program will be developed in two successive time frames…. May through June, and July through August….with 9 different site visits in each time frame.
An e-mail ‘information package’ for the June locations will be sent out by the VSC Secretary one or two days in advance of each outing.
In general, club members arrive around 10 a.m. and paint/sketch until about noon, after which some gather together to socialize over lunch. Guests artists are welcome, especially if interested in possibly applying for VSC membership in the following Fall or Winter indoor sessions.Rand Harrison Questions? email Rand |
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| As a drop-off point for cattle in the 1800s, Cattle Point is named for its interesting history, when cattle were simply pushed overboard and had to do the front crawl to get ashore. A few equally brave souls managed to bundle up against the cold weather. |
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| A hidden gem, Playfair Park is must-visit garden for rhododendron and azalea fanciers. |
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| The Elk/Beaver Regional Park is a 1,072 acres park in Saanich containing Elk Lake and Beaver Lake. In the '30s and '40s, Elk/Beaver Lake was known as the "Freshwater Playground of Victoria." With the completion of the Pat Bay highway in the 1950s, measures were taken to start restoring the park to its natural state. In 1966, Elk/Beaver Lake became a regional park and is managed by the Capital Regional District. |
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| The university gardens were developed in 1974, when the estate of Mrs. Jeanne Buchanan Simpson of Cowichan Lake was left to the university. She and her husband George built up a notable collection of Rhododendron species at their Lake Cowichan home. Many plants were grown from seed obtained directly or indirectly from famous plant explorers of the day. Theirs was the largest collection in British Columbia. |
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| Another chilly day for VSC members and a few hardy members came out for the day's plein air session at Ross Bay Cemetery. Many famous folks rest here including Sir James Douglas, lots of premiers, coal baron Robert Dunsmuir of Craigdarroch Castle fame, Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie, our own Emily Carr, and Nellie Cashman. |
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History Corner
by John Lover |
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Jack Shadbolt, like sometime kindred spirit Max Maynard, was also a Club member of the 1930s, and was destined to make a great impression on the national art scene.
He was born in 1909 in Shoeburyness, England, came to Canada in 1912, and from 1914 was raised in Victoria. He took various classes on the theory of art which exposed him to the influence of the Group of Seven and contemporary movements in the art world before becoming an art teacher in an elementary school.
With his friend Maynard, he developed a passion for outdoor sketching and decided to become an artist. He met Emily Carr in 1930 and became a frequent visitor to her home. With fellow members of the Island Arts and Craft Society, Maynard, Emily Carr and Edythe Hembroff, he participated in the "Modern Room" section of the Society's 1932 exhibition, as part of the group's struggle to be understood in a local culture that was not ready for “modern art.”
 Interestingly, up to 1932, Shadbolt had never received any formal practical art training, nor had he exhibited anywhere nor drawn a figure. But he had become devoted to art, and as he confided to Edythe Hembroff, his school teaching experience “was a great liberation… I learned much from their visualizing and conceptualizing processes.”
Despite sometimes bitter personality clashes with Emily Carr, Jack, like Max, fell under her artistic influence. According to Hembroff, who organized a reconstruction of the Modern Room fifty years later, Jack’s landscapes already reflected the structured sky and formalized foliage of Emily’s canvases hanging nearby.
Shadbolt left Victoria in 1933, travelling by car across the USA to Chicago and New York, where he stayed for some months studying rather than practising art. He went on to study art in London and Paris, and from 1938 taught and studied with Fred Varley at the Vancouver School of Art.
During World War II he became an official war artist in the Canadian Army and produced drawings illustrating the London Blitz and the horrors of concentration camps. He later returned to his faculty position at the School of Art until his retirement in 1966, when he devoted more time to his painting and contributed to the development of abstraction and modernism in this region. Establishing himself as one of Canada's most important artists and art teachers, he became known for the distinctive style of his paintings and murals with social and political messages stemming from his personal experiences from wartime  and a concern with aboriginal and environmental issues. His stated mission was to articulate the language of form and the evocation of experience.
Jack Shadbolt became an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1972, and in 1987, together with his wife, he founded a charitable Institution for the Visual Arts to support and recognize achievements of artists in the province.
Painting up to the end of his life, he died in 1998 at the age of 89. |
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 | Sara's 80th Birthday party!Sara Carr-Harris joined the Club at the age of 18 in 1960, a Club Member for 62 years! Sara is an Honorary Member, appointment in 1994. This lovely photo was taken May 14 th by Vicki Sharp, the kind lady who accompanied Sara to the Club when Sara was able to attend. The Gollners attended Sara’s Birthday event on May 14 th and brought the VSC’s “Best Wishes” to Sara our longest standing member and a wonderful artist. |
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 | Call for Artists Parkinsons Wellness Project Fine Art Exhibition.
Dates: July 1 to September 30, 2022
Open to all Parkinsons Wellness Project members and local artists. Here’s a wonderful opportunity to showcase your art from July 1st to September 30th, 2022 in the bright gallery. A solo showing or share a wall with other talented artists! And 50% of all sales happily donated to PWP.
https://parkinsonwellness.ca
202-2680 Blanshard St.
Victoria, BC
V8T 5E1
Contact me for more information or a tour of the PWP gallery.
Joan Head, PW Fine Arts
Exhibition Coordinator
For further information:
head675@hotmail.com |
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Paint Out 2022For those of you considering participating in the September paint out, the week of 6 – 13 September 2022 at Beach Acres in Parksville, please book as soon as possible as accommodation is now limited. 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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