By the time you read this, VSC will have at the Windsor Park Pavillon [WPP], the first time in 18 months! Over 20 members attending the first meeting of the Fall. Larry chaired and introduced new members, Ruth overviewed the upcoming show at Government House, and Patricia outlined the planned Fall program. Ther e was also some pre-meeting lunching, and summer works lined up for show & tell.
The purpose of our meeting was threefold, but the most notable is, in the words of Robbie Burns, renewing auld acquaintance!
Going forward for the time being, the current public health regulations [PHRs] apply when meeting at WPP. So, until we hear otherwise,- Members are required to wear a mask and present a BC Covid passport upon arrival at the Pavillon.
- Masks must be worn upon arrival until you sit down. If you later decide to stand up and move around you are free to do so but you must wear your mask.
- No refreshments will be available.We need to bring our own.
- We are limited to fifty people in our space.
- Weather permitting we will have windows and doors open so bring a woolly.
Autumn Programme
This will be based on Open Sessions, and we have four hours to set up and paint each Tuesday session supplemented with the occasional short demonstrations. Patricia, is our Programme Director, and was pulled together programme based on the advice received from the 28 members who responded to her poll.
We know that some members are not be able to attend for medical and/or mobility reasons, and others may be uncomfortable with attending given the public health situation. So, we do plan to have an option using Zoom for those members that are unable to attend. Details will be forthcoming from Patricia.
Government House Update
Our Government House Exhibition will start in November, with our paintings being collected on November 2, at the WPP. The opening reception is to be held November 15 at 3:30 PM.
VSC 2022 Art Show
Slated for 21-27 March in the GNS Junior School. More information will be forthcoming on these activities and volunteers sought to help make all these activities come together in the manner the Victoria Sketch Club prefers.
Cheers,
Larry
J.E.L. Gollner
President VSC |
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 | | A number of VSC members, including Niramon Prudtatorn, showed off their lovely artwork at the Abkhazi Gardens Art Show Fundraiser on September 6. The weather was wonderful! The show continues at the gardens teahouse until October 11. |
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Christine Gollner: PaintingsVenue: Union Club, 805 Gordon Street, Victoria
Dates: October and November 2021
Contact: 250-595-5979 or christine.a.gollner@gmail.com for a non-union club member appointment, Thursdays 10 am - 2 pm only |
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History Corner
by John Lover |
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Our Club records in hardcopy for the inter-war period are very sparse, and we are fortunate that this void has been filled to some degree by a scrapbook, which young people in today’s electronic age might place in the same era as the abacus.
This volume consists solely of clippings from the two local newspapers of that era, the Daily Colonist and the Victoria Times, which in 1979 would be amalgamated to give us the current Times-Colonist. It was fortunate that the local press at that time gave assiduous attention to the goings-on at the Island Arts and Crafts Society (IACS). Consequently, the scrapbook succeeds in giving us a wealth of detail and a thread of continuity to the life of the IACS during a period which saw the rise and fall of its fortunes.
The custodian of this tome was a Scot by the name of Donald Cameron, a well known and respected member of the Society. Born in Aberdeen in 1866, he studied art at the South Kensington Art School in London and the Scottish Educational Department. He emigrated to Canada, and became an early member of the IACS, contributing to the Society’s annual exhibitions from 1911 to 1936. Cameron also exhibited in Vancouver, staged individual exhibitions, and with other Society members showed at the arts section of the Willows Agricultural Fair. After occupying various executive positions in the Society from the mid-1920s, he served as president from 1933 to 1935.
As an artist, he was adept in both watercolours, oils and pastels. An accomplished sketcher, he was an original member of the Society’s Sketch Club component. Painting in a traditional style, he was credited with a Corot-like deftness in his landscapes, typified by his 1927 Broom in Beacon Hill Park (see below). His work currently features in the collection of the BC Royal Museum Archives. (Left: Beacon Hill Park, ink on paper 12.5 x 18.0 cm)
His labours on the scrapbook are in keeping with his reputation as a conscientious administrator, known for his exhibition cataloguing and recordkeeping of Society activities.
Cameron resigned from the Society following the e nd of his second year as President in 1935, and signed off his scrapbook duties with this short note posted in his elegant handwriting:
"This page practically closes my active connection with the Island Arts and Craft Society – having retired at the General Meeting, which was held December 4th, 1935."
Donald Stewart Cameron died in Victoria in 1941. |
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| Stay tuned for a more detailed update of this year's Paint Out! activities , compiled by Janice Graham. Here are just a few pictures to pique your interest! |
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 | | Paint Out Day One -- meeting at the Gollner cabin |
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 | Thursday night show 'n' share! |
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 | | For those of you who appreciate Shakespeare, here's a lovely blending of the 16th and 20th centuries, found at Grammarly.com! --submitted by Val Lawton |
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Once in a while, someone does a nice job of describing a Canadian, this time it was an Australian dentist. You probably missed it in the local news, but there was a report that someone in Pakistan had advertised in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed a Canadian -- any Canadian.
An Australian dentist wrote the following editorial to help define what a Canadian is, so they would know one when they found one.
A Canadian can be English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek.
A Canadian can be Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, Arab, Pakistani or Afghan.
A Canadian may also be a Cree, Metis, Mohawk, Blackfoot, Sioux or one of the many other tribes known as Native Canadians.
A Canadian's religious beliefs range from Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or none. In fact, there are more Muslims in Canada than in Afghanistan. The key difference is that in Canada they are free to worship as each of them chooses.
Whether they have a religion or no religion, each Canadian ultimately answers only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs
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claiming to speak for the government and for God.
A Canadian lives in one of the most prosperous lands in the history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the British North American Act which recognizes the right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.
A Canadian is generous and Canadians have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.
Canadians welcome the best of everything, the best products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the best services and the best minds. But they also welcome the least-- the oppressed, the outcast and the rejected.
These are the people who built Canada. You can try to kill a Canadian if you must as other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world have tried but in doing so you could just be killing a relative or a neighbour.
This is because Canadians are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom.
Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, can be a Canadian.
-- submitted by Larry Gollner |
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