Visions Art Studio Tour is back all over the Cowichan Valley

Visions Art Studio Tour is back all over the Cowichan Valley July 8, 9 and 10

The art of 19 artists and artisans will highlight the Visions Studio Tour throughout the Cowichan Valley.

For more than 20 years this group has been presenting studio tours and introducing new artists as well as long-standing artists in the studios where they find their inspiration. In some cases it is their gardens, in others it is the forest of waterfront vistas and still others it is memories of travels. The result is wide-ranging art including watercolours, oils, acrylics and pastels, coloured pencil drawings, photography, blown glass, silversmithing, jewellery and painted glass, tiles and painted clothing and pottery.

In the tour this year are painters Harold Allanson, Carol Borrett, Sue Coleman, Charlotte Haggart, Roger Jackson, Carolyn McDonald, Eileen McGann, Joane Moran, Catherine Taron; coloured pencil artist Donna Birtwistle, jewellery makers Karen Botcher and Rosemary Danaher who is also a potter, and Jocelyn West and Susan Jean Whyte, silversmith jeweller Michele Heath, photographers Neil Fatin and Brigette Furlonger, glass blower Tyler Hayes and glass and clothing painter Terry Harrison.

Michele Heath Tyler Hayes

Art Studio Tour July 8 & 9 10-5pm 1213 Royalta Road Mill Bay harrisonglassart@shaw.ca Terry Harrison I Glass Art Studio Painted Glass, Tiles and Clothing

You’ll find studios in Mill Bay, Shawnigan Lake, Cowichan Bay, , Maple Bay, Crofton and Lake Cowichan.

With it being a three-day, free, self-directed tour, it makes it possible to visit many or all of the studios easily. Even if you have visited some of the studios in the past, you are bound to see new works and new ideas added during the two-years when the tour was postponed.

Visit the Visions Artists website at www.visionsarttour.ca for biographies of the artists and a map showing you where all the studios are located.

We are all looking forward to seeing you again.