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October Arts Events
Susan Whitham of Mirasol Studio at Excellent Frameworks
“Artistic expression has always been my saving grace, my driving force, my sense of sanity. My love of clay began as a small child. Multiple decades later clay is still the tangible substance that I best express myself physically, emotionally and spiritually. Clay is a sort of communication device between me and the outside world. I don’t question my need to create. I pass along my experience through creating, appreciating, listening and teaching. Enjoy every minute of it!” - Susan Whitham
Excellent Frameworks Home of the EJ Hughes Gallery 115 Kenneth St., Downtown Duncan 250-746-7112 excellentframeworks.ca
EJ Hughes Gallery Presents Comox Valley
Located in Downtown Duncan at their new location on Kenneth Street, Excellent Frameworks - Home of the EJ Hughes Gallery has a dedicated Hughes gallery featuring limited editions, open editions, art cards, and calendars. Hughes painted over eight hundred original works in seven decades of his painting career and we are happy to continue to offer a variety of his works. As a long time resident of the Cowichan Valley, Hughes captured several local iconic scenes of the Valley.
Excellent Frameworks Home of the EJ Hughes Gallery 115 Kenneth St., Downtown Duncan 250-746-7112 www.ejhughes.ca
Sunburst, by Jutta Kaiser Acrylic on Canvas, 40” x 40”, $3,000
Aquamaris Art Gallery Spotlights New Arrivals by Artist Jutta Kaiser
Vancouver based Jutta Kaiser is an award-winning artist whose style is best described as “Abstract Expressionism”. Jutta’s yearning to capture the essence of nature has been an intrinsic part of her artistic journey, from her formal art education to her creative endeavours in jewelry making, pottery, and fine art. Painting is her ultimate avenue of expression, resulting in evocative and poetic works of art noted for the pleasing simplicity of design and dynamic interplay of texture and colour. Jutta Kaiser holds the Signature Status (SFCA) with Federation of Canadian Artists and is an elected member of Society of Canadian Artists.
OCTOBER ARTS EVENTS
EJ Hughes Gallery & Excellent Frameworks
Over 20 B.C. artists featured, including painters, sculptors, jewellers, printmakers, and woodturners plus our Excellent Custom Framing Services for all your framing needs. Open Tuesday - Saturday 10-4pm, Closed Sunday to Monday
Aquamaris Art Gallery
Visit us throughout the month to see the changing displays and new arrivals by our gallery artists October Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 4 pm
Aquamaris Art Gallery Upstairs in the historic Duncan Garage Building (Level entry from the back) Suite 202 - 330 Duncan Street October Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10am-4:00pm CLOSED Sunday & Monday (250) 597-2798 aquamarisartgallery.com
VISIT THESE DOWNTOWN DUNCAN GALLERIES
CELEBRATING 10 YEARS IN BUSINESS IN THE COWICHAN VALLEY
Heronwood Custom Cabinetry Inc. Is a local custom cabinetry shop located in the Cowichan Valley. Heronwood is know for its meticulous craftsmanship and creative design.
VISIT OUR SHOWROOM E4-4970 POLKEY RD. DUNCAN 250-597-4701 heronwoodcabinetry.ca
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Exhibition: Forest: Breath of Life
Deadline: 5pm October 30, 2020
The Cowichan Valley Public Art Gallery [CVPAG] is calling for submissions to our February 2021 exhibition: Forest: Breath of Life. The exhibit runs February 01 to 26, 2021, and is a project in collaboration with the Sierra Club of BC.
Forest: Breath of Life will explore the multi-faceted nature of forests: as home to a vast number of flora and fauna; as a source of beauty, healing and solace to humans; as a source to be harvested; as an ecosystem under threat; and as a source of every breath we take.
CVPAG will consider recent works in the visual arts from artists living and practising in
British Columbia. Minimum size requirement for 2-D works: 30”x24”; 76cmx61cm. A jury of three arts professionals will review all submissions. Artists accepted will be notified by November 30, 2020. If you are interested in submitting to Forest: Breath of Life, e-mail to the curator: • a jpg of each work; 2-D works should be unframed • a short bio • an artist’s statement of a few lines, encapsulating your focus and creative process • excluded media: giclée, mechanical reproductions, digital photography
Submissions and inquiries: curator@cvpublicartgallery.ca The Cowichan Valley Public Art Gallery’s exhibits are intended to provoke intellectual inquiry, capture visitors’ imaginations, and encourage debate and discussion. Our vision is to do this by mounting a broad, dynamic range of exhibitions, based on universal issues, recognizing, respecting and engaging with different perspectives.
Capture Your Family Memories with Painter Donovan Rose
Where is home for you? Where does your heart relax, beat at a soft pace and fill with pleasant nostalgia? When I was born, we lived on the Shuswap and my dad was running Fat Boys, a restaurant that started out as a food truck in Sorrento. When Fat Boys burned to the ground my family was uprooted, and we moved to Alberta where we lived in numerous small towns as my dad went from one job to the next. Every summer we made our pilgrimage back to the lake to stay with my grandparents at their home on the water. This yearly return to the Shuswap would be the most consistent and joyful experience in my childhood.
In 2015, ten years after my dad passed, my uncle gave me a box of Kodachrome slides he’d had in storage; pictures taken by my grandparents in the 1960’s, presumably on a Kodak Brownie. There were dozens of photos of my dad as a fit young man, spending time with family, lounging on the dock with his mod haircut and European swim trunks. I recognized that this was also his place of the heart.
My immediate response was to paint these scenes, and as the side effects of nostalgia calmed, I became in awe of how well each photo was composed, how vivid and well curated the colours were, the mood of the era well preserved. I found comparisons in my family’s figures to compositions by Cezanne and Matisse. Their study of bathers, scenes of leisure, la joie de vivre, seemed to parallel this photographed Arcadia before me. I began a series of paintings in 2017 based on the photographs and continue to adapt these images into my work today, working to reconcile the memories of this shared place with our imagined and real childhoods. Donovan Rose is another artist who has migrated to the
Zak
Stolk Violin Maker 25 Years Experience of Lutherie in the Italian Tradition.
Making, repair and restoration of Violins, Viola, Cello, Double
Bass, Harp, and all manner of Stringed Instruments.
250-749-6563 zakviolins@shaw.ca
www.zakviolins.com Cowichan Valley, thankful to live in the traditional Coast Salish territory. He and his fiancé, Barclay Martin run The Ou Gallery and Artist Residency in Duncan. You can see his work at Gallery Merrick in Nanaimo, or in studio by appointment, commissions welcome! - www.donovanrose.ca
