Rainforest Arts Thinking and Talking Big

BIG Art will be on display at the Rainforest gallery through to the end of November.

Rainforest Arts members don’t often get to display their bigger works because of limited wall space, but continuing through October to November 13 the BIG Art show will give them, and art patrons in the region, an opportunity to think BIG. The BIG Art show takes up all the wall space at Chemainus Valley’s community gallery. Works currently on display must be at least 24 inches to 36 inches wide – there’s no height limit, except what the logistics of moving and hanging pieces impose. As well as having their large works featured, artists will get a chance to talk BIG during the exhibit. “There will be opportunities during the show for artists to meet the public,” said show organizer Daphne Carlyle. On Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 3 PM, artists are invited to do demos at the gallery. Here’s the lineup: Saturday, October 2 - Rohana Laing ‘Sharing her travel sketchbooks’

Saturday, October 9 - Jack Duckworth ‘Thinking Through Your Painting: Conception, Composition, Completion’ Saturday October 30 - Cim MacDonald ‘Mixed Media With Watercolor’

Sunday, October 17 - Elissa Anthony - ‘Modern Impressionism With Acrylics’ Saturday, October 23 - Bernice Ramsdin Firth - ‘Book Illustration and Cover Design; Sculpture Methods’ Sunday October 24 - Barry Strasbourg-Thompson ‘Creating depth in painting’ Saturday November 6 - Art and Daphne Carlyle - ‘Story Telling With Your Camera’ Saturday November 13 - Diana Durrand and Craig Spence - ‘Combining Children’s illustration with photography’ Why do artists feel compelled to create big art? Dramatic and emphatic statements sometimes get expressed big, like Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacoix, who depicted the toppling of the king in the Second French Revolution. Or an artist might want to draw viewers into an all-encompassing environment, like the Water Lilies series by Claude Monet.

The RFA show can’t match that scale, of course, but the urge to go big is what’s on display, an urge that has long been a driving force in Chemainus – Muraltown, where BIG art is a community passion. BIG Art will be on display at Rainforest through midNovember. Visit 9781 Willow Street, Wednesday to Sunday, 11 AM to 4 PM. More info at 250-246-4861 or info@ rainforestarts.ca.

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