Our final artist feature for this year is a well recognized and award winning, long time member of the Arrowsmith Chapter of the FCA, Dawne Brandel. Dawne paints in a loose, impressionistic style. She says. “I love colour and contrast.” She paints with acrylics, loving the flexibility, and the fact that she can paint in […]
Tag: Artist of the Month
Therese describes herself as a semi-abstract painter who has worked in oils, pastels, water colours, collage and now her preferred medium, acrylics. She usually works in series, painting a wide variety of subject matter such as musicians, birds, floral, geishas, houses and landscapes. While living in the lower mainland, Therese became involved with the Federation of […]
Diane is a representational watercolor painter who fell in love with art at the early age of 4 years old. She was amazed to see how just a drawing on a sheet of paper could translate into three dimensional realistic-looking objects, people and landscapes. Diane’s watercolor painting have been internationally recognized for her unique subject […]
Since my recent move to Vancouver Island, I am especially passionate about west coast landscapes, particularly the ocean. I love landscapes because I am an outdoor adventurer and I see some very beautiful scenery on my adventures. I also use birds as my subject because no matter where you go adventuring you always see birds. […]
Our Artist of the Month for June, Jacqueline Dunn, is a well known painter, not only in Canada, but also internationally! Jacqueline paints in a Modern Impressionist style in oil and acrylic paints. She beautifully captures the forests and streams of Vancouver Island in her paintings. I am “at home” in the forest. Velvet greens, […]
Birgit’s work is a manifestation of her personal journey. “Ever since I realized that my experience of my world was a choice of how I interpreted my environment, I fought to see things in a unique and evaluative way. I questioned accepted logic and learned to create my own reality in the face of […]
Cathy Stewart loves to work with oil paint! The malleability and the richness of, and wide variation of colors achieved with oils enables her to create the beautiful, richly colored paintings she is known for. Although Cathy has worked with other mediums, it is oil painting which releases her creative flow. “When I was working […]
Susan Hiebert, who was born in Taplow, England, speaks lovingly about her upbringing; of her parents, country walks in the hills and valleys of the Welsh countryside, and how both influenced her love of nature: “I was wonderfully fortunate to grow up with parents who loved the natural world. I spent much of my childhood […]
Janice, tell us about your art style. I have a rather oriental/Asian approach to painting that comes from a process defined by simple, loose but controlled composition and colour. The ‘how’ of what I’m doing disappears after a long ‘looking’ process. Mark making comes through a reactive painting style to the environment I’m in at […]
Diane Michelin was a shy child who began drawing at a very early age and in her teenage years, she began painting, using acrylic and oil paints. However, when she became a young mother, she realized the need to be able to clean up her studio quickly, and so she decided to switch to painting […]
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