Happening Now – The Four Seasons – Inspiration Canada
Landscape art would be unthinkable without weather.
Fortunately, as artists living in Canada, our natural environments are all subject to the full range of atmospheric and climatic conditions.
Long have Canadian painters braved the elements with their paints and canvases; attempting to capture the explosive majesty of a Canadianautumn, the ominous rise of her glacial mountains above rapids; too-quicklytumbling to be stopped by freezing and long-stretching, summer plains which reach into late evenings. The seasons give us cloudbanks heavywith late Spring’s Thunderstorms, dancing sunlight on Pacific waves andarctic-wind blown snow drifts; encasing anything and everything in sparkling draperies…and ever so much more.
Now more than ever, let us celebrate the richness with which Canada is endowed; Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter – each with their ownmuch-loved meteorological characteristics, through the art of our local artists at the Monashee Arts Council Village Gallery’s February show, ‘The Four Seasons’.
Call for Artists – In Motion
Motion is a sign of life – Swami Vivekananda (Philosopher)
In physics motion is the phenomenon in which an object changes it’s position with respect to time. The world we live in is in a constant form of motion from that which we see in the everyday to the near invisible.
This applies to the most visible forms of motion from those we easily recognize of traffic passing us on the streets, dancers to deer bounding across the fields and the flurry of birds taking to the air, to that which we miss such as the slow movement of a flower moving to follow the sun, the inner workings of mechanic, the very cells that make up the world around us to the rotation of earth.
Explore the things around us that move and how the sense of motion can be captured by artist in all it’s forms with our upcoming show
Applications are available at the Village Galley, 1975 Vernon street (next to Scotiabank) or online at www.monasheeartscouncil.com. Deadline for entries is Febuary 24th 2023. Call 778-473-3029 for more information.
Community Art Classes 2023
- Where: At the O.A.P Hall every Wednesday night 6 – 8 p.m.
- Pre-register at the Lumby Village Gallery. Phone 778-473-3029
- Sponsored by the Monashee Arts Council
Watercolour Painting
- Wednesdays February 22 & March 1, 8, 2023.
- Ages 10 to adult. Instructor: Robin Ledrew, a well-known artist and teacher in our community.
- Cost: $15 for 3 classes plus $5 for materials.
Introduction to Polymer Clay
- Wednesdays March 15 & 22, 2023.
- Ages 12 to adult. Instructor: Hayley Bouzek.
- Learn basic modelling techniques, also tips and tricks to bring your designs to life.
- Cost $10 for 2 classes plus $TBA for materials.
