LOREL
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Lorel's experience with clay began in high school when an understanding art teacher seeing her love of "mud" left her in the ceramics studio the whole year. After art school, she began decorating clay-work and ceramic sculpture, specializing in Raku and other primitive firing methods. "My lifelong endeavor has been to achieve excellence in form and function, to master the ability to make in clay what I can imagine, and to acheive a response from the viewer." |
RHONA
ARMES |
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Rhona awakened one morning in 1966, knowing that she could learn how to paint and draw. When she was introduced to clay, she knew what form her journey would take. Her present work is clay sculpture and presentation ware. Rhona continues to share her passion for her craft with others through art instruction at her "Open Armes Studio". |
PAT
HALL
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Pat completed a three year fine arts course and, while raising a family, worked from home creating pastel and oil portraits, pen and ink sketches and illustrations for daily newspapers. Her style is realistic, influenced by the people, the culture and the art of the many places she has lived. Pat is also a skilled potter and sculptor. |
CAROLE
FORBES
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Carole Forbes enjoys the challenge of working with ink and watercolour, the ink allowing her to express the detail she has become known for and the watercolour, creating a softness to the painting.
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:: Victoria Street
:: The Train Bridge:Riverside Park
:: The Beach at Riverside Park |
:: The Old Courthouse
:: Stuart Wood School (2 views) |
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CINDY
HAYDEN
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A self proclaimed glass addict, Cindy Hayden has played in this medium for two decades. Shortly after learning the art she began working in a glass shop, which fuelled her passion for glass. Cindy utilizes vibrant colour and unusual textures to create a unique statement. Her work captures the beauty of sunlight, as the colours and textures change throughout the day. Cindy's greatest pleasure comes from creating custom pieces that reflect her clients' individual taste. |
BONNIE
KEATS
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Bonnie Keats creates large-scale vases, murals and coffee table bowls. She fires in the wood kiln she built on her Knutsford property last year, or low-fires in tin foil and paper towel...extremes of temperature and technique that keep her excited about clay, even after 25 years as a potter. |
JAN
SEEDHOUSE
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Jan started to weave in Princec George in 1990. She started weaving rags because they were cheap and she like recycling. She wove mainly with rags for 8 years. The response after weaving a cotton shawl to wear to her daughter's wedding led her to make colourful, textured cotton and chenile scarves and shawls. |
JODY
TIPPETT
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Jody Tippett has been an applied artist for 15 years. Her work experience and formal studies have included stained glass, interior and architectural design, as well as web and print graphics. Applying this experience with a new freesom of expression in a new medium, Jody operates a functional pottery studio out of her home, dubbed "Living Wells", offering unique functional stoneware and decorative pieces. |
SHIELA
DUNN
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Shiela is a self-employed accountant with a passion for glass. Twelve years ago, after taking her first lesson, she finally knew what she wanted to be when she grew up. Her largest commission to date, the windows for St. Andrew's on the Square in Kamloops, used the Tiffany technique. Currently her primary focus has turned to working with kiln formed hot glass opening a whole new realm of "Usable Art" |
SUZY
KNOX
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Susan Knox teaches and paints plein air landscapes and still life in acrylic and watercolour. She has worked as an illustrator and participated in many juried and group shows over the last 25 years. |
KAREN
HANNA |
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Karen's career as a fibre artist started with a three month trip through Mexico in 1974. Travelling from the west coast to the east coast, she admired the woven blankets and wall hangings that were created in the villages by women squatting with their backstrap looms strung around tree trunks. She was filled with inspiration and a desire to learn this ancient craft. The experience eventually led her to a passion for spinning, dying and felting the fibres of different animals. |
ULA
CHAUVET
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There isn't a time that Ula hasn't been drawing or painting on something. Still to this day no surface is left unaltered. Subject matter usually dictates the medium and this gives her work an eclectic look that combines paint, ink, charcoal and collage. Currently her work also includes text. The love of sharing concepts and her view on the world lends to many diverse pieces. |
JANET WHITEHEAD |
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It was somewhat of a shock when faeries showed up in Janet Whitehead’s clay 15 years ago. It took a little while but she discovered that the faeries meant serious business. Like it or not, Janet would be helping share their magical energy. Now, Janet thrives on the creative soulful connections that happen when she plays in clay or paint or within the written word. She works with watercolour on yupo paper and with stoneware, porcelain, and a unique paper clay process to create her mystical pieces – which also includes unusual tall ships, sometimes roller skates, and other things seemingly unrelated to faeries. |
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