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	Submissions for Exhibition Year Feb 2011 to Feb 2012 are now closed.
	The 2010 Doris Crowston Gallery Shows ~ at a glance ~
	Jan 6 - 31 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Jan 6, 7 - 9pm       Friends of the Gallery 2010 Feb 3 - 28 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Feb 3, 7 - 9pm       25 Years of Life - Life Drawing Group Mar 3 - 28 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Mar 3, 7 - 9pm       Between House and Home - Sonja Kobrehel Mar 31 - Apr 18 2010       Young Peoples Own Show - Elementary Apr 19 - May 5 2010       Festival of the Performing Arts Apr 21 - May 9 2010       Young Peoples Own Show - Secondary May 12 - 30 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday May 12, 7 - 9pm       Transience and Beauty - Afuwa Granger; Seasons - Susan Fletcher Jun 2 - 27 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Jun 2, 7 - 9pm       National Aboriginal Day Show - National Aboribinal Day June 2 Jun 30 - Jul 25 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday June 30, 7 - 9pm       2nd Annual Ceramics on the Edge - Berry Keller / Heather Waddell Jul 28 - Aug 8 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday July 28, 7 - 9pm       2010 Summer Invitational - TBA Jul 31 - Aug 7 2010       Sechelt Art Festival - District of Sechelt Aug 11 - Sept 5 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Aug 11, 7 - 9pm       leaving my found eden & seven 1/2 and one - Ron Zheng Aug 14 & 15 2010 ~ jury submissions: Feb & Mar 2010       Hackett Park Summer Craft Fair - TBA Sep 8 - Oct 3 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Sep 8, 7 - 9pm       Landscapes Around Us - Tina Flux Oct 6 - 31 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Oct 6, 7 - 9pm       Faces & Places, Close & Distant - Krista Maurer Nov 3 - 28 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Nov 3, 7 - 9pm       Ourselves and Others - Life and Limb Painting Group Dec 1 - 19 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Dec 4, 1 - 4pm       Young Artist Awards Dec 1 - 19 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Dec 4, 1 - 4pm       Banner Project 2010 Jan 5 - 30 2011 ~ Reception: Wednesday Jan 5, 7 - 9pm       Friends of the Gallery 2011   To view the archive of past shows CLICK HERE . . . click on any image to enlarge September 8 - October 3 2010 reception Wednesday, September 8, 7:00 - 9:00pm Faces, Places and The Spaces in Between Krista Maurer From her Blue Orca Studio on Daniel Point, this is Krista's first show at the Doris Crowston Gallery. Landscapes Around Us Tina Flux Vibrant colours, strength and simplified bold shapes describe the artwork of West Coast artist Tina Flux. Her graphic style showcases the beauty and strength found within landscapes. Every bold brush stoke has a purpose. Every colour has been thoughtfully chosen. Every shape is part of something bigger. Collectively, something beautiful is created. The composition, shapes, values and colour of my paintings have developed from my work in photography. When photographing, I find the need to add my creativity to the scene which the camera could not capture. Painting gives me the ability to record my interpretations of what I see. Vibrant colour selections and strong purposeful brushstrokes bring positive energy and strength to each painting. Aug 11 - Sept 5 2010 reception Wednesday, Aug 11, 7:00 - 9:00pm Leaving My Found Eden: A Poetography Exhibit Ron L. Zheng For several years, I have been working on an art form that I call Poetography, merging English-language tanka poetry with black & white photography. With Poetography, the tanka poetry is merged with the photographic imagery to create a dynamic tension that infuses new meanings into the words and images. I am hoping that this show will promote English-language tanka to a wider audience. June 30 - July 25 2010 reception Wednesday, June 30, 7:00 - 9:00pm Ceramics on the Edge This is the second annual Ceramics on the Edge show. The intent of this juried exhibition is to present the best inovative new work created by ceramic artists resident on the Sunshine Coast. Two categories - established artists and emerging artists - were judged separately, with the best of each category selected for inclusion in the show. Established Artists included: Susanne Biden, Liz de Beer, Timothy Niebergall & Carlie Sanford, Jack Ploesser, Sandra Ramos, Pia Sillem, Shey Smith & Diane Amaral Fisher. Emerging Ceramic Artists included: Marilyn Butt, Betty Keller, Joanne Scanlan, Heather Waddell. May 12 - 30 2010 reception Wednesday, May 12, 7:00 - 9:00pm Transience and Beauty Afuwa Granger Afuwa Granger, who lives in Vancouver, says in her experience living in coastal locations she has observed “the ocean’s ebb and crash, the arrivals and departures resonant of an intertidal world of unending change,” making the scent and sound of her life. Granger’s work explores the surface of the female body as well as the secrets that surface can reveal. Seasons Susan Fletcher Susan Fletcher, long time resident of the Sunshine Coast, is showing Seasons, wall hangings and baskets, in fibre and mixed media. She says of her work, “Hands on experience, experimentation and observation of other’s work have been my art school.” Fletcher examines in her pieces the turnings of the earth, the seasons of life and land, the answers to questions drawn from deep contemplation. We have with this exhibition the opportunity to consider the very different experiences of two women exploring what matters most to them, and offering those considerations to their viewers using different media. Mar 3 - 28 2010 reception Wednesday, Mar 3, 7:00 - 9:00pm Between House and Home Sonja Kobrehel Leaving political and economic turmoil in eastern Europe for calmer waters in Vancouver has brought forth bright, colorful, somewhat whimsical paintings for Sonja Kobrehel of German-Hungarian ancestry. Kobrehel, whose work has been exhibited in Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland, Spain and Japan to both public and critical praise. In studying the evolution of her work, one notes Kobrehel's interior perceptions and attitudes steadily evolve. As the artist says: "I am constantly searching (within and) about for something new." The changing attaractions include script from the ancient Hungarian alphabet (called Rovasiras). Very often these new creations seem to float, fly, dance, undulate-even swim-against a background expanse of subtly mixed colors and hues, many very brilliant. Feb 3 - 28 2010 reception Wednesday, Feb 3, 7:00 - 9:00pm 25 Years of Life Life Drawing Group Twenty-five years ago, a group of Sunshine Coast artists got together in Roberts Creek to draw the nude model, a practice which has been a standard part of artistic training for centuries. Since then, artists have come and gone, venues have shifted, and opportunities for life drawing have increased, but the original drawing group has continued its practice, most recently at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt. These new vigorous drawings are in various traditional drawing media, and their hallmarks are spontaneity and immediacy. They have been untouched by the artist after the modelling session and therefore show the very freshest impression of the human form which the human artist can bring to bear. The drawings are unframed and literally "paper" the walls of the exhibition space, atelier style, resulting in a vibrant celebration of the diversity of the human form.