The Sunshine Coast s Centre is a non-profit gallery (run by the Sunshine Coast s Council) which hosts up to 15 local and out-of-town exhibitions each year. The exhibitions and schedule are determined a year in advance by the Visual s Advisory Committee, comprised of volunteers with a wide range of visual knowledge and experience. The Committee Members are appointed by the curator and is independent of the Board of Directors.

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Nov 25 - Dec 20 2009 ~ Cowrie Street Banner Project 2010
Oct 28 - Nov 22 2009 ~ Paula O'Brien - After the Circus
Sept 30 - Oct 25 2009 ~ R.B. Wainwright - And So To Dream Again
Sept 2 - 27 2009 ~ Heather Gatz - Groping for the Points of Contact, sound/video
Aug 12 - 30 2009 ~ Summer Invitational Exhibition - Friends from Home
July 8 - 29 2009 ~ Sunshine Coast Ceramics on the Edge
May 20 - June 14 2009 ~ Jon Davis & Katie Janyk
Apr 22 May 17 2009 Young Peoples Own Show, Elementary & Secondary
Apr 1 - 19 2009 ~ Sa Boothroyd / Willow Yamauchi
Mar 4 - 29 2009 ~ Simon Haiduk / Christopher Marrapese
Feb 4 - Mar 1 2009 ~ Nadina Tandy
Jan 7 - Feb 1 2009 ~ SCAC Members Show
Oct 1 - 26 2008 ~ Lez Niepo
Sept 3 - 28 2008 ~ Kay Bonathan & Vasi Petoussis
Aug 13 - 31 2008 ~ Leonie Croy & Ray, Bev & Tim Niebergall and Carlie Sanford
Aug 1 - 10 2008 ~ Sechelt Arts Festival ~ Exhibition & Workshops
July 9 - 27 2008 ~ Michaela Cochran & Quilters Out of Bounds
June 18 - July 6 2008 ~ National Aboriginal Day Exhibition
May 28 - June 15 2008 ~ Kathleen Barrett & Maurice Spira
May 14 - 24 2008 ~ SC Arts Council Art Auction
Apr 30 - May 11 2008 ~ Young People's Own Show - Elementary
Mar 12 - Apr 13 2008 ~ Young People's Own Show - High School
Feb 13 - Mar 9 2008 ~ CANSCAIP
Jan 9 - Feb 10 2008 ~ Friends of the Gallery
Nov 21 - Dec 22 2007 ~ Judy Ross & Barry Goodman
Oct 31 - Nov 18 2007 ~ Young Peoples' Banner Project
Sept 26 - Oct 28 2007 ~ Royden Josephson / Ed Varney
Aug 21 - Sept 23 2007 ~ Marilyn Marshall / Susan Furze / Jan Poynter
July 10 - Aug 19 2007 ~ Annual Summer Invitational
May 30 - July 8 2007 ~ Jone Pane / Jana Curll
May 9 - May 26 2007 ~ Life and Limb Group
April 18 - May 6 2007 ~ Young Peoples Own Show Elementary
March 28 - April 15 2007 ~ Young Peoples' Own Show High School
February 21 - March 25 18 2007 ~ Heather Conn / Florence Debeugny
January 10 - February 18 2007 ~ Friends of the Gallery
November 29 - December 22 2006 ~ Dean Schutz / Kevin McEvoy

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ARCHIVES

Oct 28 - Nov 22 2009
reception Wednesday, Oct 28, 7:00 - 9:00pm

After the Circus

Paula O'Brien ~ Acrylic paint

Lush colorful figurative paintings take flight in Paula O'Brien's art studio in Gibsons, BC. These intimate portraits and lively images with dramatic and theatrical costumes are done in acrylics and mixed media and sometimes enriched with collage, stamping, beads, mirrors and textiles. Colorful images of children caught just before they burst into adolescents are part of my current focus. Including painting, portraits, wearable art garments, sculpture and photography.

Sept 30 - Oct 25 2009
reception Wednesday, Sept 30, 7:00 - 9:00pm

And So to Dream Again

R.B. Wainright ~ Acrylic paint

R.B. Wainwright is a painter and printmaker living on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast. He takes an iconic image as his starting point and creates highly cryptic pictures full of figurative shapes, abstract symbols and geometric forms. The images are clearly delineated and compositionally structured, but highly personal and idiosyncratic. It is difficult to tell if they are artfully planned or free associations in a stream of consciousness.

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Sept 2 - 27 2009
reception Wednesday, Sept 2, 7:00 - 9:00pm

Groping for the Points of Contact

Heather Gatz ~ Paintings, Collages, Boxes

Heather Gatz makes paintings, collages and boxes in Roberts Creek. In the 1990s she studied painting for four years at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design as well as in the Netherlands. Her overall aims are to create works of substance in a direct and deep way that respond honestly to the world and fully engage her relation to it. Her interest is communication and with her work she hopes to inspire the viewer to reflection and to then go forth from a new point. We are all in an always shifting, evolving and emerging relationship with each other.

With Special Events • Laboratorio, a series of performances, sound workshops, video art, circuit bending, live improvisations and a sound thinking forum curated by Giorgio Magnanensi and Steve Wright September 5, 11, 12,18 & 19.

Giorgio Magnanensi - based on the art of Heather Gatz

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August 12 - 30 2009
reception Wednesday, August 12, 7:00 - 9:00pm


Summer Invitational ~ "Friends from Home"

The Sunshine Coast Arts Council is pleased to announce the Summer Invitational: Friends from Home 1. This year’s Exhibition Committee proposed that they invite various painting groups and communities of visual artists to exhibit in the Doris Crowston Gallery over the next few summers.

This year’s show brings together artists who meet at the Harbour Gallery in Madeira Park, and the St John’s United Artists who gather at the eponymous hall at the United Church in Davis Bay. Come to the Gallery and enjoy the exhibition of work made by your friends in your communities. There is no doubt you’ll be interested, perhaps delighted and surprised.

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July 8 - July 29 2009
reception Wednesday, July 8, 7:00 - 9:00pm

Ceramics on the Edge ~ Sunshine Coast Artists

Michaela Cochran, Morgan B Campbell, Patricia Leigh Forst, Beth Feldman, Shey Smith and Diane Amaral Fisher, Heather Waddell, Jack Ploesser, Mike Allegretti, Elaine Futterman, Pam Horner, Joanne B. Scanlan, Marilyn Butt, Ray Niebergall, Liz De Beer, Bev Niebergall, Timothy Niebergall, Betty C Keller, Carlie Sanford.

Ceramics on the Edge is a group show spotlighting the fabulous talent to be found among the ceramic artists of the Sunshine Coast. This juried show, the first in what we hope will be an annual event, will feature 18 of the most innovative and exciting clay craftsman from the area, artists who have been encouraged to push themselves beyond their former creative boundaries.

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May 20 - June 14 2009
reception Wednesday, May 20, 7:00 - 9:00pm

John Davis ~ Fire Photos

John Davis's exhibition of photographs of fire fighters and fire fighting, arise from his hope that they will increase public awareness of the important work our local Volunteer Firefighters do to protect us, our homes, and businesses. There will be canvas prints of photos for sale with proceeds to benefit Muscular Dystrophy of Canada.

John has worked in many media throughout years of work in the visual arts, watercolour, charcoal, pastels, soapstone, wood and clay sculpting. In the last eight years he has turned his passion to photography, which is his favourite, and 'the most fun form of art' he's ever known. Many of John's images are digital, and some are on film, printed with little or no editing. He enjoys creating unique images, and strives for the perfect shot every time. The means he sometimes has thousands of shots to choose from. Commercial and wedding.

Katie Janyk - 'Marking Time'

Born in Vancouver, ceramic artist Katie Janyk came to the Sunshine Coast in 1980, and operates Salamander Studio at her home in Gibsons.

Though she has experimented with textiles, glass, paints, photography, and printmaking, Katie's 30-year passion is clay. She has taught art and clay technique to children and adults, and over the years has created delicate porcelain vessels & plates, stoneware sculpture, burnished vessels in the Nigerian and early American traditions, raku and smoke-fired masks, and colourful earthenware tiles. She currently creates wall panels and mirror frames in sculpted bas-relief stoneware.

The subtle colouring and strong textures of Katie's current work are inspired by the land and architecture of coastal B.C., Mexico, and Turkey, where she spends time each year learning, working, and recharging her creative batteries.

"Marking Time" examines connections between past & present, and the nature of time's passing. Katie's work will be for sale.

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April 1 - 19 2009
reception Wednesday, April 1, 7:00 - 9:00pm

Willow Yamauchi ~ Apocalicious

Willow Yamauchi's vibrant acrylic paintings are playful, bizarre, and occasionally apocalyptic, reflecting a personality which craves sensation and finds release in creative work. Her visual art is located between worlds; between her two childhood homes in Vancouver and the remote BC coast, between kitsch and "c"ulture, and between domestic and the wild. Fantastic creatures-dragons, giant squid-and domestic pets, especially cats, populate her altered but recognizable "urbanscapes", as she re-frames Vancouver through references to both the mundane (Ferries, Starbucks) and the iconic (the Lion's Gate Bridge, Science World). Largely whimsical-we find cat warriors and dancers, and dragons holding birthday parties-her paintings consistently reference a post-human world, which both celebrates and implicitly challenges human achievement.

Willow Yamauchi is a self-trained artistic "outsider" and draws her influence from Joe Average, I, Braineater and Archie comics as well as her children, the aquarium and her three cats.

Sa Boothroyd - 'Fowl Play'

"My initial inspiration is always from my imagination. From there I often close my eyes and use line and form to describe my ideas. Unexpected shapes often occur because of the obscure line and I use these to push in new directions. In a sense the paintings often take on a life of their own which may have little, or nothing, to do with the initial inspirations. I work on wood and use acrylics, oils and collage on a plaster base. I often incorporate printmaking techniques into my work and add texture. It is my hope that spontaneity and humour will keep my work fresh and creative".

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March 4 - March 29 2009
reception Wednesday, March 4, 7:00 - 9:00pm

Christopher Marrapese ~ Moments of Bliss

I hope these canvases create a place for viewers to reflect, wonder, and dream. The geometric compositions and colour harmonies of this exhibition trace my efforts to make a place where my dreams come true.

This exhibition includes the latest expressions of work started in 2004. I rely on constant sketching and collage to simplify the painting process. Painting is a time for fast decisive action unencumbered by doubts. My best work happens quickly in moments of bliss when plan, passion, and instinct act as one.

Simon Haiduk - 'Bridging Worlds'

Empowering my creative force is the love, respect, and understanding that all life comes from the same source, and can be shared in many ways. I create with the intent of bringing the viewer into their spirit-self and a remembrance of connectedness to the universe. I believe that visionary art can act as a tool for people to share this reflection and through viewing the art can be awakened to a primordial sense of oneness that is missing in many peoples' lives. The art selected for this showing is some of my more potent creations that I believe have this quality. In my artistic process it is most importantly this certain flow that becomes the essential aspect of bringing this energy into physical reality.

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February 4 - March 1 2009
reception Wednesday, Feb 4, 7:00 - 9:00pm

Nadina Tandy - 'The Apotropaeic Effect' - acrylic on board

‘It is the discovery of the undiscovered that I am after when I work. I want the piece to speak to me, lead me. I like the excitement of not knowing, of being unsure, having to trust the impulses of my deeper self to just create what needs to be heard, seen and expressed. If I trust my own process the truth will come out in colour and shape, in beauty and ugliness. Ultimately, this impulse to create, to get to the truth, to feel the freedom that results from the process is my motivation.’

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Oct 1 - 26th 2008
reception Wednesday, Oct 1, 7:00 - 9:00pm

Lez Niepo - 'Retrospective Collection' - mixed media

Lez Niepo is a local artist and resident of the Sunshine Coast for almost 30 years. His studio, Allworks, is located in Halfmoon Bay. His work has been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally.

Lez's exhibition will be a dynamic display of his recent and past work. Please join us in celebrating this exhibit. Work exhibited is for sale.

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Sept 3 - 28th 2008
reception Wednesday, Sept 3, 7:00 - 9:00pm

Vasi Petoussis - 'Full Circle' - oil on canvas

Vasi states that the first piece in her Full Circle series was the inspiration behind the rest. "As I began layering colours and playing with shapes, I found myself painting in circular patterns." Through her exploration of the symbolism of the circle, she describes this series as "an exploration of emotional states" and that, like emotions, the pieces are meant to be experienced more than analyzed.


Kay Bonathan - 'Wisdom of the Lotus' - porcelain, stoneware, collage and acrylic

Kay Bonathan's series Wisdom of the Lotus presents stylized ceramic sculptures and collage paintings that represent the symbolism and "beauty and purity of the lotus flower". She states that this exhibition "expresses my concern with the current degradation of society" and the flower images suggest "beauty and vitality overcoming negative karma".

The Doris Crowston Gallery at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre is open Wednesday to Saturday 11am to 4pm, and Sunday 1pm to 4pm, and is located at the corner of Trail Ave. and Medusa St. Work exhibited is for sale. Please join us in celebrating this joint exhibit.

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Aug 13 - 31st 2008
reception Wednesday, August 13, 7:00 - 9:00pm

Leonie Croy - 'Chalice and Totem' - oil, acrylic, ink & charcoal

Leonie says of her work “the emotional power and nourishment of the chalice and totem archetypes is what I want to convey in these paintings”. Integrated with salmon, eagle and Celtic symbols, Leonie communicates the sense of wholeness that is felt when the spiritual energy of these ancient archetype images is recognized and brought back into consciousness.


Ray and Bev Niebergall, Tim Niebergall and Carlie Sanford - 'Vision and Fantasy' - porcelain & stoneware

The group of Ray and Bev Niebergall, Tim Niebergall, and Carlie Sanford state “it is our desire with this show to provide a place where vision and fantasy meet”. By bringing an experience of their inner communication into the 3D world of clay, they delight and stimulate the viewer’s creative imagination and convey the timeless space where we all go and come from.

The Doris Crowston Gallery at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre is open Wednesday to Saturday 11am to 4pm, and Sunday 1pm to 4pm, and is located at the corner of Trail Ave. and Medusa St. Work exhibited is for sale. Please join us in celebrating this joint exhibit.

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July 9 - 27 15 2008
reception Wednesday, July 9, 7:00 - 9:00pm

Michaela Cochran - Radiance - porcelain

As a maker of decorative, functional pottery, I seek to draw attention to our rituals of daily life. The highly ornate quality of my pots prevents thoughtless use, and rather demands respect and encourages the celebration of their functions. The mood of my self-confident and highly energetic pots is one of festivity, exuberance, and delight in existence. It is my hope that these emotions are carried on to those who see and use my work.

I choose porcelain as my material for many reasons: The sense of fluidity it retains even when fired creates an animated appearance. Its whiteness provides a ground that enhances brightly coloured glazes, while its translucency creates depth and intensifies this vividness. Its fine texture allows it to carry even the most intricate patterns and textures. When thrown, porcelain achieves a soft, voluminous quality that combines an inflated robustness with yielding vulnerability. These properties all draw me to see my pots as living things, each with its own personality, whether it be proudly uptight, goofily laid-back, or self-consciously pretty. I costume my pots with ornament and decoration to emphasize and celebrate their unique personalities. My pots have no fear of overdoing it: they are eccentric, bold, whimsical, and overstatedly, unabashedly feminine. Together, they revel in their variety and singularity.

As a craftsperson, I feel great satisfaction in creating beautiful objects. Beauty has a function in its own right, to create an aesthetic experience, or simply to enhance our living environment. I also use beauty to denote status in functional objects, to encourage enjoyment and gratitude for the sensuous experiences of everyday acts; pouring tea, sipping from a cup, serving food. This unique ability to reach into the realms of art and life, defines for me the role of the craft object.

Quilters Out of Bounds - Group of Eight Women from the Sunshine Coast

The members of Quilters out of Bounds include: Jill Sullivan, Sharon Roye, Laura Mann, Marie Berry, Ann Dickie, Janet Tufnall, Hillary Henderson, and Judy Ross. They have all exhibited in numerous quilt and fibre art exhibits, ranging from local (Sunshine Coast Quilt Guild Show, Gibsons Landing Fibre Arts Festival, Sechelt Arts Show) to nations (Canadian Quilt Associated) and international show (Houston/Chicago/Long Beach-International Quilt Show), as well as small gallery shows. Most have received several awards for their work.

Quilters out of Bounds is a group of eight women from the Sunshine Coast who have worked together for the past four years to hone their colour and design skills in a collaborative critique effort. We all are quilters of long experience, but we have moved from traditional quilting to fibre art, a fairly recent development among quilters and one that has not yet been fully recognized by the art world. Our monthly discussions have been helpful in developing a common language and criteria for evaluating the pursuit of different visions. Because each person in the group works in a different style, we chose to spend the last year in developing work that focused on a theme, thus giving coherence to a body of work. The use of fibre, like the use of paint or photography, focuses on colour, form, and balance. However, exploring the natural and greatly varied tactile quality of fibre provides a primary focus for our work. The range of materials available to the fibre artist as well as the range of techniques is remarkably broad, including e.g., piecing, appliqué, free motion stitching, painting, beading, dyeing, foiling, computer printing, and embroidery, all of which are routinely used in our work.

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June 18 - July 6 2008
reception Wednesday, June 18, 7:00 - 9:00pm

First Annual National Aboriginal Day Exhibition -

The First Annual National Aboriginal Day show will feature contimporary weavings, paintings, fashion design and sculpture by up and coming Sechelt and other First Nations artists. Traditional works will be part of the exhibition.
Curator: Dionne Paul

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May 28 - June 15 2008
reception Wednesday, May 28, 7:00 - 9:00pm

Maurice Spira - Landscapes

Working 'out of doors' in the mid-seventies in Vancouver, up and down the waterfront, Maurice resumed the practice in 2005, with a couple of friends, initiating a summer program of landscape painting depicting local industries as they appear situated in our coastal landscape. Unlike most contemporary artists dependent on photographic reference for their work, these canvases were created 'out of doors' (en plein air) directly on site, in a single session. While landscape work only represents about a quarter of my production overall, I consider it to be of crucial importance, since it involves a direct, living relationship with nature, demands basic classical skills, flexibility and a considerable degree of spontaneity.

Kathleen Barrett - Paint

The medium I use - acrylic paints on canvas - is conducive to working with the spontaneous creativity that inspires my paintings. I have no pre-conceived message(s), and do not intend for my paintings to mean anything other than what they are. Any titles I might give them are merely afterthoughts used to distinguish one painting from another. However, seen as a whole body of work, I recognize that my paintings (and the titles) also reflect who I am as a person. Viewed this way, the underlying sentiment of my paintings reflects the angst, frustration and anger I feel as an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist citizen of a so-called "democratic" society, one which has never represented my ideals. This is a society which, in my eyes, glorifies murder in the form of war and enriches itself through the exploitation of people and nature, all the while denying the destruction that these practices entail. Those feelings and beliefs - as well as my yearning for the disappearing natural world, our life source - are part of who I am, and influence what I do, including my art.

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March 12 - April 13 2008
Young People's Own Show ~ High School


April 30 - May 11, 2008
Young People's Own Show ~ Elementary Show
Featuring work of Sunshine Coast Elementary and High School students.

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March 12 - April 13 2008
reception Wednesday, March 12, 3:30 - 5:30pm
with special guest entertainment by fabric artist Sandy Buck and her puppets

CANSCAIP Reception
(Canadian Society for Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers)
Featuring children's book illustrations. This show is presented in collaboration with the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts and the Sechelt Public Library.

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February 13 - Mar 9 2008
reception Saturday, February 16, 1:00 - 3:00pm

Young Artist Awards Show 2008
All Artists Ages 5 to 18 who love to do artwork at home this is an art event to celebrate youth and art out of the school setting.

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January 9 - February 10 2008
reception Wednesday, January 9, 7:00 - 9:00pm

Friends of the Gallery - Arrange to be Hung

An amazing number of accomplised artists live on the Sunshine Coast and many of them participate every year in this group show., sharing ideas and techniques they have learned. In the past few years we have reached nearly 100 artists to the FOG exhibit. With so many selections of mediums included in the show there is always a good selection of styles to enjoy.

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November 21 - December 22, 2007
reception Wednesday, November 21, 7:00 - 9:00pm

Judy Ross - Abandoned Houses

Working primarily in abstraction, Judy Ross began quilting as a child under her grandmother’s tutelage. In her late teens she would baby-sit for countless hours; once the children were asleep she would quilt hundreds of little hexagons together. In 2002 she was the featured quilter for the Fibre Arts Festival here on the Sunshine Coast with an exhibition of ten abandoned house quilts. Her inspiration to quilt abandoned houses arose in 2002 when she became concerned about the fate of many such homes in Point Roberts. In this show Judy will be displaying large landscapes with houses—many of which no longer exist except in photographs, quilts, and in our minds. “The houses have the beauty of age as well as some of the dangers of age. They also pose the question of what is to happen. I find that as one ages, the past becomes less a matter of nostalgia and more a matter of reality that has been in almost every sense lost. How, in an endlessly progressing and expansionist society, are we to keep in touch with our individual or collective history, with the actuality that gave birth to what we have become? These quilts are a small attempt.’’

Barry Goodman - Authors: A Portrait

Barry Goodman is a history buff and teacher of art history who is interested in ideas such as the history of technology and communication, but has work in fibres that are very consciously grounded in a theoretical framework relating to contemporary currents in philosophy. “I began this series of portraits five years ago. I started with one single portrait, to test an idea, an experiment. I have always been interested in words, language, writing and even printing. The way which words, abstract marks on white pages, have the ability to produce images in our minds. I wanted in these portraits of authors, some familiar and others less so, (and some more then others!) to elicit a sense of texuality . . . a literalness. I have worked on other projects and yet still continue to return to the portrait.’’

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Oct 31 - Nov 18 2007
Young Peoples' Banner Project

Presentation, November 18, 1:00 - 2:30pm

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September 26 - October 28, 2007

Royden Josephson - Who Has Seen the Wind?

Working primarily in abstraction, Ashcroft painter Royden Josephson’s goal is “to make art that enriches life, art that helps us know ourselves and our world more intimately.” In this exhibition he pursues wind as a theme, exploring the formal relationship between elements on the canvas. “The notion of using wind as a theme is challenging in that wind is invisible, and therefore is totally illusive as a subject matter. Wind is a physical feature of our real world that concerns all, perhaps no one more than farmers and fishers.” Josephson has a BFA from the University of Manitoba. Having previously worked as an art teacher, he now devotes his time entirely to his own practice. Josephson has exhibited across Canada and in New York City.

Ed Varney - Postal Collages

Ed Varney’s inventive and resourceful “postal collages” are composed of strips of used envelopes including his original perforated “artistamps” that he has sent through the postal system and exchanged with other artists over thirty years. Each strip of torn envelope records a trip through time and space: “I suppose it’s a form of recycling, turning used stamps and envelopes into art, but it also reminds us that as a thing becomes obsolete (in this case snail mail) it becomes more precious.” Varney is a Canadian artist, curator, writer and poet based in Vancouver. In the early 70s, he was one of the original mail artists who formed an international network of artists and poets who exchanged work and ideas through the mail.

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August 21 - September 23 2007

Marilyn Marshall - Bending The Body

Local artist Marilyn Marshall's acrylic paintings bend anatomy. Working from the human body she sometimes simplifies, sometimes zooms in, resulting in novel shapes, textures and juxtapositions that transcend our usual experience of the body. Rather than replicating the human form she expresses the feeling, gesture or "meaning" of the figure.


Susan Furze - Exploring the Figure

Susan Furze transforms her usually abstract stained glass work to the figurative. She uses her skill in a variety of glass techniques and creates designs in homage to artists such as Klimt and Klee producing this "Body of Work."

Jan Poynter - Exploring the Figure

Jan Poynter takes the tradition of life drawing "mark-making" to the more permanent painted format. The paintings are composed within a square format combining charcoal and drawing mediums with acrylic paints. Poses are intentionally created to evoke a subtle emotional response in the viewer.

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July 10 - August 19, 2007

Annual Summer Invitational - On The Horizon

Selected Sunshine Coast Artists were invited to articulate the term on the horizon in a new work for this exhibition. Horizon can be interpreted as the limits set on personal or political issues; one's outlook of the present or future; or simply, depictions of earth meeting sky.

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May 30 - July 8, 2007

Jone Pane - Summer in Paradise

This photographic series depeicts wax figures idylically floating in water. Sechelt artist Jone Pane grew her garden specifically for photographic projects such as this.


Jana Curll - Lounge Ladies

These acrylic paintings of women are done in a whimsical portrait style. Vancouver artist Jana Curll portrays what she calls "elements of the feminine un-Divine".

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May 9 - May 27 2007
FIGURE IT OUT LIFE AND LIMB GROUP

The Sunshine Coast Arts Council is pleased to present the art by Life and Limn. This is the name of a group of painters who came together because of acquaintance and common purpose in the venerable Life Drawing sessions at the S.C. Arts Centre in Sechelt. Though some had had formal training in art, most were introduced to painting from a live model in the half-day workshops which Thomas Anfield, a noted Vancouver figurist, offered at the S.C. Arts Centre in 2001 and 2002. In the following two years, Anfield was persuaded to travel to the Coast for two 10-week life painting series. Thereafter, the group has met without instructor to paint from life each Thursday for ten weeks in the fall and ten weeks in the spring. In January 2005, these painters put on a group show called Revelations at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery. In March of that year, the show travelled to Hope, BC.

In 2005-2006, the group gave itself the name, Life and Limn. It continues to paint together for twenty weeks of the year. Membership has changed over time, though a substantial core of “originals” remain with the group. Membership is approximately eight painters for reasons of space as the group meets in the art studio in the S.C. Arts Centre. “Life and Limn” is a self-regulating group, with members sharing the work associated with setting up painting sessions with a live model. Most members also continue to draw with the Life Drawing group, and some paint together en plein aire during the summers.

Members of Life and Limn come from widely different walks of life and from backgrounds ranging from art school to no art instruction, though most members make use of courses and workshops offered on the Coast, in Vancouver, at the Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts (MISSa), and on location in México and elsewhere. Life and Limn is moved to perpetuate itself by a common love for the challenge and inspiration of painting the human body.

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March 28 - April 15 2007
Young Peoples' Own Show
- Part 1 High School Students

April 18 - May 6 2007
Young Peoples' Own Show
- Part 2 Elementary Students

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February 21 - March 25 2007

Heather Conn - Maya on the Playa: Burning Man

Local photographer Heather Conn displays images from the last two Burning Man Festivals on the Playa of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. She documents this eight day annual Festival which is held as an experiment in community, radical self-expression and radical self-reliance; the attendance has grown from 20 participants in its first year (1986) to an estimated 39,100 in 2006.

Florence Debeugny - Through

Vancouver photographer Florence Debeugny exhibits a series she has been working on for the past four years. She photographs in industrial neighbourhoods, back alleys, shipyards and scrap yards through such barriers as wire fences, dirty and broken windows. Her focus is either on the background or the different layers of the foreground, illustrating the way we observe, judge and interpret the world around us.

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January 10 - February 18 2007
FRIENDS OF THE GALLERY

1987 was the first year of the Friends of the Gallery at the Sunshine Coast s Centre, soon after it became an annual exhibition. All Sunshine s Council members are invited to display one work of they have produced in the last year. This year the exhibition runs Jan 10- Feb 18, 2007.

An amazing number of visual artists live on the Sunshine Coast and many participate in this group show and share their accomplishments, techniques and ideas. In the last few years the number of artists in the exhibition has reached nearly 100. With that many works included there is always a good selection of media and styles.

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November 29 - December 22 2006

Dean Schutz - Crypto-Vision
Kevin McEvoy - Blue Mountain Graphic Editions

Two Exhibitions open at the Sunshine Coast s Centre on Wednesday November 29th. Local artist Dean Schutz exhibits recent paintings entitled Cryptovision. Concurrently Kevin McEvoy, artist& local secondary school teacher, exhibits lithographs in Blue Mountain Editions. The works will be on display until Friday December 22nd.

Kevin McEvoy is a multi-media artist who has perfected the demanding skill of printing by stone lithography. He operates his own press, and is in charge of the entire process. Kevin will exhibit some of his own lithographs as well as lithographs he has hand pulled for other artists. Works from artists Gordon Smith, Greta Guzek, Gordon Munroe, Kathyrn Jacobi, Lori-Ann Latremouille and Joan Warn will be included in this exhibit.

Dean’s new series of multi media paintings synthesize images and information from the barrage of the 21st century information super-storm. His ideas may come from dusty books, discarded maps, broken toys, and beached bones; Debussy to da Beastie Boys; birds to biocoenosis. Revealed in paint or hidden in code; as copies or carvings or collections. From here the intent becomes more focused and the picture becomes clear. Achieving that clarity is simple. All you need is Cryptovision The Sunshine Coast s Council is a volunteer-based society founded February 22, 1966 to raise to profile of local artists and artisans and to broaden the opportunities for Sunshine Coast citizens to enjoy and to participate in cultural activities.

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