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Arts Council of the Central Okanagan is a resource centre and advocate for the arts in Kelowna and Central Okanagan. Find us at:
8-1304 Ellis Street
Kelowna BC V1Y 1Z8
Phone: 250.861.4123
Fax: 250.861.4155
Email: Click here
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Featured Artscape Artists:
» Helen Fosbery
» at Kelowna Public Library
» Millie V. Meerheimb
» at Kelowna Community Theatre
» Orchard Valley Quilters Guild
» at Westbank Public Library
» Angela Bonten
» at Cottonwoods
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Artscape at Kelowna Community Theatre
Millie V. Meerheimb
Millie was inspired by her mother who was a painter even into her 90's. She loved the transparency of watercolour and the speed with which an image is created. As a child, growing up on a farm, Millie spent many happy hours drawing and painting.
She works exclusively in watercolour, doing beautiful landscapes and expressive animals. Her subject matter is the wonder of nature that she finds all around. Millie's great joy in painting shines through each of her works.
Robert Jenkins
Since I can remember, I have always had a pencil or brush in my hand, drawing something, or studying something. My interest in both art and science led me to a career as a physicist, and the pursuit of art on the side. Retired from a career in science, and living in the Okanagan, I have been able to move forward my artistic endeavors which were put on the back burner for some years. I hike and camp, and painting the wilderness just followed as the intuitively right thing to do. Previously in the eastern U.S. and in Ottawa, I had painted abstract, geometric works, with some success in exhibiting them publicly. Since moving to the Okanagan, I have been involved with local artists' galleries, leading workshops, and one-man exhibits in Kelowna, Westbank and Peachland. I am currently represented by the Art Ark.
In painting the wilderness, I try to convey its message, not a verbal message that I can write down, but something more elusive, that makes sense before words. We are the products of a world that has and still shapes us. In our artificial civilized environment, we lose contact with our roots, our source of being. Living here, close to nature, is a wonderful opportunity, to re-establish who we are, to discover our being, to understand ourselves better, and to perhaps shape a better future. When I paint nature, I try to experience it first, not just passively, but actively, so that it becomes for me a friend. Allowing that friend to communicate through the painting is a priority.
Society of Canadian Visual Arts Kelowna
Exhibiting Artists: K. Cochrane, E. MacMillan, J. Cradduck, H. Ouwehand, E. Crosthwaite, D. Palmer, A. Friesen, H. Raun Ranniste, H. Hill, D. Schnieders, J. James, T. Siddiqui, J. Laing, N. Thomas, D. Lees, L. Tribe
M. Leisen, G. Wilson. For inquiries regarding artwork please contact the artist directly. Contact information available on price card.
Livessence Society for Figurative Artists and Models
The Livessence Society for Figurative Artists and Models aims to promote camaraderie and fellowship as well as provide resources, learning and practice opportunities to artists and models interested in art based on the human figure.
We are friendly folk with diverse backgrounds and varying levels of artistic experience and expertise working in a wide variety of media.
Beginners are welcome as are students and professional artists.
Susan Burnham Neilson
Susan has taught art in secondary schools, elementary schools and adult night courses, as well as workshops for teachers. Currently employed by School District #23 in Kelowna, Susan was also an art teacher in Oakville Ontario and in Labrador City. She has drawings, prints, paintings, three bronze sculptures and a large limestone carving owned by private collectors in Ontario and she is now beginning to exhibit in Western Canada. Susan has active memberships with the Livessence Society for Figurative Artists and Models, the Canadian Artists Representation, the Canadian Federation of Artists, the B.C. Art Teachers' Association, the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, and the Kelowna Art Gallery. She also has some experience in commercial illustration.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT: I draw, paint, sculpt and create mixed-media artworks as a way to contemplate the things that capture my attention. In some of my work I simply enjoy the tactile qualities of materials and surfaces, in others I am responding to inspiration in my surroundings. Energy and resonance interest me.
I enjoy creating non-objective designs but I also look for the human connection. My recent works document the search for balance between the abstract and the figurative, between underlying structure and expressive freedom, between perception and imagination.
The author and teacher Azar Nafisi wrote that "... what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth." I believe that this is true in all of the arts. In fact I think this search provides motivation for many kinds of human achievements including athletics, dance and making music. These pursuits have themselves become the subject of some of my current paintings. I am intrigued by the absolute ease and the simple beauty in a moment when it all comes together.
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