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Mondays – 5:00 to 7:00 PM

Now until December 19, 2022
Drop-in: no pre-registration required

Experience the benefits of creative expression in a supportive group environment. No experience required.

Join us at our weekly open studio, each with its own theme, using a variety of art making mediums and techniques like mending, stitching, paint, collage, clay, found objects, 2d and 3d, weaving, and nature to explore what is immediate for you in the moment.

Making art together can support us to move through life’s challenges, helping us to grieve our losses, mitigate feelings of isolation and loneliness and reduce symptoms of stress and anxiety.

The sessions will be facilitated by Art Therapist Heidi Abbott, and Art Therapy Intern Farrell Elliot.  Heidi and Farell both have a love for the therapeutic, meditative, healing, and self-expressive attributes of creating together.

Everyone welcome, free, all supplies are provided.

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Majie Lavergne & Claudia Lohmann

www.ClaudiaLohmann.com claudialohmann@live.ca 3095 DeCourcy Drive, Ladysmith, BC, V9G 1E2 250-722-3445

Born in Germany in April of 1957, Claudia Lohmann has been exposed to art her entire life. Her father was an artist accomplished in landscapes, architecture, and still life. Claudia immigrated to Canada in 1995 with her husband and three children. In 2004 while managing a modest gallery on Salt Spring Island, featuring the art of Richard Jacksties, her own creativity and desire to paint was catalyzed. With her family’s support and encouragement, she began to experiment with various styles and mediums and has since come to favor acrylic paint on wood and canvas. Her paintings began with rudimentary geometric shapes in intricate patterns and bold colours in daring combinations. Although still rooted in her beginnings, her style since progressed into an ever more deliberate method featuring bold lineation and tincture with subtle shapes and symbolism. She c

GROWTH Lynne Patrick

Abstraction is my favourite way of exploring an idea with paint and collage. I use intuitive techniques such as collage, layering of paint and scraping or scratching into wet paint which adds mystery, depth and fragmentation simulating the imperfection of vision, the fluid nature of memory and the richness of lived experience.

Themes I have recently explored include: beach grass landscapes and wild bird murmurations. The beach grass theme contrasts the small ordinariness of beach grass within its greater context: the cosmic energies of sky, sun, earth, wind and water. Plays on visual perspective are present: the beach grass growing at one’s feet superimposed on the expansiveness of a sky view or a distant ocean horizon. This series emerged after several days of camping on the west coast of British Columbia near Tofino.

The paintings within this exhibition invite you to consider a context of uncontrollable and massive external forces, large scale almost atmospheric p

Art Foundations-Wash Drawing Level 1with Gordon Wilson

Nov 14, 2022 10 am-3pm

This course is designed to introduce students to a method of drawing that was popular with artists and illustrators during the early 20th century. Wash drawing is an easy and effective method of drawing involving watercolour and line work on a toned surface, giving the final piece solid form and depth of field.

Recommended Prerequisites:  Creative Imaging (Sep 12), Untangle with ‘Tangling’ (Sep 26)

Cost $125

All materials included

About the Instructor:  Gordon Wilson enjoys taking seemingly complex art styles and making them accessible and easy to learn.  He has a degree in design and education and has taught in high schools for 15 years, as well as other venues.  Prior to teaching Gordon was a commercial designer and illustrator for 20 years working in television, publishing, and advertising.

Location of class: Studio

Maximum number of participants: 12

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