Eco-Printing: Revealing Nature’s Hidden Magic

WEEK ONE (5-day): June 24 – 28, 2019   Classes run from 9 am – 4 pm each day and students are welcome to stay late in their studio.

Eco-Printing: Revealing Nature’s Hidden Magic

Come experience the magic of eco‐printing, a technique of making direct contact botanical prints by using the natural pigment found in plants. When the historic methods of natural dying and contemporary print techniques are combined the results are stunning one of a kind plant portraits captured on paper.

Activities will include: gathering plant material from the surrounding area with which to experiment and find out what leaves are best to use and why; discussion of safety procedures and the sustainable practice of foraging and gathering plant material; trying three techniques for making paper bundles: layering, rolling and folding; exploring the use of iron water and copper water as mordants and incorporate natural dyes and  experimenting with a variety of papers, a few fabrics and become aware of the variables that can affect the outcome of your prints; work with two methods of heating: steaming and simmering in water. This is where the magic of pigment to paper transfer happens!

During the last few days students will bring together the unique collection of eco-prints they’ve made and create meaningful works to express the weeks experience. Make brushes and other mark making tools from natural materials for embellishing the prints with ink. Create a Z-fold nature book, journal, and work of art incorporating bits of found natural materials using simple stitching and binding techniques.

The unpredictable and often surprising result is what makes the process of eco-printing so exciting. Prepare yourself to be awed by Mother Nature’s magic!

All levels welcome

  • STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click HERE): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
  • COURSE COST: $746 (Includes $681 tuition and a $65 material fee for extra supplies)

Tuition includes lunches and daily snacks.  Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

Kathy Johnson

Kathy Johnson is a collage, mixed media and eco-print artist living in Waterford, Connecticut. She sees the beauty in the discarded and explores ways to bring new life and meaning to everyday items that most consider disposable. A collector of objects both natural and man-made, she considers tea bags, leaf skeletons, candy wrappers, junk mail and rusty metal to be valuable treasures.

As a master gardener, her passion for gardening blends perfectly with the eco printing process and supplies a never-ending source of plant material. Incorporating prints into her art expresses an appreciation for the natural world and is a satisfying way to share the plants nurtured in her garden during each growing season.

Kathy attended Western Connecticut State University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design. Her work has been shown nationally as well as in local galleries in Connecticut and Rhode Island.

www,kathyjohnson.com

 

Workshops will not run until sufficient enrollment has been met. Please register before April 15th to avoid disappointment.  
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Contemporary Painting

WEEK TWO (5-day): July 1 – 5, 2019   Classes run 9 am – 4 pm each day and students are welcome to stay late in their studio.

Contemporary Painting

In this 5-day course participants will seek to understand what makes painting contemporary or relevant in today’s multifaceted and competitive art world.

At the beginning of the class artists will have the opportunity to introduce themselves and share a few images. Every morning the group will undertake stimulating exercises intended to create openings and provide direction. In the afternoon there will be time to concentrate, progress, and apply observations to one’s work. Sara will end the day with a supportive and insightful group critique.

Throughout the course the instructor will give short lectures to impart her views on the painting scene and uncover some of the fascinating approaches and discourses in painting today. There will also be a couple of articles to read during the week that will enrich the physical experience of painting.

Using an assortment of products (provided by GOLDEN Paints) a fundamental combination of painting techniques will be practiced. Some examples include, staining, working lean or in a gestural way with mediums, applying thick gels and pastes, using grounds, masking, taping and scraping. A generous amount of time will be spent developing compositions and discussing how the elements of design function.

Both abstract and representational painters alike will gain technical skills and conceptual knowledge to make meaningful contemporary paintings.

Workshop level: Intermediate / Advanced (strong understanding of the medium of acrylic paint)

 

  • STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click HERE): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
  • COURSE COST: $698 (Includes $681 tuition and $17 for specific supplies provided by the instructor, which include all  paints, mediums, gels and grounds,  by GOLDEN)

Tuition includes lunches and daily snacks.  Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

Sara Robichaud

Sara Robichaud completed her MFA at UVIC (2009) and her BFA at Queen’s University (1995). She has taught at the Surrey Art Gallery, VISA and UVIC (during MFA). Sara has been a GOLDEN Certified Working Artist since 2006.

Robichaud’s work is rooted in formalist painting, engaging the viewer in an inquiry between the atmospheric and lyrical qualities of the form and the hard physicality of their material. Her process includes: staining, layering from chalky opaque paints to transparent saturated colours, masking, scraping viscous gels and using lace as a stencil. Enmeshed with personal life experiences, Sara explores generational feminine themes with an alluring and original visual language.

Sara is represented at Gallery Jones (Vancouver) and the Herringer Kiss (Calgary). Her work has been exhibited nationally and at international art fairs in Toronto, NY and LA and exists in numerous private / public collections in North America and the Middle East.

www.sararobichaud.ca

NOTE: This is a scent free course. The instructor has an intense reaction to synthetic smells and requires that her teaching environment be scent free. This includes things like hair spray, deodorant, fabric softeners, hand cream, basically anything with a strong fragrance. She appreciates your sensitivity and attention to this important request. Sara can be contacted if further clarification is needed.

 

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Magic At Our Feet: A Botanical Notebook

WEEK ONE (5-day): June 24 – 28, 2019   Classes run from 9 am – 4 pm each day and students are welcome to stay late in their studio.

Magic at our Feet: A Botanical Notebook

With your notebook in hand, like Edith Holden in her ” Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady”,  capture a bit of summer observing, recording and gathering nature in the woods and shoreline of beautiful Metchosin. Take a closer look at botanical watercolours through a ‘bug’s eye view’ of nature, the magic at our feet.

Back in the studio our field notes can evolve into a naturalist’s journal, or they could be preliminary sketches for a finished painting, plant portrait or even a collage mixing and matching the thumbnail sketches. With lessons in drawing and a fresh approach to watercolour, (pen and ink optional), capture what nature has to offer in this week of summer.

Individual attention guaranteed to help you find your own style and create a lasting notebook that perhaps will inspire a lasting notebook for all of the seasons.

All levels welcome

  • STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click HERE): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
  • COURSE COST: $683 (Includes $681 tuition and a $2 material fee for supplies provided by the instructor. Specific watercolour brushes are available for purchase from the instructor. See supply sheet for more details)

Tuition also includes daily lunch and snacks.  Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

Bryony Wynne-Jones

Bryony Wynne-Jones is a British born watercolour artist, which speaks to her love of natural history and all things botanical. Through her three decades of exploring watercolour, Bryony has been fascinated by the patterns and depth of colour and great variety in natural subjects. She likes to see how one can approach a seemingly complicated subject and, by breaking it down to the pattern, all is clarified and the drawing can commence. Her approach is fairly formal, but with much licence and fun.

www.paintingsbybryony.com

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Handbuilding: Slabs & Templates

WEEK TWO (5-days): July 1 – 5, 2019   Classes run from 9 am – 4 pm daily and students are welcome to stay late in their studio.

Handbuilding: Slabs & Templates

In this class students will explore slab construction in order to produce forms that are out of the round, and will learn new ways to incorporate volume, texture, colour and surface development. Explore ways that include electric firing, and post firing construction that can be applied to make vessels which are impregnated with reference,  rich with visual interest.

Using a template method of generating ideas and drawing form, students will be able to take flat shapes and transform them into volumetric objects, all the while looking at the way the table provides a particular space where presentation can be explored. Students will use terra sigillata to create enlivened surfaces that are luscious and loaded with color.

Throughout this class, students will develop an approach to making vessels, taking into account, line, texture, and form to make decisions that respond to and build upon their own visual vocabulary.

All levels welcome, handbuilding experience a benefit.

  • STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click HERE): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
  • CLAY ORDER FORM: (Click HERE)
  • COURSE COST: $699 (Includes $681 tuition and $18 for extra materials.)

Tuition includes lunches and daily snacks.  Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

Jeremy Randall

Jeremy Randall has been making hand-built earthenware pottery for over 20 years, with a B.F.A. from Syracuse University and his M.F.A. in ceramics from the University of Florida, he currently lives in Tully, New York, where he owns and operates his studio/teaching business Rusty Wheel Pottery. Jeremy’s work can be found in over 20 galleries across the US, and has shown in numerous national shows such as the Philadelphia Museum Show, American Craft Council Baltimore show, Strictly Functional Pottery National, and others. He has work in a number of public and private collections, venues, and has been published in national and international periodicals, texts, and publications. He has also had the privilege to have taught at studios and institutions across the US including Arrowmont School of Crafts, Penland, SnowFarm, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill.

www.jeremyrandallceramics.com

 

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SURFACE: Clay as Canvas

WEEKEND ONE (2-days): June 22 – 23, 2019   Classes run from 9 am – 4 pm daily and students are welcome to stay late in their studio.

SURFACE: Clay as Canvas

Clay has the ultimate surface for decoration and embellishment. In this two day workshop the student will investigate decorative techniques using underglazes and slips. With consideration of the surface, colour, balance, texture, pattern and design, we will construct a vocabulary of personalized forms and imagery that work with the individual’s aesthetics.

A combination of green ware and bisque pieces will be our canvas. Techniques such as slip trailing, sgraffito, mishima, stamping, staining and inlay are a few on the menu.

Functional hand built forms will be constructed with the emphasis on form, surface and pattern interplay.

All levels welcome

  • STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click HERE): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
  • CLAY ORDER FORM: (Click HERE)
  • COURSE COST: $312 (Includes $291 tuition and $21 for materials to be provided by the instructor.)

Tuition includes daily lunch and snacks.  Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

Laura Vanderlinde

Clay has been part of Laura’s identity since childhood. Working with clay has always felt intuitive to her. As a pre-adolescent at her first pottery class, she felt as if she had rediscovered an old friend. She could create anything in her imagination and portray it in an earthy solid medium. The tactile qualities of the clay delighted her then, and still does decades later.

Laura studied at the School of Art and Design of the Witwatersrand Technikon in South Africa. Her mentors prioritized transformative philosophies. Clay arts were liberated from Anglocentric traditions which focused on “form follows function”. These outmoded belief systems were replaced with newer, fresher approaches. Laura internalized these influences and birthed her own unique style and visual vocabulary. To this day, she finds herself perpetually exploring the decorative possibilities of surface and integrating the applied design with the form of the vessel as she produces her work. With mass production challenging the significance of artists and artisans who produce by hand, making quality, original and thoughtful work becomes a priority. Laura feels honoured to have found her creative voice with clay.

www.lauravanderlinde.com

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Contemplative Mind | Spontaneous Brush

WEEKEND ONE (2-days): June 22-23, 2019   Classes run from 9 am – 4 pm daily and students are welcome to stay late in their studio.

Contemplative Mind | Spontaneous Brush

This  exploration of creativity using water based paints and inks will begin with guided meditation. Silence and spaciousness will create the ground for authentic gesture and mark-making expressed on Japanese washi and other papers. Final projects will include the use of tearing, layering and collaging onto either a watercolour or a canvas support.

All levels welcome

  • STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click HERE): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
  • COURSE COST: $331 (Includes $291 tuition and $40 for materials that will be provided by the instructor.)

Tuition includes daily lunch and snacks.  Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

 

       

Heather Midori Yamada

Heather Midori Yamada is a visual artist and teacher who works with Japanese washi papers in paintings, collage and installations.

Heather worked in printmaking at Open Studio in Toronto, producing original etchings, lithographs and mixed media monotypes. Using real plant matter she embossed and constructed original single images introducing Japanese handmade papers or washi as an integral element of the print. In Montreal Heather created large banner works in installations such as the 63’ suspended washi piece, “La Forêt” , ‘Forest’ which alternately showed at La Maison de la Culture Mont Royal in 2004 and then in 2005 at Stewart Hall, “Landscape, East-West” exhibition.

Heather augmented her creative work through the study and practices of Tibetan Buddhism, and Japanese ikebana flower arranging. Heather continues to study in this contemporary school of Sogetsu Ikebana with her sensei in Montreal. Heather is a yoga practioner and teacher who incorporates body and breath work into much of her own the artistic work and teaching. Spontaneous brush comes from a place of silence engaging and aligning the artist’s energies before making an authentic mark.

In 2015 Heather moved to Victoria BC where she continues to make art, teach, and enjoy the natural bounty of the west coast of Canada. Heather began to study shodo Japanese calligraphy with teacher Mariko Yaguchi-Moore, sensei. This formal and strict discipline encourages a kind of mindfulness and patience which only adds to Heather’s own free abstract brushwork approach to creativity. “It’s always good to be a student yourself so you remember what it takes to learn a new skill or approach”.

www.artyamada.com

 

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CONFIRMED: This workshop has met the required registration numbers and will be running. 
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Block Printing & Surface Design on Fabric

WEEK ONE (5-day): June 24 – 28, 2019   Classes run from 9 am – 4 pm each day and students are welcome to stay late in their studio.

Block Printing & Surface Design on Fabric

In this workshop, students will be guided through the process of block-printing on fabric and surface design. You will begin with simple repeat patterns with one colour and then work your way to more complex and multi-coloured patterns throughout the week.  Students will explore a variety of printmaking techniques from ombre rolls, three block prints, jigsaw prints and collagraphic techniques and how this can be applied to fabric.

You will be taught how to create offset prints and how to register your stamps so your printed fabric has a professional look. Each day you will be introduced to a new design principal with a daily emphasis on you finding your own creative language.

All levels welcome

  • STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click here): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
  • COURSE COST: $712 (Includes $681 tuition and a $31 material fee for supplies to be provided by the instructor.)

Tuition includes daily lunch and snacks.  Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

Mo Hamilton

Mo Hamilton is a printmaker, textile artist, mixed-medium painter and teacher. Recurring symbols and motifs show up in her work such as houses, trees, plants, birds and natural elements. Often she is drawn to her studio by an idea or agenda that needs to express itself only to find that the process takes over and intuition leads the way.

Presently Mo is exploring block-printing on fabric as well as working on an ongoing longer printmaking project called The 100 Houses Project. In Mo’s 100 Houses Project she explores the house as symbol for expressing the changes humans experience in their lifetimes.

Mo has lived in many communities across BC including, Summerland, Malcolm Island, Victoria, Castlegar, and Terrace, but now she resides in Prince George. The creation of art has provided consistency through the transitions she has made in both time and place, in soul and in heart, as a child, woman, partner, and mother. Her creations can be found in galleries and private collections throughout BC.

www.mohamilton.net

 

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Painting Towards Abstraction

WEEKEND ONE (2-day): June 22 – 23, 2019   Classes run 9 am – 4 pm daily and students are welcome to stay late in their studio.

Painting Towards Abstraction

The focus of this workshop  is how does one move from representation to abstraction. What is abstraction and the different possibilities it represents?  Students will explore and experiment with a variety of conceptual and technical approaches. Each student will develop their own abstract painting(s) based on chosen applications enhancing his or her technical skills and personal expression. The course will move fluidly between traditional and experimental applications, and the expressive.

All levels welcome

  • STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click HERE): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
  • COURSE COST: $303 (Includes $291 tuition and a $12 materials fee for specific supplies provided by the instructor)

Tuition includes daily lunch and snacks. Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

 

Lori Goldberg

Lori Goldberg was born in Vancouver where she currently lives, works, and teaches. Her painting practice has evolved since the 1980’s from large, semi¬ abstractions inspired by industrial and Pacific Northwest environments to still life’s of everyday objects noted for their meditative qualities.

Goldberg’s work has been shown in major exhibitions including the Justina Barnicke Gallery at the University of Toronto, The Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, and the KX Kunst Auf Kampfnagel Gallery in Hamburg. She has received commissions for over 100 paintings from Intrawest Resorts and a large 5’ x 9’ painting for The Schuster Group, Walton Lofts, Seattle. Goldberg has received critical attention for her paintings, through support and awards including a Canada Council Grant, Tony Onley artists’ Project scholarship and Vermont Artist Award.

Goldberg’s work is held in public and private collections including the Canada Art Bank, The Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, The City of Vancouver, VGH Foundation and Michael Audain Private Collection.
For the past 20 years Goldberg has taught at ECUAD in the CS Department.  Gallery representation is with South Main Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

www.lorigoldberg.ca

 

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RAKU: Mud, Fire & Smoke

WEEK TWO (5-day): July 1 – 5, 2019   Classes run from 9 am – 4 pm daily and students are welcome to stay late in their studio.

RAKU: Mud, Fire & Smoke

In this multi-faceted workshop, Ellen with share her favorite tools, tips and techniques to create gestural hand-built forms using soft slab construction.

Students will explore a variety of tools and methods to create unique surfaces on whimsical vessels, sculptural pieces and functional pots. Part of this process will involve learning to make and use latex rubber molds, which will be theirs to keep.

The week will also include the excitement and drama of Raku firing. Participants will have an opportunity to fully participate in the Raku process. It is a rapid firing method capable of producing dazzling colours and unexpected results. Glowing hot pots are removed from the kiln and placed in post firing reduction chambers where fire and smoke work their magic. The hardest part is waiting for the pots to be cool enough to peek!

Ellen will also demonstrate “Naked Raku” and horse hair firing methods, as well as post firing finishes using acrylic paints. It promises to be an action packed week of pottery fun.

All levels welcome, basic skills and a fundamental understanding of clay is preferable

 

  • STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click HERE): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
  • CLAY ORDER FORM: (Click HERE)
  • COURSE COST: $724 (Covers $681 tuition and $43 for additonal course supplies/firing fees.)

Tuition also includes daily lunch and daily snacks.  Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

Ellen Statz

Ellen was born and raised in the small coastal community of Campbell River, B.C. on Vancouver Island. She obtained her degree in Fine Art at Malaspina College (now VIU) in Nanaimo in 1984.

Ellen approaches her work with a sense of humor and whimsy, delighting in what happens with the clay as she manipulates, stretches, textures and builds a variety of forms from decorative, to functional to sculptural. Daily meditative beach walks provide endless inspiration and she is always dreaming up new challenges to tackle. She continues to reside in Campbell River, where she operates her studio and offers classes in hand-building and Raku.

Ellen says that “A day with clay is ALWAYS a good day”.

www.ellenspottery.com

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Writing Through Doubt

WEEKEND ONE (2-day): June 22 – 23, 2019

Classes run 9 am – 4 pm each day and students are welcome to stay longer in their studio.

 

Writing Through Doubt: Creative Process for Artists & Writers

Doubt rides shotgun in your creative journey. Doubt is a gift made just for you, but you have to know how to unwrap it if it’s going to be of any use.

This two day, all-level, cross-discipline workshop will include in-class writing, exercises, readings, and discussion to help you uncover the good news about your doubt. Whether you are a beginner or a more established artist or writer, this workshop will help you advance your practice while the cross-discipline aspect will enrich your understanding of creative process.

Using writing as a tool of discovery will help you get closer to your most authentic work so that you leave with a plan and strategies to execute it.

All levels welcome

  • STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click HERE): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
  • COURSE COST: $293 (Includes $291 tuition and $2 in material fees)

Tuition includes lunches and daily snacks.  Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

 

 Susan Andrews Grace

Susan Andrews Grace is a poet, essayist, and visual artist. She has taught writing at a variety of institutions including Nelson’s Oxygen Art Centre, Kootenay School of the Arts, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The most recent of her five books of poetry, Philosopher at the Skin Edge of Being (Signature Editions, Winnipeg, 2013) was shortlisted for the Fred Cogswell Prize for Excellence in Poetry, 2014. She holds a BA in Philosophy and an MFA in Creative Writing, has exhibited visual works in public galleries over the last thirty years, mostly in Canada, but also the USA. Andrews Grace has lived in Nelson since 2001.

www.susanandrewsgrace.com

 

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