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"Being a part of AIM has completely exceeded my expectations. It has opened up a new world of group art show possibilities, meeting new acquaintances and friends, and having more laughs than imagined ... I have learned quite a bit about the work that's required to promote one's own art ... I strongly believe in my work, knowing that it brings joy and education to people...". |
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Mie Akatsu
Victoria BC
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Artist Jill Alexander is new to Victoria. She was living in St Maarten for 25 years, painting island scenes, selling prints and originals of her work in many shops, galleries, and hotels on the island. Pastel on sanded paper is the medium she prefers; she also enjoys painting in watercolors. She is excited to capture and paint her new surroundings and looks forward to continuing her art career in Canada.
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Jo Ann Allan
Victoria BC
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A lifelong commitment of exploring art forms through drawing, watercolors, calligraphy, art history, bookbinding, music, and philosophy eventually led to embroidery. Jo Ann Allan loves the dimensionality of fabric and thread and its infinite possibilities of color, pattern, and light. Poetry or an evocative phrase often serve as inspiration. Manipulating fabrics and digital photography in combination with paper is her current interest.
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Aurafidélité Arindam did her Master’s studies at McGill University and studied art with Salvador Dali’s student. Her orchid drawings received 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize ribbons at the 2010 Victoria Orchid Society Show. Her original botanical artwork is for sale at Butchart Gardens, Sooke Harbour House and other galleries. Fine art giclée prints and cards available on demand. Private commissions available.
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Ruth Bahri
Victoria BC
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Lorna Bergen
Victoria BC
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Patti Bey
Victoria BC
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Patti Bey's love of painting began in her teen years. She is mostly self taught, with some community courses to build tecnique and confidence In art she has found an expression of the wonder of God's creation. Useing water color and acrylics she expresses this wonder and creates inspirational messages in her paintings.
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Ann Creer
Victoria BC
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Anna Curtin
Victoria BC
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Anna Curtin's work is inspired by her desire to explore the tension between harmony and discord. She is fascinated by the idea that what you see first is not always what can be
seen on further reflection. Anna works with images that bridge the gap between the obvious and what is believed to be improbable. She chooses subjects based on a sense of beauty or excitement. Anna wants to stimulate the imagination to experience a feeling or create a story.
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Peter Dowgailenko
Victoria BC
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Painting has always been of interest to Peter Dowgailenko. He paints in oils and acrylics.
Peter seeks to reward the viewer’s time with a satisfying experience by warming their imagination to see common objects in a new light.
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Linda Darby has been creating images ever since she could appreciate nature and the beauty in the world around her. Her textured paintings generally begin as a collage, to which she adds acrylic paint, acrylic mediums and found materials. An encaustic method of melted beeswax, is then applied and reheated to fuse the work into a smooth finish.
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Largely self-taught, Suzanne DeStaffany is a newly emerging digital illustrator who particularly enjoys combining visual juxtaposition and irony with an occasional hint of whimsy. Her wide range of richly detailed subjects often reflect the fractal patterns observed in nature, while others consist of other-worldly kaleidoscopic fantasies which originate unexpectedly from her photographs of ordinary life and urban decay. Her limited-edition giclée prints are available for purchase through her new website.
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Jane Dillon-Davis
Victoria BC
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Email: dillond@telusplanet.net
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Jane Dillon-Davis has been exploring the creative possibilities of textiles for over twenty years. With a background in Art and Design, she initially worked with such traditional techniques as quilting, appliqué, and hand and machine embroidery to create large quilted wall hangings, which she exhibited and sold in the Edmonton area.
In the past decade, she has refined a process combining silk collage and machine embroidery, believing that these techniques, along with the range and versatility of textiles available today, have enriched her work with added depth and perspective.
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Nancy Dolan
Victoria BC
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Email: seasidedesigns@shaw.ca
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Nancy Dolan is an award winning fine art photographer in Victoria. She conducts photography workshops entitled "The Art of Seeing" which reflect her artistic passion & love of nature. Her work is exhibited regularly in regional juried gallery shows. She published a natural history guidebook of the Pacific Northwest, The CasualNaturalist’s Guide to the the Salish Sea and is transforming her fine art photography into mixed media with acrylic, collage and encaustic.
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Gail Dolyn
Victoria BC
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Janet Etter has been captivated by the tugboat life of Victoria's Inner harbour. She feels a deep need to record what is left of our rapidly changing waterfront and disappearing lifestyles. When Janet comes across a working tug in our inner harbour she is enthralled by the colour, strength, movement of these boats and the men that work on them. Janet documents these images before they are lost forever.
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Gail Evans-Hatch has had a passion for art, design, and colour since she was a small child. Her mother took her with pallette in hand to paint mountain scenes in New Hampshire. Four decades passed before she returned to painting when her husband sent her to art workshops. She loves watercolour, since it forces one to always adjust and adapt as you create, when not painting, Gail researches and writes histories of families, businesses, and organizations, published in stunning books.
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Jill Galt
Victoria BC
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Patricia Gering
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Born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Karen Hamilton currently resides in the Fairfield area. She is inspired by Canada's Lauren Harris, A.J. Casson, Ted Harrison and Emily Carr. As an abstract artist, Karen's work reflects the natural landscape reproduced into its simplest form. Karen has originals, prints, art cards and magnets available for sale. Her originals are represtened by: Gallery at Matticks Farm, Legacy Art Gallery and the Sooke Harbour House. Private commissions available.
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Colleen Hammond Allison works in pastel, watercolour and acrylic. Her primary medium is watercolour, the translucent and luminous qualities of which capture the essence of light.
After more than a decade of living on lighthouses on the central coast of British Columbia Colleen is inspired by neighbourhoods, the rich history of architecture in Victoria, and the astounding flowers and gardens that Victorians enjoy. |
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Anne Hansen has a crush on oystercatchers! Join Anne in her visual celebration of these jaunty birds and their tideline habitat.
Last summer, she volunteered with a conservation society in Haida Gwaii, where they monitored oystercatcher nests. Anne got to kiss a baby oystercatcher!
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Sylvia Harron
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Email: sylvia_harron@hotmail.com
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Sylvia Harron became a lighthouse keeper 5 years ago through a circuitous route which started with studying art and wound through years of working in print shops and survey camps and on fish boats and luxury yachts, picking up a couple of Geography degrees along the way. She has come full circle by joining Artists in Motion and continues the art journey she began 3 decades ago with photography, fibre, and found objects….sometimes combining all three. |
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Kathryn Harwood
Victoria BC
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Audrey Hayes
Victoria BC
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Victoria's moderate temperature allows Anna Humbke to paint on her balcony; her view on a clear day is pure inspiration. Anna's favorite quote inspired her to make art imprint on the world. "Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision with action can change the world." - Joel Arthur Barker
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Joan Kagan has been involved with pottery for over thirty years, continuing her fascination with the potter’s wheel. She believes that a person can’t have too many bowls, and that even the most basic every day pottery can be displayed as well as used. Her mission is to create pottery that is practical for daily use and pleasing to look at. She has worked as a potter since retiring from high school teaching and counselling in Toronto. Over the years she has learned from many fine potters in Canada and the United States. She has recently made her home in Victoria British Columbia where she has established her new studio. She continues to teach and to make her lines of household wares, while experimenting with new shapes and colours, and continuing to learn. She is inspired by her new warmer city where she takes great pleasure in being able to see the ocean every day. Small classes for adults are offered and custom orders are taken. Contact for inquiries and appointments.
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Karin Knowlton began her love of illustration at an early age. Self taught, her drawings are whimsical with a uniquely funky edge. She has designed graphics for commercial businesses, T-shirts, custom wedding invitations as well as illustrated storyboards. On her creative list of accomplishments Karin would like to add her aspiration to illustrate children's books. Currently Karin can be found in her own shop "Kay's Korner" in Cook Street Village
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Carole Leslie works in mixed media and acrylics. Her work is informed by her Buddhist practice and includes the exploration of Buddha images and abstracts, sometimes merged with text, image transfer techniques and bits of paper or recycled prayer flags. Her interests lie in integrating life and art into one whole, creating pieces that bring serenity, tranquility and life to the spaces they inhabit.
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Doreen McOrmond
Victoria BC
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Eileen Murray has a love affair with beauty, expressed through color and texture in her mixed media pieces. With a background in Jungian psychology, shamanism and various forms of energy work, Eileen brings forth the essence of the image into her art.
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Jeanne Marie Ng was born in Victoria and is a 3rd generation Victorian. When she was 15 she moved to Chemainus BC were she graduated from her high school and won a scholarship to the University of Washington but life got in the way and she didn’t make it there and was married and had 2 beautiful children. In 1999 when she moved back to her family in Colwood, BC were she picked up a camera and started to take and produce Fine Art Photography she could find beauty everywhere in her home on the West Coast. Then in 2005 when her son was tragically killed in a helicopter accident she picked up her paint brushes and started to paint both with acrylics and digitally in fact the first painting she did after the accident was a painting of the lighthouse at Peggy’s cove. Since then Jeanne has been on a journey of technology and art. Jeanne has become a professional photographer, graphic artist and artist and loves every minute. Lighthouses to Jeanne have a meaning of hope and strength for all who gaze on them. |
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Maria Noel
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Sandra K Pyke has been an avid photographer since her teens. Showcasing her interpretations and views through lens of film and digital camera on International Photo sites, she has decided to bring work closer to her home and heart in the City of Victoria. Joining Artists in Motion was the opportunity needed to work with talented artists in the community and share ideas, and inspiration, to provide a framework to market her photography. Eclectic, and adventurous, Sandra's subjects run the gamut, according to the situation, and interpretation.
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Ari Ranta
Victoria BC
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Ari Ranta has always been inspired by nature. He has had a life long passion for the creative process. Since retirement he has been able to focus his attention on his painting, which includes Landscapes, seascapes, harbours & boats using acrylics as his choice of medium.
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Marilyn Robbins
Victoria BC
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Marilyn Robbins has been painting and drawing for several years. Her preferred medium is acrylic and oil paints, charcoal and graphite. She finds the challenge of image manipulation and reinterpretation of traditional subject matter endlessly motivating. Marilyn is inspired by all forms of art, enjoys working with a variety of materials and techniques, and especially admires the art forms of Asia.
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Ron Sept
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New to the Victoria area, Ron Sept has begun to explore abstract expressionist painting as a counterbalance to a professional research and consulting career. Working mainly in acrylics, Ron explores intersections between rigid formal structures and more dynamic elements of shape, space, color and text, interlaced with a unique spiritual and conceptual vision of the familiar.
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Erwin Shulman
Victoria BC
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After retiring from a long business career, Erwin Shulman realized that he needed an outlet for the creative energy and talent that had been suppressed for many years. Coincidentally, while working on a conservation project around a collection of old family photos, he found and taught himself Photoshop. He now produces multi layered work of vibrant colour and magical depth.
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E.A. Smith came to BC in 1983. She drew buildings in Toronto as a teenager and many Saturday afternoons found her on the steps of a church pen and paper in hand. Elizabeth wanted to attend Art school but was discouraged by a school counselor and encouraged to attend college for Business Administration instead. At 55 she decided to retire, sell the family business, which she owned with her husband, and learn to water colour and draw. She has had instruction from her Artist husband Howard Smith, and takes lessons from Yvonne Maximchuk in the Broughtons, www.searosestudio.net, any chance she gets. While in Victoria she will be sourcing out instruction on painting and drawing in the local art community. She would love to hear from anyone who has liked her cards.
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Howard Smith started drawing at a very early age. When he was six his family moved to Ocean Falls where he spent his youth. As a 5th grader he was asked to draw pictures of the teachers at school and handed in his work. He had drawn the back of every teachers head. He has a different perspective. He continues to paint, working with traditional First Nations designs using non traditional methods, and continuing to paint the scenes of the Historical Working BC coast. His subjects are usually historically significant boats or lighthouses. He usually works in water colour and/or acrylic and sometimes incorporates Wood burning into yellow cedar in his work.
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Sonia Urquhart was born in Toronto, Ontario. Major in Visual Arts. Did some free lance work before meeting her husband, raised two girls. Then, traveled North America for several years with her husband in his semi. Enjoyed sketching the other drivers and seenic spots along the way. Now settled in Victoria, B. C. Sonia has more time to devote to her love of art. She worked in several different mediums (watercolours, inks, oils and acrylics etc.). Sonia was Co-ordinator of the Esquimalt Painters Group, became an associate member of the Costcollective and now a member of Artist in Motion.
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Cindy Volper
Victoria BC
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Roberta Westwood
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Sheena White spent many years as a spectator and admirer of an eclectic mix of art then in 2001 became absorbed in developing the skills to interpret her imagination onto canvas. Working mainly with acrylics and oils her genre evolves and changes as her experience grows and at the present time enjoys exploring modern/abstract representational styles.
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Darlene Young enjoys painting scenes that capture the beauty in everyday things. She paints mostly in acrylics. |
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