Modern artist, Charles Churchill Villiers has just launched his new website: www.charlesvilliers.com.
Charles has constructed his own website and in doing so, has realized a long held goal of managing his own on-line presence.
The website, like his artwork, is more than a little avant garde. The site opens with the question “What is your most precious dream? “… it showcases recent paintings from Santa Fe, digitally created art and a cross section of past works in an astonishing variety of mediums.
One of Charles Villiers’ best assets is his ability to move freely from one medium to another without a disruption in his creative process. His work is process driven; filled with symbolism, iconography but arranged into compositions, often with a sophisticated colorists approach.
By the end of this week, Villiers should be arriving in London to make arrangements for a much anticipated showing of his recent works… in pursuit of his most precious dreams.
www.marlathirsk.com Marla’s new website
http://marlathirsk.blogspot.com/ Marla’s blog
I always enjoy it when artists drop by the gallery;
Marla Thirsk let me know she’d revamped her online presence recently.
An updated website and an ongoing blog showcase her most recent and very exciting series of ‘beauties’ styled after 1940s and ’50s era post cards and old photos.
There’s a lot of self exploration in these pieces and a fresh approach to portraiture for Marla. Her experiences with fabrics, sculpture and multimedia have directly impacted her painting. Each painting observes and details patterns and textures, the way memories are built with each detail recorded with individual importance.
I hope to show some of these new series pieces in the gallery, here’s a sneak peek;
Marla Thirsk was born in Vancouver, B.C. and showed an early apptitude for art by drawing in the cover pages of her father’s university books at the age of 2. She went on from there winning the “Art in the Parks” award at 11 and being displayed in the Vancouver Art Gallery. Although she has never had ‘formal’ art training, she has continuously taught herself from books.
Her Art career really started when she decided to change her life around by believing in herself and following her life-long dream of being a professional artist. Since then she has created award winning posters for the Whale Festival, Edge to Edge Marathon, Ukee Days and just finished one for the Tofino Food and Wine Festival. She has designed logos and costumes and done set design. She was president of the Pacific Rim Arts Society for 6 years running.. She has painted every mural in her town of Ucluelet but 1 and continues to be a major figure in the planning of local Art Events. She has worked in all mediums but oil. Her works have sold and gone worldwide.
She proudly wears the title of “Town’s Artist”.
The original acrylic paintings in the theme of the Tofino Food and Wine poster, are the newest venture for her. They are inspired by old photos of her mother from the 30′s to early 60′s and old French postcards of the 1800′s and early 1900′s . With these new works she feels she has finally found her ‘own’ unique style.
For a more comprehensive look at her work, please visit her website (www.marlathirsk.com) or see her work at Cedar Corner Gallery in Tofino and Mark Penny Gallery in Ucluelet.
Originals can be viewed at Mark Penney Gallery, Ucluelet and at Cedar Corner Gallery in Tofino, as well.
www.marlathirsk.com Marla’s new website
http://marlathirsk.blogspot.com/ Marla’s blog
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I had been tasked with barkleyadventurestation.com‘s recent update and remodel.
The site had a respectable amount of content an a functioning design. The main issues stemmed from table layout / authoring techniques that have become outdated. ( don’t get me wrong here – it was probably fine when it was first published) It’s an unfortunate fact that most people use google as their search engine – so optimization for google and other search engines, is a must. Google doen’t seem to like these techniques, sometimes missinterpreting the importance of content, or disregards it all together.
So I started out by remaking the existing site (more or less) in clean HTML and CSS. SEO’d somewhat. I made a sitemap, a robot.txt made redirects for all the missing pages.
The site got a PR 3 (Pangerank of 3) after a couple of weeks of the updates going live. Placement in results had improved somewhat, traffic increased dramatically.
It seemed that a more aggresssive strategy would be required to rank well with the presence of other online competitors. We’d done everything well – but still geting outranked handily. A big advantage was identified with a blog formatted site (regular updated posts, SEO, compelling content, better client interaction) and I soon installed the blog site.
I cleaned up the main site and stripped it down to business functions, the rest was converted to blog format. In that format, the same SEO principals apply; relavant keywords in the titles, descriptions, body. Alt tags for images. WordPress plug ins are great for this.
The blog is showing a PR2 and traffic is stabalizing into a less erratic pattern. We’ve added a listing on google maps and added a test video on youtube. The site is gaining on it’s competitors, I think it’s the best Salmon Fishing Charter in Ucluelet website yet. I’m working on Skipper Dave to do a podcast project; somewhere between a good flyfishing show and Deadliest Catch; If you think you might want to sponsor it – lemme know.
Modern artist, Charles Churchill Villiers has just launched his new website: www.charlesvilliers.com.
