Summer Solstice by Nana Cook
24″x72″ Acrylic on Canvas
$2200
Arbutus trees are a favorite subject of Nana Cook. Summer Solstice is a strong composition and gets a lot of attention, it’s hard not to notice a six foot tall painting, and yet it takes a painting of this scale to really become a tree.
Canadian artist and writer, Nana Cook, Lives in Nanoose Bay. Although she is known for her passion for painting the American Southwest – a land she has loved and explored since childhood, Nana is also compelled to paint the dramatic beauty surrounding her home in the Pacific northwest, and has created an extensive and provocative body of work featuring the region’s extraordinary arbutus trees.
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Gallery Representation:
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria,
Victoria.
Artfitterz ,
Nanaimo.
Mark Penney Gallery , Ucluelet
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Nanaimo Art Gallery,
Nanaimo.
Qualicum Frameworks Gallery , Qualicum Beach.
Showings and Exhibitions:
Publications:
-Island Arts Magazine- Feature Artist
-Momentum – Contemporary Works by Chinese and Canadian Women Artists
-Driftwords 2005
-Women’s Declaration – Contemporary Women Artists’ Exhibition
-Travelers’ Tales Guides Grand Canyon: True Stories of Life Below the Rim
-G.B. and the Strange Canadian Painter Lady
-Delta Community Arts Council: An Illustrated Directory of Delta Artists Anniversary Edition 1969 – 1989
Associations:
Mountain Artists Guild – Prescott, Arizona
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria – Victoria, B.C.
Nanaimo Art Gallery – Nanaimo, B.C.
The Old School House Arts Centre – Qualicum Beach, B.C.
Long Beach Dreams by Ken Kirkby
30″x48″ Oils on Canvas
sold (private collection)
None of Ken’s signature elements are present in this painting: no sgraffito grass, no rocks, no silhouettes of trees with pointillist coloring. This painting captures the very essence of Long Beach. There is a sensitivity in the coloring, and Kirkby’s confidence and simplicity in its primary elements. Ken tells you how he sees it, in art and in life.
Long Beach View by Ken Kirkby
24″x48″ Oils on Canvas
$3000
Long Beach as seen by Ken Kirkby. This is the first time Ken has painted the ocean in this particular way. The distinctly wind blown tree and rocks appear in his signature style but this painting captures the airy quality of Long Beach in the summer. We can see the mountains behind Tofino in the background behind the silhouette of the treeline.
The oil painting “Together” by Rob Elphinstone is featured on the cover of the summer issue of the Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine (CJRM).
CJRM is a peer reviewed medical journal that, since its inception in 1995, has always had a work of art with a rural theme and by a Canadian artist on its cover. They have had such artists as David Blackwood, Maud Lewis, Anne Meredith Berry and Bill Mason grace it’s covers.
The journal goes out to all of Canada’s 6000 rural doctors as well as to medical schools, hospitals and media. An on-line version of the publication is available on the Canadian Medical Association’s website.
The Artist’s Magazine Annual Art Competition has recognized Marla Thirsks’ portrait Disconnect. The portrait and figure entries were judged on expressiveness, personality and draftsmanship. The portrait category juror; Sharon Sprung teaches at the Art Students League and the National Academy’s School of Fine Arts in New York City; she has hosted two films on painting the figure for ArtistsNetworkTV videos.
Congratulations!. Disconnect, has been selected as a finalist in the Portrait/Figure category of The Artist’s Magazine 27th Annual Art Competition. …, as a finalist your name will be featured in the December 2010 issue of the magazine.Your accomplishment is one to be proud of.
~Maureen Bloomfield, Editor ‘The Artist’s Magazine’
Marla’s original works can be viewed here at Mark Penney Gallery in Ucluelet and also at Cedar Corner Gallery in Tofino.
