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Cubist Photo-Realism and by Nigel Brooks Peer
20″x30″ Giclee on Canvas.
$500

This image is one singular image, it’s a straight photo, un-manipulated.
It expresses Nigel’s fascination with reflections and contains within it the essence of what he strives to create in his artwork. Layers of reflections, in a perspective encapsulating the many facets of an individual experience.

Nigel Brooks Peer describes this as Cubist Photo-Realism; Cubism depicts object from multiple perspectives creating an image with greater context, showing impossibly more than you could experience at once. Photo Realism usually references the adaptation of pseudo-photographic detail in art, attention to details especially reflections, highlights, lens flares and distortions … art has been long been influenced by photography and photography has reciprocated by truly becoming art.

Terracotta Warriors and Stonehenge by Nigel Brooks Peer
20″x30″ Giclee on Canvas.
$500

This image is comprised of 2 source images; one of Stonehenge ( Wiltshire, England ) and one of the Terracotta Warrior statues ( Xian, Shaanxi Province, China ). Nigel is extensively well traveled, and he develops his art from hand exposed overlapping negatives, in the darkroom. The resulting composition is digitized and prepared for contemporary print output. These prints are unparalleled in print quality and longevity, 200 year certified archival canvas with a water-resistant acrylic laminate applied. It seems somehow appropriate to strive for a long lasting image of these ancient symbols of humanity.

Teresa Knight’s recent work is full of atmosphere – she imbues what she sees with the emotions the scenes evoke within her. The softness of her style and the subtlety with which she uses colour help create this almost mystical experience. The viewer enters a new and special place outside of normal time where words are not necessary, but where experience is shared.

Teresa has been an artist for many years, and had a love for animals for as long. She got started in art when she and her sisters would pass rainy days at the cottage by drawing and painting, and Teresa continued in art.

She obtained her B.A. in Studio Arts and Bachelor of Education in Art from the University of British Columbia and now paints and teaches painting out of her Union Bay studio.

Teresa exhibits her work at local and West Coast venues. She hopes, eventually, to use her paintings to raise money to improve the lives of overlooked animals

Exhibitions

Teresa’s paintings are available at:

• Cedar Corner Art Gallery in Tofino BC www.cedarcornerartgallery.com
• Leaving Impressions Gallery in Qualicum Beach BC
• Mark Penney Gallery in Ucluelet BC www.markpenneygallery.com

Selected pieces are also available through Art Sales and Rentals at the Vancouver Art Gallery. www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/about_services2.cfm and some of Teresa’s work is available as limited edition prints from Casa Collection info@casacollection.ca

Teresa’s website is featured at the Agora Gallery website in New York www.agora-gallery.com

• 2009 – Winner, Honorable Mention, NAVS 20th International Art for Animals Classic.
• 2008, 2009 – Participating Artist, Local Colours, Courtenay BC
• 2008, 2009 – Originals Only, Comox BC.
• 2008 – Exhibiting Artist, Nautical Days, Comox BC.
• 2008 – Member Artist, Woodland Gardens Juried Show.
• 2008 – “Art that Barks” – group show, Heaventree Galllery, Vancouver BC.
• 2007 – “Here and There” solo exhibition at the Pearl Ellis Gallery, Comox BC
• 2007- “Animals in the Human Landscape”, with Anne Birthistle, at Heaventree Gallery, Vancouver BC.
• 2005 – Winner Best in Show, “Arts in Context: History and Sense of Place” juried exhibition, Muir Gallery, Courtenay BC.
• 2002 – Columbia Street Studio, Vancouver – solo art show “Cats in Heaven”.
• 1999 – Community Arts Council of Vancouver Group Show UnderEXPOSED Photo-based art works.
• 1996-98 – Deborah Worsfold Gallery – gallery artist.
• 1997, 1998 – A Walk Is…, Vancouver “Artists Make Home Good” group show.
• 1984 – Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Haliburton, Ontario – solo show “Portraits”.
• 1983 – Knight Gallery, Toronto, “Portraits”.

Fish of Nile Creek Series by Ken Kirkby
24″x48″ Oils on canvas
$4000 each

Ken has been hard at work painting many of the fish represented in the Nile Creek, his goal is to share with you the wonderful diversity of fish, and just how beautiful they really are. These paintings as well as prints will serve to promote this awareness and to support the stream restoration work of the Nile Creek Salmon Enhancement Society.

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Charles Villiers reviews the print making and exquisit framing of his digital self portrait series before shipping them to Europe.

In 2004 I was asked to print a series of work by artist, and personal friend of mine, Charles Villiers. He was exploring digital image making and output in projection, web, and print. We went to great lengths, proofed in numerous art and photographic papers to make an archival print with color characteristics that would do the brightly colored images justice. The final prints were meticulously framed; mounted on a floating full bleed placard inside of a brilliant white matte and classic black frame.

The series was crated up and shipped to Europe for exhibition but were lost in transit. Eventually they did resurface and were shipped back to Vancouver Island, Canada. Charles had already been to London and returned to L.A. by the time that the recovered series was returned and has been in storage ever since. Now 5 years later – I have the opportunity to show these and selected works by Charles Churhill Villiers in my gallery here in Ucluelet, the show is currently in the planning stage – I’ll be posting some dates and info as things progress. Meanwhile, here’s a sneak peak at the recently rediscovered treasures…

Photographic Prints – Nigel Brooks Peer

These fascinating images are created the hard way, in the darkroom with overlapping negatives, hand exposed on photographic paper. Nigel has traveled extensively to more than 50 countries, collecting candid portraits and culturally relevant images. He juxtaposes the images together in ways that sometimes result in harmonies and sometimes in tension. His early works have a bite to them, often provocative, and sometimes shocking, his later works are tempered with a sensitivity that took a decade to form. Recently he’s been shooting digitally and we’ve been adapting a series to contemporary giclee printing on  archival canvas.

Photographic prints on canvas, a Mark Penney specialty. These Black and White Giclee Prints are gallery wrapped on 2″ custom cedar stretchers.

They are custom sized for the designer decor in this luxury condo rental unit in Victoria BC.

Mark Penney, printmaking in Ucluelet

The first print-job with the new Breathing Color Lyve canvas is complete. I got a profile from tech support ( I didn’t see any Lyve profiles posted online yet). They offer a custom profile service, very impressive although I usually make my own.

I’m impressed with the canvas, the weave looks similar to PremierArt’s water resistant canvas with a smoother gesso finish. The raw canvas is dead flat ( totally matte) before the laminate is applied. The prints come alive as the laminate cures.

These images are custom sized and gallery wrapped for the installation,  stretched on 2″ custom cedar stretchers, and by all accounts; very juicy.

Living in the Tofino , Ucluelet area, represented by Mark Penney Gallery in Ucluelet Nigel brooks Peer has recently been recognized by National Geographic.

www.nigelbrookspeer.com nigelbrookspeer@gmail.com

Throughout my life, I’ve been a free thinker and traveller, who passionately expresses through mixed media arts. I’ve explored the world for years, getting in touch with how rich and poor people live all over the world.

My travel and experiences inspire me to make art that gets people thinking about the conventions we live in, our past, our culture and our part in it.

Born April 27, 1972 in Vancouver, B.C. Took very fist picture with a disposable black and white camera when i was 6 in the redwood forest in California . I was very close to my grandfather, we share the same birthday. After he died, I picked up his camera and started using it taking photos.

Growing up in Surrey, I witnessed racial violence and saw farmland and forest change into suburban sprawl. This opened my eyes at a young age to how different cultures collide and grow together.

My whole understanding of the planet and where we are today is reflected in my art. Seeing and experiencing all different cultures through travel allowed me to understand the global picture, and how we affect the planet and each other.

After high school I went to South Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore and got my first taste of world travel. I returned home to attend college studying history and philosophy, then art through sculpture and ceramics. After graduating, I continued my travels through eastern Mediterranean and Africa visiting historical sites in Egypt, Greece, Turkey and Italy.

Inspired to play with art further I attended Emily Carr focusing on ceramics sculpture . In my work I explored the juxtaposition between earth and gravity. I also experimented with crystalline glazes on ceramics . Leaded to photography for easier dialog for everyday people to challenge our understanding of international culture , modern society , and our environment .

I traveled again in Europe seeking new expression for myself. I got involved in photo documenting what was going on in countries such as Germany, the Czech Republic and Hungary. I was developing my eye and becoming more of a photographer. I shot rolls and rolls of film because it felt like the right thing to do. I didn’t understand what I was doing until years later when I used these images in my current work. International Social commentary …

In the middle of art school I continued my world travels through all the major continents, doing documentary photography in India, Cambodia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Peru, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and such far off places such as Papua New Guinea, Tibet and Rapa Nui. Landing in morocco on September  11 , 2001 .

Traveling all over western Canada , exploring or culture , from the oil patch , to organic farms . Lived in work camps in the frozen north , now in small resort town Tofino .

Feeling that I have a voice that needs to be heard, I’m now fully involved in creating art though digital photography looking at the reflections we all need in our time . Recently recognized by National Geographic . Readdressing old work and digital remastering and printing with contemporary giclee print technology. I’m also getting involved in meditation, following a spiritual existence that I’ve always felt. Energetic Elemental Zen …

*Education

1998 – 2003  Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver, B.C.

1992 – 1996  Kwantlen University College, Surrey, B.C.

Charles Churchill Villiers was born in New York in 1951, son of the noted inventor Amherst Villiers.

His father, who had designed the Blower Bentley in the 1920’s, was past President of the American Rocket Society, helped develop Sir Malcolm Campbell’s “Campbell-Napier Blue Bird’, and was also himself a portrait painter of significance.

Charles from an early age showed astonishing creativity. Though gifted with an aristocratic legacy (he is Winston Churchill’s Godson, and his family tree stretches back directly to William the Conqueror) Charles was never one to rest on his laurels. He grew up in London, New York, California and occasionally stayed for long periods with his aunt, Veronica Milner here on Vancouver Island, who was host to Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and other Royal visitors to their Qualicum Beach estate.

When just ten years of age Charles was asked by Ian Fleming, a friend of his father, to draw a picture of a car. The prototype of this drawing was then used to illustrate a book that Fleming was working on, “Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang”.

Fleming later acquired a Blower Bentley, which at age eleven, Charles restored and five years later won the “Concourse D’Elegance Award’ at Pebble Beach in California.

Charles has expressed himself in the world of art from many directions. During the 60’s and 70’s he was a musician and songwriter with such bands as ‘Villiers & Gold’, with Andrew Gold, “Homeward” with Steve Bishop and acted in films, one of which, John Landis “Schlock” won the Trieste Sci-Fi Festival Ward.

However his painting has always been the main venue of his creativity and he has during the past forty years produced an impressive body of work. His work has evolved from the classical, to abstract to the non-objective and in recent years into digital media which have led to a stunning selection of prints.

He has had at least thirty-five major solo exhibitions and has executed numerous commissions worldwide. His work is included in a number of Museums and in the collections of many prestigious and notable collectors.

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Solo Exhibitions:

2006 Control Drama, Downey Museum of Art, Archival Ink Jet Prints, Downey, CA
2001 Young Man on his way to the Spirit World, Virtual Air Gallery, Cyberspace
1995 Soul Trap, Sculptures, Sullivan – Goss, “An American Gallery” Santa Barbara, CA
1995 Paintings from London, Abante Fine Art, Portland, Oregon
1993 From the Artist Collection, Spago, Cesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, NV
1991 New Paintings, GH2 Gallery, West Los Angeles, CA
1989 Large Scale Paintings & Sculpture, Natoli – Ross Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988 The Metal Primate Variables, Future Perfect, Los Angeles, CA
1988 A Tale of Three Cities, Diane Nelson Gallery, Orange County, CA
1986 New Bronzes & Paintings, Chiat – Day Corporation, New York, NY
1985 The Procreation Paintings, Gallery West, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Selected Works, & Installations, Scratch, Venice, CA
1984 Twin Self, Art Space, Los Angeles CA
1984 New Work, Drawing, Paintings and Sculptures Gallery West, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Chop Wood, Metro Gallery, In conjunction with The China Club, Hollywood, CA
1983 Auras, Gallery West, Los Angeles, CA
1983 New Paintings, Kirk De Gooyer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 In a Moment of Time, Lawrence Silver Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1982 New Work as an Installation, Arco Center, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Etching & Drawings from Spain, John Greenburg Gallery, London, England
1977 Osiris, Richard Mann Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1972 Drawings & Woodblocks, Gallery Palma, Majorca, Spain
1970 Charles Villiers – Installation, Hans Morris Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Group Exhibitions:

Group Exhibition, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
The Arbutus Project, Ink Jet Prints & Video Insulation
Downey Museum of Art, featured artist Art International, Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA
Two – Person Show, The James Grey Gallery. Charles Villiers & Craig French Santa Monica, CA
Regional Artists, Group Exhibition, Gallery 22, Nanaimo BC, Canada
From out of nowhere The Thinking Space, Hoxton Square, London, England
Gallery Artists, Abante Fine Art, Portland, Oregon
The Native American, Sponsored by, Black Elk Speaks, Los Angeles, CA
The Final Exhibits – Part II. Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
City of Angles, GH2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Animal Rights, Studio Leonardo Gavinci Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group show, Diane Nelson Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
The First Show, Modern Multiples, curator, Richard Duardo Los Angeles, CA
Best of the 1980’s Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
A Continuing Study in Multiples, Transamerica Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Gallery Artists, Diane Nelson Gallery, Orange, CA
L.A. Arts, Leonardo Gavinci Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Creative Existentialism, Blue Note Experimental Group Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
Artist from the Center of the Universe, Natoli – Ross Gallery, Santa Monica,
1984 New Mannerism, Davies, Long Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Gallery Artists, Davies & Brown, Los Angeles, CA
Car and Culture, Museum of Contempory Art, Los Angeles CA
Olympic Arts Festival, curator, Richard Koshalek, Los Angeles, CA
Studio Show, Robert Miles Runyan, Los Angeles, CA
Car Plays, Mark Taper Forum, curator, Julie Lazar, LosAngeles, CA
Light and Dimension, curator, Ruth Bachofner, Gensler & Associates.
Metro Rail, in association with L.A.V.A. Los Angeles, CA
Art and the Familiar Object, Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Twentieth Century Sculpture, The Jones Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
Tubular Art, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
1983 Predictions, Metro Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Urban Suite, Monoprint Portfolio, Angeles Press, Metro Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Thought Forms, Metro Gallery, Los Angeles, Spring Wave, curator, Barbara Lazaroff, Spago,
Art and Soul, Stella Polaris Gallery, Carl G. Jung Institute Benefit
Summer Show New West Gallery, Tucson, Arizon
Monoprints from Angeles Press, curator, Bruce Richards; Art Space Los Angeles, CA
Emerging Artists, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Images and Issues, curator, Sandy Ballatore -Nelson,Santa Monica, CA
1982 Similar Views, Yaacov Agam, Eugene Jardin, Charles Villiers
Gallery Artists, Gallery West, Los Angeles, CA
Kirk De Gooyer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cedars Sinai, curator, Marcia Weisman, Los Angeles, CA
Video installation, At Sunset, curator, Jim Budman, Hollywood.CA
Sex at Exile, Exile Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lawrence Silver Gallery, Los Angeles. Metro Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Kirk De Gooyer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 The Triptych Show, curator, David J Rubin, Claremont Graduate School,
Figuration / Abstraction, Gallery Kirsten Riche, Hamburg, Germany
1980 Shinno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London, England
Celebrity Show, Sotherby Park Bernet, London, England
Layton Gallery, London, England
Gimpel Fils Ltd., London, England
1974 Shinno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
American Painters in Paris, C.I. P., Paris, France
Galley Artists, Gallery Palma, Majorca, Spain

Select Commissions:

2007 Museum of Contemporary Art & Culture / New Museum, Project / Downey
2007 180 Music “Saudade” Stephen Bishop CD Cover & Booklet Minneapolis, Minnesota
2003 Unit 29 Video Projects, Direction & Production, BC, Canada
2000 Digital Ink The Black Totem, Cyber Entanglements, BC, Canada
1997 J. Colin, “Faith” Fourteen Large Scale Sculptures, Montecito, CA
1997 Spago, Wolfgang Puck – Barbara Lazaroff, Nude Woman With Crown & Goat, Large Scale Painted Insulation, Hollywood, CA
1991 Mondrian Hotel, Arnold Ashkenazi “The Light House” Large Scale Painting, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Modern Multiples, The Metal Primate Variables
1987 The Carriage House, Jay Chiat – Bronze Commission for Interior, NY. N.Y. Jay Chiat, Robert Miles Runyan, Cast from Eden – Bronzes,
1986 Scratch Restaurant, Sculptural Entrance & Building Exterior,Venice, CA
MOCA, in conjunction with. Mark Taper Forum, Car & Culture, The Thirty-Foot Spinning, Triptych
1983 The Laurence Gregar Group, The Urban Suite, Mono-Print Portfolio, Los Angeles, Ca
1970 Motion Graphics, – John Whitney Sr. “Binary Bit Patterns,” Computer Animated Short Film – Musical Direction & Composition, Pacific Palisades, CA
1960 Ian Fleming, Initial Drawings for “Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang,” London, England

A client in Victoria has selected a number of images to be printed on canvas in assorted sizes, to be featured in their luxury rental condo. The prints are being gallery wrapped and lacquered, framing won’t be required. Soon after this initial order is filled I’ll be releasing a group of Limited Edition prints.

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