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Tracey
Tarling
born in Vancouver BC - resides in
She has studied painting and sculpture at the Emily Carr Institute
of Art and Design and Zen brush painting with Ari Tomita at the
Vancouver Academy of Art. For
the last several years, she has been working on a series of paintings
and monotypes that reflect her interest in transformation, passages
and regrowth. Using oil and plaster on wood, in an age-old technique,
her surfaces suggest ethereal landscape of trees, leaves and rock...
life cycles and watery curves. The famed Bau-Xi Gallery on Granville
St in Vancouver BC hosted a solo exhibition for Tracey Tarling in
November 2005; 90% of the works sold out before the opening. In
2005 Tracey Tarling was invited by Bamfield Marine Sciences Center
(Canada's preeminent marine research center) with other artists
to participate in five days of field/lab studies at the Bamfield
Marine Sciences Centre overlooking Barcley Sound on the west coast
of Vancouver Island. Each artist provided one work of art created
from this unique adventure to help support the BMSC public education
fund. Tarling has exhibited far and wide, in Santa Fe, Vale Colorado,
Toronto, Aspen, Whistler and Vancouver. Collections holding her
work include Ballard Energy, Vancouver; Goldman, Sachs & Co.
New York USA; Ballet BC; Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Vancouver; I5ive
Communications, Vancouver & Greece; Signorello Vineyards, Napa
Valley, CA; and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
http://www.bau-xi.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=34
http://traceytarling.ca
http://www.susanstreetfineart.com/artists/BIO/TARLING_BIO.html
http://www.artistsincanada.com/php/~painter_t.php
http://galeriezuger.homestead.com/Tarling.html
http://www.whistleroncanvas.com/art_galleries/biz.php?biz=thewhistlerart
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Page
Ough
resides in Vancouver BC
Page Ough has been painting for almost her entire life. She has
lived in Ontario, Newfoundland, Connecticut, Alberta and now her
last western stop, Vancouver Island. Her outdoor life style of photography,
hiking, canoeing, and cross country running combined with her ever
searching eye provides inspiration for her work. Page's career is
a continuing work in progress that has developed in stages. Her
start and mainstay is wildlife as she combines the subjects' unique
characteristics of form and colour with glimpses into the animals’
personality with particular detail to eyes and facial expression.
Next was to share the canvas with habitat and the dramatic seasonality
of landscape in which wildlife survive. Vancouver Island's influence
can be seen with the advent of large canvasses filled with a meadow
full of wild flowers or bigger than life florals. She produces about
sixty pieces a year, and in 2004 she created a solo show of thirty
wolf paintings dedicated to improving wolf awareness. This show
helped bring public attention to the depleting and desperate state
of these generally misunderstood animals. Page's work is exclusively
shown at Canada House Gallery in Banff, Alberta and is sold to collectors
worldwide.
http://www.canadahouse.com/dynamic/artists/Page_Ough.asp
http://www.solaralife.com/November/artscalendarnov.pdf
http://www.mimagallery.com/catalog_pages/PageOugh.pdf
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Natty
Saidi
born in 1958 in Israel - resides in Vancouver
BC
Natty Saidi's oil-on-panel paintings
are immediately reminiscent of the work of the old masters. Inspired
by Caravaggio, she works with earth-toned palettes and simple shapes
in a glowing palette of deep reds, ochres, veridian and burnt umber.
Saidi was born in a farming community in Israel and is the daughter
of the prominent Israeli sculptor and muralist Moshe Saidi. In his
studio, she had the opportunity to breath, taste and touch creative
materials like crayons, charcoal, paint, clay and stone. During 1964,
she and her family lived in London England where her father studied
under the instruction of Henry Moore and her mother worked as a nurse.
After extensive exposure to the arts during her early years, Natty
went on to study at the Avini Institue of Fine Art in Tel Aviv (1975-77).
From 1977 to 1979, she worked as a graphic artist in the Isreali Army,
then studied for a year (1981-82) at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts, Philadelphia on a scholarship.
In 1982, Saidi embarked on a road trip across Canada and settled in
Vancouver where she attended Vancouver Community College for two years.
In 1994 she began to paint full time. The Diane Farris Gallery has
exhibited her paintings since 2003.
http://www.dianefarrisgallery.com/artist/saidi/index.html
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Judy
Weeden
resides on
Salt Spring Island BC
Internationally known potter Judy Weeden first studied the sciences
receiving a BA in Biology and an MA
in Zoology from the University of Toronto. Over 30 years ago she
left academia to follow her love of pottery, studying at
the University of California Santa Cruz (Arts & Crafts) with
Al Johnson, at
Luther College, Decorah, Iowa with Dean Schwarz and
at the University of Alaska (ceramics). She has exhibited frequently
in Anchorage and in Fairbanks, Alaska. Weeden i s a two-time recipient
of the Niche Award,
in 2006 and again in 2008. The Niche Award is part of a prestigious
international competition put on by NICHE magazine.
She has also won awards at the 'American Craft Buyers' Market' Philidelphia,
the 'Purchase Award' at the Lincoln Arts Centre in California and
several awards in shows on Salt Spring Island.
She
shows all across Canada as well as in Washington State. "Most
of my understanding of clay as an artist's medium has come from
the mistakes, failures, hopes and successes the wilful clay throws
our way. Pieces are either thrown, thrown and altered, slab-built,
slump-molded, or pieced of several components -- whatever it takes
to achieve the conceived form. No two pots are ever alike."
http://www.judyweeden.com
http://www.ssartscouncil.com
http://www.vandopgallery.com/
http://www.steffichfineart.com/
http://www.craftcouncilbc.ca/final2/index.htm
http://www.canadianclayandglass.ca/
http://www.bcpotters.com/Gallery_Home.htm
http://www.pgpotters.ca/clayfest/images/Judy_Weeden_CV.pdf
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Elka
Nowicka
born in Poland - resides in
Victoria BC
Elka Nowicka earned her Master’s Degree in Engineering in
Poland. After practicing professionally for a period Elka left this
field and developed a successful fashion business in Poland and
Germany. In 1990 she packed up her books on everything from old
Byzantine art to Russian icons, and moved to Winnipeg where she
worked in costume-design for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. She continued
to pursue her love for the creative and established herself as an
accomplished artist and designer, and a full time painter in the
last few years. Nowicka combines old world aesthetics, modern sensibilities
and a touch of the theatrical to create luminous, crumbled patina-covered
canvases. Her eye for detail, balance and design led her to produce
canvases, textile art and her own line of hand painted silk beddings.
She shows extensively in Victoria BC, Banff Alberta and Edmonton
Alberta and is represented in Victoria by the West End Gallery.
http://www.westendgalleryltd.com/dynamic/artist_bio.asp?ArtistID=231
http://www.canadahouse.com/dynamic/artists/Elka_Nowicka.asp
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Joy
Zemel Long
born 1922 in West Vancouver BC - resides in West Vancouver BC
Joy Zemel Long attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montreal and
the Vancouver School
of Art back in BC. Her work is based in a solid tradition of French
painting reaching back to Post-Impressionism. Her work is based
on the figure and is set in domestic situations invoking Matisse
and Vuillard. She also absorbed the influences of Pop and hard edge
painting in the 1960's. Her works address mother and daughter relationships,
domesticity, her Jewish heritage and the life which surrounds her
seaside home in West Vancouver. She has exhibited widely in the
US and Canada including Lucien Labaudt Gallery in San Franciso;
the Park Gallery in San Francisco; the New Design Gallery in Vancouver
and the Burnaby Art Gallery.
http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/j/joylong/
http://www.artmajeur.com/index.php?go=user_pages/display_all&login=joylong
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