2008
Fairfield Artists Studio Tour
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Participating Artists

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“I paint the figure because I am fascinated by human energy. Whether it takes the form of physical movement, as in dance, or the form of emotional or spiritual intensity, I try to capture particular moments. I am interested in the ways that people experience imprisonment and liberation. My figures are striving …often for something they cannot reach or can reach only momentarily. Moments of release are short-lived but beautiful.”

Frances is a graduate of English, Language and Literature at the University of Toronto and has a MLS degree from the University of Western Ontario. After careers in education, librarianship and public service management, she entered art school and has committed herself to art since graduation from the Victoria College of Art in 2000. Her work highlights the human form in large, emotionally-charged acrylic canvases. Figures are powerful but vulnerable. Heavily textured surfaces of canvas, cardboard, burlap and paint reflect the multilayered nature of reality and the precariousness of the human condition.

A recipient of the Herbert Siebner Practising Artist Award, Frances has had solo shows in Victoria, Sidney, Parksville, Port Moody, Vancouver, and Portland, Oregon. Her work has been exhibited at Arthur Leggett Fine Art in Toronto, THEWORKS Festival of Art in Edmonton, the BC Festival of the Arts, the Campbell River Art Gallery, and the Maple Ridge and Burnaby art galleries. In Victoria her work has been exhibited at the Fran Willis Gallery, Martin Batchelor Gallery, the Gallery at the MacPherson, the Arts Council of Greater Victoria, the Rogueart Gallery, the May Ip-Lam Art Gallery, the Sooke and Sidney Fine Arts Shows and the Maltwood Gallery at the University of Victoria. In 2004 the city of Victoria commissioned her to paint a 10 foot square mural as part of a city beautification project.

Victor Bosson welcomes you to visit the Bosson, Weaver-Bosson painting and digital art studio in Fairfield.

Under the name ArtLife Victor combines drawing, photography, inks, digital painting and acrylic paints to create colourful and intriguing artworks. Subtle humour, satire, DREAMSCAPES and architectural images are ArtLife’s main focus. Avoiding the dull and the humdrum, ArtLife strives to create images that engage and delight the viewer.

After graduating from the Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Victor and fellow artist Barbara Weaver-Bosson came to Victoria in 1975. With exhibitions in Japan, British Columbia and Western Canada, Victor has maintained a fine reputation for creating exciting and award winning works of art.

GEORGE CLEMENT, a graduate from the University of Victoria’s Fine Arts program in the Visual Arts (graduation in 1976 with distinction), and who was lucky enough to have Pat Martin Bates as a mentor, has been involved in the visual arts and music ever since his graduation, often blending the two. He participated in the juried travelling exhibition called Young Canadians which toured Canada In 1976, as well as pioneering 2 productions mixing music and photographic visuals at the University of Victoria’s University Centre. After finishing a post graduate scholarship in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1977, he participated in many international juried shows with his series of screen prints and paintings in such diverse locations as Lubljana, Yugoslavia; Krakov, Poland; Bradford, England; Tokyo, Japan; Virginia Beach and Stockton, USA.

Working as a photographer to support his art habit, he honed his skills in that field to produce masterful land and cityscapes, finding abstraction in nature as well as concrete and steel, but always having the preference for unadulterated nature in all its glorious forms. In the mid 80’s he entered the computer world and has been writing music with sophisticated software which allows him to have a full orchestra in a box, so to speak. Continuing with his photography and painting, it is time for him once again to have a mixed showing of his visual and auditory works.

I apply my art education, experience, and craftsmanship to paint powerful symbolic images. I use acrylic paint mixed with various acrylic media to create textures. My main intention is to create a painting that expresses a feeling or a mood. This is my fourth year on the Fairfield Artist Studio Tour.

“Exceptionally high quality work both in terms of craftsmanship and distinctive vocabulary.” With these kind words noted art appraiser, consultant and curator, Nicholas Tuele sums up the appeal and promise of the works of Galen Davison. He continues: “[The] paintings are at once accessible and mysterious and thus they wield a compelling hold on the thoughtful viewer. In my opinion, this is the hallmark of the very best art. This is the kind of art that proves itself over time as we find deeper and deeper levels of meaning and allusion on sustained viewing.”

Working with plaster, zinc, copper, wood, ceramics and oil paint, Davison describes his technique as “a loose flow of movement, a visual journey.” His latest series is called Petal Paintings - and whether he casts his eye to abstract landscapes, seascapes, or still life studies, the results are works of bold beauty that fill their spaces with wonder, peace and delight.

Close study of a Davison work reveals a thousand tiny mysteries reflecting his many curiosities: the wonder of nature, the power of light, the ubiquitous icons of modern culture, the prettiness of a flower. Says Davison: “I like to think of these images as objects - more like flat sculptures. It’s like arriving at an archeological dig and trying to decode the layers of history and visualize the actions and decisions of the archeologists.”

Davison won a scholarship to the University of Victoria, BC, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, with honours, and received an honourable mention for the Helen Pitt Visual Arts Canada Award for the most promising artist to graduate from a British Columbia university. His work can be found in the corporate collections of the Westin Hotels chain, Brentwood Bay Luxury Resort Hotel, Sayward Hill Developments, the Robert W Cameron Law offices, and many private collections.

Davison paints at the window of the hillside studio he built from recovered wood above his house in Victoria where he lives with his wife and three young sons.

Working as a Professional Artist in a highly realistic style for over 30 years, Steven Dickerson's work has ranged from Fine Art to Illustration and Design. As he enjoys the personal aspects of the Artist / Client relationship, Steven has had much success working on a commissioned basis. He is represented locally by the Peninsula Gallery in Sydney. Steven also teaches painting and drawing at the University Canada West, Academy of Fine Arts.

Nancy is an accredited graphic designer and for 20 years has been the sole proprietor of Seaside Designs, a Victoria based visual communications firm and a resident of Fairfield. She is an award winning fine art photographer and in 2005, was chosen as one of the Tall Ships Victoria Artists¹ in Residence. She conducts photography workshops and teaches creative photography at various venues. The past 3 years, Nancy has received an Award of Excellence from Photographer¹s Forum Magazine, an internationally recognized publisher of The Best of Photography. Her work is exhibited regularly in regional gallery shows.

Her combination of artistic passion, love of nature & entrepreneurial spirit resulted in the establishment of CasualNaturalist Press in 2000, her own publishing company that markets her natural history guidebook of the Pacific Northwest (the Salish Sea), as well as a range of products including fine art cards and calendars.

She is transforming her fine art photography into a stand alone business; marketing her unique images and expanding her product line with the addition of home accessories products i.e lampshades, room dividers, wall coverings that feature her nature photography.

Moved to Victoria three years ago. I have traveled extensively to Mexico, Thailand and India and gain some of my inspiration from travel. I have been sewing for 10 years and initially learned to sew in order to make my first needlepoint into a pillow. With the help of a friend, I learned to sew and from there I started designing pillows and experimenting with different fabrics. I enjoy creating unique pillows using silk, velvet and upholstery fabrics. I have incorporated silk ties into many of my pillow designs making them one of a kind. Pillows provide a sense of comfort and warmth in a home and add greatly to any décor. This is why I love making them. My pillows have been sold through pillow parties, markets and at retail stores primarily in the Bay Area. This is my first showing in Victoria.

Born in Burnaby in 1976, Vincent's early artistic efforts revealed a strong natural talent and creative inclination. Early projects included illustrations in pen and coloured pencil as well as a multitude of 3D projects in a wide variety of media including plasticene, casting in metal, carving of soapstone, and especially sculptural clay. Because of it's long tradition for functional objects, Vince feels that clay is the ideal medium for creating accessible art pieces, things people can use and admire on a daily basis. With this in mind, five years ago Vince enrolled in a local pottery course to learn the basics, following which he set up his home studio and began experimenting. Because he knew the medium, it was not long before he was combining vessels with sculptural elements to create what might be called functional art. " My hope is to create pieces that people will want to touch and hold, and that will find a place in their everyday lives." You can view Vincent's work at Moss St. Market or at his home studio by appointment.

This year the artists open their studio to premiere new work in sculptural paper and multi media painting. From the figure and landscapes of New York City and rural Ireland, Miles Lowry investigates places both intimate and grand. David Ferguson's paintings resonate with intricate surfaces and sculptural dimensions finding affinities with the body and nature. A feast for the heart and mind.

Gordon Friesen is an accomplished graphic designer, fine artist, and story board illustrator. Locally, he is known for his illustrations pertaining to the history of beacon hill park and, most recently, his aerial view of Victoria, pre-European contact. Go to www.fairfieldcommunity.ca/ (special projects) for a preview. His current works, done in relief, portray bold graphic impressions of a culturally modified coast. This new work and other surprises will be on display at Gordon's studio at 1240 May Street.

"Tactile" is the word most used to describe Bentley's work. There's something about it that just makes you want to touch it. He has coupled his sculpted, Venetian plaster medium with his Representational Abstraction style and applied that filter to many scenes close to home for this latest series. If painting is his joy- photography is his passion. Both mediums will be on display featuring new beginnings, awakenings, blossomings right through to decay- attributes of the seasons of our lives.

Abstract Landscape...
Karen is privileged to be a born and bred Victorian, and it is the influence of this breathtaking city that informs her work. It was in her early childhood years that Karen discovered the world of art. She has worked with various types of media and explored many different artistic paths in the journey to her current abstract style. Soft pastels took the place of acrylics, watercolours, and pen and ink in the summer of 2002. Karen plans to continue reproducing her vision of Victoria's eclectic landscapes in her unique and inspired style. Look for her interpretations of oceans, flowers, mountains, and rivers, and especially her favourite subject matter: trees. Having recently moved into Fairfield, this is Karen's first on the Fairfield Tour.

Monique Haze was born in Paris, France and emigrated to Canada as a young teenager. She has lived in Montreal, Ottawa, Northern Ontario and Ithaca, NY. She has travelled extensively in Europe, South America, Mexico and the US. She returns to France about once a year where she has family ties.

After a career in education, she took early retirement and moved to Victoria, BC with her husband, where she has lived since 1995, enjoying the inspiring natural beauty around her.

Rachel Hellner was born in London, England and graduated from Saint Martins School of Art in 1991 with a B.A. Honours in Fine Art
(Painting). Since 1993, she has lived in Victoria, BC. Rachel completed her Masters in Art Education in 2005 and is currently a Sessional Instructor at the University of Victoria, teaching undergraduate courses in Painting, Drawing, Design, Image Development and Art for the Elementary Classroom. She is also a studio member of "Xchanges", Canada's oldest artists' co-operative.

Rachel's work is predominantly a response to her environment. Her imagery is a metaphor for relationships between us and our surroundings: people and places. She works by mixing acrylics, oil pastels and graphite – an unusual combination but one that she finds works well for the type of mark-making she produces. Her work is richly layered and often translucent, especially when working on Mylar. Drawing from the figure, a slight departure from her larger works, is something she finds peaceful and satisfying.

Valerie has always appreciated fine fabric, design and detailed finishing. As a partner for a few years’ in Oak Bay’s Avenue China and Chintz store she created quality home accessories for the shop. She also designs custom home accents for private clients.

A recent visit to Montreal gave access to fabulous Italian silk and cashmere fabrics and the idea for Sew Unique Designs was born.. Fashion accessories now complement the home accent line. The Italian fabrics have a beautiful hand and lend themselves to scarves and shawls that feel wonderful to the skin. The classic black cashmere is well suited to men and well as women. Home accents from Sew Unique Designs feature fine cushions, elegant tea cozies and table runners.

Valerie has exhibited at several shows and is busy establishing a home studio in Fairfield. She has also donated items for auction at the Victoria Art Gallery. The emphasis is always on fine fabric combinations, design and finishing.

I began my art training in Design Arts at Grant MacEwan College, Edmonton, Alberta, and have taken numerous painting and drawing courses in Toronto, San Francisco and Victoria. My work has been featured on the covers of national and international literary journals and book covers. Other awards include the Myfanwy Pavelic Best in Show Award at Sooke Fine Arts and a featured artist in the Winsor & Newton North American Artist's Materials Competition, Limited Edition Calendar. My work is in the collections of the Canada Council and British Columbia Art Banks, and I was awarded a British Columbia Arts Council Award.

Roy Mercer is a fourth generation Victorian who has been interested in art and music since childhood. Art has been his chosen profession for the last 40 years and music is still very much another creative outlet as a hobby.

Roy was a student of Allan Edwards in 1961 - 1963 at the Art League of Victoria, majoring in Industrial Design. While there, he was taught watercolour techniques by Allan who was a master of the medium.

Roy attended the four year art program at The Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles between 1963 - 1967. He majored in Industrial Design and minored in Graphic Design. After graduation, he worked in Los Angeles for two years as a package designer and then moved to Vancouver and worked for ten years in various art agencies as a graphic artist. In 1979, Roy moved back to Victoria and worked for Alston Graphics and TTC, two local design agencies in Victoria.

In 1983, Roy put together his first one man show which took place right next door to Eye For Art Custom Picture Framing, at what was then The Uptown Gallery.
Roy has been freelancing as a graphic designer and architectural illustrator since 1984 with his company, New Moon Design Studio, situated in Fairfield. He is now focusing on his fine art.
Recently, Roy has been concentrating on commissioned pet portraits. He somehow manages to capture the intelligence and beauty of these lovely creatures.

Many of his paintings (not all ) contain humour and a slight tonguein- cheek attitude with a hint of erotica and wonderful catchy titles to make us all look at ourselves in a way no other species on this planet can appreciate.

Brian Moreau is a Victoria artist painter represented in hundreds of private and corporate collections throughout Canada, the USA, Indonensia and Australia. Art is inarticulate speech of the heart, a spiritual communication that few understand or speak of care about. I am not painting an object, I am attempting to paint a vibration. My art is a work of fiction, and of imagination, even though it "appears" representational. I primarily paint with acrylics.

I was born in New York City and learned to snap my fingers in Greenwich Village when Bob Dylan was still Bobby Zimmerman. I began college at Bryn Mawr but dropped out to marry a Hollywood actor and ended up in London determined to start a restaurant which resulted in an eleven year sojourn in the Slocan Valley in British Columbia in a log cabin without running water in the winter. The weather is better in Victoria where I have lived for some time most happily with my partner Martin Hykin while no longer being a practicing weaver or an academic or a coffeeshop owner or an organic farmer or a even a poet, although at 3 AM almost anything seems possible. Please come see my beautiful brand new studio where there will be examples of several artists who have been part of an amazing visual journal group called Moneve. Thank you!

Steven Murray,an artist of multiple gifts. He is a painter, poet, songwriter and musician. A prolific and exuberant painter, experimenting with colour as energy and movement, Steven Murray is largely self-taught. He has taken his passion for life and imbued his paintings with it. His provocative series incorporating the mandala is captiyating. Since the time of his debut exhibit with mentor Chin Shek Lam, at the Hett Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta in the early 1980`s. and subsequent inclusion at Expo '85 in Tsukuba,Japan; his work has been sought after by a number of private collectors. A longtime resident of Victoria,B.C., Steven Murray is a person of deep soul and character. He is engaging and refreshing.

The Canadian Prairies were my childhood home. Painting, my first love, developed while working for a BA in art and psychology in the US. After teaching elementary school art, I worked as an art therapist in Britain. My interest in photography began while living on the tiny Island of lona in the Hebrides. The main theme was archetypal human forms revealed in close-ups of unusual rock formations. The work was shown on the islands and in Glasgow. Returning to Canada, I learned photoshop and began to work with layers of photographs, monoprints, rubbings etc. I create visual essays with a series of images to develop an idea. My work has been exhibited in group and solo shows on Vancouver Island and the Mainland.

Dorset Norwich-Young studied at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, graduating with honours in 1975. While there, she flirted with printmaking, photography, and ceramics but painting was always her greatest love. Dorset’s paintings, whatever the subject, are renowned for their energy, vitality and vibrant colours.

An internationally collected, award winning professional for 25 years, Dorset has painted for many years in oils and watercolours and has recently developed a passion for acrylics, capturing the deep-hued colours of West Coast sea and landscapes.

Mary-Nona Priestman has kept her work fresh by studying at the Victoria College of Art, The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, The University of Victoria, The Emily Carr College of Art and Design, The University of British Columbia, and the Langara Community College. She is indebted to her patron and benefactor George Barret Priestman (1933-1991).

Inga Pungente lives and paints in Fairfield, the home of the Moss Street Market of Greater Victoria. Her love of nature began in Thunder Bay where she was born and raised. With the encouragement of her sister, Inga attended a beginner’s watercolour class in the early 1990’s. She was hooked, and pursued her desire to paint by attending several Chinese Brush Painting workshops. From this style of painting and the brush stroke techniques she has developed her own fluid style of painting from nature; mostly flowers, birds and animals. Inga offers art card and brush painting workshops up and down Vancouver Island and her work has been widely purchased from around the world.

- graduate in Art Education, Fine Arts, History in Art (University of London), University of Victoria.
- studied classical chinese painting with Master Stephan Sham.
- teaching career of thirty-two years, mostly in the Fine Arts.
- ceramics from 1970 till 1980's; exhibited widely in B. C., Calgary Biennial; work in private collections B. C., Alberta, California, and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
- 1980's till present; studio work shifted to drawing, painting, and mixed media, with investigations into the classic subject matter: the figure, still life, and landscape. An interest in the nature of mark-making, space, objects, and the process of abstraction continues to inform the process of art making.
- work has been exhibited intermittently in recent years: Dichotomy (with Carol Rae); Body Language (Miles Lowry Fine Arts); Artists Who Teach (Sooke
Gallery); Sooke Fine Arts Show; Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria; Outlook; Fairfield Artists Studio Tour.
- NEW WORK that is under development includes images of Beach Huts as spontaneous architecture (The Renovation Series), and Aiki Art, traditional
brush drawings/mixed media that explore the direction and energy of the martial art, Aikido.

Jill Rockwell and Mary Lou Moffat are "Backyard Beads Studio". We make our jewelry from PMC (Precious Metal Clay) which comes out of the kiln as .999 Fine Silver. Each piece is totally unique. Last hear Jill was given a juror's choice award at the SPAC show, and was chosen to exhibit in the Sidney Fine Art Show. She also held a private exhibit at the Goward House. She has been juried to have a one person show of art jewelry mounted on canvas at Xchanges Co-op Gallery in April, 2008.

Nancy has been painting full-time for 10 years. For most of that time she has been a watercolourist and muralist but in the past few years has been concentrating on working with acrylics. She attended the Illustration programme at Sheridan College and came away with an enthusiasm for sketching the human form. Nancy has only lived in Victoria for one year and finds the West Coast incredibly inspiring. Her favourite subjects include people and local scenery.

The process and production of images and objects is a vital part of my life. In University I graduated with a BA from UBC. Then, I achieved an MFA in painting and lithography while studying in Mexico. I first experienced the translucent, molten possibilities of glass as an art medium when I was traveling in Ireland. Starting in 1974 and continuing for sixteen summers, I gained knowledge and experience of glass sculpture from the international staff at the Pilchuck Glass School, situated 80 km north of Seattle. Especially significant was working with Bertil Vallien, from Sweden, the inventor of the sand casting technique and lead crystal kilncasting glass with Jaroslava Brychtova and Stanislav Libensky from Czechoslovakia.

Public and Corporate Collections: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Department of External Affairs; Ottawa Ontario Crafts Council Collection and Seafirst Bank, Seattle.

Scholarships and Awards: B.C. Government Scholarship; World Glass Survey, Corning, New York; Purchase Award Department of External Affairs; three times nominated for Corning Prize; Traveling Grant South East Asia.

I have explored many themes over the decades; Interest in past cultures; Mythology; Buddhism; Lost Knowledge and lately, Nature Themes, particularly Water. My first exhibit was Glass Invitational at the Seattle Art Museum in 1975. My most important solo show was at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in 1993. My most recent shows are: Lucent, a cross Canada, Canadian Glass Show at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery in Calgary and Captured Light at SFU in 2007.

"The eye, which is said to be the window fo the soul is the primary means by which the sensus communis of the brain may most fully and magnificently contemplate the infinite works of nature, and the eas is the second, acquiring nobility through the recounting of things which the eye has been." Leonardo de Vinci.

Elizabeth (Betsy) is passionate about colour, texture and the moving landscape. Her work reflects the relationship between language and landscape; poetry and the natural world. She divides her time between writing, painting, and visiting her daughters in Newfoundland and Finland. She lives in Victoria.

She is a member of the Collective Works Artist Association, The League of Canadian Poets, and The Federation of B.C. Writers.

Carole Thompson’s paintings are informed by dreams, memories, photography, metaphysical interests and symbology. The series, From the Beginning, explores sacred geometry and the five corresponding elements. Other works, Dimensional Dream, inspired by an Australian residency, involve themes of earth connections invoked through archetypal signs and symbols, and personal symbolic languages. Current work explores geometric structures found in the minerals of earth and the resonance within this crystalline matrix. One intent of this work is to evoke a sense of multi-dimensional consciousness in viewers. Carole is the recipient of Canada Council Awards and her work is found in many private and corporate collections including Art Bank in Ottawa. She has taught at Arts Umbrella Vancouver, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and is currently teaching on the extension faculty of UCW (Victoria College of Art). The classes include Introduction to Acrylics and Ongoing Acrylics, as well as a new class, Acrylic Alchemy this April.

I've been working at perfecting the art of painting with acrylics for the past 23 years. My paintings typically portray the beauty of the Canadian landscape with a strong emphasis on the magnificent scenery to be found on my home of Vancouver Island. My paintings are typically very tranquil, beautiful, and relaxing to look at. I've been told on several occasions that looking at my paintings is like "looking at the beauty of our world through the eyes of a child".

My acrylic paintings typically start out with me exploring the outdoors on foot, while always keeping my eyes open for the next beautiful painting. Preliminary sketches and work is then completed to aid in the process of completing the original paintings back in my studio. I paint on masonite which I first prepare by applying several layers of gesso to the masonite board, and sanding each coat to maintain a nice smooth surface. I then begin the slow process of "bringing that piece of board" to life by applying and building up anywhere from 3 to 12 semi transparent layers of acrylic paint to obtain the final painting. This process is all done by hand and brush (no airbrush), and can take anywhere from a week and up to several months to complete each painting.

My paintings, artcards, and artprints can be viewed and purchased on my website.

I studied art and design and later ceramics in London,England at the Central School of Art, before I came to Canada in 1958. I spent many years teaching when living in Edmonton, at the Edmonton Potters' Guild and at the University of Alberta. During this time, and until the present,I have made both functional and decorative ware. I have found satisfaction in making functional pottery because in this sort of work one is always reaching towards a kind of perfection through repetition.
I have exhibited across Canada and my work is in collections in this country and internationally. In 1967 I received a major Canada Council Arts Award.

Sandy Voldeng, who many would say has always been an artist, began sculpting in 2001. Creating life figues primarily from clay, Sandy is driven to explore the reallms of emotion, in all its infinite nuance of expression. Working in her garden studio, Sandy continually draws inspiration from all she experiences, from friends and family, to cultural events and travel, to the art and culture af Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Sandy has lived in Victoria since 1993.

Barbara Weaver-Bosson welcomes you to visit the Bosson, Weaver-Bosson studio in Fairfield.

Have a first hand look at Barbara Weaver-Bosson's new neighbourhood painting in progress - a View of Gonzales Bay and Fairfield. This new painting features a complex rooftop view of Gonzales Bay houses, beachfront, Cresent Road, Hollywood Cresent, Clover Point, Dallas Road, Moss Rock and other Fairfield areas.Throughout the studio visitors can enjoy Barbara's paintings, prints and greeting cards from her signature Victoria Neighbourhood Series. For over 24 years Barbara Weaver-Bosson has created a totally unique and expansive view of Victoria. Weaver-Bosson's award winning paintings capture the details of everyday life in many of Victoria character neighbourhoods.

Victor Bosson digital art studio. Enjoy the varied collection of Victor Bosson's and ArtLife's, delightfully offbeat digital mixed medium paintings and art tiles.

I became interested in stained glass after watching a piece being made to completion. It was years later that I had the opportunity to try my hand at it. I moved to a remote area of Vancouver Island with plenty of time, a "how to" book and all the tools to get started. I've been working in this art form now for 18 years and continue to love every aspect of it. I create my own patterns and especially enjoy the whimsical abstracts as they are open to everyones own interpretation. I now live in Courtenay where I have a great little studio to work in. My glass is on display here and I would welcome a visit from you.

Matthew Wolferstan’s representational watercolours are mainly of local scenes familiar to any who know and love Victoria, and/or B.C.’s coastal waters. Born and raised in Victoria, Wolferstan gives an “insider’s” look at the area, through his paintings. His watercolours are very precise, with close attention to detail, while still maintaining a feel for the subject and overall mood of the piece. Mostly self-taught, Wolferstan’s formal training includes one year at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, and one week in Italy with British watercolourist Alan Reed.