FEBRUARY 4 – MARCH 31

Sooke Harbour House Gallery Presents

Featured Artist Nancyanne Cowell

West Coast e c o s c a p e s

1528 Whiffen Spit Road

Everyone welcome!

open daily from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm

(250) 642 3421

www.sookeharbourhouse.com

Inspiring audiences, authors and ecology world leaders, Nancyanne Cowell’s latest collection of evocative abstract paintings, focuses on innocence with nature and suspending time. She has an endless fascination with the serene beauty of our vigorous living ecosystems on the West Coast. “I am painting at a time when technology, our culture and our physical world are changing at rapid speed. When I am creating, I am reflecting on the interconnectedness of all life, at all levels. The vibrant whisper of our collective life." This evocative exhibit is romantic and captures the spiritual quality of nature and love.  Nancyanne’s work is now collected and she is more committed than ever to painting West Coast ecoscapes that have a strong Canadian cultural influence.

Malcolm Barker at Sooke Harbour House Gallery

Christmas in November at the Sooke Harbour House

Linny D. Vine at Sooke Harbour House Gallery

Opening Reception : Sunday Aug. 7 - 1 to 3 pm

Ken Horne at Sooke Harbour House Gallery

Harriet Hiemstra at Sooke Harbour House Gallery

Vedrana Ascroft at The Sooke Harbour House Gallery

Roxsane Tiernan at Sooke Harbour House Art Gallery

Christopher Lucas at Sooke Harbour House Gallery

Christmas in November at The Sooke Harbour House Gallery

The Holiday show dates and times are:

Thursday, November 25 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm,
Friday 26^th & Saturday, 27^th  11:00 am to 8:00 pm & 
Sunday, November 28  11:00 am to 4:00 pm.   

Everyone is welcome!   

We hope to see you there. 

1528 Whiffen Spit Road

Sooke, BC

Maria Kaltio & Patrice Plank at Sooke Harbour House Gallery

Maria Kaltio local artist from Sooke, B.C.
My mom started quilting when I was a teenager and made quilts for everyone..... except me. I hounded her to make me one for years until finally on my 25th birthday she presented me with a gift..... a second hand Phaff sewing machine (that I still use today) and suggested that I should make my own. That gift was a passion for quilting and textile arts, and something that she and I now share. I take classes and workshops as often as I can and still feel like a beginner (after 12 years of practice) when in the company of more experienced quilters. My designs are often inspired by the fabrics I choose which tend to have an Asian influence, or a strong graphic feel. I love to create my own designs and finish with free motion machine quilting.

Patrice Plank local artist from Victoria, B.C.
Scratch art is a unique art form using scratchboard. Scratchboard is a wooden panel coated with a layer of white clay and then sprayed with a layer of black India ink. It was developed for the professional scratch artist.
The original design is lightly scratched into the black ink surface using very delicate tools; concentrating on lights and darks until the desired effect is achieved. Each image is literally thousands of scratches allowing for precise detail and control of lines, enabling the artist to bring the piece to life. The picture can then be painted with acrylics or watercolors etc, or left as a black and white.


Oct. 1 to Nov.30, 2010 -
Opening Reception: Sun. Oct. 3 -1 to 4pm 
1528 Whiffen Spit Rd, Sooke,BC.                                                      
This is a free event everyone is welcome!

Lisa Hebden at Sooke Harbour House Gallery

“Figurative Art with Lisa Hebden”

Sep 01/10 to Sep 30/10 open from 9:00AM to 9:00 PM daily.

Lisa Hebden is a figurative oil painter working in Victoria, BC. She works from drawings, photographs, and memory to make paintings that have a sense of otherworldliness to them. She is fascinated by narrative, which carries over into the paintings: something is always happening beyond their surfaces.

Victoria figurative painter Lisa Hebden is a 2003 recipient of a Painting on the Edge Award from the Federation of Canadian Artists. Lisa holds two degrees, in Fine Arts & Graphic Design, from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. Her work has been featured in International Artist Magazine, Applied Arts Magazine, Art Avenue, Ceramics Art & Perception, The Vancouver Sun, The Halifax Herald and the Claremont Review. Her paintings can be found in private and corporate collections in Canada, the United States, Germany and Australia.

This is a free event, everyone is welcome!

Harriet Hiemstra,Sandra Fowler & Dawn Joy Ritchie at Sooke Harbour House Art Gallery

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Earth, Fire, and Brush ~ Summer delights
Sooke, BC, August 1–31, 2010 – Sooke Harbour House Art Gallery features for the month of August three Vancouver Island artists who create innovative works in clay, glass, and acrylic on canvas, board, and digital.
Harriet Hiemstra works in clay and mixed media using brightly colored imagery and contrasting color, shape and texture to weave a lively story on each piece. Her central theme is to celebrate the feminine with grace, charm, and elegance.

Sandra Fowler, LeedAP, works with fused glass for exterior and interior spaces as well as bowls and small free standing pieces to delight the eye and reflect the heart. Her Photovoltaic glass panels combine beauty and technology by collecting solar energy which is converted and stored in a battery to allow self-illumination with renewable energy all year round.
Dawn Joy Ritchie works in acrylic on canvas, board, and digital creating joyful images of whimsical women in a colorful expressionistic style. She enjoys portraying bold, independent women often with a pet cat, bird or fish.
Everyone is welcome to the opening reception on Sunday, August 1^st, 2010, 1:00pm-4:00pm with artists in attendance.

Lisa Riehl and Desiree Bond at Sooke Harbour House Gallery

Two Victoria-area artists, Lisa Riehl and Desiree Bond, will be the feature artists at the Sooke Harbour House for the month of June 2010.  The show is entitled “The West Coast” and is the perfect way to start the summer!  Come out to visit the Sooke Harbour House in the town of Sooke, only a 45 minute drive from downtown Victoria.  The Sooke Harbour House is a luxury boutique hotel on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, and features spa, fine dining, and of course an amazing selection of art throughout the hotel.  It’s West Coast art in a stunning West Coast setting...

Opening reception:  Sunday, June 6, 2010 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.  Refreshments are available.

Lisa Riehl lives in Sooke and paints impressionistic west coast landscapes.  Her bold and colorful acrylic paintings of trees, mountains and beaches are inspired by her absolute love of nature and the fact that she lives in such a gorgeous part of the world.  She is always spending time outside:  hiking, surfing, and going on walks - “with her dog.  Once home in her studio, Lisa paints the inspiring scenes around her, adding a bit more color and boldness that make up her own unique style.

Desiree Bond lives in Victoria and has spent much of the last two years painting en plein air (outdoors).  She often paints with the Victoria-based group "Al Frescoes”, and many of her studio pieces are derived from that outdoor work.  Desiree's recent work is a combination of conté line drawing and traditional acrylic painting on canvas.

The Naked Thruth at the Sooke Harbour House Gallery