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| |  |  | Rhona awakened one morning in 1966, knowing that she could learn how to paint and draw. When she was introduced to clay, she knew what form her journey would take. Her present work is clay sculpture and presentation ware. Rhona continues to share her passion for her craft with others through art instruction at her "Open Armes Studio". |
|  |  | Pat completed a three year fine arts course and, while raising a family, worked from home creating pastel and oil portraits, pen and ink sketches and illustrations for daily newspapers. Her style is realistic, influenced by the people, the culture and the art of the many places she has lived. Pat is also a skilled potter and sculptor. |
|  |  | Karen's career as a fibre artist started with a three month trip through Mexico in 1974. Travelling from the west coast to the east coast, she admired the woven blankets and wall hangings that were created in the villages by women squatting with their backstrap looms strung around tree trunks. She was filled with inspiration and a desire to learn this ancient craft. The experience eventually led her to a passion for spinning, dying and felting the fibres of different animals. |
BONNIE KEATS
|  |  | Bonnie Keats creates large scale vases, murals and coffee table bowls and fires in the wood kiln she built on her Knutsford property last year, or low-fires in tin foil and paper towel...extremes of temperature and technique that keep her excited about clay even after 25 years as a potter. |
ROSEMARY
FOSTER |  |  | Rosemary utilizes the mediums of acrylics, watercolours, oils, Indian ink, and pastels, to create soft, pastoral moods communicating her love of nature and the South Thompson - Kamloops region. Examples of her work hang in homes and businesses locally as well as in Ireland, Japan, Australia and Alberta. |
|  |  | Jan started to weave in Princec George in 1990. She started weaving rags because they were cheap and she liked recycling. She wove mainly with rags for 8 years. The response after weaving a cotton shawl to wear to her daughter's wedding led her to make colourful, textured cotton and chenile scarves and shawls. |
LANCE
WEISSER
|  |  | Lance's first formal painting experience was at the Manchester Art Centre in Vermont in 1965. "A well-known instructor took interest in me and told me I had promise." He enjoys working with watercolour because he loves the way the watercolour is able to bring to paper the illusive feeling and atmosphere of a moment caught in time. His specialty niche is handprinting eggs and producing minature watercolours as small as 1" x 2". |
|  |  | Shiela is a self-employed accountant with a passion for glass. Twelve years ago, after taking her first lesson, she finally knew what she wanted to be when she grew up. Her largest commission to date, the windows for St. Andrew's on the Square in Kamloops, used the Tiffany technique. Currently her primary focus has turned to working with kiln formed hot glass opening a whole new realm of "Usable Art" |
SUZY
KNOX |  |  | Susan Knox teaches and paints plein air landscapes and still life in acrylic and watercolour. She has worked as an illustrator and participated in many juried and group shows over the last 25 years. |
|  |  | Jackie rediscovered her first love of textile art whilst battling against horizontal rain in the Isle of Man, circa 1999. A Foundation certificate in Art and Design encouraged continuation in Art after a move to Kamloops in 2003. Since then, 'Four seasons' cards and purses have been notable features of Jackie's portfolio, with individual pieces composed of layers of fabric, silk flowers and sequins, uniquely stitched together and further embellished by hand. |
LYNDA
JONES |  |  | Lynda’s background is in the production and management of graphic art projects for large corporations, advertising agencies and design studios in Vancouver. She had a life-long passion for pottery but it wasn’t until 1992 after moving to the Falkland area that she started making it, as her second career. |
MARJ
BRIGGS |  |  | Marj has always liked working with her hands and has tried many crafts over the years. It wasn’t until she was introduced to art glass that she discovered a lasting passion. In the ten years since she has continued working on her techniques for both stained glass and kiln-formed glass and discovered her own whimsical style. |
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