Cowichan Station Area Association

Gord Iversen

Bright Angel — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:47:15 +0000

Photography has been a passion of mine for 35 years. I love to work with alternative processes and formats. I have recently rediscovered the Polaroid instant film currently made by The Impossible Project for old Polaroid cameras. These are enlarged examples of the early imperfect, but stunning palette representation resulting from the “new” instant film.

Glenn Farenholtz

Bright Angel — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 03:04:44 +0000

While living in northwestern B.C., Glenn fell in love with the tributary rivers of the Skeena. The painting of a fisherman on the Babine River in a Cowichan sweater (oil on wood) is based on a photograph captured by the late Myron Kozak, a nature photographer and conservationist that lived in the Bulkley Valley.

Glenn, Cheri and their two children actively support local efforts centering on the Hub, re-invigorating the community resource that is the centre of Cowichan Station.

Cohen Ayers

Bright Angel — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 03:02:49 +0000

Cohen Ayers (working with Laird Campbell)

In a visit with Laird Campbell, Cohen took to doodling an adventuresome and complex piece involving dinosaurs and snails – two of his favourite subjects. With Laird’s help that doodle evolved into a collaboration between the two – a two-piece complex of relief and form, marrying colour and shape that hints at the chemistry that exists between the two artists.

Cohen has been drawing for more than half his life (he’s 5…), and Laird Campbell’s style and works can be viewed at www.lairdcampbell.com.

Melanie Circle

Bright Angel — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:02:28 +0000

Melanie loves the process of making art. Her paintings range from intricate, meditative mandalas to loose, expressive landscapes and colourful abstracts. She likes to pass on the joy of creating and the use of painting as a path of mindfulness. To her, teaching is as important as solo work in the studio or in the field. “To see people making art, experiencing peace (or whatever they find) when they slow down, make choices and create…that is exciting.” She echoes Kurt Vonnegut’s belief that making art is part of being human: “It’s as natural as breathing or making love.” She firmly believes that everyone can make art and that the process is as important as the product. “The feast is in the making; in a way, the final product is leftovers!”

www.melaniecircle.ca

Sophia Palmer

Bright Angel — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:01:14 +0000

Sophia Palmer attended Cowichan Station Elementary School as a child, and is now a graduate of the UBC School of Social Work.

Leanne Hodges

Bright Angel — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:00:00 +0000

West Coast Wild

Biography: Leanne is primarily a self-taught artist with an academic background and technical training acquired in a variety of visual art programs in the US and Canada. For more than twenty years, she pursued an art practice while developing a remote charter boat company and raising her son, Kai. In the far reaches of coastal BC, Leanne worked as an artist, a DFO contractor enumerating salmon streams, and a guide and naturalist for wildlife charters.

Images of wildlife, coastal landscapes, indigenous cultures, and environmental themes are expressively interwoven in Leanne’s paintings and mixed media artworks. Technically and creatively, she is attracted to and challenged by cross media formats, with a special interest in life-size models and murals. This gives her artwork a uniqueness and originality not typically found in west coast portraiture, wildlife or landscape art.

These qualities converge in Leanne’s current interest in paper pulp, an eco-conscious medium capable of lightweight applications and increased pliability for three dimensional pieces. It also lends versatility to highly modelled and textured surfaces in her works on canvas.

www.leannehodges.com
westcst1@telus.net
250-285-3152

Virginia Lockhart

Bright Angel — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:58:14 +0000

I would describe myself as a creative and free person– someone who wants to make a difference one step at a time. I have lived in the Cowichan Station community for nearly 10 years now and wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. The strong green trees, the peaceful river, the moving history of the area is so beautiful, and I believe that it should never be lost.

I chose to paint a Sockeye Salmon because of its beauty, its link to the communities of the west coast, and because I believe just like the Hub, that they should never be lost either. Doing your part and supporting the HUB is your chance to do something great, and bring back a little bit of history.

Joanne Circle

Bright Angel — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:56:12 +0000

Fiber Artist Joanne Circle caretakes the ancient textile craft of felt. Honouring this tradition of felt and in-spired with the natural world of the Cowichan Valley, Joanne has used felt to process her experience and sculpt form with fiber for the past 28 years.

Laird Campbell

Bright Angel — Sun, 27 May 2012 04:15:30 +0000

Laird was born in Scotland. He arrived in Canada to work in Exhibition and Display in Montreal during Expo ’67. He moved to the westcoast of Canada in the 70′s and since then has made art in many forms, concentrating, for the last 20 years, in creating images with an intricate assemblage of salvaged wood.

He recently moved to Cowichan Station, where he was introduced to an art photographer and printmaker, who has skillfully transferred some of Laird’s imagery onto paper.

This two-part panel is a collaboration with Laird’s friend and neighbour, 5-year old Cohen Ayers.

Oliver Price

Bright Angel — Sun, 27 May 2012 04:15:15 +0000

Oliver Price is 6. He lives on a small rural property near the HUB with sheep and chickens, and apparently an imaginary pig. This painting was inspired when neighbours gifted their old lawn tractor to his Daddy to help him deal with our VERY tall grass. Oliver’s parents are volunteers helping to restore and renovate the HUB, and he wanted to offer this as his contribution to the effort.