Colleen Couves was born in Regina Saskatchewan and travelled quite extensively as a child with her family, receiving most of her education in Edmonton Alberta following which she taught Art in elementary schools in Alberta for several years.
After moving to Vernon, Colleen helped establish the Galloping Goose Artists'
Co-operative as well as the North Okanagan Artists Alternative and Gallery Vertigo while working at the Okanagan University College library.
She received a BFA from the University of Alberta in Edmonton as well as a Professional Diploma in Education. More recently she obtained a certificate in desktop publishing from Okanagan University College.
Colleen's work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Vernon Art Gallery and Gallery Vertigo, as well as many group and juried shows. Her work can be viewed at Gallery Vertigo and Gallery Odin on Silver Star Mountain
In my current work I am exploring, through the use of pencil crayon, gouache and block printing, the intimate and portable work that women have always carried close at hand to work on in spare moments.
My quilts and table coverings are drawn rather than sewn, but the tools and techniques used are similarly time consuming. The process is slow and orderly.
These explorations express a distillation of what captures my interest in ordinary events, an ordering of these elements, and the pleasure taken in small delights in the midst of chaos or tedium.
Crow visitors appear in some of the pieces - spirits of playfulness, cheekiness, forthrightness - spirit visitors from the past - a remembering of friends or family members. In mythology and folklore as a whole, crows tend to be symbolic of the spiritual aspect of death, or the transition of the spirit into the afterlife. (Couves)
David Goodliffe creates hard-edged paintings using pure dynamic colours, with a vibrant and dynamic result. He has worked with clay for many years and took the Sveva studio at the Caetani Centre specifically to concentrate on his oil painting. Known fondly to his fellow Caetani Artists as Professor Silly, David still works with his clay 'Sillies', to the delight of visiting children.
Ninfa Studio - Angela Broad - Painter
Angela Broad explores existence as a multi-dimensional life-force; and uses a myriad of mediums and techniques to illuminate the link between various facets of reality. Visions from the landscape, the cosmos and the body join with impressions of neurons, microbes, and other natural systems, creating a complexity of visual forms that navigate the paradox of inner and outer realities; of self and other.
This amorphous process-palette has recently coelessed, and is now inexorably drawn towards emphasizing personal and social experience within changing times. Angela's paintings embrace such themes as, relationship, health, the environment, nanotechnology, and information sifting. These complex ideas are balanced and emphasized by a return to nature and the moment.
Angela Broad has exhibited work in Calgary, Albuquerque, and the Okanagan. She holds an MFA With Distinction from the University of New Mexico, and a BFA With Distinction from the University of Calgary. She has taught at the University of New Mexico and currently teaches at VCAC and Okanagan College.
Angela Broad was born in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. She began a consistent art practice at age three. She grew up traveling extensively, as well as camping and skiing in the Okanogan Valley. She has lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba; Calgary, Alberta; and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Angela now maintains an active artistic practice in Vernon, BC
She encourages artists, students and friends to drop by her working studio at the Caetani House. Art thrives in the presence of art, and a wonderful exchange of creative energy and ideas can happen while teaching and learning.
Dance Studio - Devon Muhlert B.Ed, CMP aka Ms. Music
Active in the arts since her teens, Devon has spent decades on artistic pursuits. Her pen birthed over 50 songs and she's written hundreds of articles, number of decades unspecified. She has 2 CD's with flute and nature sounds. Soothing Sounds for a Sound Body, with spoken meditations,has been called haunting with glorious flute-playing. Shimmers of Silver has flute stylings of original music.
Her choir pieces have been performed in Australia, Canada, and the U.S. Two of them received honourable mention from the Amadeus Choir in Toronto.
Also an arts photo-journalist, her articles are published internationally. Her humour column is dubbed Devon's Delusions, poking fun at our quirky world.
Three novels are currently being polished ready to market, and Queen's Quarterly, the prestigious literary journal out of Queen's University, published her short story Mirroring. In-progress are books on creativity, and more song books.
A former winner of the Shari Meakin Bursary in Burnaby for a body of journalistic work, she continues to share her creativity by facilitating classes like Storytelling and Infusing your Writing with Energy. She also taught an 8-week course, Finding yourCreativity through the then Okanagan University College in Salmon Arm and Armstrong, and taught writing for seniors through Heartsmart at Kelowna's Rotary Centre for the Arts. Also in Kelowna, she was nominated for an Okanagan Arts award in the Literary Division in 2010.
Currently she teaches wind instruments and guitar and continues her writing projects and creative workshops. At a First Nations Immersion school where she teaches native flute, her students bestowed a new moniker: Mrs. Music.
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Straw Bale Studio Artist In Residence - James Postill
James Postill earned his BA in Fine Arts from Okanagan University College in 1993. He has since been a picture framer, art teacher and full time professional artist with a list of public and private commissions, exhibitions and sales to his name.
James 'passionate about the Okanaganaan the ever-changing colour of the muscular rolling hills and grasslands'. While he continues to produce work on that theme, he has recently completed a 'Rain Series' in oils. Two of his commissioned murals can be seen in Lumby.
Mural painting led to his interest in Freso painting and a desire to perfect the art. James will be working from the Straw Bale Studio and finishing the exterior walls with Fresco style murals as part of his residency.
He has instructed students from 6 year to adults and is passionate about sharing his knowledge and experience of the arts. James will also be offering Plein-air painting tutorials and Kids Garden t Adventure Summer Camps during his residency
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Destanne Norris is a
professional artist who received her BFA (Honours) degree in painting and
drawing from the University of Victoria in 1987. After graduating
from
the University of Victoria, Destanne moved to Jasper, Alberta where she could
be surrounded by wilderness. She participated in many workshops, Artist in
Residence programs and Visiting Artist programs; and became a juried member of
the Alberta Society of Artists and Arts Jasper.
Her
great love of nature and the outdoors has been the inspiration for her work and
Jasper National Park provided her with a spectacular array of subject
matter. Her paintings are impressionistic with a bold use of colour; they are
accomplished and assured, exuding a great sense of connection to the landscape.
Destanne left the Rocky
Mountains to pursue post-graduate studies in Art and Environment at the
University of Tasmania in Australia - Natural Environment and Wilderness
Studies is well integrated into the Art Department. In 2009 she was awarded the
Master of Fine Art degree from the University of Tasmania, yet it was the call
of ‘home' that brought her back to live in the Okanagan in Canada.
Her unending passion for
natural environments and the elements, especially mountains and water, continue
to be the source of Destanne's artistic inspiration. Landscape and place,
metaphor and symbol, embodiment and Romanticism are her research interests.
While an overarching theme in her landscape painting is the mirroring of
‘inscape' and ‘landscape'.
Destanne's paintings have
been exhibited internationally and nationally in Public, University and
Artist-Run Galleries. Her work can be found in numerous private collections
around the world and in corporate collections, as well as being in the
permanent collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Penticton
Art Gallery. Destanne is represented by Gallery Odin www.galleryodin.com at Silver Star Mountain,
BC and by Mountain Galleries www.mountaingalleries.com
with locations in Whistler, BC and in Jasper
and Banff, AB.
Colleen Couves was born in Regina Saskatchewan and travelled quite extensively as a child with her family, receiving most of her education in Edmonton Alberta following which she taught Art in elementary schools in Alberta for several years.
Angela Broad explores existence as a multi-dimensional life-force; and uses a myriad of mediums and techniques to illuminate the link between various facets of reality. Visions from the landscape, the cosmos and the body join with impressions of neurons, microbes, and other natural systems, creating a complexity of visual forms that navigate the paradox of inner and outer realities; of self and other.
