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We had a fabulous tour this year, wonderful weather and a visit from Sue of the World Parrot Refuge Centre in Coombs. She brought with her Peaches, Joey and Earl Grey who were ambassadors for the Centre. With donations and paintings sales we were able to send them home with a little extra to help with the enormous costs of running the Refuge.
Hello Everyone
This coming weekend I would like to invite you to my garden, 3735 Ascot Drive (north end of Cedar Hill Golf course) where 6 artists will be displaying their work. I will be donating the proceeds of several paintings to the World Parrot Refuge Centre in Coombs. This Centre takes in exotic birds who need a home and cares for them and allowing them to fly free in an inflight enclosure. Come out and enjoy the garden and the art and bring a friend. The garden will be open both days, May 16 and 17 from 11:30 - 4:30. You can download a map for all the other participating artists in the Scattered Artists tour by googling GoBC.
A couple of nights ago I gave a demo/workshop to the Studio 30 Art Club. The members seemed very interested and the questions insightful. I realized that teaching is a whole new skill set and pairing up painting as well as teaching is a very rewarding venture. I thoroughly enjoyed the evening. I demonstrated the techniques used in my new "Ethereal Landscape" series and hopefully people came away with learning something new and useful to their own style of painting.
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I will be sending out notices of art events to those of you who have kindly added your names to my website email list. These notices will be infrequent but will give you an opportunity to view my latest work and hopefully give me an opportunity to meet you. You can always check out new work through my website www.annebowen.ca.
I would like to extend an invitation to attend our Annual Victoria Sketch Club Show running from March 17th (opening night 7:00 pm) until 4:00 pm March 22. The show will be located in the gymnasium at Glenlyon Norfolk Junior School at 1701 Beach Drive from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm each day with the exception of the last day which will run until 4:00 pm. I will be displaying 4 or 5 of my paintings along with many of the Club members for the 6 days of the show. The quality and quantity of the work inspires many guests to return year after year for this much anticipated event.
I currently have some of my new "Ethereal Landscape Series" showing at the Inn at Laurel Point. If you are in the neighborhood, please pop in and have a look.
A few days ago I shipped "Red Jade" to her new home in Colorado Springs. I built a box using high density foam insulation, secured the ends with packing tape and glued the ends with a glue gun. I placed the plastic wrapped painting in the box and wrapped it up in cardboard. I used the "4 day guaranteed" postage through Canada Post, believing that the less time it is in transit the safer it is. It got there safe and sound and within the 4 days.
Here we are Anne Miller, Richard Wong, Linda Baker and myself at Goward House for the month of October. The show looks fantastic and there is something for everyone. Goward House is a fabulous venue for an art show and I understand the original owners were artists so what a wonderful legacy.
On Saturday several of us, artists and friends hired a van and driver and took to the back roads of Saanich sampling wine, cider and gin. Needless to say we did not have one sober person at the end of the day.
What a fun day at the TD Moss Street Paint-in. Over a hundred artists were invited to participate in this very popular annual event. Moss Street becomes a pedestrian only street for the day and thousands of people enjoy talking to the artists, viewing the art and even perhaps taking home a new painting. The day started out cold and windy but by noon it had warmed up. Thank you all for coming out and visiting, I really enjoyed seeing you.
Here I am on a very windy day, easels and paintings setting sail across the harbour. Had a lot of fun with other Scattered Artists also challenged by the wind. Found creative ways of tying down the work.
Yesterday Shelby and I installed our paintings in the Bacchus Room at the Muse Winery on Chalet Road. We had fun arranging the placement of paintings and are very happy with the results. The tasting room, gift shop and vineyard sits on a gorgeous acreage in north Saanich. Our wonderful host Jane was very helpful and welcoming and we spent a lovely afternoon sampling their delicious lunch menu and setting up the show which runs July and August. We will be on site painting several afternoons during the two months.
