Victoria FCA General Meetings
2023 Meeting Calendar
Victoria Chapter meetings are monthly opportunities to network with members, experience demonstrations and critiques by leading artists, and hear about upcoming events. The Victoria Chapter meets at Cedar Hill Rec Centre, 3220 Cedar Hill Rd, Victoria, BC V8P 3Y3, in Art Room 2.
Monthly general meetings are open to FCA Victoria Chapter members and guests. Meet and Greet starts at 6:45pm. Demos and critiques start at 7pm and finish between 8:30 and 9:00 pm. Masks are a personal choice and proof of vaccination is no longer required.
Monthly general meetings are open to FCA Victoria Chapter members and guests. Meet and Greet starts at 6:45pm. Demos and critiques start at 7pm and finish between 8:30 and 9:00 pm. Masks are a personal choice and proof of vaccination is no longer required.
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September Meeting and Artist Demonstration
Date: September 21, 2023 Place: Cedar Hill Rec Centre Agenda:
About Shelly's Demonstration
Shelly will be working from one of her plein air paintings as a reference, to show the way it develops from the block-in stage to a more finished work. She will be discussing her choice of palette, colour mixing, values, edges, brushwork… and when to stop and put it away!
Paintings by Shelly Burke
*About the Treasure Table
Starting at the September meeting, there will be a Treasure Table set up before each meeting to swap, sell, or give away all the accumulations of studio stuff that you have been stepping over or reaching around! The first Treasure Table will be cool stuff offered by your Board Members.
For more information see our webpage: Artist's Treasure Table |
About Shelly Burke
Shelly graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Art Degree from Ottawa University, majoring in Art History in 1980. In 1985 she received a diploma of Visual Communications from Capilano University. From 1986 to 1987 Shelly completed several post graduate courses in Canadian Art History at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Shelly has been in selected solo and group exhibitions, starting in 2000 with a successful solo show “Viewpoints” at the Victoria Community Arts Council (located at that time downtown, now Brown’s Social House). She has received awards for painting and plein air painting in Ontario, as well as participating for almost 20 years on the annual Uxbridge Studio Tour. She has been an art instructor for adults over many years, in acrylics and life drawing, at such venues as the Varley Art Gallery in Unionville, Ontario and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection Gallery in Kleinburg, Ontario as well as in numerous community centres in Toronto and Victoria. Shelly’s inspiration for painting comes from working outdoors or indoors from life. Some canvases are untouched after coming home, but others can be worked on a little in the studio or used as reference, including photo reference, for larger paintings. Shelly Burke Website |
October Meeting and Artist Demonstration
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Date: October 19, 2023 Place: Cedar Hill Rec Centre Agenda:
About Liz Charsley's Presentation
Liz will present samples of her work to display, as well as digital versions in a slide display, including step by step progress pictures of how she makes her larger pieces.
Liz will also bring along some of the materials she uses, and demonstrate how to blend and layer colour. She will describe her working process , with tips on how to be organized when using oil pastels. |
About Liz Charsley
Liz recently moved back to Victoria (via Calgary) from London, UK, where she lived and worked for 30+ years - first as a theatrical propmaker and then as teaching artist at Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London. There she initially worked as Canadian Artist in Residence during their Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven exhibition. Her practice, like her career, is quite varied, as she likes to move between different media on paper, using oil pastel, charcoal, ink, or watercolour. For her residency she returned to working in colour after several years of mostly drawing with charcoal, and found that oil pastel was the perfect medium to use (and teach others to use), as it replicates the Group of Seven's colourful work.
Like many Canadian artists, she is endlessly fascinated with trees, and more recently mountains and views from the road, explored during the two “covid years” she spent in Alberta: hiking and skiing in the mountains, driving out into the countryside to look at the prairie, quiet walks in the snow along the Bow River. The enforced solitude emerges in her works, along with the need to escape the confines of home and wander out into the world. A similar energy exists in her London-based works, made from imagery gathered while cycling through parks and along riverine verges. She chooses views that offer an escape from the pace of the hectic city— waysides of tangled wildflowers and grasses, views of the flowing waters of the Thames, individual plants and grasses plucked to make cyanotypes and drawings in ink. Visit Liz Charsley's website. |
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It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.
- Franklin Carmichael
