Author: swilkie02@shaw.ca

2021 RETREAT – this year we return to Rocky Ridge Country Lodge for our annual retreat….scheduled for Sept. 17 – 19. Participants arrive on Friday, stay 3 nights and check out on Monday. (Shorter stays, are possible if bookings allow.) We also welcome artists who want to drive down and paint with us for a…

Painters perhaps the summer heat will send you to a cooler studio for a little painting, and if so here is our next challenge. We are going to give you a longer time to complete the challenge. Your interpretation is due on Aug. 31. We will publish the entries in early September. Email your pics…

Here are the interpretations of Challenge 3 photograph. Thank you to all the artists that completed this project. Hope you enjoy them! Look for the next Photo Challenge #4 which will run for the summer.

Here is the photo for our third challenge . We encourage you all to paint this lovely picture. Please send your images of completed work to swilkie02@shaw.ca by May 30. Shortly after that I will post them here.

This live facebook event starts at 7:00, March 25 and will include a visual recording of the entire show and then an open question period and artist talk. The show is called “Landscaping the Wilderness”. Here is the link if you are interested – Please support our memberhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3826175860753100/

Here is the picture and the works that our artists did in response to this challenging photo: Well done!

We are very pleased to feature some guest artists! Enjoy these interpretations of our winter scene painting challenge by this group of grade 9 art students from Lomond School. We hope you continue to work hard to realize your ideas creatively. Hope to see you again!

Here are the wonderful interpretations we received in this winter challenge. Thanks to everyone who broke out of the winter doldrums and picked up a brush, or pencil…pastel…well done everyone! Let’s do this again!

Our exhibition is scheduled to run from August 3 to September 26, 2021. The theme of the exhibition is “The Four Seasons in the River Valley”. Painters may choose to paint/draw any aspect of the river valley during one of the seasons. Everyone going into The Nature Centre must follow the required CoVid protocols, which…

Read this interesting article about our member, Soba. It’s very interesting as it speaks about her childhood, her education, her art… Here’s the link: https://lethbridgecollege.ca/news/campus-news/instructors-art-brings-ocean-prairies

Interested in having a small exhibition of local art to enhance your space? All you have to provide is a nice wall and we’ll hang the paintings. You can change the paintings every few months. Choose paintings from our Artists’ Gallery. We would be happy to guide you in your choices. There is no charge…

Check out the “Why Join?” – “Volunteering” to see the mural recently completed by some of our members.

We were very lucky to have had terrific weather for the first 4 destinations, but unfortunately an October snow “event” caused the cancellation of the St. Henry’s Church trip. We will reschedule this trip in spring/summer of 2021 and many others as we found there is an interest in our club for painting outdoors. This…