Lynden Beesley

Lynden Beesley has made the Okanagan her home. Gradually Lynden’s new work has evolved to include the flora and fauna of this verdant valley. Her European identity with its myth and folkloric backdrop is now interlaced with imagery which includes her Canadian habitat and values. Lynden continues to work in Bronze Sculpture and limited edition Hand Pulled Prints.

Judy Burns

WAY TO GO,
West light flat on trees:
Bird flying
Deep out in blue glass:
Uncertain wind
Stirring the leaves: this is
The world we have:
Take it.
                    A.R. Ammons

The content of my work focuses on ‘what we don’t see’, what we skim over and take for granted: the placement of stones on the lake bottom: the melting footprint in the snow: the rotting core of a broken tree.  How are these events altered with the changing light, the time of day and our particular frame of mind?

Looking closely, these images and minor events can alter one’s life.  

Val Eibner

My journey into Light, Color, and Reflection is propelled by using Glass as the vehicle. Fusing (Melting) Glass together allows all of these choices for the artist to manipulate and create an artwork featuring many sensory effects.

My fascination and focus this year surrounds the altering of fused glass forms using slumping, weaving or folding techniques.  The resulting effects create a highly tactile, porous and reflective surface that titillates the imagination.

Kenna Graff

Artistically, Kenna is not limited to one form or style of art. From landscapes that translate ancient wanderer to colour-pure paintings that lighten the heart. Kenna taps into a variety of methodologies, most lead by the moment, intuitively and interdisciplinary. The works have evolved from unknown forces, the power and sweetness of more specific places and moments in nature and natural phenomena; from enthusiasm and celebration, to grace and poetry.

Inspiration drawn from the earth and blended with her desert background provides elegance in colour and form, cultivating a painting, extracting the organic elements, sometimes into patterns, textures, decorative motifs and atmospheric gestures.

Kenna's artistic pursuits include encouraging, sharing, interacting, appreciating and presenting the arts through her own art work, working in fine arts galleries and cofounder of the arts group Ars Longa.

Angelika Jaeger

The beauty of learning surprises you!
Known as an assembler in my art practice, my new work is no exception.  This year will show some intriguing new 3D objects. Through my studies I have been introduced to working with new materials, such as metal, in particular, copper. This ancient textile has been used in different ways, now it comes to life in a series of nests which I have created. I hope you will enjoy my new work. I look forward to welcoming you at Ars Longa 2011.

Carolina Sanchez de Bustamante

It is my intention to open paths with the possibility to connect them to joyful discoveries.   My art is a constant search as a human being.

SPIRITS DESIRE, SPIRITS ATTAIN >>
tapestry in wool, mohair and cotton - 36"x42"x3"

www.ashpanaira.com

www.ashpanairagallery.com

Hannah Griffin

Hannah Griffin is a young emerging artist with a special interest in the relationship between landscape and abstraction. She is a recent graduate from the University of British Columbia Okanagan Bachelor of Fine Arts program. She has been actively and energetically producing and showing work since receiving her degree.  Hannah was born and raised in Kelowna and has a special connection to local landmarks which appear frequently in her work.

Her practice focuses in on the importance of landscape as a genre as well as its cultural importance in contemporary society. Her paintings portray a unique and exciting look at the landscape genre by combining new aerial viewpoints and references to geological processes as well as topographical maps. Hannah’s unique and exciting large and medium scale acrylic paintings are a refreshing addition to the landscape genre.

www.hgriffin.com

Annabel Stanley

Annabel Stanley was born in England in 1966 and is the great grand niece of the famous architect Sir Edwin Lutyens.

She was a florist in London for 4 years and her clients included Tiffany’s the Jewelers, Duke and Duchess of York at Buckingham Palace and she arranged flowers for Ella Fitzgerald when she performed at Royal Albert Hall.

Annabel has been weaving for 15 years. She started in New Zealand where she lived with her husband Grant Stanley (Wine maker at Quails Gate Winery).
She has been featured in The New Zealand Gardener, New Zealand Cuisine and on NZ National TV, also in the first issue of Sculptures Pacific in Canada.
Annabel weaves with vine canes, dog wood, willow, wire, moss and many other materials which give a vibrant natural effect that exhibit well inside or outside.

Contact:
annabelstanley@hotmail.com

www.annabelstanley.com

Francine Walker

Francine Walker is a modern goldsmith and metalsmith, whose mind is constantly stimulated with creative ideas. She loves to create one-of-a-kind pieces of wearable art that explore texture, and simple geometrical shapes. Gold, silver and gemstones are her favorite materials to create with. Custom and production designs are made by the artist personally to ensure originality and quality.

She is a studio graduate of Jewellery and Small Object Design from Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson, British Columbia, as well as a graduate of Interior Design from Mount Royal Collage in Calgary, Alberta.
Francine lives with her musician husband and Lego-building-dare-devil boys. She creates from her studio overlooking Lake Okanagan in Kelowna, BC.

www.francinewalkerstudio.com