Maple Bay Painters

Maple Bay Painters had a wonderful outdoor show last weekend in the lovely gardens of Rae and Ted Rhodes. Thank you to all who attended and, especially to Rae and Ted, whose well-tended garden was such a beautiful backdrop for our artists’ work. What a great day! Here are some of the photos taken that day.

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Today’s the day! 1:30 to 4 pm. A beautiful garden and so many Maple Bay Painters will be waiting to welcome you! Bring your friends! Follow the sunflower signs along Lakes Rd, turn onto Lochsyde and then onto to Tarn Place. Hope you can stop by!

Dear Maple Bay Painter friends and art-lovers. We're having a summer art show this coming Saturday afternoon, July 13th, in the beautiful gardens of one of our members. Details are on the attached invitation. Plan to come and chat with 23 artists, who would love to share with you some of their work. It should be a great afternoon. Please share this post with your friends and bring them along too, with our thanks! See you Saturday!
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Dear Maple Bay Painter friends and art-lovers. We're having a summer art show this coming Saturday afternoon, July 13th, in the beautiful gardens of one of our members. Details are on the attached invitation. Plan to come and chat with 23 artists, who would love to share with you some of their work. It should be a great afternoon. Please share this post with your friends and bring them along too, with our thanks! See you Saturday!
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Get yourselves out to the many open studios this weekend! It's the 3-day Visions Art Tour Society's tour. Two of our Maple Bay Painters' members. Carolyn McDonald and Catherine Taron Art are participating, among many other local artists. For locations, see the centre-fold pull-out in The Cowichan Valley Voice, July issue, and in the Cowichan Valley Citizen, page A24. All of the participating artists would love to see you!

One of our Maple Bay Painter members has work in the “Beneath the Surface of the Sea” show now on at the Ladysmith Gallery. Check out the attached post for the details. Good luck to you Astrid at Astrid Notte Art!

July is definitely becoming an Arts month! Gather your friends together and come visit these local shows. There's more than 50 artists combined showing their unique, original works. Any weddings on the horizon? Original art can be a very special gift with potential to travel through the generations. Just a thought! See you there! :-)

Big news! Maple Bay Painters are having two shows this year! The first one will be on Saturday, July 13th in the lovely gardens belonging to Ted and Rae Rhodes. This is an outdoor show with twenty-two artists participating. We'd love to see you! And of course, bring along a friend!

The second show will be in the fall, October 18th and 19th. More information about that, closer to the date. But for now, mark your calendar. As with our summer show, we'd love to see you there and share what we've been doing.

Please share this post with your Facebook friends to spread the word, with our thanks!

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Yesterday, at Maple Bay Painters, we had a special Drawing Day led by member, Bonnie Schmaus, who brought in bundles of flowers from her garden as drawing subjects. The focus was on contour drawing, where you try to turn off your critical brain, put your pencil to paper and, most importantly, don’t look down at your paper or lift your pencil while drawing, simply letting your pencil trace the outer edges—the contours—of what you see. It’s quite a challenge not to look and not to judge. But the result often captures the essence of your subject with what seems a fresh sincerity, even if the subject is not immediately recognizable! We all had a good laugh and went home with a new perspective on how to approach a drawing or use contour drawing as a warm-up to a more polished drawing or painting project. It was a fun day! Thank you, Bonnie, and everyone who attempted contour drawing!

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We had a great day this past Tuesday at Sue Fenwick’s portrait painting workshop. Here are a few photos. Thank you Sue! And thanks to all our enthusiastic participants! (Oops! A few duplicates.)

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Did you know that Maple Bay Painters hosts four workshops each year with various Vancouver Island artists? This month, Tuesday, May 21st, is the last workshop for this 2023-24 season. It will be a portrait workshop led by Sue Fenwick. The workshop will be suitable for painters in oil, acrylic, watercolour, pastel, graphite, or pen and ink, regardless of your level of experience. Members have first priority registering, followed by non-members after May 6th. Maple Bay Painters is committed to keeping its workshops affordable at just $55 for members and $65 for non-members, when space allows. The maximum class size is 12 participants. If you’d like to attend, email [email protected] to register; first-come/first-served. Once you are confirmed registered, you’ll receive a materials list and instructions for payment. If you'd like more information, see a description of the workshop at: https://maplebaypainters.ca/page/workshops [C.T.]

Maple Bay Painters had another enjoyable workshop with landscape artist Tom Shardlow, AFCA. Tom is a signature-level member of the Canadian Federation of Artists, coming from Nanaimo to deliver his popular acrylics workshop. His technique involves working out a subject with chalk lines on a black gesso background, followed by artist-selected colours and, at the end, wiping away the chalk. The results are often quite impactful and always fun. Here are a few photos of our day, some of which share examples of Tom’s work. Thank you, Tom, for such a great day!

You can see more of Tom’s work at: https://www.tomshardlow.com/

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You can almost hear her; the amazing Lady Day, Billie Holiday. She left us too soon at age 44.

Billie be good! by Maple Bay Painter Carole Caron, acrylic on board, 14x11"

Maple Bay Painters had a super landscape workshop yesterday with Vancouver island artist, Elissa Anthony, who recently moved to Ladysmith from Bowser. Here are a few photos of our day, some of which share examples of Elissa’s beautiful work. Thank you, Elissa, for such a great day!

Check out Elissa's art and activities at Elissa Anthony Studio and Gallery

[Posted by Catherine, MBP workshop coordinator]

Christmas 2023 has come and gone; it seems to happen a little faster every year. Now 2024 is looming on the horizon so let's the make the best of it.

Good wishes for a Happy, Healthy and Creative New Year to all of our painters, followers and supporters.

Artist Lindsay Burton is on site today at the Teeny Tiny Show and sale. She’s here beside 2 of her paintings. Many beautiful works to choose from for perfect gifts!

Hi painters! Mark November 27th on your calendar for Iron Oxide Art Supplies reopening!

You heard it here first. Our opening date is set for November 27th. We have begun moving the mountain of boxes and displays from the storage units. I was hoping to open a little sooner than this but there are dreams and there is reality... The hardworking team has been going strong 7 days a week for months now to get operational again and it is no small feat what has been accomplished. There is still a ton to do but there is truly light at the end of the tunnel!!!!

Countless people have enjoyed the Christmas favourite film It's a Wonderful Life. Now you can experience "It's a Wonderful Life - A Live Radio Play" at Chemainus Theatre, from November 17 to December 23.

I, Maple Bay Painters member Roger Jackson, am honoured to be the featured artist for the duration of this show. An eclectic cross-section of my work will be displayed in the theatre's lower and upper lobbies and dining room.

Last month, artist Carolyn McDonald, delivered an acrylics workshop to Maple Bay Painters. Many of you may know that Carolyn is known for colourful, abstracted landscapes among other subjects. In this workshop, Carolyn shared how she abstracts parts of her paintings to add originality and impact. She encouraged participants to try new approaches for creating representational and figurative paintings, combining abstraction and realism to make paintings more powerful and, importantly, develop a style of your own. Here are a few photos to illustrate the fun we had.

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Great news from Catherine - congratulations!

FYI all you artists in the Cowichan Valley, Iron Oxide Art Supplies is reopening in a new location in Nanaimo!

This is it! At last, our annual fall show & sale opens 10:00am tomorrow morning, Friday September 29. Then from 5:00pm - 7:00pm we will have our opening reception; meet the artists, discuss their work.

Sometimes it’s just darn hard to get attention! But look closely and you’ll see our Maple Bay Painters show poster! Plan to come, and to our reception on Friday evening too! We’d love to see you there!

PS. Apologies to the posters our poster has infringed upon. There was literally no room to place it without covering the edges of another. We promise to remove it right after the weekend, revealing any that were temporarily covered. It’s a popular notice board, for sure!
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The Cowichan Valley’s Maple Bay Painters art group has been painting and meeting in the Valley for more than 50 years. Except for our Covid years, we’ve had an annual show to share our work with you in a welcoming, community environment. This weekend, Friday and Saturday, September 29th and 30th, from 10 am to 5 pm, is our annual show, returning again to St. Peter’s Church Hall at 5800 Church Rd. Admission is free, and there will be three original paintings given away as door prizes! But you’ll need to attend to get your name into the free draws. There also will be a reception on the Friday evening, from 5 to 7 pm, with live music, finger food, soft refreshments and good conversations with the artists and your friends. Lots of original art to see! Mark your calendar and invite your friends. All ‘shares’ are much appreciated! Hope to see you there.
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Would you enjoy an evening out? Here’s something you might consider for Friday, September 29th, from 5 to 7 pm. The Maple Bay Painters are happy to be hosting their annual show, back at St. Peter’s Church Hall at 5800 Church St., after our Covid interruptions. We are happy to be reunited with of our namesake community and would love to see all of our previous show-goers again and to meet new ones too!

Please share to help us get the word out. Also see the show poster at: www.maplebaypainters.ca/events