Painting
Explorations - Discovering One's Personal Voice
Dorothy Field
June 4 - 11, 2010 + Part II in March, 2011 (dates tba)
$790 (parts I & II)
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There are times in an artist’s career when one
may benefit from what might be called a focusing process. This can happen
when one is starting out or well into mid-career. Usually, this process
revolves around deep connection with one’s inner voice/inner spirit.
This two-part course, open to artists in any medium, art or craft,
is designed to help participants access their personal voices. During the
initial eight days at MISSA, students will work with each other and
mentor/facilitator Dorothy Field in a safe, supportive environment
balancing inner exploration and outer process. Their time will be split
among group exercises, one-on-one sessions with the mentor, and personal
studio work. Because such personal exploration can be an exhilarating time
as well as a time of vulnerability, the group will work to create the
ground necessary for each person to explore new directions.
Participants, in collaboration with Dorothy, will each choose an
individual direction to pursue over the next seven months. During this
period, there will be ongoing mentorship and group interaction via the
internet. At a follow-up session, 4 days in early 2011,
students will gather to review the bodies of work that they have produced
in the interim.
 Acceptance for workshop is contingent upon a portfolio review by committee. Ten slides or a CD of the applicant’s pieces should be submitted with the application plus an art bio and a brief statement regarding the work/project that the applicant intends to pursue at MISSA. Residency is recommended.
Dorothy Field is a visual artist and writer working with handmade paper for drypoint prints, collage, sculpture, and artists’ books. She has taught and shown her work throughout North America. Her book, Paper and Threshold, an investigation into paper’s spiritual role in Asian culture, grew out of her extensive travels and research in Asia. Her third book of poetry The Blackbird Must Be is due in autumn 2010. Though she continues to teach courses in paper and textiles, she particularly enjoys helping artists and writers access and celebrate their deepest selves.
Brush
Explorations
Lorne Loomer
July 5-9, 2010
$405 + $45 course supplies
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Making our own cedar brushes is only the
beginning of getting in touch with ourselves, with nature and with a world
where East meets West. Simplicity,
spontaneity and feelings start a powerful energy in our studio situated in
an old growth forest. Students will
re-establish the child’s joy of the brush and reaffirm the central
concept that less is always more.
Following
the path of the brush with his mentors, Judi Betts , Linda Doll, B.C.
Binning and Jack Wise, Lorne (BScP; BA, Olympic Gold Medallist and
Watercolourist) has been teaching at MISSA since 1991.
Pictorial Composition & Design
Andy Wooldridge
July 5-9, 2010
$405
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This course is aimed at improving students’ understanding of the formal elements of Art and Design as directly applied to the construction of a painting. Through an ongoing series of exercises students will be encouraged to explore the dynamics of the horizontal line, plasticity and space, rhythm and interval, and monumentalism. This entails a lot of painting so a strong work ethic coupled with a good sense of humour would be a distinct advantage.
Andy Wooldridge was born in Egypt and raised in England where he trained for 4 years at Southampton College of Art and Design and worked as an illustrator for the Royal Army Medical Corps. He has painted full-time for 30 years and exhibited in England, Australia, Israel, and Canada, where he has lived for the past 24 years. www.andywooldridge.com
Art With A Story (canceled)
Jeanne Krabbendam
July 5 - 9, 2010
$405 + $12 course supplies
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Using mixed media painting techniques to capture a wonderful experience, remember loved ones or to simply record a holiday is an amazing way to tell a story with paint. The course includes lots of information and hands-on exercises that enable students to explore this narrative art form. Participants will explore the use of acrylic paints, spackle, gels, transfers, lifting techniques, glazing, tissue paper and antiquing techniques and much more, to create expressive, unique and dramatic paintings which tell their stories.
Jeanne Krabbendam lived in Europe, The Netherlands and Tunisia, before immigrating to Vancouver, Canada in 1999. Jeanne is a mixed media artist whose work incorporates a variety of materials and layering techniques including acrylics, oils, encaustic, printmaking and collage. She has formal art training in the European art tradition and extensive exhibit experience both in Europe and Canada. Jeanne studied at the Académie des Beaux Arts (France) and Academy Artibus, University of Windesheim and Academy Rosenberg (The Netherlands). www.jeannekrabbendam.com
Light & Atmosphere in Watercolour Landscape
Clive Powsey
July 10-11, 2010
$165
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This watercolour landscape painting course will concentrate on suggesting the effects of light and atmosphere. After a brief part of the day spent in the classroom reviewing how to distinguish local colour from the effects of light and shadow, participants will head out, weather permitting, into the landscape to paint. The spectacular coastline on which Lester B. Pearson College is located, on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, should provide ample opportunity for the direct observation and painting of light and atmosphere.
Clive Powsey studied drawing, painting and printmaking at the Ontario College of Art, graduating in 1980, and began exhibiting primarily watercolour in 1981. Group exhibits include International Waters (1991), a joint exhibition of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, the American Watercolour Society, and the Royal Watercolour Society. In 1999 he received an award for 'Best Watercolour' at The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition and in 2009 he received a D. L. Stevenson award at the annual Open Water Juried exhibition of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour. He is a keen frequenter of the out-of-doors, a subject for the majority of his watercolour paintings. www.clivepowsey.com
Abstract Painting
Michelle Miller
July 10-11, 2010
$165
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Using their own unique background of experiences, students will learn how to appropriate memories into a painting, learn new techniques, and understand the importance of metaphor. Visual mind-mapping and the balance of art’s formal elements are at the core of this course. The instructor will demonstrate techniques as well as provide individual instruction in acrylic paints. Open to all levels.
Michelle Miller has been devoted to the art making process for the past 25 years. She has been involved with a number of group and solo exhibits within Canada, United States and Asia. Although her artwork ranges from stylized to the completely abstract, Miller’s work is always personal and referential to the human experience. Her paintings and drawings exist in private collections throughout the world. www.michelle-miller.com
Encaustic
Nixie Barton & Carol Rae
July 12 - 16, 2010
$405 + $20 course supplies
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One medium, two instructors, endless techniques. Beeswax, damar crystals, and pigment blended together with heat create a formula for image making that dates back to the ancient Egyptians. Some of those paintings have outlasted paintings in other mediums. Nixie and Carol use some of the same techniques, but they each have their own bag of tricks and are excited to share with students as well as with each other. Encaustic, by its very nature, always has an experimental quality. Balance that with technical information, demonstrations, and plenty of handouts, and we have the makings for one exciting adventure.
Nixie Barton, born in Vancouver, was educated at Malaspina College in Nanaimo and received her BFA from the University of Victoria. She lives and works in Yellowpoint on Vancouver Island. Barton exhibits extensively across Canada and is actively involved in fund-raising and awareness for several organizations. She is a well known acrylic painter and has been involved in many group and solo shows over the past 25 years. She has been pursuing the art of encaustic painting for the last 6 years and is most excited to be able to share all her learned techniques with other interested artists. She, herself, has taken several classes at MISSA and holds the school in high regard.
Carol Rae is a Vancouver artist now living in Lake Cowichan. Her art education spans many years and includes California College of Arts and Crafts, Western Washington State College, & Central Washington State College. She specializes in printmaking, but has also enjoyed glassblowing, photography, costume and set design, bookbinding, collage, painting, sculpture, and yodeling. Her work has been featured from coast to coast in both Canada and the US in shows and publications. She has been teaching off and on for 30 years and believes she learns more with each experience. She has been on the MISSA board of directors for several years.
Art Jam
Based in the natural beauty of the Ome Region, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan, the Ome Art Jam is a movement determined to pay respect to nature and to share the traditions of Japanese art with the wider world. Beginning with his exhibition at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in 2004, painter Sugimoto Hiroshi has been dedicated to creating an international cultural exchange among artists. In 2006 five Japanese attended the Moss Street Paint-In in Victoria and a residency at University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In 2008 four Canadians spent three weeks at Art Jam 2008 in Ome. In 2009, Ome Art Jam invited one Canadian, one Laotian and four Thai artists. And this year three Japanese artists will come to offer courses at MISSA for one week as part of Art Jam 2010, a festival of art shows, performances and workshops throughout southern Vancouver Island. In addition to courses offered by the artists, two Noh theatre performers will be with us for the week, to offer background, performance and a taste of participation in this profound art form. Also, two samisen players will be with the group to perform NAGAUTA, Japanese ballads, accompanied by samisen. Another essential part of the Japanese contingent is Fukuda Nobuyoshi, whose understanding of the art forms and skill at interpretation will be invaluable. This cultural exchange program was made possible by the coordinating effort of Robert Amos in Canada and Nobuyoshi Fukuda in Japan. MISSA is truly fortunate to be host to this integrated cultural exchange
Art Jam - Painting
Sugimoto Hiroshi
July 12-16, 2010
$405 + $20 course supplies
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Sugimoto Hiroshi received a master’s degree in painting from the Tokyo National University of the Arts in 1977. He is noted for his paintings on sliding doors, walls and ceilings in significant buildings such as the Izumo Shrine (Osaka), Seigan-ji and Jizo-In Temples (Tokyo). His smaller paintings on fans, panels and folding screens involve ink, NIHONGA colours, gold leaf, metallic powders and collage. The incredibly supple Japanese brushes, infinite colours of SUMI ink and the extreme sensitivity of absorbant papers have made these the most expressive mark-making tools mankind has invented.
Sugimoto will bring ink, brushes and papers from Japan and will lead artists in an exploration of the possibilities of expression through this remarkable medium. This is not a course in bamboo or bird-and-flower painting. Among the fields of exploration are the flowing of ink with the two-brush technique (one water, one ink) and the use of DOSA, an alum resist. Mr. Sugimoto will be joined for part of the course by Robert Amos of Victoria, noted for his unique adaptation of SUMI ink to his own Canadian subjects. Japanese paper, ink and brush will be provided at the workshop, but, if you have your own Japanese or Chinese brushes, please bring them to the workshop.
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