Lot # 1
Artist: Betty Kovacic
Title: Icelandic Milk Maid
Media: graphite, India ink, map from 1928 atlas, pages from 1898 Icelandic Bible, collaged on acid free paper.
Size: 28" x 32"
Dated: 2006
Estimate: $1275
Betty Kovacic, who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria in 1983, works from her birthplace, Prince George, B.C. She is a unique, award winning painter, who has in many articles been called one of the most socially conscious artists in B.C. Although her art is frequently informed by social and political issues, Kovacic also celebrates life and the world around her through her art. Kovacic's work is a fascinating and creative exploration of the complex, ever changing human condition.
Symbols such as animals, plants, or images from both the past and present are used to add multiple of meanings. Subtle details, ambiguous images and unexpected juxtaposition of materials and objects provide a richness of visual intrigue ... an invitation for closer examination ...for thought ... for feeling. Like the layers of life, her work cannot be decoded or understood with a quick glance. Kovacic's exclusive art, with its complexity of techniques, provides an aesthetic and intellectual experience that expands with each viewing.
Always active in the community, Kovacic has worked as an independent art instructor for 17 years. She also teaches courses for the university transfer/Art Diploma programme at the College of New Caledonia.
Betty Kovacic's art can be found in numerous private and corporate collections in Canada, the United States, and parts of Europe.
www.bettykovacicart.com
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Lot # 2
Artist: Clint Neufeld
Title: Estwing Framing Hammer
Media: Ceramic
Size: 14" x 5" x 1"
Dated: 2005/2011
Estimate: $200
Clint Neufeld has lived most of his life in the same small town where he grew up, just outside Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. On finishing high school he didn't know quite what to do and enlisted in the army reserves. From there Clint engaged in stereotypically masculine pursuits. He was stationed overseas for a time with the Canadian armed forces, and after that trained as fire fighter and also as an ambulance attendant. Then, seemingly at odds with the path he was taking, Clint went to art school completing a Bachelors and Masters degree in Fine Arts. His sculpture is influenced by his surroundings, his personal experiences and a desire to create something he hasn't seen before.
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Lot # 3
Artist: Andrea Fredeen
Title: Young Birch
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 14" x 18"
Dated: 2006
Estimate: $350
Andrea Pastershank Fredeen lives in Prince George, British Columbia with her husband and two children, where she has worked as a physiotherapist for many years. Drawing and painting have been lifelong passions, and Andrea has completed numerous workshops in Saskatoon, Prince George, Vancouver, and Seattle. She is currently pursuing further studies in fine arts through Emily Carr University and University of Northern British Columbia. Her work has been exhibited locally in Prince George at Two Rivers Gallery, University of Northern British Columbia, Art Space, the Artist's Co-op, and Groop Gallery, as well as in Kelowna, British Columbia.
www.bluepine-art.ca
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Lot # 4
Artist: Pnina Granirer
Title: Third Variation on a Wild Flower, 13/15
Media: silkscreen
Size: 27⅞" x 20¾"
Dated: 1979
Estimate: $500
Internationally recognized Vancouver artist, Pnina Granirer, was born in Romania and later moved to Israel where she studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. She and her husband settled in Vancouver in 1965 where Granirer has lived and worked since.
A biographical book by Ted Lindberg, Pnina Granirer: Portrait of an Artist, was published by Ronsdale Press in recognition of her 40 Year Retrospective at the Richmond Art Gallery and a film by the same name was released on BRAVO! TV in 2005.
Her work is found in numerous private and public collections across Canada, the US and Europe. Two Rivers Gallery, The Glenbow Museum in Calgary, the Hamilton Art Gallery and the Museo Granel in Spain, have recently added her work to their collections.
Her work was shown recently in Utrecht in the Netherlands, Cagnes-sur-mer in France, Santiago de Compostela in Spain and Coimbra in Portugal. She is the initiator and co-founder of Artists in our Midst, the popular Westside Open Studios Walk, which is in its 17th year.
www.pninagranirer.com
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Lot # 5
Artist: Philippe Raphanel
Title: Fog Horn
Media: acrylic on board
Size: 18" x 18"
Dated: 2011
Estimate: $900
Philippe Raphanel was born in Paris in 1956 and first came to Canada in 1976. He studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Appliques in Paris in 1978 and in 1986 he received his Canadian Citizenship. He is currently living and working in Vancouver and Brasilia in Brazil.
Raphanel's work is in private and public collections across Canada and the US. To note a few: Two Rivers Gallery, The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Kamloops Art Gallery, The Vancouver Art Gallery, BC Hydro, Department of External Affairs, Kanata Mills Inc., University of British Columbia, Teleglobe Canada and the National Bank of the Netherlands in Ottawa.
Phillipe Raphanel's exhibition, Visceral Landscape, in 2004 at Two Rivers Gallery was a short survey of paintings drawn from work that Raphanel had produced over the previous few decades. Selections reflect the artist's interest in the land, his investigations into the impact of AIDS upon the gay community and an interest in microbiology. Raphanel sees all of his work as landscape based, although more recent paintings appear considerably more abstract than his earlier neo-expressionistic work from the 1980s.
www.equinoxgallery.com
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Lot # 6
Artist: Mo Hamilton
Title: Mauve Clouds, Yellow House, Yellow Boat, White Sail
Media: mixed media
Size: 12" x 9" each piece
Dated: 2010
Estimate: $195 each piece
Mo Hamilton was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1963. She studied at the Art Acadamie, Harold Street Art School and Camosun College in Victoria. She also attended the Okanagan Summer School of the Arts in Penticton and has been the recipient of the Tony Onley Artists Project Scholarship at the Island Mountain Arts School in Wells, B.C.
Her work has been exhibited in many group exhibitions and galleries throughout B.C. Hamilton's experiences in life shape her style of art. Wanting to express her inward visions and imaginings motivates her to create. Hamilton has lived in many communities in southern and northern British Columbia, she now resides with her family in Prince George.
Hamilton's work is included in Two Rivers Gallery Art Rental and Sales Program.
www.mohamilton.ca
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Lot # 7
Artist: Theresa Sapergia
Title: Canada Day (Bird and Smoke)
Media: graphite on paper
Size: 30" x 22"
Dated: 2009
Estimate: $900
Theresa Sapergia's "painterly" drawings and "drawerly" paintings are based in a material exploration of figuration and a questioning of the historical tropes of representation. Her work uses sentimentality, sincerity and humour to call into question contemporary art's current relationship with irony and distancing.
Sapergia has exhibited in Montreal, Toronto, New York, Los Angeles and in 2009, I Like Canada and Canada Likes Me, a solo exhibition at Two Rivers Gallery and Songs to Sing to Yourself, a Regional District travelling exhibition. She lives in Prince George where she is Proprietor/Tattoo Artist of Handsome Cabin Boy Tattoo.
www.sapergia.com
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Lot # 8
Artist: Cat Sivertsen
Title: Danny Boy
Media: ink on watercolour paper
Size: 30" x 22"
Dated: 2011
Estimate: $500
Cat Sivertsen is a relative newcomer to Prince George after spending most of her professional life in the UK. Her artwork varies in media with drawing and painting intuitively driving her studio practice. She studied fine art at the diploma, under-grad and masters levels but she says "the best teacher is experience which for her has included travel, journaling, attending or even leading workshops".
Sivertsen's recent exhibition in the Rustad Galleria, Aesthetics of Grief, is a good example of how her studio practice can bring out the personal alongside the profound. Danny Boy was part of that exhibition and Sivertsen says "this drawing is a fine example of how an interesting image can emerge out of an exploratory process – it's just a page of marks and a rather beautiful one at that!"
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Lot # 9
Artist: Paula Scott
Title: Garden I
Media: oil on board
Size: 10" x 10"
Dated: 2011
Estimate: $150
"I was born in Southern California and immigrated to Quesnel, BC with my family in 1964. My father drowned when I was 12, leaving my mother alone to raise myself and three sisters in a strange new setting. From a child, my imagination kept me busy and amused. As an adult, marriage, four children and religion consumed me and it was not until my late 30s that I began to explore art. A fourteen-year term in my father's repressive ancestral religion had controlled my activities and prevented much attempt at self expression. A taste of freedom and a visual feast opened my senses during a trip to Britain in 1994. I began watercolour painting on my return home, and soon after left the religion. I am mainly self taught, taking workshops as they become available. In 1997, I began to work with oil sticks, which allowed me to experiment with texture and gave me the freedom to layer and change. My paintings are mainly autobiographical—memories, feelings and muses of the world from my experience and figurative narratives captured on board and canvas in a colourful way, meant to provoke thought." Paula Scott
Scott was part of the Regional District travelling exhibition, The Game, in 2004 and one of the 4 women in the exhibition, Debutante, at Two Rivers Gallery in 2007. Her work is in the permanent collection at Two Rivers Gallery.
www.paulascott.ca
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Lot # 9
Artist: Paula Scott
Title: Garden I
Media: oil on board
Size: 10" x 10"
Dated: 2011
Estimate: $150
“I was born in Southern California and immigrated to Quesnel, BC with my family in 1964. My father drowned when I was 12, leaving my mother alone to raise myself and three sisters in a strange new setting. From a child, my imagination kept me busy and amused. As an adult, marriage, four children and religion consumed me and it was not until my late 30s that I began to explore art. A fourteen-year term in my father’s repressive ancestral religion had controlled my activities and prevented much attempt at self expression. A taste of freedom and a visual feast opened my senses during a trip to Britain in 1994. I began watercolour painting on my return home, and soon after left the religion. I am mainly self taught, taking workshops as they become available. In 1997, I began to work with oil sticks, which allowed me to experiment with texture and gave me the freedom to layer and change. My paintings are mainly autobiographical—memories, feelings and muses of the world from my experience and figurative narratives captured on board and canvas in a colourful way, meant to provoke thought.” Paula Scott
Scott was part of the Regional District travelling exhibition, The Game, in 2004 and one of the 4 women in the exhibition, Debutante, at Two Rivers Gallery in 2007. Her work is in the permanent collection at Two Rivers Gallery.
www.paulascott.ca
Lot # 10
Artist: Gerda Volz
Title: One Hot Alpaca
Media: gouache and ink resist
Size: 15" x 22"
Dated: 2012
Estimate: $400
Gerda Volz came to Canada from Munich, Germany and has lived in the Lakes District since 1973. She raised three sons in the back woods of Burns Lake while exploring nature and pursuing her craft.
Volz is an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and a founding member of the Burns Lake Artists' Guild. Her work has been exhibited since 1989 in a number of group exhibitions including the BC Festival of the Arts. Since 2004, Volz has participated in annual juried group exhibitions at Two Rivers Gallery.
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Lot # 11
Artist: Peter von Tiesenhausen
Title: Untitled Firepainting (from Acts of Resistance)
Media: whitewash on plywood
Size: 12" x 12"
Dated: 2005
Estimate: $700
Peter von Tiesenhausen lives and works in the small community of Demmit Alberta, however his reputation as an artist reaches far beyond. From his early beginnings studying at Alberta College of Art and Design, through having participated in projects and exhibitions in Europe, USA, New Zealand and many across Canada, he has become an artist on the international stage.
Von Tiesenhausen is an adept painter and sculptor but is also well known for his site specific installations. He has developed many of these installations on the land where he lives. Many of them use natural materials that over time disintegrate and revert to a natural state, sometimes leaving little trace, others like bronze sculptures placed in the forest or small chapel-esque buildings given over to quiet contemplation, have a longer lasting legacy.
In 2003, the artist drew national attention when his property line was breached by an oil and gas corporation planning to build a pipeline. Von Tiesenhausen argued that his land was a work of art and therefore protected under Canadian Copyright Law. A settlement was reached out of court. He has worked with Two Rivers Gallery in the past where he has proven to be a dynamic and popular speaker. In 2005, he had a solo show, Requiem, at Two Rivers Gallery which examined the impact of the Pine Beetle infestation in the boreal forest and in 2009, von Tiesenhausen's sculpture, Balance, was installed at Two Rivers Gallery.
www.tiesenhausen.net
www.clintroenisch.com
www.peterrobertsongallery.com
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www.trepanierbaer.com
www.willockandsaxgallery.com
www.jamesbaird.ca
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Lot # 12
Artist: Michele Jensen
Title: Far Between
Media: acrylic on canvas
Size: 30" x 40"
Dated: 2012
Estimate: $750
Far Between explores the language of painting via the strategies of representation while exhibiting processes of formation and formulation. Landscape elements such as water, sky, plants and soil are interrupted by event and sudden recognition of form elevated to symbol and gesture. The mystical qualities that reside in nature also suggest time and place while the viewer also must negotiate visual contradictions of romantic notions of the landscape with painting as conceptual form.
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Lot # 13
Artist: Anna Ashcroft
Title: Panty Line
Media: soapstone, tung oil finish
Size: L 7¼" x W 2" x H 6"
Dated: 2012
Estimate: $800
Anna Ashcroft attended the Kootenay School of Art, in the 70s, majoring in sculpture with a minor in Applied Design. After years in graphic design she is now working full time on her first love, sculpting.
Ashcroft's work is primarily figurative and made out of wood and stone. She has exhibited at the Station House Gallery in Williams Lake in 2002, was an award winner with ArtsFest 2005 and exhibited Touchstones at Two Rivers Gallery in 2008.
"My pieces are subjective statements; like an anthropology of my own life and culture. I am exploring themes that have an intimate quality to them. These themes have appeared in my life again and again, forcing me to look more closely.
As I sculpt, I often feel as if I am unearthing ancient arti¬facts from long sealed rooms; tiny Hearth Goddesses, and small creatures of dream and direction; they emerge from the stone." A. Ashcroft
Represented by the The Breeze Gallery www.thebreezequesnel.wordpress.com
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Lot # 14
Artist: Gene Bricker
Title: Winter Sunset: Bowron River
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 16" x 12"
Dated: 2011
Estimate: $500
Gene Bricker is a realist artist residing in Prince George. He graduated with honours from the Ontario College of Art in the Communication and Design Program. During his time in Toronto, he was introduced to the Boston School and realized that he felt a strong affinity for the Boston painters and the 19th Century French Academic school of painting.
He has taught classes in landscape painting and figure drawing and received "Best in Show" and "Honourable Mention" awards for watercolour paintings from the Federation of Canadian Artists.
Bricker's work is in the permanent collection of Two Rivers Gallery. In 2010, Two Rivers Gallery produced A Northern Season, an exhibition of his work that was exhibited in McBride, Mackenzie, Valemount and Prince George.
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Lot # 15
Artist: Laura Chandler
Title: Waiting for Spring
Media: watercolour and gouache
Size: 12" x 15"
Dated: 2005
Estimate: $500–$700
Laura (Laurie) Chandler has been a resident of Prince George for 20 years, working as an artist and art educator. She has been exhibiting her work since 2001 in juried shows at Two Rivers Gallery and in the Central Interior's annual Art Festival. Her first solo show In the Wake of a Legend was shown at Two Rivers Gallery in 2007.
Being involved in local community endeavours such as the city street banners and the B.C. Lions Society's Spirit Bear project are important to her as well. She has also participated in the Two Rivers Gallery art auctions and has recently been involved in the Creative Fusion project at Studio 2880.
At her home studio, she works on a variety of topics: landscapes, portraits, still life and other themes. She prefers to work mainly in acrylics, watercolours, pastels, pencil and ink. Her work has found homes across Canada as well as many other countries.
www.laurachandler-visualartist.com
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Lot # 16
Artist: Melanie Desjardines
Title: Birch Trees
Media: acrylic on metal
Size: 42¾" x 16½"
Dated: 2012
Estimate: $1,000
"I consider myself to be a self-taught artist with a very active imagination. I see visual excitement everywhere I look and work hard to memorize the impressions that are created in my mind's eye in order to express the mood through the imagery of my art.
I am interested in playing with and combining different materials in order to create a variety of surfaces that capture an image I have in my mind's eye." M. Desjardines
www.desjardinesdesigns.com
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Lot # 17
Artist: Brenda Daly
Title: Mist and Mountains
Media: black and white photograph
Size: 24¾" x 19¾"
Dated: 2008
Estimate: $350–400
"Born and raised on Vancouver Island, I feel fortunate to now call Prince George my home. Nature is my neighbour in each direction. Adventure is my companion when I paddle my kayak, ramble on snowshoes or trek mountains in hiking boots. I celebrate and find synchronicity in the rhythm of the seasons."
Brenda Daly has participated in three group exhibitions at Two Rivers Gallery and has shown her work in businesses throughout the city, at UNBC and Two Rivers Gallery artisan fairs. She also works as a freelance photographer.
"A self taught photographic artist, my intent is to document and share the "nakedness" of the present moment. Finding harmony in life as well as my artistic expression has come from the difficult process of "letting go" of expectations, perfectionism and outcomes. My work often parallels my study and exploration of Buddism, Taoism and Yoga. Personal growth continues to unfold in a deepening of insights and awareness with the use of "conscious camerawork". I prefer to use film as my medium as I find it fulfilling on an organic level. I am intuitively receptive to the reactions of light and exposure as I communicate through the lens.
Mist and Moutains is the gift of an unexpected moment. Awakening at dawn on a summer camping trip in the Rockies, I hiked through the forest until I broke through the treeline to witness the distant mountains veiled in early morning mist; timelessness, strength, fragility and impermanence; a playful dance and expression of textured shadows and sunlight; .....shape, pattern and form; absorbtion..... a perfect morning meditation."
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Lot # 18
Artist: Judith DesBrisay
Title: Geography 5
Media: plaster base on board, paint & mediums, Taharti meadow grass.
Size: 25" x 31"
Dated: 2006
Estimate: $1,000
Former community health nurse and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design student, Judith DesBrisay has presented her art works in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Canada and in Chile. In 2008, DesBrisay exhibited a body of work entitled Geographies at Two Rivers Gallery. Her works hang in permanent collections in Penticton and Prince George, BC, and at the Museo de Andes Sabella in Chile.
DesBrisay and her partner divide precious time between their environmentally friendly life at a remote wilderness setting in central British Columbia and a quiet studio location in Quesnel, BC. DesBrisay states, "I believe, as do others, that person and place are inextricably interwoven entities. I hope that my artworks will heighten the awareness of the beauty and imminent perils in the fragile web of life while underscoring our collective need to be thoughful, wherever we are."
Geography 5 is one of 21 earth portraits within the Geographies series. The works incorporate simplified forms abstracted from human entities and geographical features, textures derived from human made artefacts and hues adapted to the shifting juxtaposition of elements. The paintings echo the beauty, diversty, strength and fragility of our wonder-filled world.
DesBrisay is represented by the Hambleton Galleries www.hambletongalleries.com
Groop Gallery, Prince George: www.groopgallery.com
www.judithdesbrisay.com
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Lot # 19
Artist: Edward Epp
Title: Winter Across the Skeena
Media: acrylic on canvas
Size: 11" x 46"
Dated: 1993
Estimate: $1,800
Edward Epp has enjoyed a painting career that spans over 30 years. For the last decade, he has captured the spirit of BC's coasts. His lyrical paintings reflect the iconic landscapes and the people of Prince Rupert, Haida Gwaii and the South Islands. His art has been widely acclaimed and shown throughout BC and Canada.
Epp is known for his 'plein air' painting. He works on several paintings at a time outside in the elements, the effect of which can often be found in his work.
"For me, it goes beyond the physical resemblance of landscape; to the inner, fully felt poetic dimension. There is a critical urge to transcend the predictable. Beyond the mundane chores of commerce that I must endure, like everyone else, a requirement to give form to the intuitive and the ideal beckons. In my art, this is concretized in my search to push the medium beyond the known and sure, to move in a 'fresh zone' where I never traveled."
Epp's work is in public and private collections in Canada, the U.S., Britain, Africa, China and Hong Kong.
Epp is represented by the Marion Scott Art Gallery and is included in Two Rivers Gallery Permanent Collection and the Art Rental and Sales Program
www.marionscottgallery.com
www.edwardepp.com
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Lot # 20
Artist: Allan Farmer
Title: Cutbank with Eagle and Crows
Media: acrylic on canvas
Size: 24" x 18"
Dated: 2012
Estimate: $400
Born in 1945 in Vancouver and raised on Vancouver Island, Allan Farmer attended the University of Victoria. He then went on a working journey via Hawaii to Australia and New Zealand. After seven years down under, Farmer returned to B.C. and worked for many years up and down the West Coast as a log-scaler. He moved to Prince George in 1998 where he continues to work in the logging industry.
Farmer is self taught, has always been interested in painting and over the last 15 years has started to take his work more seriously.
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Lot # 21
Artist: Bryan Chubb
Title: Gulf Islands
Media: oil on board
Size: 28" x 24"
Dated: 1991
Estimate: $1560
Bryan Chubb was born in Edmonton in 1947, he began painting in the mid 70s and considers himself self-taught. Chubb has lived and painted throughout western Canada. In addition to several solo shows in Alberta, many of his paintings are included in the collections of the Art Gallery of Alberta, Alberta Foundation of the Arts and the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Chubb currently resides in the Cariboo Region of British Columbia where he paints and makes maps.
www.bryanchubb.ca
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Lot # 22
Artist: Azucena Rudland
Title: Winter Blues: Feeding the Birds
Media: Giclee print
Size: 23.5" x 23"
Dated: 2007
Estimate: $700
Azucena (Sue) Rudland was born and raised in Mexico City. She now lives and works in the Fort Fraser-Fraser Lake area. Her practice includes photography, painting and digital media.
"As an artist, I like to use both traditional and contemporary methods and technologies to produce my work. In this work I have used digital technology to express some of my areas of interest. I am particularly focused on emotions and how they influence our experience." Azucena Rudland
www.artandimages.ca
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Lot # 23
Artist: Leszek Wyczolkowski
Title: Unity
Media: aquatint on paper
Size: 33cm x 75½cm
Dated: 1996
Estimate: $450
Leszek Wyczolkowski was born into a family of artists in Poland. His formal education was obtained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland, and the Ontario College of Art. In 2005 and 2007, Wyczolkowski attended self-directed residencies at The Banff Centre. He has exhibited in over one hundred and fifty solo and group shows around the globe. Wyczolkowski's works appear in museums, corporate, public and private collections in Asia, Europe and North America.
Wyczolkowski's solo exhibition, Dialogue, was held at Two Rivers Gallery in 2004 and he had a retrospective in Poland in 2011. His work forms part of Two Rivers Gallery's Permanent Collection.
"My favourite printing media are aquatints and etchings. The process of working on zinc and copper plates has changed little since the time of Rembrandt."
Leszek Wyczolkowski
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Lot # 24
Artist: Joe Ferrante
Title: Sun Worshipper
Media: acrylic on board
Size: 14" x 11"
Dated: 2012
Estimate: $600
Joe Ferrante has been portraying nature and its creatures for the past 30 years. He has worked in different media but finds acrylics best suited for his realistic style. Each of his compositions begin with a concept, inspiration and sketches on paper which are experimented with until ready for the easel.
Ferrante's work is in collections in Canada, US, Europe, Australia and Japan. Since 1999, he has received numerous awards from Ducks Unlimited Canada and has been recognized by the BC Wildlife Federation and the Guides and Outfitters of BC.
www.joeferrante.com
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Lot # 25
Artist: Annerose Georgeson
Title: Huckleberries
Media: acrylic on canvas
Size: 28" x 24"
Dated: 2011
Estimate: $750
Annerose Georgeson was born in Switzerland but grew up in Vanderhoof. She makes acrylic paintings and mixed media drawings based on imagery from nature. In fact, when she was ten, her father cleared some forest land on Landaluza Road to farm. Today she lives on the same property and her familiar natural surroundings inform many of her paintings. Georgeson has a BFA in Visual Arts from UVic and has shown her work in many solo shows.
Annerose Georgeson has strong ties to Two Rivers Gallery. Her first solo exhibition, Knowing Where You Art, was one of the last exhibitions at Two Rivers Gallery's former location, the Prince George Art Gallery. In 2003, Georgeson exhibited A Secret Language, a collection of mixed media work inspired by the patterns she found in nature, at Two Rivers Gallery. Four years later, Georgeson's paintings toured Mackenzie, McBride and Valemount as Two Rivers Gallery's annual travelling regional exhibition. This travelling exhibition, Hope Persists: Artwork from a Changed Forest, came on the tail of Red and Blue Beetle Art Show, a project that Georgeson curated and shared with many communities across Northern BC. In addition to these exhibitions Annerose has taught classes and workshops to children and adults at the Gallery, has participated in many juried exhibitions and has painted a Spirit Bear in the City for the BC Lions Society project. As her art has changed over the years, its ties to nature (whether bears, birds, pine cones or areas of clearcuts) and the local landscape are as strong as ever. Her solo exhibition, Field Notes, at Two Rivers Gallery in 2012, explored many of these themes.
www.annerosegeorgeson.com
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Lot # 26
Artist: E. Nancy Stevens
Title: West Coast Memory I
Media: watercolour
Size: 22" x 14½"
Dated: 2008
Estimate: $1100
E. Nancy Stevens was born in British Columbia where she spent her early life. She studied with Group of Seven artist, Arthur Lismer, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Alex Colville at Mount Allison University where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Stevens exhibits nationally and is represented in many collections, including the Canada Council Art Bank, the National Capital Commission and Two Rivers Gallery.
www.enancystevens.ca
www.zwickersgallery.ca
www.lyghtesome.ns.ca
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Lot # 27
Artist: Darwin Paton
Title: Fiddlehead
Media: photograph on canvas
Size: 16" x 24"
Dated: 2011
Estimate: $200
"Originally from the Shuswap, I first moved to Prince George in 1983. Educated in Forestry, a career change in the 1990's took me into the Environmental Systems field, where my interests in environmental protection are put into practice.
I am a devout conservationist with strong beliefs in environmentally sustainable development. It is encouraging to me that people are becoming increasingly aware of the impact that our activities are having on the environment and are more willing to undertake informed choices in order to mitigate our impact.
I pursue the art of photography as a way to record the beauty of our Province's varied landscapes and the animals which inhabit them. My goal is to capture the essence of fragility in our environment without impacting the subject matter that I am presenting. Using this approach I present the scenes as they transpired, without the use of filters, staging or additional arrangement.
My works are, and have been, displayed in many towns throughout the interior of BC, as well as Jasper, Alberta. I have participated in numerous group exhibits and ten solo exhibitions to date."
Darwin Paton
www.wfphoto.ca
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Lot # 28
Artist: Susan Barton-Tait
Title: A Christening Gown for Elsie
Media: handmade paper, embossment, intaglio
Size: 27.5" x 32"
Dated: 1995
Estimate: $500
"Since handmade paper is organic and sensitive to the contours and elements of an object, the process of paper casting yields unexpected results. The opposing qualities of handmade paper: fragility and strength, suppleness and rigidity, absorbency and impermeability are the perfect vehicles to achieve the transfer and layering of emotions which are integral to my work."
Susan Barton-Tait
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Lot # 29
Artist: Lorna Hannett
Title: Bighorn Sheep
Media: Scratchboard
Size: 8" x 10"
Dated: 2012
Estimate: $950
Lorna Hannett is one of the Founders of and President of the International Society of Scratchboard Artists (ISSA) and is a Master Scratchboard Artist (MSA). She is a senior signature member of the Federation of Canadian Artists (SFCA). She has been juried into, shown with and won awards from FCA, ASA (Alberta Society of Artists) and CIPA (Canadian Institute of Portrait Artists).
After teaching herself scratchboard, Hannett has pushed boundaries with it and in doing so has garnered recognition and awards both nationally and internationally. Her work has been featured in the International Artists Magazine and others.
Hannett resides with her husband and works in her studio just outside of Burns Lake.
www.lornahannett.com
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Lot # 30
Artist: Dempsey Bob and Michael Hosaluk
Title: Raven Chair
Media: wood
Size: 32" x 16" x 16"
Dated: 2011
Estimate: $3,000
Dempsey Bob was born in 1948 in Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, and is affiliated with the Tlingit First Nations. Trained by his parents and grandparents, and briefly at the Kitanmax School of Northwest Coast Art, in Ksan, British Columbia, Dempsey has contributed to a revival of both Northwest Coast visual arts and ceremonies. This interest has resulted in the commission of several items, such as regalia, including frontlets, leggings and button blankets. In making the latter, Dempsey teaches community children, thus ensuring the continuation of their culture. His preferred medium, woodcarving is traditionally conservative and rule-governed; yet Dempsey believes and demonstrates that historical study is the necessary base for innovative reinterpretations, which are timely and resonant.
Saskatchewan artist, Michael Hosaluk, is known throughout Canada and internationally for his creative woodturning. Self-taught, he exhibits, lectures and demonstrates throughout the world, sharing the new techniques he has invented. While Michael continues to create elegant turned vessels and whimsical turned sculpture, he resists being pigeonholed as solely a woodturner. His Acts of Chairs project, shown at Two Rivers Gallery in 2011, has also been exhibited in Saskatoon and Ottawa.
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Lot # 30
Artist: Dempsey Bob and Michael Hosaluk
Title: Raven Chair
Media: wood
Size: 32" x 16" x 16"
Dated: 2011
Estimate: $3,000
Dempsey Bob was born in 1948 in Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, and is affiliated with the Tlingit First Nations. Trained by his parents and grandparents, and briefly at the Kitanmax School of Northwest Coast Art, in Ksan, British Columbia, Dempsey has contributed to a revival of both Northwest Coast visual arts and ceremonies. This interest has resulted in the commission of several items, such as regalia, including frontlets, leggings and button blankets. In making the latter, Dempsey teaches community children, thus ensuring the continuation of their culture. His preferred medium, woodcarving is traditionally conservative and rule-governed; yet Dempsey believes and demonstrates that historical study is the necessary base for innovative reinterpretations, which are timely and resonant.
Saskatchewan artist, Michael Hosaluk, is known throughout Canada and internationally for his creative woodturning. Self-taught, he exhibits, lectures and demonstrates throughout the world, sharing the new techniques he has invented. While Michael continues to create elegant turned vessels and whimsical turned sculpture, he resists being pigeonholed as solely a woodturner. His Acts of Chairs project, shown at Two Rivers Gallery in 2011, has also been exhibited in Saskatoon and Ottawa.
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Lot # 31
Artist: Alex Zander
Title: Mid Winter Whisper
Media: photograph on canvas
Size: 39" x 20"
Dated: 2011
Estimate: $350
Alex Zander's photographic journey began at age 14 when he received his grandfather's cherished Pentax camera.
As a hobby, Alex photographed people, landscapes, outdoor activities and celebrations. He later enrolled in an arts institute in Vancouver and focused his efforts on learning all aspects of photography. It was at this pivotal point that Alex's work transitioned from being a part-time hobby to a full time committed profession.
In more recent years Alex has trained under contemporary photographers such as Greg Hiesler, Mark Koegel, James Emler, and Joe McNally. Alex's most influential teacher continues to be close friend and long-time mentor Tim Swanky.
Through personal and professional growth Alex has developed a style of photography that is truly his own. His passion for his craft has overcome the daily challenges of commissioned work. Alex Zander's images reflect the environment of his subjects and captures the essence of their spirit.
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