Other Exhibits

So many people love their car.  People have memories involving their car, even memories because of owning a car.  Yet so many cars are discarded.  Several yards have derelicts with their frames sunken into the ground and plants or even trees are growing through them.  They were once driven, now they’re flowerpots.  “Park Grounds”, purpose is to depict how exposure to the elements is corroding and breaking these cars down while at the same time being claimed by nature.
 
MORLEY WATSON has been a practicing artist for twenty years and has been teaching Drawing and Painting in the Vancouver area since 2001.  He studied fine arts at Langara College, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art & Design.  Morley has exhibited in Alberta & British Columbia and his paintings have become part of international collections.

For any questions or interests regarding the paintings please visit his website, www.morleysart.com

 















Morley Watson, Green Meanie

Tony Chu was born in China brought up in Hong Kong and currently resides in Richmond, British Columbia since March 1996.
 
Wine, Coffee and Black is a group of mixed media drawings intended for WHODUNIt?, an annual fund raising event in Ontario. In order to explore different media  and extend my portfolio, I expanded this series during the project. This set of drawings incorporate some fragmented images of architecture; they are either drawn or digitally transferred.

The diminished images of houses target the shortage of housing projects for low income British Columbians, despite the speedy recovery of our economy. In terms of composition, by juxtaposing the traditional and more recognizable images (old houses) in the abstract environment (scribbling marks), tension is foiled between two different elements: abstraction and reality, tradition and the modern, the  temporary and permanence.

Tony Yin Tak Chu
 Wine, Coffee and Black #31
Triptych, (detail) 2009,
mixed media on paper ,10" x 21"

The annual Art About Finn Slough show is an unjuried display of all kinds of art having a single topic: Finn Slough.

It began because of an observation. Particularly on weekends with good weather Finn Slough is alive with all kinds of photographers, artists, sketchers: makers of art who come to appreciate and capture Finn Slough’s unique mix of history and nature, timelessness and specificity.

We began the show as a way for these disparate artists to see their own work in the context of all the other art about their shared subject. It is also a way for Finn Slough to give back, to host these makers of art in an appreciative and interactive way.

We enjoy the multiplicity of views the artists bring; their differing representations of the same subject renew and energize our own appreciation of the place and go on to inspire other artists who see the work.

For any questions on the show visit  www.finnslough.com

Finn Slough, Ulrich Gaede

Jing Jia