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ARTISTS WORK APPEARING
AT
THE COMOX RECREATION CENTER
2010
JULY 21ST - OCTOBER 27TH
Diane Knight
Studio Names: By the Sea Studio, Comox, BC
The Purple Door Studio, Todos
Santos, Baja, Mexico 
Diane Knight is a Canadian artist
from Comox, B.C. She lived in Europe for four years, traveled and lived all
across Canada and the US and currently resides and paints part of the year in
Todos Santos, Mexico. Essentially self-taught, Diane continues to improve
herself by taking workshops by noteworthy Canadian and Mexican artists.
Her recent
paintings are mostly of her travels in Mexico and Guatemala and reflect her love
of the vibrancy found in the Spanish influenced architecture and culture. Diane
believes art should not just be an object to be viewed and strives to create the
feeling of being able to enter and become a part of the painting. She organizes
and runs painting adventures to the Los Cabos area of Mexico to introduce the
culture and scenery she loves to other artists.
Diane’s paintings
have been displayed in galleries in Calgary, Bragg Creek, Comox, San Jose del
Cabo and Todos Santos – the latter two galleries being in Baja, Mexico. Her
work hangs in both private and corporate collections.
Website:
www.dianeknight.ca
Email:
dianekknight@hotmail.com
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Margaret Burns
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Betty Boyle
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Martin Kaspers
Company Name:
Foothills Commercial
Photography
  Martin
Kaspers was born in
Amsterdam, Holland on July 27, 1951 and
emigrated to Canada in 1957. He presently lives in Merville on Vancouver
Island, BC. He started taking pictures at the age of twelve. He graduated with
an honors diploma in Industrial Engineering Technology from the Southern Alberta
Institute of Technology in 1973.
He has been taking photos for
the last 40 years. He joined the Calgary Photographic Society in 1995 where he
won numerous awards including the Kodak Canada award for the creation and
interpretation of photographic themes. He sold his first picture in an art
gallery in Calgary in 1996.
Martin has always been known
as a photographic artist that pushes the envelope in his creativity of new and
unique images. In recent years, Martin has taken his images to a new artistic
level. Since 1999, Martin has introduced a new and fresh art form with his
unique artist giclees. These limited edition prints
are sold in various galleries across Canada and the United States including;
- Avenida Art Galleries in Calgary, AB (2 locations)
- Choice Office Furniture in Calgary, AB
- Eye C Gallery in Edmonton, AB
- Westmount Frame Shop in Edmonton, AB
- The Gallery at the Springs in Banff, AB
- About Canada Gallery in Banff, AB
- The Davie Art Shop in Vancouver, BC
- Laurie’s at Home in Hoodsport, WA
“Artists of the World” in
Calgary has a large supply of Martin’s prints where some are sold in selective
Hudson Bay Stores across Canada.
Web Site:
www.martinkaspers.ca Phone: 250-337-5886 email:
martin@martinkaspers.ca
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Steve
Williamson
 Photographer
and conservationist Steve Williamson spends as much time as possible
working up and down the BC coast and when possible works with
conservation charities in the Great Bear Rainforest. Working with these
organisations has enabled Steve to see many of the amazing sights and
wildlife presented in his photographs. It also allowed him to learn a
great deal about the spectacular scenery and wonderful wildlife he was
seeing, whilst at the same time being able to give something back to the
environment and the area in which he was working.
Steve’s interest in photography grew when trained by
the Royal Navy as a ‘Ship’s Photographer’ and was further broadened by a
diploma college course in the late 90’s. He moved to the Comox Valley
on Vancouver Island with his wife Pauline in 2006 and really fell in
love with BC and its special coast. Over the past decade or so Steve’s
work has been published in newspapers, on several websites, has been
used in promotional video presentations and national slideshows and has
been retained in government and scientific databases for reference and
referral archiving. Today, photographing the region’s wildlife is his
passion.
“In my short time in BC I have learnt and seen so
much, this coastline and the Great Bear Rainforest are wonderful places
to see, I feel very privileged to be able to live and work here.”
Website:
www.stevewphotography.ca
email:
steve@stevewphotography.ca
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Sandra & Walter Moses
Studio Name:
Ablaze Metal Art & Design
Walter and Sandra Moses are the creative force behind
Ablaze Metal Art and Design. They’ve been in the Comox Valley for two
years now, having moved from the Lower Mainland to be nearer to family here.
Their new business is a dream come true for both of them. Sandra has been
involved in creative pursuits of one kind or another her whole life and Walter
has worked with steel for 34 years, building things like frames for telescopes
at observatories in Hawaii and Chile, rides for Disney theme parks, catwalks in
mills, and bridges. Now he turns Sandra’s ideas into art. Their
slogan is,
“If you can dream it, we can make
it.”
The dreaming image reflects the
Moses’ Native heritage. Walter is Six Nations, originally from Southern
Ontario, and Sandra is Coast Salish from the Hwilitsum band in Ladner. Native
art is part or their extensive repertoire. The designs in this facet of their
work reflect Sandra’s coastal origins: whale, raven, and frog, among others.
 Sandra
and Walter also create non-Native art and can, as their slogan says, create your
art as well. This can take the form of wall-hangings or freestanding pieces.
The number of applications for decorative metal art is
extensive. For the garden, they have insets for gates or designs mounted on
stakes for planting. For the home, they make firescreens and insets for
railings and door screens. For business, they can reproduce your logo in metal,
make security coverings for windows and doors, and signage. As their slogan
implies, what they can do is only limited by the imagination.
Web Site:
www.ablazemetalart.com
email: ablaze.metalart@shawbiz.ca
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OCTOBER 27TH - January 26th of 2011
Bev Johnston
Kay Bukta
Henrie Beaudoin
Peter Moore
Judi Pedder
Mary Reed
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