Marg Smith (Forest Sunset or Blazing Skies)

Marg Smith
"Forest Sunset or Blazing Skies"
10 x  24", acrylic
2010

Marg Smith is a relatively new face to the Okotoks art scene, having moved here recently from British Columbia.  Originally starting her painting career in watercolours, she is currently using acrylics as her primary medium.  Her philosophy is that art, like life, is one continuous enjoyable learning process.

Bradley Saturley (Aerial Landscape: Crossroads)

Bradley Saturley

"Aerial Landscape: Crossroads"

48x60, Acrylic on canvas

2010

Brandy Saturley is a full-time professional artist born and living on Vancouver Island on the West Coast of Canada. With art in her blood at an early age she began exploring her options as an artist through Motion Picture School then moved onto the Visual Arts program at Camosun College in Victoria. Travelling has further inspired and educated Brandy in art with time spent in Calgary, Vancouver, New York, Palm Springs and Las Vegas. Her signature style is described as ‘Vibrant & Curvaceous’ - vibrant colors, a curvaceous style and kinetic backgrounds. Brandy creates contemporary surreal, abstract and landscape pieces. Brandy will launch her landscape and tree painting series in March 2011 at the Edge Gallery in Canmore, Alberta. For more information http://www.brandysaturley.com

reviewed by BORBAY

Paula Kirman (Peppers)

Paula Kirman

"Peppers"

June 2006

8”x10”

Digital Print

Artist's Statement:

My photographs focus on shapes, colour, and composition. I have a special interest in the natural world, especially as it coexists in an urban area. I attempt to awaken the senses with images that teeter on the boundaries between abstract and reality. While the eyes may be looking at one interpretation of these still-life photographs, the mind may discover of other levels of meaning.

Kim Bruce (White Encaustic with Found Objects)

Kim Bruce
White Encaustic with Found Objects
12 x 12 x 3.5"



Kim Bruce resides and works in the foothills of Alberta just outside the City of Calgary. Using materials from distinctly different sources, she makes succinct yet subjective statements that reference the dichotomies that exist in our world and within us. Juxtaposing contrasting materials and opposing viewpoints, bittersweet contradictions concerning life’s fragility come to light and into visual and ethereal balance.  Bruce looks to unveil natural beauty and create sculptures that “provoke musings about the state of physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.”
Bruce established a design firm in 1983 specializing in store planning and image development while pursuing formal art training through a varied curriculum under many established artists at The Alberta College of Art & Design and The University of Calgary. She currently manages artbiz.ca. Bruce has been published in the New York Times, reviewed in See Magazine and FFWD Magazine. Exhibitions include the Sculptors Society of Canada in Toronto, the windows at the Epcor Center for the Performing Arts in Calgary, Harcourt House Gallery in Edmonton, Alberta and the Triangle Gallery in Calgary, Alberta. Her work is in the collection of the Alberta Foundations for the Arts and is privately and publically collected throughout Canada, Australia, and the Netherlands

Kevin Law (Leary's Stove)

Kevin Law
"Leary's Stove"
photograph

I am drawn to forms of photography where the artist can creatively contribute to the final image through various forms of manipulation during the original exposure of the film.  I have been most fascinated with the use and manipulation of color. Color can help to create emotion in art, and the ability to manipulate color in photography is often limited, and therefore highly challenging. Several years ago, I learned light painting techniques that I found very exciting. Since then I have developed the basic techniques of light painting into an impressionistic style using various modified light sources

Audra Schoblocher (Archaic Scrape)

Audra Schoblocher 
"Archaic Scrape"
nickle, silver and bronze
5 x 1.5 x 5"

Audra Schoblocher is a metal sculptor from Calgary, Alberta.  She attended the ACA+D’s Jewellery and Metalsmithing program both in the 1980s and returned in 2008 for a BFA. Her work revolves around historical research and movements of the human body.  Her work has exhibited nationally and privately collected internationally.

   

            I have followed the historical theory of adorning and protecting the human body from the elements, with materials that are collected from one’s own personal environment.  I combined my readily accessible materials with traditional craft-making techniques such as spinning, crocheting and smocking to construct wearable articles.

Corey Hochachka (Flowstar)

Corey Hochachka
Flowstar
photograph


Corey Hochachka is an award winning, accredited, professional living in St. Albert, and his love for the outdoors and its Creator has instilled in him a passion for photographing nature and its inhabitants. He began fine tuning his talents in 1990 and has been pursuing his calling professionally since 1998.  Throughout Corey's career as a lensman, he has excelled in the areas of commercial advertising, industrial, stock and fine-art photography, as well as unique portrait and pet images. In February 2010 the Professional Photographers of Canada judged Corey the Alberta Commercial Photographer of the Year.