NEWSLETTER

Ferry Building The exhibit is on till September 18th

Hi all -- here are a few of the photo's of our opening night reception taken by the North Shore News.

Me and Cheryl Hendricken

Ginger Brown and Marty Smith

Barbara Greenlaw and Judy Kelly

Hurrian Peyman and Lisa Bell

Bruce and Virginia Howlett

Janet McCoy and David Dunn

Here is a publicity photo for the Bold Abstract Show done by the North Shore News of me faking painting and with what looks to me like a fake smile - oh well.

Please see the information in the attached poster below. You can check out the paintings I have included in the show - just click on Sneak Peek under galleries on my website. There is also a brief description on my perspective regarding what is meant by the title abstract art.

www.lindabell.ca

Hope to see some of you at the reception!

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1. Bold Abstracts

Ferry Building West Vancouver at Ambleside Landing

August 30th to September 18th with the reception on Tuesday August 30th from 6 to 8 pm

The Artists are Linda Bell and Marlene Louden.

The Ferry Building is a lovely historical building on the waterfront in West Vancouver. It is close to Ambleside Beach and the wonderful seawall. Every fall a jurying for the following years exhibitions are selected from submissions of artists who are past or present residents of the North Shore, Bowen Island, the Sunshine Coast or sea to Sky Corridor. The type of exhibits, the number and combination of artists and the titles of show are determined by the Jurors.

I hope that you can join me for the evening reception on August 30th. I plan to add a gallery on my website at least a week before the event which will show some of the paintings I will have in this exhibition. A reminder e-mail will also come at that time. www.lindabell.ca

Its a Jungle Out There, Acrylic on Canvas, 36" x 36"

2. Painting By Numbers FCA Fundraiser

I have again donated a painting (see below) to this annual Federation of Canadian Artists Fundraiser. It is a lovely event and more information can be found on the Federation website at www.artists.ca

September 26th 7 to 11pm

Performance Works on Granville Island

Magnolia, Acrylic Collage, 30" x 24"

3. Opus Demonstration in North Vancouver

October 8th from 10am to 12pm

Please check the Opus website for upcoming announcements about their free demonstrations in the fall. It is a good idea to book in as soon as you can as the demonstrations fill up quite quickly.

I was notified recently that the following painting was accepted to be included in AcrylicWorks 4. At this point I am not sure of the publication date.

Update -- the tentative publication date is at the end of April 2017

I have attached some photo's of paintings done by some of the participants at the Calgary Workshop. Thanks so much to you guys for sharing these. Wonderful work and they are all unique!

Louise Hall

Vivian Herman

Janice Coates

Bolero Fuentes Blanca

I was very pleased to receive the Artistic Achievement Award for my painting Floral Display at the SDAG Oil and Water Show last evening.

My Painting White Rhododendrons was also selected for the on line Limitless Show currently showing on the FCA website. www.artists.ca

Hi everyone - I just had three paintings accepted into the SDAG Oil and Water Juried Show. The Show will run from June 2 to June 26th. The Gallery will be open from 11am to 4 pm Tuesday to Sunday and will stay open till 8pm on Thursday evenings during this time. This is an open show which means artists from all over BC have the opportunity to enter and be accepted into the Show.

The Gallery is located at 1710 56th Street in Tsawassen

The Reception/Awards event is on Thursday June 2nd staring at 6:30pm. Any of you that are interested and in the area are invited to attend. Hope to see some of you there. I have added the 3 paintings below; Floral Display, Shape Up and A Cat of a Different Strip.

I recently gave a 3 day workshop in Calgary with 20 wonderful women. It was a terrific group to work with, lots of fun and creativity in the room and I certainly learned a lot as well. I told the group at the beginning that I would try to role model how to make mistakes and I certainly did that. One of the problems many of us had was painting over some of the papers we made in order to pull the final painting together and I was no exception to that. So I brought home a painting that I had started that was not "working"and tried to improve it. The Before and After are below.

I also demonstrated a torn paper collage on Sunday and did not have time enough to finish it during the workshop - but the "almost" completed Cheetah is below.

I am hoping that I will be able to share paintings of these workshop participants in a future blog post.

Last weekend I took a workshop with Lalita Hamill on Composition and Design. It was great Lalita was very knowledgeable and it was a great refresher for me. She suggested that I look at my recent paintings in black and white and even though I feel fairly comfortable with value - it was a great suggestion as I could more clearly see where I needed to make some adjustments. So looking at the 2 paintings below that way I made some alterations and have reposted the paintings.