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Exhibit – January 27 to February 5, 2025
*Adult material and situations – may not be appropriate for all audiences.
Preshow event before Marie Chouinard’s Rite of Spring.
Artists:
Nicola Withers
Nicola Withers is an Abbotsford-based artist, who mainly works in pencil, charcoal, conte or ink. She has a BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design with a focus in drawing and printmaking. Now that her kids are getting older, this is giving her the time to find a renewed inspiration which has revitalized her passion for her creative art. For the past few years, she has been focusing on portraits, but has been drawn back to her love of life drawing through opportunities to attend live model classes. She is inspired by the way the nude body offers the flow of lines without the restriction and disguise of angular clothing. She is also interested in how we can view nudes in non-sexual ways. Her favourite are the quick poses where she can use a variety of line markings to create dynamic poses.
Description of Body of Work:
For these pieces, I was inspired by my love of quick posed life drawings and the lines that the body creates.
My creative process started with taking drawings from my life drawing classes; then I used the following questions to direct this body of work:
• How can I portray movement in a static image so that the whole action can be encapsulated in one pose?
• What lines are necessary to define the pose?
• How can I show beauty for the nude body without it being highly sexualized?
While much of my work is done in black ink and washes, lately, I have been experimenting with adding colour, specifically using watercolour. I want to leave the viewers with an appreciation for the allure of the human body.
IG: @nicolawithers_art
Travis Clarke
Travis Clarke is a Canadian artist born and raised in the beautiful mountains of British Columbia. Inspired by the surrounding nature and the many fantastic myths they birth, he often finds himself trying to bring stories unseen to life. Rather then try to render the world as seen, he believes it’s an artists duty to bring out the world others cant see. Often in his live model art, the aim is to push the expression, pose, or colours seen and build it into a story for viewers to grasp a feeling.
IG: travis_sketches
Jeannette Bittman
IG: @jeannettebittman
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