Fairfield Artist Studios Tour

ADELLE ANDREW #1 - 1120 May St. 388 6081 adelleandrew@shaw.ca		Adelle Andrew is a professional artist living in Cook Street Village. She has developed a method of painting where she uses inks on acid free tissue and archival glassine papers. This is not a collage process as the entire painting is rendered to completion on individual sheets of these papers and then fused to canvas. This method of painting has revealed a diversity of expression which allows her to work on several series of paintings simultaneously. Currently she is working on four different series. Adelle constantly strives for greater enlightenment and understanding of the creative process within her paintings. She is an active member of the Canadian Federation of Artists and the Alberta Society of Artists and has exhibited extensively, Her art can be found in many corporate and private collections. In Victoria she is represented by the Fran Willis Gallery.
JESI K BARRON 203-1120 Fairfield Road, 381-3986 jesikb@shaw.ca		Born in Montreal Quebec Jesi attended art classes at the museum run by Arthur Lismer. Her family moved to Victoria in the l940's where she continued her interest in the arts. She attended the Vancouver School of Art 1962-4. She loves to draw and paint in many mediums and looks to light and nature for inspiration. Jesi has devoted a good amount of time at the Victoria Theatre Guild designing clothes for plays, sometimes taking acting roles as well. She has exhibited in a number of cities, particularly in British Columbia. She owned and operated Coombs Art Gallery from1987-96. and moved toVictoria 2000 .Jsei is presently Showing at the Gallery in Oak Bay. What she enjoys most is painting outdoors by the sea.
FRAN BASKERVILLE 1061 Redfern 598 1092 franbaskerville@shaw.ca		A recent recipient of the Herbert Siebner Practising Artist Award, Frances has had solo shows in Victoria, Sidney, Parksville, Port Moody, Vancouver, and Portland, Oregon. Her work has been exhibited at Arthur Leggett Fine Art in Toronto, THEWORKS Festival of Art in Edmonton, the BC Festival of the Arts, the Campbell River Art Gallery, and the Maple Ridge and Burnaby art galleries. In Victoria her work has been exhibited at the Fran Willis Gallery, Martin Batchelor Gallery, the Gallery at the MacPherson, the Arts Council of Greater Victoria, the Rogueart Gallery, the May Ip-Lam Art Gallery, the Sooke and Sidney Fine Arts Shows and the Maltwood Gallery at the University of Victoria. In January, 2004 the city of Victoria commissioned her to paint a 10 foot square mural as part of a city beautification project.
VICTOR BOSSON ArtLife 385-3761 Fairfield United Church, e-studio@shaw.ca		Subtle humour, satire, dreamscapes and architectural images are Artlife's main focus. ArtLife combines drawing, photography, digital painting, inks and acrylic paints to their colourful and intriguing artworks. ArtLife is a collaboration of the ideas and talents of two professional artists: Victor Bosson and Barbara Weaver-Bosson.
LINDA DARBY 1130 Richardson Street 385 4954 lmdarby@telus.net		I like to paint images of our west coast sea and landscapes. I use various acrylic media to create textures. My main intention is to create a painting that expresses a feeling or a mood, and has a sense of place.
LOIS DIMOFF Pentastic Studio 4-1421 Richardson St. dimoff@island.net		Artistic expression has always been a part of Lois' life. For many years she was involved in community theatre where she was active in all aspects, from prop and set building to acting and musical direction. Now that she has returned to BC, her creative interests are centered around painting. Her earlier canvases were mostly of landscapes and still life. Recently, her explorations have moved toward the abstract. She loves responding to the push and pull of colour and of form as each painting evolves. She is a studio member of Xchanges Gallery and is part of Pentastic Studio. She takes workshops led by artists who inspire her, as well as courses at Vancouver Island School of Art.
BENTLEY GRIGG 34 Armine Place 598-8989 griggfamily@shaw.ca		"Tactile" is the word most used to describe Bentley's work. There's something about it that just makes you want to touch it. He has coupled his sculpted,Venetian plaster medium with his Representational Abstraction style and applied that filter to many scenes close to home for this latest series. Most of the pictures depict a springtime theme. New beginnings, awakenings, blossomings- attributes of the season but also a portrayal of flourishing times within the cycles of our lives.
ROY MERCER 1138 Oxford St. 384 9230 newmoon@shaw.ca		Roy is a fourth generation Victorian who has been interested in art and music since childhood. He was a student of Allan Edwards in 1961-63 at the Art League of Victoria, and graduated from the Art Centre College of Design in Los Angeles. Subsequently he was employed by a number of graphic art agencies in L.A, Vancouver, and Victoria. He has been freelancing as a graphic designer and architectural illustrator since 1984 with his company, New Moon Design Studio, situated in Fairfield. Recently he has been concentrating on commissioned pet portraits. Many of his paintings contain humour with a hint of erotica and catchy titles to make us look at ourselves in a way no other species can appreciate.
LOUISE MONFETTE Fairfield United Church 382 3591 lmonfette@shaw.ca		Louise Monfette is an emerging artist whose current work focuses on the abstract. Elements of texture, pattern, color and mood become the subject matter. Since graduating from Victoria College of Art in 2003, she has shown at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, The Avenus Gallery, The Gallery at Mattick's Farm and various local shows.