ART IN THE GARDEN 2009

Gallery walls are the conventional way to display art, but this summer the UBC Botanical Garden will be the backdrop for an exciting exhibition. Art In The Garden takes place this August in the heart of the UBC Botanical Garden with an exhibition of works by 20 B.C. artists. Art In The Garden will include art from the garden, art for the garden, art inspired by the garden, and of course all displayed in the garden. You’ll see all types of artworks from garden fountains to bird feeders, jewellery to ceramics, works in glass to works in metal, large and small sculptures, and a variety of photography and painting styles.

Come meet the artists and soak in their work. Garden and nature lovers are encouraged to enjoy the synergy between the botanical garden and the art. Relax with refreshments on the Garden Pavilion deck overlooking the food garden and nearby art, or take a stroll through the Asian Garden and contemplate nature’s own creativity.

Organized by the Friends of UBC Botanical Garden in collaboration with Janet Planet Designs, Art In The Garden runs August 8 and 9 from 10 am to 5 pm at the UBC Botanical Garden located at 6804 SW Marine Drive at the intersection of Marine Drive and 16th Avenue on the University of British Columbia campus.

Special gate fee in effect that allows re-entry throughout the weekend and includes a raffle of prizes by artists (regular garden admission fees).

Location and Directions to
UBC Botanical Garden

Map of UBC

By Transit

Take Translink C20
Use UBC Community Shuttle

By Car

Travelling from the South via SW Marine Drive, proceed to UBC through Pacific Spirit Park, just past West 16th Avenue, turn left at Gate 8 to enter the UBC Botanical Garden parking lot

Travelling from the East via West 16th Avenue, proceed to UBC through Pacific Spirit Park, turn right at SW Marine Drive, immediately turn left to enter the UBC Botanical Garden parking lot

Travelling from the North via SW Marine Drive, proceed through UBC, just pass Gate 7 but before West 16th Avenue, turn right at Gate 8 to enter the UBC Botanical Garden parking lot

JANICE LIKNAITZKY - botanical drawing

Janice Liknaitzky is a South-African born artist from Johannesburg who studied graphic art at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town. After graduating she worked as a graphic designer in Johannesburg and Cape Town before travelling around the world. In 1991 she emigrated to Vancouver, where she also worked as a graphic designer before marrying and raising a family. Janice has spent her life looking at flowers. The inspiration for these pencil drawings came from flowers and plants in and around her sunroom and the bulbous, fleshy pods and seeds in her garden and the Main Street neighbourhood where she lives. When she isn’t drawing, painting or potting, Janice works as a children’s aide at a local elementary school.

DOUGLAS WALKER - sculpture

Douglas Walker is a Canadian sculptor based on Vancouver Island British Columbia. Working mainly with a variety of recycled objects he creates sculptures that can be described as whimsical and Goldberg-like. He is best known for turning discarded musical instruments such as tubas and trombones into water features. By melding and blending common cast-off objects, he has proven himself to be an accomplished sculptor whose designs are easily recognizable. Works created by Douglas can be found throughout North America, the UK and Australia.

Visit the website of Doug Walker: http://www.waterworksgardenart.com/

YOLANDE MORIN - photography

Yolande has been photographing nature, Vancouver and parts of France, Mexico, Arizona and Quebec for the last 15 years. Her love of nature stems back to her childhood in Quebec where she had a vegetable garden at age 3 (with the help of her Papa!), and her years studying Geography in University. An avid gardener, Yolande also teaches French conversation at Continuing Studies at U.B.C. and takes groups of adults to France to meet local people, practice the language and discover and photograph the beauty of the Southern France countryside. Yolande makes and sells greeting cards and framed enlargements of her favourite images.

JOANNE CARTER - glass jewellery

Joanne Carter has always had a love affair with glass. She taught stained glass for 22 years and when she retired she discovered lamp working: the art of creating glass beads in an open flame. She uses an extensive colour range of glass rods imported from Italy, Germany and Japan and loves to work with molten glass. Each bead is created one at a time, by hand, without the use of moulds. Although similar ones can be made, the nature of each piece ensures its uniqueness. She works in her studio in a wooded area of our home in Surrey that allows solitude in which to work with wonderful views into the surrounding forest.

RON SIMMER - sculpture

Ron Simmer is a sculptor working with found and recycled materials. As well as recycled objects he incorporates organic matter – stone and wood – to express concerns about the fragility of our environment. He recycles materials from our consumer culture – skis, snowboards, fire extinguishers, car parts, musical instruments, fishing floats, driftwood and scrap metal – to create fanciful commentary on modern society.

His inspiration comes from his working background – fisherman, steel fabricator, construction worker, boat builder, librarian – and his contact with nature through fly fishing, sea kayaking, sailing, skiing and hiking.

CRYSTAL DESHAIES - garden portraits

Crystal has a Bachelor of Music from the University of British Columbia, where she also studied Fine Art and Architecture. Working as an architectural design consultant and illustrator, she began creating very personalized house portraits in Vancouver. Crystal has also taught art and creativity courses at post-secondary institutions and businesses in Vancouver. Her work has been widely exhibited in Vancouver, and Crystal now devotes herself to creating "Home and Garden Portraits", as well as personalized "Winsome Portraits" for clients throughout the Lower Mainland as well as in the US and Europe.

Visit the website of Crystal Deshaies: www.crystalpainter.com

JANNA HURTZIG - fashion accessories

Janna Hurtzig designs and manufactures all Astrosatchel products in her Vancouver studio. Inspired by the natural world and modern design, each Naugahyde Vinyl bag combines function and fun, utility and esthetic.

Visit the website of Janna Hurtzig: www.astrosatchel.com

DAVID VOCKEROTH - photography

David Vockeroth's aim is to capture the beauty of the Pacific Northwest through contemplative images that emphasize a subject's essential nature. Previously an environmental technician, and with a life-long love for photography, he finally took up the "calling" and began to exhibit and sell his work two years ago. His image entitled "Pitt-Addington Marsh" is featured in the Spring issue of BCAA's Westworld Magazine.

Visit the website of David Vockeroth: www.davidvphotography.etsy.com

MIYUKI KAMITSUMA - fashion accessories and jewellery

Miyuki Kamitsuma's "less is more" approach to designing strikes a nice balance between elegant and casual. Her light-hearted jewellery includes silver, semi-precious stones and pearls. Many of her purses and bags showcase exquisite fabrics from Japan and a Japanese sensibility is evident in all her work. Miyuki was a fashion designer for top Japanese fashion houses before coming to Canada in 1996.

DIANA ZOE COOP - painting

Diana Zoe Coop is a contemporary painter and designer. Her works on canvas and paper reflect an intimate exploration of the Japanese Garden, its authentic water features, and the textural landscape of growth. She has post graduate degrees from Syracus University in New York as well as Saint Martin's School of Art in London England. Over the past 25 years, she has participated in thirty exhibits of her paintings and drawings across Canada and the United States.

Visit the website of Diana Zoe Coop: www.dianazoecoop.com

MICHELLE VULAMA - rock painting

Potential paintings are everywhere for Michelle Vulama, in everything that surrounds her. A bare rock with so many possibilities is a puzzle to be solved, and often before even touching it with a paintbrush, she spends a lot of time just pondering the images it contains. It’s as though the rock already has the ideas sketched out and the challenge is to make it visible to others. Michelle uses the natural colour, shape and texture of the rock, so that the images look as though they’ve always belonged there.

Visit the website of Michelle Valuma: www.michellevulama.com

LARRY STEVENSON - wood sculpture

Larry Stevenson has always felt a passion for things made of wood. It is so much part of life here on the west coast; houses are made of it, there are forests all around us, and so much of the economy is based on it. Wood has life that extends beyond the tree and Larry sees woodturning as an opportunity to put his passion for wood into objects that show the beauty of this material in forms that cross the boundaries of art mediums: wood as sculpture, wood as pottery, and wood as glass.

ALICE PHILIPS - textiles

Canadian textile artist and designer, Alice Philips, is known for her luxurious colours and textures and for the playful designs of her hand-felted wearable artworks, sculptures and hangings. She works and teaches out of her Vancouver studio. Vancouver residents may recognize her work that was transformed into banners along Upper West 10th Avenue.

Visit the website of Alice Philips: www.alicephilips.com

JANET LEE - digital collage

Vancouver native Janet Lee wears an environmental consultant hat during the work week. It was here while explored the formal application of computers, she was able to break out of the confines of office and graphics applications to experiment with digital technology. Non environmental projects include posters, website design, CD labels, programs, newsletters, slideshows, and other promotion materials, especially for the visual arts and music industry. Her signature style incorporates collage and photography using computer software to produce digital collages. Recently, she has been combining these collages and digital printing with traditional art materials.

Visit the website of Janet Lee: http://www.janetplanet.ca/

PAT HINDMARCH-WATSON - photography

Pat Hindmarch-Watson started photographing rock faces in the 1990's. Whether walking or browsing through woods, gardens or just down the street, faces will just jump out waiting to be caught on camera. She does not alter her images on the computer. She is interested in capturing the face as it is in the garden and sharing it with others so they too can see the face.

KAREN HOLLOWELL - painter

Artist Karen Hollowell comes from a commercial art background but now focuses exclusively in fine art. Her acrylic paintings have garnered international attention. Originally from and educated in the U.S., she spent a year in London, England, via an exchange program studying with Edward Booth-Clibborn, Pentagram Design and various artists-in-residence.

Visit the website of Karen Hollowell: www.karenhollowell.com

RONA HATHERALL - ceramics

For the past 15 years, Rona Hatherall has played with clay. Her ceramics are one-of-a-kind, handbuilt funky works of art. She embraces the idea of placing her works into garden settings.

MOIRA GREAVEN - botanical prints, shoji folding screen, decorative glass

Moira Greaven invites you to bring nature indoors with her fine botanical prints almost indistinguishable from the original plants. These botanical prints - with an original twist to classical botanical art - feature the unique leaves and flowers of native flora of the Pacific Northwest and exotic species such as Ginkgo and Magnolia. The botanical artwork is also printed on shoji paper and glass used for a variety of decors and interior design applications including folding shoji screen, shoji or glass panel / divider walls, glass table tops, and decorative glass window art.

Visit the website of Moira Greavan: www.botanicalimpressions.ca

DENIS GOBEIL - sculpture

Denis' love for nature reflects in every creation; each tree spirit comes alive with its own personality. He walks the beaches of B.C. and collects beach bark for each piece. He likes to imagine that every piece of tree bark has a face in it, hiding beneath its weathered surface, waiting for him to reveal that face and uncover its expression.

Visit the website of Denis Gobeil: www.treespiritwoodcarvings.com