The Wonder of Water: Exploring Our Place in the Hydrosphere

Welcome to Metchosin ArtPod's ONLINE GALLERY for the juried show...

The Wonder of Water:

Exploring Our Place in the Hydrosphere

WATER: it is essential to our survival. We are born from water, are mostly made of water, and live surrounded by water. It sustains us and perhaps defines us. In preparation for 2024's World Earth Day on 22 April 2024, we invited artists to express their unique experiences and perspectives on water, explore their personal relationship with water, and their sense of place in the wonderous, watery HYDROSPHERE.

The juror for this show is ceramic sculptor and installation artist, Samantha Dickie. Check out her lovely work: on Instagram: www.instagram.com/samantha.dic... or Website: www.samanthadickie.com

Our goal for 2024 is to enhance our visual art exhibits by asking our artists to suggest music pairings that inspired their work, or speak to it in some way. We create the playlists on YouTube and make them available to the public via a link on our website. For this show, artists were encouraged submit a suggestion of “watery” music relating to their piece!

The web gallery is where you can vote for your favourite piece in the show. At the end of the show's run, votes are tallied and a People's Choice Award is presented to the deserving winner!

This show also exists in real life in Metchosin, BC, Canada, at Metchosin ArtPod. We highly encourage you to come see it in person during its run from April 12th 2024- May 26th 2024. People are always happy to have seen the show in person; it is quite a different experience from seeing it on-line.

**Note that ArtPod is open from 11am-4pm from Fri-Sun.**

We welcome everyone to our Opening Celebration on SATURDAY 13 April between 2-4. Meet our juror, Samantha Dickie, and hear how she chose the works featured in this show, listen to accepted artists in attendance speak about their works and process, and celebrate the 3 Juror's Choice Winners!

To sign up for our monthly newsletter and to find more information about workshops and events associated with this show and upcoming shows, please consult our website: MetchosinArtPod.ca.

Enjoy the show!

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Tide Pools

Penny Woodworth

CA$250.00

Dimensions: 6 x 12 x 1
Description of Work: The wild pacific coast has rough water and quiet pools.
Medium and Technique: Pastel pencil and soft pastels
Accompanying music/song and artist : Music with ocean waves

Look Closer

Kim Money

CA$350.00

Dimensions: 10 x 30 x 1.5
Description of Work: I was looking at the ocean at Esquimalt Lagoon and thinking how beautiful it is - but if you really 'looked closer' at the ships moored out there you could imagine the garbage you cannot see.
Medium and Technique: Acrylic and mixed media on cradled board and canvas collage
Accompanying music/song and artist : Don't throw it away by Keb Mo

Beyond the Mist

Beyond the Mist

Malcolm Barker

CA$2,200.00

Dimensions: 36 x 48 x 1.5
Description of Work: Intrigue is waiting just beyond that which we can't see, drawing us to explore new realms. 'Beyond the Mist' is a piece of discovery and experimentation drawing the viewer in to use their imagination.
Medium and Technique: Acrylic on deep galley canvas, washes, texture, collage
Accompanying music/song and artist : Bali Mist, by Brad White/Pierre Grill, from the album Voyage

Urchin Vase Series

Urchin Vase Series

Irene Ives

CA$135.00

Dimensions: 9 x 5 x 9
Description of Work: Sea urchin shells are perfect sculptural vessels with a uniquely textured and patterned surface that echoes the sandy coastal shoreline. They evoke handbuilt ceramic vessel forms.
Medium and Technique: handbuilt ceramic urchin shell forms, cone 6 stoneware clay, oxidation or saggar fired
Accompanying music/song and artist : Salty Fingers - Len Osland

Botany Bay

Elizabeth Ashworth

CA$350.00

Dimensions: 14 x 24
Description of Work: Botany Bay, near Port Renfrew, is an idyllic place. This photograph was taken on a stormy January day to show its darker side. The rain, clouds, waves, and foam add drama to the bay and its island.
Medium and Technique: digital photograph on archival photographic paper
Accompanying music/song and artist : Skellig by David Gray

The Force of Nature

The Force of Nature

Dean And Francisco

CA$1,700.00

Dimensions: 21.75 x 33.5 x 3.5
Description of Work: This mosaic references the extreme weather we now face as the result of global warming. The high winds and churning ocean of a big storm can be breathtaking, but also destructive. We must take heed.
Medium and Technique: stained glass on wedi board with a custom fir frame
Accompanying music/song and artist : The Storm it's Coming, Glen Hansard

How Water Moves

How Water Moves

Victoria Anderson

CA$50.00

Dimensions: 10 x 8
Description of Work: This series of small chemical photographs was done as a pure visualization of the way water moves and affects the things around it.
Medium and Technique: Chemical pictogram
Accompanying music/song and artist : Carolina Eyck - Remembrance - Theremin & Voice

Lost

Mara

CA$450.00

Dimensions: 14 x 14 x 1
Description of Work: Life’s journey mirrors storms amid colour clashes and struggles. This piece evokes a decision, to navigate the planned path through tempests or to feel utterly adrift chasing the sun.
Medium and Technique: mixed media on stretch canvas framed.
Accompanying music/song and artist : Lost by camdenmusique - (Camden Bonsu-Stewart)

Brief Contemplation

Brief Contemplation

Phyllis Schwartz

CA$400.00

Dimensions: 16 x 20
Description of Work: Japanese gardens celebrate nature's fleeting magnificence, with a pond at the center that captivates visitors. Water is a symbol of renewal and tranquillity, and ponds are places for self-reflection.
Medium and Technique: Digital Collage
Accompanying music/song and artist : Paul Horn: Inside the Taj Mahal

Racing Through

Mara

CA$350.00

Dimensions: 11 x 14 x 1
Description of Work: In the painting, hope fades to brass, eyes flash with despair, and darkness looms in its tones. The sky and the ocean meet, and the viewer can't discern between them.
Medium and Technique: mixed media on stretched canvas with a hand made and hand painted frame
Accompanying music/song and artist : Enjoy the Silence by Tori Amos

Lighthouse

Melissa Lavoie

CA$375.00

Dimensions: 24 x 12 x 1.5
Description of Work: Sometimes all you need to do is follow and feed the light to salvation.
Medium and Technique: Texture painted with acrylic
Accompanying music/song and artist : Lighthouse by Ziggy Marley

Rainy Day Raccoon

Rainy Day Raccoon

Angela Menzies

CA$175.00

Dimensions: 10 x 10
Description of Work: I imagine the animals of our forests emerging after storms, lapping at raindrops on my windows, and inhaling deeply, filling their lungs with the restorative power of rain.
Medium and Technique: Acrylic on paper mounted board
Accompanying music/song and artist : will send later

Rainy Day Wolf

Angela Menzies

CA$175.00

Dimensions: 10 x 10
Description of Work: I imagine the animals of our forests emerging after storms, lapping at raindrops on my windows, and inhaling deeply, filling their lungs with the restorative power of rain.
Medium and Technique: Acrylic on paper mounted board
Accompanying music/song and artist : will send later

Tidal Impressions

Tidal Impressions

Jenny Adams

CA$275.00

Dimensions: 20 x 24 x 1.5
Description of Work: Witty's beach in Metchosin is a favoured destination on many of my bike rides. This day was all about this tidal pool.
Medium and Technique: Acrylic on deep stretched canvas, image carried over edges.
Accompanying music/song and artist : Take Me To The Ocean by The Movement

Aqua Exolvuntur ( Latin for Water Cycle)

Aqua Exolvuntur ( Latin for Water Cycle)

Louisa Elkin

CA$900.00

Dimensions: 30 x 30 x 2
Description of Work: This painting was inspired by living on Hornby Island through the drought and wildfire events that have dominated our summers here on the coast. I am humbled by the importance of the water cycle.
Medium and Technique: Oil on canvas
Accompanying music/song and artist : Erik Satie/ Arr. Barker and Balsom:3 Gymnopedies:No. 3, Lent et grave

Water Ways

Dyan Marie

CA$600.00

Dimensions: 24 x 28 x 17
Description of Work: Drink a cool glass; the same water circulates forever, saliva, an ice crystal, fracking oil, washing mud, an olive leaf, a raptor’s blood, shape-shifting earth's salt oceans and sweet tea.
Medium and Technique: Sculpture Relief. Waterdrops and small streams of acrylic ink, moss, felt, cellophane.
Accompanying music/song and artist : Cool Water, Johny Cash version

The Universe is an Infinite Storm of Beauty

The Universe is an Infinite Storm of Beauty

Margaret Case

CA$400.00

Dimensions: 24 x 24 x 1.5
Description of Work: This underwater seascape is a depiction of kelp stalks that have a symbiotic relationship with anemones, nudibranchs, sea stars and octopi. Other creatures move through the peaceful scene.
Medium and Technique: watercolour background and acrylic layers
Accompanying music/song and artist : Doing Yoga by Kazy Lambist

Coastal Currents

Coastal Currents

Barbara McCaffrey

CA$600.00

Dimensions: 34 x 33 x 0.25
Description of Work: I have been influenced by my love of the ocean and I have lived in homes on or near water my whole life.
Medium and Technique: Hand dyed and felted wool, surface stitching and Japanese shibori technique.
Accompanying music/song and artist : to be determined

Shawnigan Water

Catherine Wallace

Description of Work: The residents of the Shawnigan watershed fought for four years to protect their drinking water.
Medium and Technique: video - 2 minutes
Accompanying music/song and artist : the sound of water

Flow

Diana Smith

CA$150.00

Dimensions: 18 x 24 x 1.5
Description of Work: I made the inks used in this piece from natural, organic materials: acorns, fir needles, copper. All depend on water, as do we, to express themselves.
Medium and Technique: water-based inks, cold wax on paper on cradle board
Accompanying music/song and artist : Pisen vody (Song of Water) Marta Topferova

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