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We produce art about places people love. It's all about feeling connected to your place - belonging - community.

Suzanne Heron creates digital paintings using a tablet that can be any surface - watercolour paper, canvas - and a stylus that can be any brush. Her artwork is featured in the Victoria & Circle Tour Art Calendar, and the art & greeting cards. Suzanne also works with local artists in other regions to produce calendars that showcase their images of the places they love. Calendars include lots of pictures, tidbits of information - history, culture, ecology - and recipes from renowned area chefs.

07/19/2021

Elaine L Hughes, July artist in the Victoria & Circle Tour Art Calendar . . .
Elaine’s grandfather, a contemporary of the Group of Seven and classically trained art instructor, taught her drawing, pastels and oils. “Painting is part of me and my family; as a post-impressionist, my grandfather taught me landscapes and we became very close. A university instructor of mine had known him, so I feel his teaching carried on for me.” Elaine switched to watercolours, for their lower toxicity. www.elainehughes.com

07/18/2021

Victoria Lavender 15x22" WC by Elaine Hughes, in the 2021 Victoria & Circle Tour Art Calendar. Lavender grows prolifically around Victoria, from Happy Valley and Bilston Creek Farms in Metchosin, to Damali Farm in Cobble Hill. Lavender has long been grown for its soothing fragrance and healing properties.

07/16/2021

Lohbrunner Community Farm Co-operative
1152 Lippincott Road, Langford, www.lohbrunnercommunityfarm.org. Farmed since the 1940s, this land was saved from creeping development by Norma Lohbrunner, who placed it in a land trust to create a farm for the community. With an environmental studies background, Ariella’s been farming for 10 years; “I love feeding people, growing the food, spending time outside.” Sign up for the box program, pick blueberries and pumpkins, connect at the Goldstream and Metchosin markets.

07/13/2021

The Old Apple Tree at Caleb Pike Park 9x12" WC by Elaine Hughes, in the 2021 Victoria & Circle Tour Art Calendar. Heritage apple trees surround the cabin that Caleb Pike and sons built in the Highlands in 1883, when it was a full day’s ride to Victoria and back.

07/08/2021

Grilled Summer Squash and Eggplant from Lohbrunner Community Farm Co-op, the July recipe in the 2021 Victoria & Circle Tour Art Calendar
Cut 2 - 3 eggplant, and zucchini and/ or summer squash (such as patty pan squash) into 1/2 inch thick slices (just cut in half if the summer squash are smaller). Sprinkle with salt. Whisk together 1/4 c olive oil, 2 tsp balsamic vinegar, and 1 1/2 - 2 tsp fresh or dry herbs (oregano, basil, summer savoury), and salt and pepper. Brush half over vegetable slices.
Place on greased grill over medium heat; close lid and grill, turning once and brushing with remaining oil mixture, until tender, about 10 minutes. - Ariella Falkowski, Lohbrunner Community Farm, 1152 Lippincott Road, Langford, www.lohbrunnercommunityfarm.org. Over 40 varieties of certified organic produce in box programs, U-pick, and at markets.

07/06/2021

The Fisgard Lighthouse 9x12" WC by Elaine Hughes, in the 2021 Victoria & Circle Tour Art Calendar. Once past Race Rocks, mariners heading to Victoria look for Fisgard Lighthouse, in operation since 1860, the first on our west coast. This was a prizewinner at the Colwood Fisgard Festival.

07/02/2021

Tide Pools at Botanical Beach 15x22" WC by Elaine Hughes, in the 2021 Victoria & Circle Tour Art Calendar. Rich tide pools in soft sandstone led the University of Minnesota to open a marine research station here in 1900. Look for sea stars, sea urchins, chitons, mussels, and barnacles at low tide.

06/30/2021

Dana Statham- June artist in the Victoria & Circle Tour Art Calendar . . .
Dana grew up in the Comox Valley, and the rolling hills of the Saanich Peninsula feel like home. Mostly self-taught, her style has evolved organically. Our geography and climate that can change so much, “inspire me to paint. All I can think when we go away on a weekend is, ‘I want to paint that.’ I want to capture the sense of place that people relate to.” www.danastatham.com

06/23/2021

Local Residents, 24x36”Acrylic by Dana Statham, in the 2021 Victoria & Circle Tour Art Calendar. “I love Active Pass and all the goings-on in those turbulent waters.” The Southern Resident killer whales are a large extended clan, comprised of J, K and L pods, with families centred around older females.

06/19/2021

Silver Rill Berry Farm
The Berry Farm with Great taste! 1490 Hovey Road, 250-652-5227, www.silverrillberry.com. A stone’s throw from Silver Rill’s 1920s log cabin that her grandparents built, Pamela Fox grows soft fruits of all kinds, but especially Black Currants. Their antioxidants and nutrients truly make them “the King of the Berries.” Following her dad’s example as the very first farm marketer on Vancouver Island, Pamela is dedicated to farm markets.

06/15/2021

Mystic Beach, 24x36”Acrylic by Dana Statham, in the 2021 Victoria & Circle Tour Art Calendar. From the day use area at China Beach is a 2 km hike to what many say is the most spectacular of all the beaches past Sooke, and the start of the 47- km Juan de Fuca Trail.

06/09/2021

Beneath the Old Arbutus Tree, 36x48”Acrylic by Dana Statham, in the 2021 Victoria & Circle Tour Art Calendar. Canada’s only broadleaf evergreen grows with crooked, leaning trunks in sunny, rocky soil near the ocean. “Arbutus give that sense of place; people relate to it, even if it’s not their arbutus.”

Address

61 Hampton Road
Victoria, BC
V8Z1G6

Telephone

250-891-7495

Website

http://www.blueheronart.ca/

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