The Hills to Shore Artist Tour returns to Ten Mile Point and Gordon Head this weekend with 15 emerging and established artists on display at 11 different locations.
Whether itB次元官网网址檚 your studio or back garden, there is a connection made in opening your home to the public, said artist Marcela Strasdas.
The Hills to Shore Artists Tour dates back more than a dozen years with various names and incarnations and spans Mount Tolmie, Gordon Head and Cadboro Bay studios, homes and gardens. The free, self-guided Hills to Shore tour showcases fibre and fabric artists, jewellers, painters, photographers, potters and sculptors. It runs Saturday and Sunday, May 25 and 26, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. rain or shine.
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This is the fourth year being involved for Strasdas, who expects many dozens of art patrons to check out her oil paintings in the garden of her home off Finnerty Road.
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In recent years organizers held the tour on MotherB次元官网网址檚 Day and opted to move it away from MotherB次元官网网址檚 Day for 2019. Hopefully, the move will increase numbers.
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Michelle Barkway is also showing paintings, as sheB次元官网网址檒l host visitors to see her West Coast illustrated landscapes at her Ten Mile Point home, one of four stops in Ten Mile Point.
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Barkway uses local geography as inspiration but she blends the landscape features together in her head and then finishes them with acrylics or even a wash to resemble watercolour.
Not all artists use a pencil and a brush.
Fibre artist Judi MacLeod has seen the Hills to Shore tour evolve over the past dozen years.
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The result is a long textile-type cloth with bright features that pop off the material.
Inviting the public to tour your art and garden is also a motivator to get things done, said sculptor Ginny Glover.
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Her B次元官网网址榞arden GeishaB次元官网网址� (pictured in photo) is an example of her art, though she is still finishing it.
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A map, brochure and further information for Hills to Shore is available at
