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Annapolis Basin Watercolour

Symposium Presented by the

Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour

Sept. 28-Oct. 3 2015

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Enjoy a hands-on experience in water media taught by experienced workshop instructors at a great facility in an extraordinary setting away from it all. With the Bay of Fundy, the Port of Digby and Historic Annapolis Royal all nearby, there is no shortage of plein-air locations. The Annapolis Basin Conference Centre has lots of classroom and conference areas along with cafeteria and lodging for those staying on site. Our objective is to help you identify your strengths, meet your artistic needs, and to help you develop a strong personal expression. It promises to be an inspiring week! This unique watercolour symposium is open to everyone. Our team of professional watercolour artists will offer diverse perspectives on watercolour and water media painting. Hands-on participation is a priority! This will be a fabulous experience for artists, from beginner to advanced, who are looking for something different and challenging. Forums will offer the chance for two-way communication. There will be presentations, demonstrations, excursions, slide shows, group critiques – and more!

Program Outline Monday Evening: Instructors and participants can get acquainted at an informal reception. Displays of art materials by various suppliers will be offered. Registration check-in will begin for those in attendance. Tuesday to Saturday: Enjoy a flexible selection of workshops, discussions, and field trips conducted by our stimulating instructors. You will be able to work with several different instructors during the course of the symposium. Course Schedule and Selection: Complete information and forms, including the workshop schedule for the week, will be sent to registered participants. Respond promptly – first come, first served! Evening Programs: A special presentation will be featured each evening by instructors, invited guest artists, historians, and entertainers. You won’t want to miss these exciting events. Facilities: The Annapolis Basin Convention Centre (ABCC), on the beautiful Bay of Fundy at Cornwallis, has graciously offered its large property and facilities for this symposium. Accommodations: Arranging accommodations may be done through the ABCC with the form included. See the accommodation form at the end of this brochure- it is separate from the symposium course registration.

To be held at Geneva Park, Orillia Ontario

June 23rd-27th

, 2014

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Your Principal Instructors

Ann Balch CSPWC, SCA

New Brunswick’s Ann Balch, an elected member of the Canadian

Society of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC) and the Society of

Canadian Artists (SCA) is best known for her paintings of people.

Ann’s paintings have won prizes at the national level from both

organizations, including the 2004 Jarvis Award for Excellence in

Transparent Watercolour for Eye of the Beholder, which hung in

Governor-General Michaëlle Jean’s residence. Ann was invited to exhibit at the Fifth

International Watercolour Biennial, Mexico City (2002 – 2003).

Her work been profiled in l’Art de l’Aquarelle (2012, France) and Pratique des arts (2011,

France), in the international Art of Watercolour (2012), and International Artist publishers. She

was a finalist chosen from over 11,000 entries of The Artist’s Magazine (2008), and finished

among the top ten in American Artist Watercolor magazine (2006).

Ann offers “Painting Juliana”, a day-long step-by-step introduction to painting a watercolour

portrait of a young girl with flowers in her hair. Students will develop their own portraits of

Juliana, a good foundation for the workshop that follows, the “Portrait Coaching Workshop”,

where you’re invited to tackle that portrait you've always wanted to, using your own photo(s) as

reference. Ann will contact students after registering to identify typical problems they encounter

to customize the workshop for them. www.annbalch.com

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Poppy Balser CSPWC.

Poppy Balser lives in Digby, Nova Scotia. She has always lived within reach of the ocean, and the Bay of Fundy is an endless source of her inspiration. She finds the surrounding seashores and landscape translate well into watercolour paintings, and makes an effort to frequently paint “en plein air” or out-of-doors on location.

Poppy is an elected member of the CSPWC. In 2014 her work was chosen for the CBC's

Sharing the View Calendar, and she was awarded the Artist's Choice award at the Montague Plein Air Festival. Poppy's paintings can be seen on her website www.poppybalser.com and at the Flight of Fancy gallery in Bear River, NS and at Amicus Gallery in Chester, NS. She also blogs about her work at www.poppybalser.com/blog. For this symposium Poppy will be teaching en plein air.

“I paint out doors as much as I can. Painting on location allows me to respond to my surroundings in a way that I otherwise could not. I find watercolour the perfect medium for capturing the atmosphere and light of my local environment. I attempt to show these things as I see them; striving to keep my paintings fresh and spontaneous with luminous colour.”

Poppy's workshop is open to people with all levels of plein air experience (including those who have never painted out of doors.) She will demonstrate how she works quickly to capture the scenes in front of her and will encourage students to do the same on their own projects.

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Christopher Gorey CSPWC SCA

Christopher Gorey was born and educated in the United States and

graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art. After numerous painting

excursions to Atlantic Canada he moved to the small coastal village of

Ingonish on Cape Breton Island to take up painting full time. He still

resides there with his wife Lynn. The Goreys have two children.

His career flourished quickly with solo and group exhibitions across

North America. In 1981 and again in 1987, Mr. Gorey’s One Dollar

Commemorative coin designs were chosen by the Mint to be produced in

silver. His paintings have won awards at La Société Canadienne de l’Aquarelle, QC, The

Watercolour Art Society of Houston, TX, The Adirondacks National Exhibition of American

Watercolour, NY, among others.

Mr. Gorey works in oil and watercolour and his paintings, which reflect a feeling of light

and texture, not only depict the people and landscape of his adopted Cape Breton but other areas

of Eastern Canada as well. His work can be seen at Lynn’s Craft Shop & Art Gallery, Ingonish,

NS, Lyghtesome Gallery Antigonish, NS, AGNS Art Sales & Rental, Halifax, NS, Peggy's

Cove Jewellery & Gallery in Peggy’s Cove, NS, and The Spurrell Gallery, St. John’s, NL .

Website www.goreygallery.ca

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Karin Isenburg CSPWC

Karin has been painting for over thirty five years. She has taken a number of

courses in the Durham Region and Greater Toronto area including the Ontario

College of Art & Design. She has spent countless hours in private study through

Galleries and Libraries. Experimentation and a greater commitment has led to the

development of layering transparent and semi-transparent colour creating

luminosity and a rich depth of colour in her work.

She teaches watercolour and mixed media at Durham College in Oshawa, and

Meta4 Art Gallery in Port Perry. She is scheduled to teach in Winnipeg in 2015. Her work has

received numerous awards and has been shown in solo and group shows in Canada, USA and Mexico

The painting ROYAL GALAS was selected by the Southwest Art magazine for their Mixed Media

Edition in Feb 2013. Karin was a feature artist in the Aug 2013 edition of Watercolor Artist. Her

painting CLEMENTINES was selected and published in Splash 14: Light and Color, this past August

by North Light Books. Karin is an elected member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour

and the Ontario Society of Artists.

For the symposium this year she will be painting still life using her glazing technique. Check out

Karin’s website at www.karinisenburg.com .

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Rex Beanland CSPWC started painting in watercolour as a young child and

has just never outgrown it. Something in that mysterious interaction between water and pigment continues to fascinate and inspire me. The nature of water is such that it can’t be controlled and, as a watercolourist, I must let go and enjoy the ride. I am rewarded for this by the many spontaneous surprises watercolour offers.

For the past 18 months I have concentrated on cityscapes. I paint them because I

love the energy of cities and am continually fascinated by people. My goal is to

capture the interactions between people and the places they live. I can often be found wandering the streets and

alleys, sketchbook in hand, capturing those fleeting interactions of everyday life.

I enjoy the challenge of drawing and painting the shapes of city life but I judge a work to be successful when it tells a

compelling story that draws the viewer in. For me it’s all about the story.

“The year 2013-2014 has seen an explosion of momentum in my art career. It’s like all my wanderings, explorations

and efforts over the past years just came to fruition this year.” www.rexbeanland.com

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Bianka Guna CSPWC

Bianka Guna, artist and art teacher, is a non-objective painter, an honors graduate illustrator from the Minneapolis, MN, US program, and beloved art teacher for a multitude of art groups and community centers in Ontario, Canada. She teaches water media (watercolour, acrylic, mixed media, critique) abstract painting classes for adults at Koffler Centre for Arts, Neilson Park Creative Centre (NPCC)and Visual Arts Mississauga(VAO), and at her Toronto studio . A Golden Working Artist, she is teaching regularly in her gallery/ studio in The Distillery District in Toronto. An elected member of various prestigious art societies in Canada like OSA, CSPWC, SCA,

TWS, IGA, CARFAC she has won several juried exhibitions in Canada and abroad and

participated in numerous group and solo shows . Her distinctive contemporary work was purchased by private and

corporate collectors in Canada, USA, Sweden, France, China, Australia, Romania, Israel, Russia, South Africa and UK.

Website: www.biankaguna.com

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Ron Hazell CSPWC SCA

Ron Hazell, a native of Nova Scotia, Canada is an internationally known artist

and workshop instructor. In 1997 he was elected to the prestigious Canadian

Society of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC). In 2012, he was elected to the

Society of Canadian Artists (SCA).

Ron is best known for his light filled cityscapes as well as his marine paintings.

He is the author of the North Light book “The Artist’s Guide to Painting Water in

Watercolor”, published worldwide this year. Ron is a popular workshop instructor

and he has been giving painting workshops and courses for 36 years. His work is

in many public and private collections, including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia,

the Bank of Montreal and the Bank of Nova Scotia, as well as The Royal Collection of Her Majesty the

Queen at Windsor Castle, England

Ron’s award winning work has been featured in many publications, including Best of Worldwide

Landscape Artists, International Artist, International Contemporary Artists, and American Artist

WATERCOLOR magazine. In this symposium, Ron will be teaching “Painting the Ocean” as well as

“Painting Reflections in Calm Water”. Visit his web site at www.ronhazell.com to see samples of his

work as well as his latest DVD.

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Lio Lo CSPWC

Lio Lo, born and raised in her

native country Taiwan received

her three year diploma in

commercial art. After relocating

to Shelburne, Nova Scotia she

was much inspired with the

nature beauty that surrounds her.

She picked up her long

abandoned brushes and

committed full time painting in

year 2000. Primarily working

with watercolour,

Lio basically paints whatever that fascinated her on

the daily basis. Sea and landscapes, still life, portraits,

florals, wild life, the broad range of subjects resulting

the gradual change of her painting style from loose plein air to highly detailed realism.

An elected member of Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Lio's works are in the homes of many

collectors all over North America. Visit her website at http://liolostudio.ca

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About the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour

The Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour recognizes, encourages and nurtures excellence in all water media. To this end it plans and holds seminars as well as open competition exhibits in order to discover and appreciate the work of watercolourists. It also provides a common forum and camaraderie for those who express their creativity in this demanding medium. To learn more about the CSPWC, visit www.cspwc.com or write to CSPWC, 80 Birmingham St, Unit B3 Toronto Ontario M8V 3W6, Canada Telephone 416-533-5100. Email info@cspwc.com Alternate contact: Poppy Balser Email: poppybalser@gmail.com

Past Symposium Pics

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Experience the Unique & Natural Setting at the Annapolis Basin Conference Centre

CSPWC Water Colour Painting Symposium Registration Form Annapolis Basin Conference Centre, Cornwallis, Nova Scotia Name: __________________________________________________________

Address: ________________________________________________________

City, Prov.: _______________________________________________________

Postal Code: ____________________________

Phone: (home) _____________________ (work) _________________________

Email:___________________________________________________________

Fax: __________________________________

SYMPOSIUM FEE: (Canadian Dollars)

Full Registration $550.00

Register before May 15, 2015 – deduct ($25.00)

CSPWC Members and Associates deduct ($25.00)

Total $________

Send the Registration Form along with payment in full by cheque, money order or Visa plus a self-addressed stamped envelope to:

Anita Cotter, Registrar

CSPWC Symposium 2014

80 Birmingham St, Unit B3

Toronto Ontario M8V 3W6, Canada

Phone: (416) 533-5100

You also have the option of paying via PayPal on the CSPWC website.

Don’t forget to include the COURSE SELECTION FORM and Contract. THIS FORM, THE COURSE SELECTION FORM, and CONTRACT MAY BE PRINTED, FILLED OUT, SCANNED AND EMAILED TO info@cspwc.com You may email Credit Card (Visa, MC) info as well. If paying Symposium Registration by cheque or money order you can print, fill out, and mail forms along with payment to address above. Accommodations are separate and the form on last page explains choices. Go to Annapolis Basin Conference Centre (ABCC) website/email and confirm your accommodations along with arranging payment to them. For further information, visit www.cspwc.com or email info@cspwc.com, or call CSPWC Office (Toronto) at 416-533-5100. Please make your cheques for the Workshop fees payable to Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour.

See you at the Annapolis Basin Conference Centre!

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SYMPOSIUM TIMETABLE

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Ann Balch – Painting Juliana

Ann Balch – Portrait Coaching

Ann Balch – Painting Juliana

Ann Balch – Portrait Coaching

Ron Hazell – Painting Reflections on Calm and Rippled Water

Ron Hazell – Painting Breaking Waves & Rocks in Seascapes

Ron Hazell – Painting Reflections on Calm and Rippled Water

Ron Hazell – Painting Breaking Waves & Rocks in Seascapes

Lio Lo- In Focus: Painting Luminous Florals

Lio Lo- Loosen Up: Painting Flowers with Glass from Life

Lio Lo- Loosen Up: Painting Flowers with Glass from Life

Lio Lo- In Focus: Painting Luminous Florals

Karin Isenburg – Multicoloured Layering in Still Life

Karin Isenburg – Multi Dark-coloured

Layering in Still Life

Karin Isenburg – Multicoloured Layering in Still Life

Karin Isenburg – Multi Dark-coloured

Layering in Still Life

Bianka Guna – Non Objective Watercolour Painting – On Paper

Bianka Guna – Non Objective Watercolour Painting – On Canvas

Bianka Guna – Non Objective Watercolour Painting – On Canvas

Bianka Guna – Non Objective Watercolour Painting – On Paper

Rex Beanland : Figures in the urban landscape

Rex Beanland: Figures in Action

Rex Beanland : Figures in the urban landscape

Rex Beanland: Figures in Action

Poppy Balser –Introduction to Painting en plein air

Poppy Balser – Introduction to Painting en plein air

Poppy Balser – Working Quickly to Capture the Elements when painting outdoors

Poppy Balser – Working Quickly to Capture the Elements when painting outdoors

Chris Gorey Plein air- Learning to isolate and simplify

Chris Gorey Plein air-painting buildings in the landscape

Chris Gorey Plein air-painting buildings in the landscape

Chris Gorey Plein air- Learning to isolate and simplify

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SYMPOSIUM COURSE SELECTION

(Fill out twice-one for your records and one to mail in along with the Registration form above)

Using the timetable (separate form) write in your choice of instructor for each day, simply write instructors

name.

Indicate your course choices in order of preference from 1st to 4

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KEEP THIS SECTION FOR YOUR RECORDS

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1st __________ ___________ ______________ _____________ _____________

2nd __________ ___________ ______________ _____________ _____________

3rd __________ ___________ ______________ _____________ _____________

4th __________ ___________ ______________ _____________ _____________

Complete the Course Selection Form (below) and mail to the Registrar (address on page 11) along with the

completed Registration Form

Your Confirmed Course Selection will be returned to you. Please enclose a Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope

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COURSE SELCTION FORM

Name _______________________________ email ___________________________________

Address ___________________________________ City/Town __________________________

Province____________ Postal Code ______________ Phone (s) _________________________

Indicate your course/instructor choices for each day, in order of preference from 1st to 4th

Using the Timetable Simply fill in Instructors name in order of preference for each day.

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1st __________ ___________ ______________ _____________ _____________

2nd __________ ___________ _____________ _____________ _____________

3rd __________ ___________ _____________ _____________ _____________

4th __________ ___________ _____________ _____________ _____________

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CANCELLATIONS Students who wish to cancel their place in a program must notify the CSPWC/SCPA office in writing or e-mail to qualify for tuition refunds. If the CSPWC cancels there will be a full refund of tuition paid. 1. Cancel more than three weeks before class start date: Partial refund* *$50 non-refundable deposit will be withheld from your tuition credit or refund. 2. Cancel two weeks or less before class start date: No refund CONTRACT Submission of this Registration Form constitutes your acceptance of all terms and conditions stated and you agree that The Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour/La Société Canadienne de Peintres en Aquarelle (CSPWC/SCPA) cannot be held responsible or liable to you for any act or for any injury, illness, death, damage, loss, accident, delay or irregularity which may occur during the course of any program. CSPWC/SCPA assumes no responsibility for losses or additional expenses due to influences beyond its control. Personal effects, art and art supplies are your sole responsibility at all times. You understand and agree to the following: CSPWC/SCPA reserves the right to cancel any program in which case it is liable only for any fees you paid to the CSPWC/SCPA. CSPWC/SCPA reserves the right to reschedule any program or replace any instructor without refund to you. CSPWC/SCPA reserves the unconditional right to terminate your enrolment in the event of your unreasonable or disruptive conduct and CSPWC/SCPA may do so without any refund to you. You understand that you are obliged to abide by the Financial Terms (see above). No refund will be made for your early departure or deviation from the CSPWC/SCPA schedule. Publicity waiver: Unless informed otherwise, CSPWC/SCPA considers photographs taken of students and their artwork to be permissible for publication in CSPWC/SCPA informational publications, including the web. Signed: ___________________________________ Date: _____________________________________ Please return this form signed, along with your registration form and fees.

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Some more pictures from Annapolis Basin Conference Centre

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ANNAPOLIS BASIN CONFERENCE CENTRE

Accommodation

North Lodge

South Lodge

Camps & Training

Team Accommodations

Our Guest Rooms Unwind in one of our two lodges offering 185 single rooms, double rooms and suites with a total of 266 guest

beds. Each lodge has its own unique features and distinctive ambiance. Included among the many amenities are

lounge areas for teams to come together and relax; internet hook-up in most areas; and kitchenette areas for that

late night snack.

Sleep well.

See the attached Accommodations and meals packages and contact the ABCC to book your selection.

GET READY TO HAVE AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE!