DRAW Retreat artists

Phil Chadwick

Phil the Forecaster Chadwick, nuclear physicist turned meteorologist paints mostly “en plein air” allowing his passion for life and the environment to shine through the canvas.

I paint outside – nothing between my eyes and the inspiration. That special connectivity gets into the pigments and you realize that we are all stewards of the land, privileged to appreciate its beauty during our lifetime but responsible for leaving it better off for the future and all inhabitants…

A man of many hats, Phil was born and raised along the St. Lawrence of Ontario, Canada and studied at Queens University as a nuclear physicist. A meteorologist for Environment Canada since 1976 Phil specializes in severe weather and training. Remote sensing is his forte – you might want to see a tornado before you die… but not just before you die!

He has farmed, raised bees, written weather and nature books and articles, lectured and instructed classes, seminars and presentations in art, meteorology and the science of Tom Thomson. An avid canoeist, birder and naturalist, Phil paints mostly ‘en plein air’ allowing his passion for life and the environment to shine through the canvas.

He started painting in 1967 in oils and never stopped… this is his journey…

Phil has completed 95 paintings on 3 of CPAWS-OV’s Dumoine trips, which can be viewed at the link below. All but one or two studio works were completed on location. They are in reverse order of completion with the most recent starting first.

https://pixels.com/profiles/1-phil-chadwick?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=746022

To access more of Phil’s artwork, please visit the following sites or follow him on social media:

1-phil-chadwick.pixels.com,

philtheforecaster.blogspot.ca

philchadwickart.blogspot.ca and

https://gallerizt.com/phil-chadwick

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Tina Michaud has been involved in several areas of the arts most of her life. Because of the love of history she has been teaching the art of Floor Cloths for 14 years. Originating from the Eastern Townships of Quebec, she is now living on the island of Rapides des Joachims, Quebec. For the last decade she has combined her experience with Life Coaching and art to help students deal with their daily stress. While her students create they learn to obtain relief from their stressful lives by tapping into their intuition. While exploring the history of the Floor Cloth with her students she teaches this method and as they recreate one, they add their personal touch. She works mainly with acrylic or ink and watercolour when illustrating. Tina has attended the Concordia U. Art program., Haliburton Art School and taken private Japanese art lessons. A published cartoonist for 10 years, she was mentored in her beginning years by Terry Mosher (Aislin). This led to illustration and presently she is illustrating her third children’s book

By her twentieth birthday, Ruth Tait realized she had lived in twenty homes, and six countries. She learned to draw in airport lounges, restaurants, train stations and hotel rooms. Early on, she understood that the complexity of the world was greater than any simple description. Life, in its myriad appearances, was the greatest teacher. Despite many segues of study, plein air painting was always a part of her process — the call of the natural world, a quiet, though ever-insistent reminder. Often, witnesses will hear this artist utter a common refrain: “I would love to paint that!”

You can find more of her work at: http://www.artbyrt.com/

Fred Schueler is an unemployable nomadic peasant scholar, who, having learned, as an undergraduate, that “ecology is the science of where organisms are found,” has spent half a century finding and documenting where organisms occur, and elaborating this into a quantitative treatment of “how they differ in different places where they are found” in his doctoral dissertation on geographic variation of Northern Leopard Frogs. He pretty well gave up on visual art soon after marrying Aleta Karstad in 1973, but doggerels, sonnets, and “Oh to be..” verses continue to burble out of him, usually laden with obscure evolutionary, geographic, or life history metaphors.

Fred’s plan for the 2020 Art Camp is to meditatively glamourize the HABITAT field of his database with descriptive haikus, and then to encourage photography of the aspects of the habitat which the haikus emphasise.

Here’s a love poem from a different area of Canada:

Pterydophytae Vancouverensis

I roll in the Island like a Dog in a Salmon:
What shall I bring you from your heart’s home flying
As the map-size Maple leaves are falling, brown and gold?

Vaccinium and moss-beard in the green air swaying?
Chiton & Kelp in the storm-surge thriving?
Eagle & Raven in the high wind swinging?
Afternoon Arbutus undressing in the sun?
Find me in the second-growth, find me on the trees,
Find me in the forest, and by ditches & the sea.

Breathe air that is wetter than Ontario water
(You grow sweet greenest in the wind-wet winter)

Sky fragmented by burly green wall-pillars
(Stand while a Deer’s breath warms your elbow)

Bedrocked gum boots feel the Mussel-feeding surf
(You root in misty traces of the storm-wide sea)

Oh the spring is a sudden soft snake-basking
(You burst like wide green fireworks from cold-water rhizomes)

Moss moulders up on my Salmonberry bones
(And a sword unwinds through your heart also)

Vaccinium and moss-beard in the green air swaying,
Chiton & Kelp in the storm-surge thriving,
Eagle & Raven in the high wind swinging,
Afternoon Arbutus in the sun undressing,
Home from Rupert Inlet and from Sayward and from Sooke,
Home from Port Alberni & Carmanah, & from Coombs,
Home from Woss & Sombrio and from the Quadra Sand,
I bring you green fronds springing from the trees & rocks & land.

— Victoria, Vancouver Island, 19 October 1993 – the species referenced
in the riddling stanzas are Polypodium glycyrrhiza (Licorice Fern),
Blechnum spicant (Deer Fern), Polypodium scouleri (Leathery Polypody),
Equisetum telmateia (Great Horsetail), and Polystichum munitum (Sword Fern).

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bckcdb

Quiet Curatorial Time: http://quietcuratorialtime.blogspot.com/

Doing Natural History: http://www.doingnaturalhistory.com/

The Fragile Inheritance Database:
http://fragileinheritance.org/projects/database/database.htm

Catherine has been painting most of her life, inspired by her artist Grandfather, creative family, and fine arts education. When she moved to Brooke Valley in 2004, the studio on the property enabled her to focus more energy on her art.

Catherine’s artwork has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Canada and Mexico and her commissioned work is in many private collections. She focuses on painting from the natural world that inspires her and enjoys doing portraits of people and pets, landscapes and other subjects. Catherine says, “I paint to see more clearly, feel more deeply, and to make stronger connections with the world around me.” See more work at www.orfald.ca and follow Catherine at https://www.facebook.com/Orfald/.

Catherine painting

Photo by: David Ambrose

Morning at the Grand Chutes

Photo by: Scott Haig