Thursday 16 June 2011

Weaver-Bosson's Art Print GALLERY LOCATIONS

WELCOME TO MY ART BLOG

Here you will find news about my paintings, prints and gallery locations.

To learn more about my zany life as an artist, please visit my monthly blog listings on the right side panel.


Acrylic painting Fairfield Road- Spring Blossoms by Barbara Weaver-Bosson

 Fairfield Road-Spring Blossoms is available in archival fine art prints.
 Image size 7 x 10 inches $65. Please inquire through my galleries.


WHAT'S NEW?
Please visit my new website
http://www.weaver-bossonart.com/

My snazzy new website includes my current available art print titles and an overview of my 1993 to 2008 Neighbourhood Series prints.... plus a big biography... who am I? where did I come from? and how did I get to be a such a dam serious artist.

You can see my updated status of what prints and art card titles are still available for purchase.

Looking South to the Blue Bridge
A view of the Johnson Street Bridge and Victoria's working harbour

Acrylic painting by Barbara Weaver-Bosson, copyright 2012
Now available as Art Prints and Deluxe Giclees on Canvas
 and Fine Art Watercolour Paper

 Image size 15.5 x 28 inches
$ 60 and up

colours displayed may differ on each monitor
 

A few new giclees and art prints 

*Looking South to the Blue Bridge 15.5 x 28 inches art prints and deluxe giclees on Premium Fine Art Canvas and Fine Art Watercolour Paper and also available as greeting cards.

*Rooftops Moss and Howe  12 x 17.5 Giclee on Canvas. View image http://weaver-bosson.blogspot.ca/2012_05_01_archive.html 

*Springtime-Gonzales Bay  12 x 16 inch giclee print

*The Neighbourhood Skating Party  8.45 x 12 inch giclee print
 This joyful seasonal winter scene is also available in greeting cards.
 





Giclee Print 8.45 x 12 in  Neighbourhood Skating Party
   by Barbara Weaver-Bosson, copyright 2010
 


 Current GALLERY LOCATIONS
To order all available NEIGHBOURHOOD SERIES and JOHNSON STREET "BLUE BRIDGE" art prints and art cards


Please phone these galleries first to inquire about your print and card selections.

Picture Perfect Gallery
University Heights Shopping Centre
# 324 B- 3980 Shelbourne Street
Victoria, B.C.
Phone 250-721-1313 

Broadmead Gallery
Royal Oak Shopping Centre
# 102 - 4440 West Saanich Road
Victoria, B.C.
Phone 250-744-1447

Options Picture Framing
2651- Douglas Street
Victoria, B.C.
Phone 250-381-4022

Loves Olde Towne Gallery (for order inquiries)
# 102-535- Yates Street
Victoria, B.C.
Phone 250-385-6722


Neighbourhood Series Art Cards only

Thrifty Foods
Fairfield Shopping Plaza
1590 Fairfield Road
cards are displayed by the Customer Service Desk

Side Street Studio  
# 204 2250- Oak Bay Ave
Phone 250-592-1262
Sue Hays is happy to order any art prints


To see a complete list of my published Neighbourhood Series Limited Edition prints, currently available art card titles and how to arrange a studio visit, please visit my new website

http://www.weaver-bossonart.com/





Thursday 9 June 2011

Art and Hockey


Caution, the word snow is mentioned in this blog
It is June 11th and the topic of conversation has quickly steered away from art and all our attention has been dominated by hockey game angst and the good and the bad outcomes of the Vancouver Canucks battle for the Stanley Cup.

I am not an avid hockey fan but I grew up in Calgary, Alberta where hockey and winter activities were a big part of our lives. I remember how much my Dad loved to watch the NHL games every Saturday night and my three brothers all enjoyed playing hockey at the community rink.
Our family home was in the S.W. and in the heart of the Shaganappi neighbourhood. I loved all our neighbours and my friends and everything about our close knit community. The Shaganappi Community Center offered year round activities for kids and adults. We were so close to everything and if you ran everywhere, like most kids did, our home was only 10 seconds from my elementary school, 14 seconds from the playground and 60 seconds from the toboggan hills, skating rink and community center.

EARLY RECOLLECTIONS OF ICE AND HOCKEY
My childhood recollections of winter often featured a typical sunny day and the freshly fallen snow. In this particular ice skating recollection, I see myself as a toddler holding my Mom's hand and moving my feet back and forth on the ice and going absolutely nowhere. I also imagined Mom hoping I would release her grasp and do a few laps around the rink but even at that young age I knew my limitations, because strapped securely to my winter boots were those funny double bladed bob skates and elegant moves on bob skates were unlikely for any novice skater.

By the age of 5, I was given a pair of real skates. Once steady and staying mostly upright, these scruffy old leather CCM skates were great for speeding around the rink. My brother Ronnie eventually showed me how to hold a hockey stick and shoot a puck at the net. It was great fun and I was slowly getting the hang of it. Then one day I took notice that my skates were brown and all my friends skates were white. Finally, after much hinting and possibly complaining, I received a fabulous birthday gift...a pair of gleaming white figure skates. I loved my girlie skates and immediately took to the ice but there was something different about the picks on my figure skates that made it difficult for me to properly use a hockey stick and move the puck around the ice and as you guessed the game of hockey was not for me.

As the new owner of these fancy pick skates, I had numerous visions of a much older me leading the glittering lineup of the Ice Capades or dazzling spectators and judges during the world skating competitions like Barbara Ann Scott had done years before. Mom saw this new interest of mine and signed me up for Saturday figure skating lessons at the community center. I was so eager and again envisioned myself flying through the air with my imaginary partner in an skin tight sequined costume. The lessons 1,2, and 3 were fun and I practiced all my moves evenings and weekends at the rink. Even though the weather got nastier and nastier and the ice got bumpier and lumpier, I eventually managed a pretty good spiral and figure eight without tripping on my picks and doing a face plant.

THE REWORKING OF A DREAM 
Every girl's dream of becoming a figure skating megastar generally plays out beautifully if she happens to be scheduled for lessons and coaching in the indoor skating arena or having the advantage of her mom and dad's annual membership at The Winter or  The Glencoe Club.


By lesson 4, I was miserable and lesson 5 dragged on in the bitter cold and my romantic notion of figure skating was shattered into a million frozen pieces and skinny little me, in my figure skating tights and skimpy skirt had one of those AH HA moments. As I did my last figure eight, I looked over the boards to see the well padded junior hockey team hopefuls, sweating away, huffing and puffing as they skated back and forth during their vigorous workout and it then it dawned on me - as young person, my destiny was not to spend my life on the ice and suffer through the frozen toes and fingers, the blinding blizzards, the endless perfection of ice dancing and constant costume fittings. My new dream was to get my Mom to enroll me in a less stressful indoor activity that perhaps I was more suited to like....
art courses at the Y.


Detail of  The Neighbourhood Skating Party
Acrylic Painting and Giclee print by Barbara Weaver-Bosson
 

Springtime, Gonzales Bay

Springtime, Gonzales Bay
Acrylic painting by Barbara Weaver-Bosson 2008