Help Restore REDWOOD PARK FAIRY HOUSES!

Hello to all my friends around the world

and a special invitation to those friends living in the Lower Mainland of B.C. Canada

Please come help restore the Fairy Houses at Redwood Park!

Recently some rather nasty pranksters destroyed all the fairy houses in Redwood Park, so artists, children, parents and others in the community have banded together to help restore these fairy houses! This imaginative project has been a favorite place for the wee people and regular people to visit for years.  Redwood Park is located at 17900  20 Ave, Surrey, B.C., Canada.

Calling all people to help restore the missing and destroyed Fairy Houses at Redwood Park!

We invite you to create your version of a wee people house!  All  you have to do is have some fun making it and then take it to the Redwood Park and install it there!

 

 

Have fun creating a wee people house for Redwood Park!

 

We hope that you and your family will contribute to keep the magic alive!

 

 

The very idea of Sprites, Pixies and Elves can help us to remember the awe and wonder of childhood!

 

 

 

 

Come and enjoy this forest wonderland!

 

We hope you can bring a little house as an offering to the playful and joyful spirit of the child within us all!

 

VISIT REDWOOD PARK

17900  20 Ave, Surrey, BC

Here is a link to a beautiful post about the park

Redwood Park; Fairytale Forest – British Columbia Mom

and

Here is a link to a map!

See photos

Redwood Park  

Website

Directions

 

Redwood Park in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

Address: 17900 20 Avenue, Surrey, BC V3S 9V2

 

Also check out these pictures before the pranksters hit!  We need to help restore this magical wonderland!

Redwood Park (Surrey) – All You Need to Know Before You Go …

https://www.tripadvisor.ca › … › British Columbia › Surrey 

Laara WilliamSen, International professional painter and art educator for over 35 years! 10,000 happy students!

So I hope to see you there!  And I wish you all sparkles and joy and laughter!

Sincerely, Laara WilliamSen, International professional painter and art educator

Vancouver Lower Mainland, B.C. Canada

www.laarawilliamsenschoolofart.com

www.artprintsforcharity.com

ART LENDS A HAND TO CHARITY!

Dear Friends all around the world,

Thank you for your ongoing interest and support!  I wish you all much continued success and happiness in 2017!

In spite of world events…..

I have a vision!

We all love each other more. There is no greed or hatred, no wars or hunger, no more needless suffering.  Because, we smile more often, lend a hand, forgive everyone and everything.  The world is peaceful and we each do the best we can to make it better each day!  I believe in the power of  LOVE!

PLEASE JOIN ME!

 

ART PRINTS FOR CHARITY – Let your heart be your guide!

 

ART PRINTS FOR CHARITY GIVES 50% OF ALL PROCEEDS TO THESE THREE CHARITIES!

TBETTER AT HOMES QUESNEL has a $25,000 shortfall each year. Art Prints for Charity aims to help them with this!

 

Your helping hand can make a difference!  I am so happy that http://www.artprintsforcharity.com offers donors an art print of high quality INSTANTLY DOWNLOADABLE and the chance to help make a better world through donations to our three charities.  There are various donation amounts to choose from so let your heart be your guide.

ART PRINTS FOR CHARITY is easy as 1, 2, 3

1. Choose your favorite art print and click on your donation amount. Complete the sale form.

2. Receive your email receipt with the download link for your art print.

3. Click on the download link and then find it your computer in downloads and print it!

This is all done online.  Nothing will be shipped to you.

You just helped our charities!

If you prefer to order an art print that will be shipped to you please visit the newest website. http://art-prints-for-charity-love-laara.com

This website is now available so you will find the same categories for art prints.  This website does not contain as many images as http://www.artprintsforcharity.com but it does offer some valuable collector artworks in a variety of frames and sizes.  Below are samples from each collection category for both websites!

ABSTRACTIONS OF NATURE

THE ELEMENTS – Water, Original Acrylic painting by Laara WilliamSen, (c) Copyrighted All Rights Reserved

ANGELS AND STARS

LAND AND SEASCAPES

AUTUMN RIVER REFLECTIONS

STILL LIFE AND ANIMALS

PEOPLE

So thank you all for your ongoing support and please have a look at

http://artprintsforcharity.com and http://art-prints-for-charity-love-laara.com

and if you enjoyed this article

please feel free to share it on Twitter, Linked in, Facebook or where ever else you wish!

Love to All

Laara WilliamSen

International professional painter

Vancouver area, B.C. CANADA

SILENT AUCTION OF ARTWORKS TO BENEFIT Peace Arch Hospital and Community Health Foundation!

Hello to my Friends around the world!

I am so excited to tell you that the solo exhibition of my original artworks at the Pelican Rouge Cafe has expanded into A SILENT AUCTION

with 50% of all proceeds being donated to

 

THE PEACE ARCH HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION.

Also Dr. Jane Wu the Director of ICU and Doctor at Peace Arch Hospital and painter is offering five of her own original colorful paintings.  Her paintings are open bidding with 75% of all proceeds to benefit Peace Arch Hospital and Community Health Foundation! 

The exhibition will run from November 1st to 30th.

On November 30th from 7 – 9pm there is a reception to meet me and there will be a representation of The Peace Arch Hospital and Community Health Foundation there as well to answer any questions.

So hop on down and place your silent bid today.   Here are just three of the artworks that are going for a very low minimum bid!

The Silent Auction is taking place at the Pelican Rouge Cafe, 15142 North Bluff Road, White Rock, B.C. !

We will also be celebrating the opening of http://artprintsforcharity.com which donates 50% of all proceeds to Better At Home Quesnel and Sali.  Read all about them on the charities page on the website!

Please Share this information with anyone you wish or on Twitter, Facebook, Linked in or anywhere else!

Thank you so much for all of your past acknowledgements and support,

Love and Light to All

Laara WilliamSen

International professional painter

South Surrey (Vancouver area) B.C. CANADA

 

THE ELEMENTS – Earth, Original Acrylic painting by Laara WilliamSen, (c) 2013 MINIMUM BID JUST $1,000.00 Copyrighted All Rights Reserved

THE ELEMENTS – Water and Air Original Acrylics Laara WilliamSen (c) Copyrighted 2013 MINUMUM BID JUST $1,000.00 All rights reserved

THE ELEMENTS – Water, Original Acrylic painting by Laara WilliamSen, (c) 2013 MINIMUM BID JUST $1,000.00 CAN Copyrighted All Rights Reserved

THE THREE MUSKETEERS ART EXHIBITION!

THE THREE MUSKETEERS! Artists: Doris Anderson, Don Sharpe, Laara WilliamSen

To my Dear Friends around the world!

On Friday, I was asked to put together an exhibition so I quickly called my friends Don and Doris and the three of us now have a beautiful show at the Good Day Sunshine Cafe!  I have never seen anything come together so fast before.  You will notice that we called it the Three Musketeers Art Exhibition and this is because we are all good, creative people who protect, love and cherish other people, places and issues!  Please share this information and I will add more photos of the exhibit as we go through the month.

The Three Musketeers Art Exhibition

 

• Doris Anderson – Canadian Abstract Painter 

          An artist extraordinare! Well known locally and internationally!

          Works from her heart!

 

• Don Sharpe – Talented 91 year old Artist 

          And cowboy, fisherman, leatherworker, crafter and doodler! Been creating

          all of his life one way the other! Started drawing 2 years ago!

 

• Laara WilliamSen – Artist, Local and International, 

          Tom Sawyer in disguise! Loves to paint and organize events!

 

 

EXHIBITION NOW ON TIL OCTOBER 31, 2016

At the GOOD DAY SUNSHINE CAFE

2950 King George Blvd.- High Street just behind Staples

South Surrey, B.C. CANADA

 

AND you are invited to

 VISIT THE ARTISTS at the

MEET THE ARTISTS PARTY

on FRIDAY, OCT 21 1-3PM

AT THE GOOD DAY SUNSHINE CAFE 

 

I send all of my friends around the world many hugs and

Love and Light

Laara WilliamSen

International professional painter

Vancouver area, B.C. CANADA

PS WATCH OUT FOR  http://artprintsforcharity.com a new and exciting website I am just getting going.

Have a look and let me know how you like it!   XXXXXXXXXXXXXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Francis Pratt – Master Painter, Scientist, Teacher

To all of my wonderful creative friends around the world! 

Laara WilliamSen visiting Francis Pratt at the Montmiral School of Art April 2014

April, 2014

I travel down a narrow cobbled lane where the springtime heat bounces off the high stone walls. The air is scented with fresh baking and something more; the sense of an ancient road well traveled. 

Around the next corner, I have arrived at The Painting School of Montmiral in France!  As I enter the building, I am at once at ease in the cool air and heavy stone walls supported with huge old wooden cross beams.

Coming down the stone stairs to welcome me is Francis Pratt, a true Master of Painting, Art Education and Science!  It is my pleasure to introduce to you this brilliant person and his passion for sharing his knowledge!

 

FRANCIS PRATT AND THE PAINTING SCHOOL OF MONTMIRAL

http://www.painting-school.com

Francis Pratt’s students at The Montmiral School of Art

Francis Pratt’s quest for knowledge is only surpassed by his passion for sharing this knowledge. His many years practice as an artist, of research into questions relating to drawing and painting and of working as an Art Educator informed his decision to move to France and begin his own art school. It took Francis Pratt just a few months to organize and establish The Painting School Montmiral in May, 1988.

With excitement he gathered up all of his collective artistic and scientific knowledge and his skills as an Art Educator to create the Art School courses.  His years of seeking the truth about creativity along with his years of teaching art became fully expressed in the content of the Courses offered at the Art School.  He then refined and tailored his Courses to individually facilitate for the students.

Student painting on the Esplanadee

As a testament to the success of his vast knowledge and experience, The Painting School of Montmiral has been operating with success for twenty eight years.  Thousands of students from beginners through to professionals have taken his Courses and each one leaves with confidence, a new way of viewing the world and practical skills to enhance their future paintings.

“A very different and vastly more interesting type of artistic education than I have met before.” Yolande Hart

“A magical place, good company, intensely stimulating ideas and teaching. I came to Montmiral to have my eyes stretched and I do not think I have ever looked so hard.” – Unity Couzens

“This course, with its application and explanation of the latest researches in both colour and line psychology, completely redefines and resolves the anomalies of what we see. The reference to proven research and the patient explanations of its implications with respect to how the brain receives and interprets information provides a fundamentally sound approach commonly lacking in other courses and literature.” – Iain McCowan

Painting in the Sunflowers

Francis Pratt is writing, what I consider to be, a manifesto that is very important to our contemporary art world. We are in an age of rapid scientific discovery and his writing includes this along with many other areas of his studies to redefine how we view art and making art. Here he shares his thoughts and a brief sketch of his writings.

“As for my writing, apart from contributions to the scientific literature, I have written articles for popular art magazines such as The Artist, the Artist and Illustrators Magazine and Modern Painters. Currently, I am writing four interrelated books, all of which are the fruits of a lifetime of pursuing my quest for a deeper understanding of the subjects of creativity and self expression.”

Painting is fun

Below he outlines his four interrelated books and/or his manifesto.

1: “What Scientists can Learn from Artists” describes the scientific experiments and ideas that played such an important role in determining the content of my teaching. The research had its origin in a critique of the strengths and weaknesses of established artistic practices and teaching methods that emerged from my efforts to help my students at every level.

2: Drawing on Both sides of the Brain” is a compendium of two books that concentrates exclusively on line drawing. They are “Drawing with Feeling” and “Drawing with Knowledge”. The approach is, first, to explain what I see as the strengths and weaknesses of traditional artistic practices and teaching methods and, then, to suggest how the weaknesses can be overcome using the new ideas coming from my research.

3: “Painting with Light and Colour” is also a compendium of two books: “Painting with Light” and “Painting with Colour”. As with the two books on drawing, both provide critiques of traditional ideas and practices, many of which have been submerged by the processes of history. The remainder of the books resuscitate submerged ideas in the light of recent research and add many new ones. Topics dealt with include “illusory pictorial space, whole-field colour and lightness relations, harmony/discord, shadows, shading and highlights and new perspectives on local colour interactions.

A principal underlying both practical books is to spend as little time as possible on topics that have been well dealt with in the past.

4: “New Perspectives on Creativity” is relevant to all domains of creativity, although the bulk of the new ideas presented come from a combination of my scientific studies and my research into the history of Modernism in Painting and the cornucopia of new approaches that it spawned, a subject that runs as a leitmotif through all four books. It is argued that the roots of all subsequent progressive painting and conceptual art are to be found in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

Francis and student in the landscape

Francis Pratt – EDUCATION

At the Academic Community of the Wilno University in London Francis Pratt studied under Professor Marian Bohusz-Szyszko, Polish artist and teacher. Bohusz-Szyszko influenced him so deeply that these teachings became the foundation of his life as an artist and later as a scientist and art educator.

During the following years, Francis Pratt spent twelve years at the University of Stirling, first, as Cottrell Memorial Fellow and, then, as Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology. The first of these two appointments was as an artist and enabled him to work on a project that involved exploring new approaches to colour in painting. The the second of them allowed him to do research on how artists use their eyes when drawing and painting. During this time he worked with colleagues from various departments, with expertise in the psychology of perception, developmental psychology, neurophysiology and computer modeling. He says, “I took on the Research Fellowship because I saw it as an opportunity for at least seeking answers to many seemingly insoluble questions that had arisen in the classroom and in my own work during the previous twelve years, during which I had been teaching painting and drawing at all levels from evening class to postgraduate.”

He attended the Bath Academy of Art earning a degree equivalent Dip AD and then he studied at the University of Bristol, Department of Education earning an ATD which is an art teaching qualification.

His activities included wide ranging research into

• the psychology of perception,
• developmental psychology and
• Neurophysiology.

EXPERIENCE AS AN ART EDUCATOR

Francis Pratt has taught figure drawing and painting in various Institutes of Further Education and, as a Visiting Lecturer, has been employed at all levels in Art Schools, especially for his knowledge of colour. For more detailed information please see the Course Director page on the Painting School of Montmiral website.

 

 

Color Mixing

It is rare to find a Painting School not only based on individualization for each student but a Painting School that includes the enormous professional research in both art and science that Francis Pratt has achieved.

“Francis is the most remarkable teacher of painting I believe you will find. I first encountered him when my mother, who had been a painter for over fifty years, returned from his course with some beautiful and exciting paintings, the like of which she had never done.

He had somehow managed to nudge her forward just enough to produce towards the end of her life some brave and surprisingly beautiful landscapes which challenged much of what she had done before.

He then took me on, a difficult unschooled banker who wanted to find out if he had any talent as a painter late in life. Francis provided me very easily with the tools, not only to progress and judge my own work, but to give me the means to look at the work of serious painters with a really appreciative and informed eye.

His teaching is not difficult to take on board if you have had no teaching before or if you are open to change. He distills the very essence of how the eye and the brain work in looking at images and how this translates into working on a canvas or a sketch book.

The reward is self evident in the quality of the output. His influence and effect on me has been transformative. I have an enormous amount to thank him for.” – Paul Zuckerman, a banker, on behalf of myself and my mother Joan, an exhibiting artist.

 

Relaxing in the countryside

Students setting out for a day of creating!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Francis Pratt at The Painting School of Montmiral aims to help students to be better able to solve their own problems so that when the course is over they go home with confidence and the knowledge to assist them in their future paintings.  Francis Pratt comments, “I have been delighted that the courses in Montmiral have attracted students of all levels, using a wide range of mediums and with very different goals, from slavish accuracy to abstraction and self expression.”

At the final exhibition

 

The Painting School of Montmiral is the very essence of Francis Pratt’s ever increasing knowledge and creative skills. For Francis it is all about each student fulfilling their own aspirations!

Students relaxing outside a gite (French for accomodations)

 

If you wish more information about Francis Pratt’s individualized teaching methods please view the Course page on The Painting School of Montmiral website.  http://www.painting-school.com

Cuurent Art Course Enrollment Information

Thank you for reading this article about Francis Pratt and if you enjoyed it

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else you wish to….

Very Best Wishes to Everyone

Laara WilliamSen

International professional painter

Vancouver area, B.C. Canada

 

IMMO JALASS International contemporary artist & visionary!

Wayset1a Original Art by IMMO JALASS (C) Copyrighted 2015 All rights reserved

 Hello to my Dear Friends around the world! Sending you lots of good wishes for happiness and creativity! 

 

 

IMMOS JALASS International Contemporary Artist

It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to Immo Jalass, an International Contemporary Artist, who has made astounding creative growth from his youthful drawings to his art work of today; an infinite exploration of creating original digitally created works of art!  Please enjoy the gallery at the end of the article, where you can click on each image and hope you enjoy as well as the enlarged images of his vibrant art works throughout the interview! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INTERVIEW WITH IMMO JALASS,

International Contemporary Artist on March 20th, 2015

Hello Immo

Here are a few questions that we can start with and please just answer in the way you feel most comfortable.

Were you creative as a child and if so how old were you and what do you remember from this experience?

At the age of fourteen, I started drawing with pencil and ink; all the old farm houses in Hamburg-Volksdorf and the landscapes around.

When did you realize that you were an artist?

An Art scene 4 de Original Art by IMMO JALASS (C) Copyrighted 2015 All rights reserves

At the age of twenty-six, on Ibiza working with pencils, color pencils, ink, gouache, water color and oil; working out themes oriented on the figuetrees, the rockets, the sandbeaches and the water.  Doing sketching and drawing sessions with a sculptor friend.

What has influenced your artworks. Other artists, Teachers, (I am referring to your artwork before you transitioned) ?

Jens Cords in Hamburg. He was preparing his own oil colors. My sculptor friend on Ibiza and many other artists around as Bechthold, David Walsh.

Did you have any formal training?

No, never. I am completely self taught. As such I have been working for the Famous Artists Schools in Amsterdam as an Art Instructor for more than a year.

When you began to transition to digital art, what led you to do this?

Already in 1972, I did some theoretical study on computer basics in Amsterdam.

In 1994, I started to work with my first own computer inspired by a friend in Hamburg, just for interest and

in 1998 I began my first artistical approaches with Corel Draw. It has been just the curiosity searching for new possibilities to express the feelings and thoughts of my life.

Can you explain the difference in media – one is very tactile and the other is created through technology – how does this affect your process?

I wouldn’t say that the difference in media affects or affected the process of creating. I am loving, for example, all the possibilities of getting a change in color and structure on a whole picture with a few mouse clicks. On the other hand, I am some times too lazy to work out more details.

 

Now I am creating digital art works since years and some of them makes me look at them again, again and again, wondering some times how have I been able to create this whatever. Associating the world around and reflecting my feelings, means giving my interpretation. Sometimes I feel like being some kind of an organism directed by the subconscious, by feelings, moments, situations, technical possibilities, wondering what will come out next.

Asappeared70 Original Art by IMMO JALASS (c) Copyrighted 2015 All rights reserved

Asfigured 1a Original Art by IMMO JALASS (C) Copyrighted all rights reserved

Can you talk about your art making process a little bit in the transition work?

Bild245 Original Art by IMMO JALASS (C) Copyrighted 2015 All Rights Reserved

In most cases I started with one or two photos. In the meantime though, it has been a long time since I started with a completely new photo. In fact, today there is already a huge stock of existing digitally created art works and more often it happens that I go on working on already existing pictures, from which new pictures are created. Furthermore, I am more often copying an existing picture into another already-existing art work, giving transparency to it, and thus making a completely new picture, where new forms and colors appear as if they were coming out of infinity. These new forms and pictures can end up taking forms and shapes that I myself, have not even thought of. Fortunately, as a digital artist I am able to go on working on an existing picture without losing the original (the first) picture. In this situation a whole new motif-sequence can develop.

Do you choose a theme or series of art works or do you work one at a time.

I am working on all my art works one after the other, some times only just a few things, often until a new variation is created worth to be saved as a completely new art work or just a new piece in an existing series. Seldom having a certain theme, it is mostly a completely unconscious process choosing a theme to work on.

Bild372 Original Art by IMMOS JALASS (c) Copyrighted 2015 All Rights Reserved

What is your greatest accomplishment that you are happy about in your career as a professional artist

In Progress: “Future Fun Conquest“ a digitally created art show by Immo Jalass at the Carl Benz Cloud University. A new kind of art meets a new kind of Gallery. The opening will be on the 30th of march this year.

Have you had any interviews or reviews and if so can we link this page to them so our readers can learn more about you?

1. Solomon Walker writing about me on the occasion of my solo exhibition “Immos universe” at the MoDFA (autumn 2014):  http://galeriejalass.tripod.com
2. ArticulAction’s interview with me on:  http://galeriejalass.tripod.com/interviewed.htm
3. Several reviews on http://galeriejalass.tripod.com/rezensionen.htm

Do you have any comments or thoughts that may improve the current contemporary art world?

Generally needed is the development of facilities to show digital art works. For example galleries equipped with digital displays (best without a frame), public displays to show more digitally created art, displays for the office and nice private displays for the living rooms.

Ongame Original Art by IMMO JALASS (C) Copyrighted 2015 All Rights Reserved

Do you have any thoughts or suggestions for emerging artists just beginning in digital art?

Should emerging artists have been working with pencil and ink before starting in digital art? The technical possibilities are developing. Should they start working on some kinds of drawing pads? Sketching their ideas on paper or digitally? Other possibilities? New possibilities?

Scapecheck1 Original Art by IMMO JALASS (c) Copyrighted 2015 All rights reserved

Those are interesting suggestions for emerging artists!  I believe as you have suggested that both sketching first or going right to the digital program that allows for sketching are excellent possiblities.  Thank you Immo.

Do you have a c.v. (artists resume) and can you please send it to me

Please see: http://galeriejalass.tripod.com/cvita.htm

Please list any Awards!

Wildfacing2a Original Art by IMMO JALASS (C) Copyrighted 2015 All rights reserved

 

Your questions are covering all important facts regarding my art work and its developement during all the years. More details can be found on my homepage at http://galeriejalass.tripod.com

Please visit the above link to know more about Immo Jalass!

Thank you very much for your interest and your effort in realizing this show of my work.

 

 

 

9 Whocome5dd Original Art by IMMO JALASS (C) Copyrighted All Rights Reserved

Thank you so much Immo. It is a pleasure to feature your amazing creativity as well as your successful international art career!

Thanks to Solomon Walker, I will now include an important quote regarding IMMO JALASS’ artworks:

Solomon Walker commenting on Immo Jalass: “Immo Jalass is an autodidact.; a self-taught extraordinary creative artist, whose vast body of captivating artwork journeys through several fertile decades, touching on nearly all the major art movements of the 20th century. And, given all that, the most surprising thing about Immo’s artistic output is, that the work remains unique and totally Immo Jalass, even in this early dawn of the 21st century. Teamed with an enthusiastic curiosity that fuels his vision, his creative input and output is tremendous. He is a thoughtful and generous being, who is always ready to share his knowledge and to lend assistance to his fellows. I highly recommend Immo Jalass for any artistic endeavours he pursues or that are proposed for him; and of course, I highly support and recommend his artist work to buyers and collectors at all levels.”

 

For further information or to purchase Immo Jalass` art work

IMMO JALASS International Contemporary Artist

please contact him at nemhja@upcmail.nl 

or visit website http://galeriejalass.tripod.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PLEASE CLICK ON IMAGE TO VIEW IN THE GALLERY!

Original Art by IMMO JALASS (C) Copyrighted 2015 All rights reserved

Whocome5dd Original Art by IMMO JALASS (C) Copyrighted All Rights Reserved

Wayset1a Original Art by IMMO JALASS (C) Copyrighted 2015 All rights reserved

Scapecheck1 Original Art by IMMO JALASS (c) Copyrighted 2015 All rights reserved

6 Ongame Original Art by IMMO JALASS (C) Copyrighted 2015 All Rights Reserved

Bild372 Original Art by IMMOS JALASS (c) Copyrighted 2015 All Rights Reserved

Bild245 Original Art by IMMO JALASS (C) Copyrighted 2015 All Rights Reserved

Asfigured 1a Original Art by IMMO JALASS (C) Copyrighted all rights reserved

Asappeared70 Original Art by IMMO JALASS (c) Copyrighted 2015 All rights reserved

Original Art by IMMO JALASS (C) Copyrighted 2015 All rights reserves

 

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Sincerely

Laara WilliamSen

International professional painter

Vancouver, B.C., Canada

http://laarawilliamseninternationalprofessionalpainter.com

Laara WilliamSen represents Canada at IN3 exhibition

INTERNATIONAL Minature Exhibition
Dallas Texas

I am thrilled to have two paintings in this exhibition for sale.  If you are in the area, please visit!  Any questions, email me at laara63@gmail.com

Sincerely and Best Wishes to all of my wonderful friends,

AND HAPPY EASTER!

Laara WilliamSen,

International professional painter,

Vancouver area, B.C. Canada

 

 

WISHING YOU LOVE AND PEACE IN 2015!

To my many friends around the world!

I would like to take a moment to wish you so much Love and Peace in 2015!  I am thrilled that once again I was included in the PEACE PROJECT’S traveling exhibition and that a print of my art work is available for sale to help with the good works that the PEACE PROJECT will accomplish in the future

During the past 5 years,  just a small bit of what the PEACE PROJECT has accomplished;

Designed a house that has around $500 in building materials and completed construction of our first community of 40 houses, plus communal restrooms, for those that lost everything in Typhoon Haiyan.

• Continued to support the education of several dozen children in Sierra Leone.
• Held The Peace Project’s 5th Annual Call for Artists and Traveling Exhibit.

• Produced two outdoor art festivals “Affair of the Arts” in Culver City, California.

• Opened six exhibits at The Whole 9 Gallery and hosted dozens of events designed to sell art, raise

         funds, build community and spark discussion of important social issues.

And these are only a few of their gifts to the world.  Please visit http://www.thewhole9.com and check out Peace Project.

LOVE creates PEACE Original acrylic by Laara WilliamSen

It has been a full year for me of traveling, hosting workshops, painting and writing and I regret that I have not been in contact as often as I would like.  Please know that all of my Linkedin network members and friends are important to me and it is especially to you that I send my very best wishes for your happiness, success and much Love and Peace in 2015.

Sincerely

Laara WilliamSen

International professional painter

Vancouver, B.C., Canada

http://ca.linkedin.com/in/laarawilliamsen

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ARTIST’S MESSAGE OF LOVE AND HOPE

ARTIST’S MESSAGE OF LOVE AND HOPE

Ashley Jackson, Canadian Painter

Ashley Jackson, Canadian Painter, Surrey, B.C., Canada

It is rare that we see a mature and successful transformation of the art materials in an emerging artist. However Ashley Jackson has achieved this and more!  Her passion, clarity of purpose, vision and flawless technique are definitely that of an authentic artist!

 

SOUL Original art work 24 x 36 inches by Ashley Jackson 2014 (c) Copyrighted All Rights Reserved

As a young five year old child, Ashley was drawing and finger painting. She remembers that she was always very attracted to colors. So even at this tender age, Ashley was confidently creating her own originals by changing a blue sky to purple or white flowers to pinks.  She knew from the beginning that she was entitled to her own creative process and she changed the forms and colors to her liking.

Ashley attended Springvale Primary School in Centurion, South Africa.   It felt right to her to stay within the lines as one teacher suggested and this was the early beginnings of her beautiful symbolic art works.

Ashley moved to South Surrey, B.C., Canada in 2001 and attended Semiahmoo Secondary School.  She excelled in her art classes and loved learning how to use various media such as pastels, pencils, acrylics and clay.  She found her teachers were very helpful.  Once again, in her teenage years, she began to incorporate certain symbols into her art works furthering the use of lines. She loved to do tribal work and drew many faces.  This education definitely contributed to her strength as an artist.

Her true foundation and education in art was accomplished during six years of private tutorial with Chris Lagalisse, Artist and  Art Educator.  Chris Lagalisse studied at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  He has a Bachelor of Arts and Education Degree and is a licensed instructor.  Her private tutorials were at the Neighbourhood Art Studio in White Rock, B.C.  Chris Lagalisse’s creative guidance and critiques immensely assisted Ashley to gain true confidence in herself as an artist and to develop her own unique art language.

TRIBOLITE Original art work 20 x 30 inches by Ashley Jackson 2014 (c) Copyrighted All Rights Reserved

Working in her own studio she began to experiment by adding various materials to the acrylic paint such as sand, wood, or beads.  She now creates her works of art using totally archival materials.

When Ashley paints she feels electrified and explosive.  Her sense of physical space and time fades away.  She believes that she is that divinely guided and inspired.  She receives vibrational energies and visions that she recreates in her amazing art works.  Her clear use of line and symbols as well as mixed media has formed the basis of Ashley Jackson’s resolved works of art.

INDIGO Original artwork 16 x 20 inches by Ashley Jackson 2014 (c) Copyrighted All Rights Reserved

 

Ashley is very aware of all the challenges people face in their minds.  She experienced a difficult time of shadows and her faith has brought her into a place full of optimism and light. She adds,

“That is why I use rich, intense colors and exhilarating energy. Creation is larger than us. I know it’s not just me!  I am being guided to paint these messages of love and hope.  I really can see that.”

Her intention once she has completed an artwork is that this may become a message of love and hope.  She believes that people need to experience something beautiful.  Ashley says, “I am trying to reach the viewer’s soul and leave an imprint of Light, Love, Hope and any positive emotion that will help to shift their energy, even if only for a brief moment.”

LIFE Original artwork 16 x 20 inches by Ashley Jackson 2014 (c) Copyrighted All Rights Reserved

She has completed several portrait commissions and among these paintings is a portrait of a young boy who died at the age of 13 years.  She was able to intuit his surroundings and paint these surroundings accurately which made his family and friends very happy.  When she paints a new portrait she likes to show the subject’s personal growth and those particular surroundings that have deep meaning to them.

Ashley exhibited at the Fleetwood Festival of the Arts,  Fleetwood 84th Ave Cafe, StreetFEST, Surrey,B.C. Canada August 3^rd, 2014.  There she created a community painting with her words “Hope and Love” in the centre and she invited others to add their own thoughts. The title of the painting is “Community” and it is sized 24 inches x 36 inches.  This spontaneous interactive creation helped to strengthen the values of each individual who participated and of the whole community that viewed the art work!

Rick Hart President of Fleetwood Community Association with Ashley Jackson Canadian Painter COMMUNITY PAINTING 24 x 36 inches

She has also exhibited at the Arnold Mikelson Festival of the Arts, White Rock, B.C., Canada in July, 2013.  During October 2014, she did a collaborative art exhibition, “A Life in Spirit and Color,” featuring her artworks and the artworks of Kevin Jordan, Canadian Painter at the Mind and Matter Gallery, White Rock, B.C., Canada.

Ashley Jackson is an outstanding Canadian painter and she has artworks held in private collections in Canada, Australia, Japan and Africa.

Ashley Jackson Canadian Painter

 

 

For further information

or to purchase an original Ashley Jackson art work

please visit her Website www.ashleyoriginals.com 

or email her at ashley-jackson@outlook.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Laara WilliamSen

International professional painter

Vancouver area, B.C., Canada

EXHIBITION: Looking through the Mind’s Consciousness!

I am very happy to share the news of Sue Foerster and Lilian Ghazarian’s exhibition LOOKING THROUGH THE MIND’S CONSCIOUSNESS.  Please see the details below and visit the Aurora Public Library in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to see their art works before the closing on November 3rd, 2014!