Meet Rita V.
Master Doodler in school, not a note book was safe. As a child my
father allowed me to splash and paint murals on the walls in my
bedroom. How lucky can a girl get? I also enjoyed math, and literature.
As a teenager I backpacked from Ontario to the Atlantic Provinces,
and the adventurer still lives in my heart. The wonder of life has
held me in fascination all these years.
Freefalling into my desire to paint, in January
2002, I took my first class in watercolor with Kathy Rath. I feel
inspired by People, you who I meet in my journey, Nature, the Impressionist,
Group of Seven, Klimpt, Waterhouse, the Renaissances and life in
all its continuing creative expressions. I love the Pieta by Michelangelo.
Even though I am mainly a self
taught painter, I have participated in workshop classes at Bear
Creek Studio by Kathy Rath, Arial Lyons, Karen Campbell, and Winter
Wednesdays with Sarnia Artist’s Workshop. I
have participated in Master Class workshops with Ed Shawcross and
Margaret Roseman in 2005, and Tom Lynch in 2006. I am a member of
The Sarnia-Lambton Artists Council, Lawrence House Center for The
Arts, and Showcase. Treasurer of Sarnia Artist’s Workshop
since August 2003, and I am a member of “The 6 + 1 Art Group”.
I teach a watercolor class for the grade six to eights at the local
school and teach an exploring art class with "school at home
children", Plus I have been a Snowfest
sculptor for the last three years..
As I continued to explore the
various mediums of painting, I am blessed with the freedom of finding
never ending inspiration, and I am grateful for the experience and
chance to share my vision.
... Such is the life of living
in the mystery, reaching for the spiritual, and having passion in
each day...
Chasing The Wind,
Rita Viscount,
November, 2008.
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I will be showing in 2008 at:
• Sarnia Artists Workshop
"Annual Christmas Show" -
Lawrence House Centre for the Arts, 127 Christina St. Sarnia On.
December
2008
• "Floyd
Gibson Colors Show"- Lawrence House Centre for the Arts, November
2008
• “Olives Restaurant”
Number 7 highway, Sarnia, with the 6+1 Art Group as a collection
of rotating displays all year.
• “On the Front”
at 201 Front Street- Penthouse with the 6+1 Art Group as a collection
of rotating displays all year.
• "Talula's cafe"
in Oil Springs Line, Oil Springs Ontario.
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CURRICULUM VITAE:
Artifex Vita
Quod Spiritus:
• Proud Mother of five
children and three grandchildren.
•Set Painter for Man
of La Mancha, Imperial Theatre, Sarnia Ont. Brainstorming started
in July, finished Nov. 2008
• Group Show with 6 +
1 Art Group at Grace brothers Gallery, Sarnia Ont. May 2008.
• Group Show with Sarnia
Artist Workshop, December 2007, at the Lawrence House Center for
the Arts-
127 Christina St. Sarnia On.
• 3rd Solo Exhibition
of Paintings at Alternate Grounds Café- 410 Front St. Sarnia.
September 2007.
• “© Insight
Between White and Black” Juried into the Gallery in The Grove
Invitational 2007.
• “©Shelter
from the Storm” Juried into the Paint Ontario 2007 show.
• Group Show with Sarnia
Artist Workshop, January 2007 at Gallery in the Grove.
• 2nd Solo Exhibition
of Paintings at Alternate Grounds Café- 410 Front St. Sarnia.
October 2006.
• Solo Show at the Lawrence
House Center for the Arts - August 2006.
• “©Silver
Sun” Juried into the Paint Ontario 2006 show.
• Designed, sewed, and
donated a pulpit cloth for St Joseph’s Church Corunna, 2005.
• Artist of the Month
for "Showcase" located in the Lawrence House Center for
the Arts- August 2005 & 2006.
• Original concept design
for “©Concept Fabric of The Universe” Gifted to
Margaret Nelson Director Catholic School Board- Lambton County by
the Episcopal Vicar Fr. Jim Higgins. January 2006.
• Commissioned to Paint
“© Fabric of the Universe” By Fr. Jim Higgins and
the Parish as a gift to Bishop Fabbro. April 2005.
• Acrylic “©
Ice Flowing- Guthrie Park Corunna “Juried into Paint Ontario
2005 show.
• 1ST Solo Exhibition
of Paintings at Alternate Grounds Café- 410 Front St. Sarnia.
February 2005.
• Plein Air oil painting
“© Windy Day – St Clair River” accepted into
Juried Look 2004 at gallery Lambton.
• Acrylic Painting “©
Path to the Lake “accepted into Juried Gallery in The Grove
Show 2004.
• Volunteered for Rayjon/
YMCA International Development Committee to plan, and coordinate
a team of grade eight students from St. Joseph’s School to
produce a six by twelve banner for the Forum on Unity, Peace, and
Justice held Nov.13 2004.
• Designed, painted,
and donated the logo 2004 for The Autism Society of Sarnia/Lambton.
• Donated six miniature
paintings to YMCA International Development Committee fundraiser
in 2003.
• Donated miniatures
to Gallery Lambton fundraisers from 2003-2007.
• Treasurer for the Sarnia
Artist’s Workshop, from Aug. 2003 – Oct. 2009.
• Parent Coordinator
for “Families and Schools Together” St Joseph’s
School Corunna an initiative through the Family Counseling Center,
from 2004 – 2008.
• Chocolatier of Spicy
Angel Chocolates and Truffles.
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