Ninth Annual James Bay Art Walk
Click here for the 2013 James Bay Art Walk Guide.
By Anne Hansen
Since I am appointed to write artist profiles for the James Bay Art Walk, I will take the liberty of writing about myself.
Soon after arriving in Victoria six years ago, I had a chance conversation with a woman on the beach. I introduced myself as an artist with a budding obsession with oystercatchers. For those unfamiliar with west coast wildlife, they are black crow-sized birds with long orange-red bill and long legs, featured in my 350-plus Oystercatcher paintings. They forage for shelled creatures on the intertidal rocks.
The woman told me about an organization in Haida Gwaii (formerly called the Queen Charlotte Islands) that seeks volunteers every summer to assist in their biological research camp. I rushed home, looked up the Laskeek Bay Conservation Society on the internet, and found their main research subject is ancient murrelets, but they also "do" oystercatchers.
In 2009, I got to spend a week there with half a dozen other volunteers.
In This Issue...
Then and Now: Boxer Chinese Bell
Subsistence farming in James Bay
James Bay Athletic Association: A Brief History (Part 1)
Art blossomed in Victoria this year
Philosophical chalk artist of James Bay
JBCP: Family Centre at the Project
James Bay Community Market: Hanging onto summer
MLA Report: Children and youth should be top priority
Murray Rankin MP: Re: Wildflower seeds
A world of music in a peaceful park
What is to be Canadian, anyway?
IMAX: A magical ride (Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure)
James Bay Art Walk Artist Profile
Conni's Cooking Corner
Poetry