Ruth was introduced to the arts as a young child through classical ballet, music, drawing and sketching. She has an interest in Asian artistic expression. Ruth currently paints weekly with local artists, known as “the group of seven artists”. Her paintings can be found in private collections in Scotland, the Netherlands, Australia, U.S.A., and Canada.

Nelson B.C. artist Yoshie Measures is best known for her extremely colorful and very detailed oil paintings. She mixes everyday scenes of some of our most loved animals with nature, captures the emotion while exaggerating the colors to create an incredibly realistic, yet surreal image.

Yoshie’s first mentor was her dad; he taught her the basics of oil painting. After, she went on to study pencil, watercolor, and fine paper art. Yoshie won national and international awards for her work during middle school using a medium known as Washi Art, “sculpting using colorful fine art papers”. It’s a process where you take colorful paper and glue it together on canvas to build images that climb out at you. Lately Yoshie has returned to what she loved to do first “oil paintings”.  

Artist Statement 

I have always loved nature and from the start it has had a big influence on my art. I grew up in the country side in Japan and spent my childhood playing along side the rice fields and in the trees of my backyard. I have always thought art should be colorful and uplifting and I do it for fun or to lighten my mood.

Website: www.yoshiemeasures.com

Contact: info@yoshiemeasures.com

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Blue Chisel Studio Kat Goetz Warfield BC bluechiselstudio@gmail.com

Surrounded as I am by the untamed beauty of the area around Warfield, BC, where I live, nature informs most of my work. All of my landscape linocuts are interpretations of remote or little-known areas in my immediate surroundings, or of more distant places I visited, which resonated with me deeply. (My ongoing Heron Road series is inspired by a road trip along the back roads of Canada and the USA, west coast to east coast and back – a year-long journey my husband and I made while living in a small truck camper from 2016-2017). 

My aim, as an artist, is to draw the viewer into the images I create and to invite them to share in the emotion I myself experience or have experienced in the places I depict. In this respect, colour plays a significant role in most of my linocuts. I tend to use colour intuitively and I believe individual colours, much like musical notes, can work together to create a uniquely harmonious composition.

I’ve been a printmaker since 2007 and, although some of my early prints were more graphic in style, my current work is an exploration of painterly printmaking. I particularly love the challenge of making reduction prints, referred to as ‘suicide prints’ by Picasso, where layer upon layer of ink is applied to a single piece of lino which is carved away little by little until there’s almost nothing left of it. 

I’m continuously curious to discover how far I can push this traditionally graphic medium to produce images with a subtler, dreamlike quality.