

Sat, Dec 04
|Ladysmith Waterfront Gallery
Artist Talk with Julia Lucich
An artist talk for anyone with an appreciation for whimsy, a narrative quality and an emphasis on mood, emotion, and out of box thinking.
Time & Location
Dec 04, 2021, 2:00 p.m. PST
Ladysmith Waterfront Gallery, 444 Parkhill Terrace, Ladysmith, BC V9G 1V6, Canada
About the Event
Julia will be discussing "art as a business"... "the road I've taken to move from what had been a hobby to that which is a source of livelihood".
About the guest speaker: "I first began painting in 1980, having been fascinated by portraiture. I would look at portraits and say to myself 'I can do that'. I sought out a teacher and was fortunate to come under the tutelage of master portraitist Bob Gerbracht. Bob’s instruction was in pastel, a medium that I immediately embraced for its vibrancy and spontaneity. Continuing to work in a representational style, I found that colour, for its own sake, had the ability to influence the power and impact of a painting. In 1995 I was working on a painting of giraffes, whose astonishing shapes and contours seemed to lend themselves to an outrageous approach. I chose to introduce colour totally outside the normal range,…