Monthly art workshop sees strong attendance at Omineca Arts Centre

While her art comes from her love of nature, she explained with that comes the fear of losing it.

“I care deeply about the environment and as a person that lives in a time of ecological catastrophe, I notice a lot of changes. And I think that it’s the job of artists to witness those changes and to document them. Last summer there was a berry famine, there were the fires, there was smoke… I had a yard full of bears all summer long. And I think a lot of it what it must be like to be a bear, to not have this buttress of civilization to protect you from the sharp edge of climate catastrophe, from famine,” she said.

Georgeson, like Hardeman, also paints out of a love of nature, but added she likes getting experimental with her work and do things that conventionally may not look great.

“One of the main focuses here is color, because I really been enjoying putting different colours together that don’t always fit well together. But they work well in paintings, and then you sort of add other colours and it makes it work,” Georgeson said.

Several examples of Georgeson’s work

While the free workshop passed, the Omineca Arts Centre hosts one free workshop every month with its artist in residence for the month, so you can visit the next workshop if you’re interested. In the meantime, Hardeman and Georgeson’s art will be on display for the rest of the month, so you can still enjoy their work until the new artist in residence sets up their display.

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by Tommy Osborne

Monthly art workshop sees strong attendance at Omineca Arts Centre

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