Skies Above

At Winchester Galleries on Humboldt Street

November 26 – December 19, 2009

Opening Reception
Thursday, November 26, 2009
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
(Gallery Walk evening)

Originally from North Wales, Iola emigrated to Canada in 1966, settling in Vancouver, and moving to Victoria in 1980.  Both music and the visual arts played an important part of her early life.  It was during these early years that she began taking watercolour instruction.  In the 1990s, Iola returned to painting in oil after studying at the Victoria College of Art.

Her painting trips this year have included Okanagan, Yoho National Park, the farmlands of Southern Ontario near Lake Huron and Vancouver Island.  She uses both brush and palette knife to build up areas of colour and textures, create rhythm and movement, and to capture the feelings and mood of a particular moment.