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We are actively looking for new members right now. So, if you feel that you are at the intermediate level of experience in your artistic endeavours and you are looking for a meeting place to paint and share ideas, and you know at least one of our members, then please go to our contact page and we can give you all the details. At this time, we are meeting by Zoom, and ironing all the kinks out so that if the pandemic doesn't allow us to meet physically by September, then we have a viable alternative to use until we can.
Jetta Williams
A Kelowna artist inspired by frontline workers dealing with dangerous everyday events
has painted a portrait to honour their courage and dedication.
Jetta Williams says she was inspired by several events occurring around the same time
more than a year ago.
The first event was a good friend passing. Williams says she was touched that the doctor
at KGH reached out to her to let her know that her good artist friend was dying and he
made arrangements for her to safely spend time with him before he passed.
"I was able to spend the last 40 minutes with him. When I came home I saw a picture on
Facebook of a nurse wearing an RCMP pin and looking right at the camera."
Williams says the image touched her and inspired the painting which she calls 'Frontline'
"I got her permission to use her likeness," Williams said.
The nurse in the photo was wearing an RCMP pin on her headgear in honour of Wear Red Fridays, a military tradition adopted by the RCMP to honour fallen Mounties following
the 2014 Moncton shootings.
Williams says she feels the painting is a commentary on our current times and she made it so the nurse is looking right at the viewer, with a message in her eyes. "I made the eyes so they're looking right at you. Kind of like, 'get it together, put on a mask."
Taken from the article in Castanet on October 23, 2021
has painted a portrait to honour their courage and dedication.
Jetta Williams says she was inspired by several events occurring around the same time
more than a year ago.
The first event was a good friend passing. Williams says she was touched that the doctor
at KGH reached out to her to let her know that her good artist friend was dying and he
made arrangements for her to safely spend time with him before he passed.
"I was able to spend the last 40 minutes with him. When I came home I saw a picture on
Facebook of a nurse wearing an RCMP pin and looking right at the camera."
Williams says the image touched her and inspired the painting which she calls 'Frontline'
"I got her permission to use her likeness," Williams said.
The nurse in the photo was wearing an RCMP pin on her headgear in honour of Wear Red Fridays, a military tradition adopted by the RCMP to honour fallen Mounties following
the 2014 Moncton shootings.
Williams says she feels the painting is a commentary on our current times and she made it so the nurse is looking right at the viewer, with a message in her eyes. "I made the eyes so they're looking right at you. Kind of like, 'get it together, put on a mask."
Taken from the article in Castanet on October 23, 2021
A photo of our set up in Artwalk 2019: we were fortunate to have six paintings sell from our booth this year. Lots of new contacts, new friends, and new ideas for next year. However, COVID changed everything for 2020, as we were not able to meet. So, we are hoping that next year will be back to normal.
