Picutre Panache Framing is excited and proud to be hosting Gail Lamarche in their studio during this weekend’s Saanich Peninsula Fall Studio Tour.

Saanich Peninsula Fall Studio Tour
Saturday, October 24 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Sunday, October 25, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Venue # 7 on the Studio Tour Map
Picture Panache Framing Studio
9715A Second Street Sidney

Picture Panache is excited to be participating once again in the Community of Arts Council Saanich Peninsula Fall Studio Tour. As has become our tradition we are hosting an artist you might not see otherwise. This year you’ll enjoy meeting Gail Lamarche who will be presenting  some of her most recent drawings, monoprints and watercolours.
 
 
Gail Lamarche - First Exhibit in Sidney
 
This is the first exhibit of drawings, monoprints and watercolours by Gail Lamarche in Sidney by the Sea. Gail moved to Sidney in April of 2006 from Eastman, Quebec.
 
Her professional life as an artist and lecturer has been mainly based in Montreal, Quebec.
 
She exhibited and taught at the Universite du Quebec, Concordia and Bishop’s University in Lennoxville, Quebec. Her medium of artistic expression has been in textiles (large scale tapestries, batiks, and silk screening), drawing, painting and printmaking.
 
Artwork  Purchased for Prestigious Collections
 
Some of Gails works have been bought by the Federal and Provincial Governments as well as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the National Film Board. Others have been commissioned for specific sites and yet others are in private collections in Canada, England, France and Switzerland. Some of her work was just recently featured in an exhibit at the Museum of Civilization, Ottawa.
 
Artist in Attendance
 
Gail Lamarche will be in attendance both days of the Studio Tour, with a large selection of unframed works in three different media. Picture Panache Framing will be showing one of each media framed, to give you some idea of the visual impact these works will have when framed and displayed in a home or office setting.  Prices for unframed pieces range from $90. to $1000. 100% of the proceeds from sales of unframed artwork work go directly to the artist (we take no commission). Framed pieces on display are also available for purchase and are framed with “all the bells and whistles”! Picture Panache specializes in designing unique framing compositions to showcase artwork loved by collectors.
 
Drawings
 
The drawings presented are all 8 & 1/2″ X 11″. They are in black ink, watercolour and mixed media and are an integral part of this artist’s creative process. They range in scope from sketches for future works to elaborations on a subject, to completed ideas. They are a visual journal. If you are an artist yourself, you’ll love talking to Gail about how she uses this method to reflect and discover new ideas!
 
Recently one of these drawings was sold to the National Film Board of Canada for the film “A Time There Was - Stories of the Last Days of Kenya Colony”.

 Monoprints
 
The monoprints are done in three techniques. The black method and in some instances red, which means inking the plate in black or red and creating the drawing by removing the ink. This image is then printed and overpainted with watercolour. There is only 1 original print in this method. All prints in this exhibit were done since 2007 on the Ground Zero Printmakers Press, where Gail is a member.
 
Several of these monoprints have been exhibited at the Boardroom of BC Government, with Ground Zero Pintmakers Society, at Hemp & Co. and at X changes Artists Cooperative.

 
 
Watercolours
 
The watercolours are 24″ X 36″. Themes or subjects are the garden, the mountains, the spiral or different objects. In some cases the image is composite and built up with compositional juxtapositions and symbolic references and abstracted. Others stay closer to the first impact suggested by the subject.