 The PCAC newsletter is published and emailed to members on a Monday every two weeks starting September to the end of May with a break during the Christmas season. It is normally published here on the weekend following its being emailed. NOTE: A reminder that you must be in HTML mode to have the underlined links work in this email. In Outlook under Format Text  Monday, March 2, 2026 Dear Members: Keep your spirits up! Spring is only three weeks away - officially that is - weather-wise, it may seem a lot closer! There was good attendance at the PCAC Annual General Meeting two Saturdays ago, as President Deborah Livingstone announced her resignation after 15 dedicated years. During those years as president, there were concerns about whether the Art Council would be allowed to exist in the Yellow Schoolhouse. There have also been tough financial times, which required scraping the barrel and finding solutions through local and government grants. Livingstone saved the day time and again! A party followed the meeting, during which the board members presented her with a bouquet, a photo, a scrapbook of memories, and a small, beautifully designed award. Vice President Paula McLaughlin will become the new president. I also announced that, at the end of May, I would leave the board and stop writing the bi-weekly newsletter. All will be well, however, since board member Vicki Dutton has volunteered to continue the newsletter. What a relief! The 12th Annual Captured Images exhibition opened on Saturday to a good crowd. This year’s show displays a remarkable mix of styles from previous years. You can preview the show by clicking the underlined link. Viewers can be proud of their Okanagan fine art photographic artists. The show continues until Sunday, April 5. Starting Tuesday, March 31, experienced art teacher Jim Elwood will offer a workshop, Draw from Life with Confidence with Jim Elwood, designed for beginners and experienced artists. Drawing boards and all media are provided. You’ll be given one-on-one instruction. With Elwood’s thoughtful guidance, at the end of this workshop, you’ll have a deeper understanding of the human form. The dates are March 31, April 14 and 28, and May 5 from 6 to 8 pm. The cost for members is $110, and for non-members is $130. All fees are non-refundable. Yes, the Wednesday art workshops continue every week with Terry Moore’s Weekly Drop-in Drawing Classes from 1 to 3 pm in the boardroom of the Peachland Historic School on Beach Avenue. Moore is an exceptional teacher from the Lower Mainland who now lives in Peachland. The drop-in fee is $5. All you’re asked to do is bring in your favourite photograph (portrait, still life, or landscape) and Moore will help you transform it into a fabulous sketch using his methods. His classes are notably fun to attend. Give it a try with your favourite photo this Wednesday! If you have questions, you can contact Moore at [email protected]. You have until this Saturday, March 7 to catch a number of exhibitions at the Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art in Kelowna. First, Patty Leinermann’s Whispers of a Peregrina records aspects of the artist’s life, “of personal loss, transition, and renewal.” Eighteen years ago, the artist walked Spain’s well-known 900km Camino de Santiago de Compostela. It marked the beginning of a new chapter in her life after a period of significant family misfortune. Her installation work conveys that one can live again despite personal loss and serves as inspiration for others who may be grieving. Then there is Katherine Pickering’s Weather, Window, Echo, Hum, which incorporates two bodies of work: Hum, small oil paintings on linen, and Weather Patterns, India-ink works on cotton. Abstraction is achieved through the process of layering, sanding, cutting, and sewing, as a material practice over time. In Hum, small-scale geometric patterns are painted and left to dry, then sanded and repainted. Slowness of the process is tantamount. Weather Patterns extends the process to textiles, where ink is applied to cotton and allowed to dry outside in the sun. The material is cut and sewn into geometric shapes that reflect the artist’s mother’s quilt-making style. Stop in and observe this unusual exhibit before it closes this Saturday. A new exhibition, a multimedia installation titled The Mystery Spot, has opened at The Lake Country Gallery, featuring the works of artist Alexis de Chaunac. The artist uses the Okanagan’s heritage as an apple-producing region as the backdrop for his theme. The apple is the symbol where “Works on paper rendered in ink and acrylic depict abstracted apples, cut, doubled, hollowed, hovering between figuration and geometry.” Other works include two projected videos: one of an old man resting on a bed of apples at a community gathering. If you’re in the region, drop by to see this intriguing exhibition, open Tuesday to Sunday from 9 am to 3 pm, February 28 to April 4. Donations welcomed. This coming Saturday, March 6 at 7:30 pm, pianist Ian Parker will be returning to the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra Concert in the Kelowna Community Centre (not at the piano but as the guest conductor) for Mostly Mendelssohn, with pianist Roman Rabinovich, winner of the Arthur Rubinstein Competition, playing Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No.1. The orchestra will follow with a concert on Saturday, March 7 at 7 pm at the Cleland Theatre in Penticton and on Sunday, March 8 in the Vernon & District Performing Arts Centre at 2 pm. BLUE MOON is this Wednesday’s Kelowna Film Society film at 4 and 7 pm at the Orchard Plaza Cinema. An American film, it reflects the breakup of the Rodger and Hart musical partnership, which was such an American success story. The film follows Lorenz Hart's reactions to Richard Rodgers’ new partnership with lyricist Oscar Hammerstein and their outstanding success with the latest musical, Oklahoma. The spotlight is no longer on Hart, and he is sadly left in the lurch! The film’s matinee is sold out, but a few evening tickets at 7 pm may still be available. Purchase your tickets as soon as possible! There will be a special showing next Monday, March 9, of the UK film Urchin at the usual times. After that, there won't be any more films until April. Mike is a street hustler in London who is struggling to keep going as a trash collector and line cook, and is owed money by his friend, who steals. Before long, he finds himself in trouble with the law. “The film has been described as being about mental health and ’people who fall between the cracks’ and ‘the ways in which the system fails people in certain ways.’” It was nominated for the British Independent Film Awards 2025 in the best British independent film, lead performance (Frank Dillane), and best directorial debut (Harris Dickinson) categories. For the best seats, be sure to purchase your tickets after 8 am on the morning of this coming Thursday. Back in two weeks! Cheerio! Chris Christopher Byrd PCAC Director / Peachland Art Gallery / Facebook Photographer: Fine Arts America NB: Should you wish to unsubscribe from the newsletter and bulletins please send an email to: [email protected]   |