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The Painters Day

Serota, Phyllis

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oil paintings (visual works)
August 1981
oil
overall: 83.00 cm x 115.00 cm
This painting depicts several artists on a rocky landscape, close to the ocean. The artists are busy at work: painting, drawing, sketching. It is a sunny day, the sky is light blue and the ocean is deep blue. This painting is a whimsical documentation of a "Painters' Day", which was organized by prominent gallery owner Paul Kyle in 1981. Kyle invited some of the best-known local artists to spend a day at "the Point", Michael Williams' home. Phyllis Serota said that at that time she felt "totally intimidated" by the other artists like Jack Shadbolt and Toni Onley, but Kyle had invited her to come. Onley actually arrived at the house in a float plane from Vancouver carrying a Renoir for Kyle. Serota said "I couldn't work too well there. I just did some sketches of people, but realized the next day that I was the only figurative artist there, so I took those sketches and started on 'Painters' Day'." Kyle then used her image for the invitation to the exhibit that displayed the works all the painters had done at the Point that day. This event was the beginning of what became Victoria's Moss Street Paint-In, an annual event that celebrates local artists. Top, from left to right: Flemming Jorgensen (carrying tray); Jack Shadbolt (painting a root from the beach); Colin Graham and Jack Wise (seated together in white shirts); media guests (including CBC); Don Harvey; Anne Ngan (Wayne's wife, sitting under a tree). Bottom, from left to right: Anne Popperwell ( with hat); Bill Porteous; James Gordaneer (with beard); Yves Vial; Phyllis Serota (painting); Toni Onley (seated figure with beard, wearing baseball cap).
figures; landscape; Ten Mile Point; The Point; artists; shoreline; beach; Flemming Jorgensen; Jack Shadbolt; Colin Graham; Jack Wise; Don Harvey; Anne Ngan; Anne Popperwell; Bill Porteous; James Gordaneer; Yves Vial; Phyllis Serota; Tony Onley; Victoria
Gift of the Estate of Michael C. Williams
U001.11.591

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