LINDA DARBY
lmdarby@telus.net
1130 Richardson St.
Victoria, B.C.
V8V 3C8
Come by and visit my Fairfield Studio, Victoria, B. C. by appointment
call 250 882 4954
The “Pacific Northwest Women Artists Oral History Initiative” is a project to preserve the history of women artists of the Pacific Northwest. I am pleased that Melissa Granley, a student from the University of Victoria in her final year of an Art History and Visual Studies degree, selected me, as her choice of a local Victoria woman artist to be interviewed as part of her course and added to the Pacific Northwest Artists Initiative webpage. My interview can be found at the link below.
http://women.pnwartists.ca/linda-darby/
You tube Video of Linda's show "City Light"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs0rt4-mkaw
Read more about Linda's at
http://www.artopenings.ca/events !
Article about my art in "Life As A Human" Sept. 2014
http://lifeasahuman.com/2014/virtual-art-gallery/colourful-acrylic-cityscapes/
Read more about my paintings in Focus Magazine May 2014.
Artists Bio
I am a life long painter. I earned a B.Ed. from S.F.U. in Burnaby, B.C.
and I attended the Emily Carr Art University, Vancouver, B.C. My focus is contemporary painting inspired from study at Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, B.C. I live in Fairfield where I am an active member of the arts community. I participate in the annual Fairfield Artist Studio Tour, have Active status in the Federation of Canadian Artists and am a member of the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria.
Artist’s Statement
Linda Darby’s art training includes the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and the Vancouver Island School of Art. Her award-winning artworks appear regularity in local juried exhibitions and attract international collectors. “My paintings are about relationships,” she says, “between the image, my memories and sense of place.”
Darby’s lively and evocative paintings offer varied meanings and spacial perspectives. In works like Blue Emperor (above) the menacing scorpion is rendered in realistic style. But the background is loosely painted, awash with warm colours and textural elements. This gives the painting the duality of tone often found in magic realism.
In Gateway, Darby presents a luminous city scape with a sense of mystery. In the foreground, vertical rectangles ascend into space like skyscrapers. Behind, a ghostly band of buildings recede into a pastel background. Horizontal grids and bands of colour make structural patterns; small window-like squares dot the surface. But where are the people? The ambiguous figure ground relationships invite careful investigation. Is this an illusionary world or enigmatic portal?
by Kate Cino Art Openings
http-::www.artopenings.ca:three-sisters.html
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2015 Abstract Painting Workshop with Blu Smith, Victoria, B.C.
2014 Social Media, Metchosin International Summer School of the Art
2014 Business of Art, CACGV, Victoria, B.C.
2012 Painting Workshop, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, B.C.
2011 Independent Studies, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, B.C.
2010 Advance Painting, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, B.C.
2009 Intermediate Painting, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, B.C.
2008 Art English Course, Victoria College of Art and Design,
2007 Resident Painting, Metchosin Summer School of the Art
2006 Encaustic Painting, Metchosin Summer School of the Art
1981 3 years Emily Carr Art University, Granville Is., Vancouver, B.C.
1979 Batchelor of Education Degree, Simon Fraser University, B.C.
Exhibitions
2018 Victoria Art Council 1800 Store Street December
2018 Victoria Art Gallery Rental "Small Works" December
2018 Sidney Fine Art Juried Show, Sidney, B.C.
2018 Sisters from Other Mothers, Martin Batchelor Gallery, June 2 - 27, 2018
2018 Art Now Juried Fine Art Show, Atrium Building Victoria, B.C., May 25 - 28, 2018
2018 CACGV Look Show March 22 to April 15, 21817
2018 CACGV Women's Show, Victoria, B.C. March, 2018
2017 Sooke Fine Art Juried Show, Sooke, B.C.
2017 CACGV Look Show March 27 to April 9, 2017
2017 FCA Victoria Chapter Spring Juried Show April 6 to 17
2016 Solo show Gage Gallery, Oak Bay, B.C. May 3 to 21
2016 FCA Victoria Chapter Spring Juried Show April 6 to 17
2016 CACGV Look Show March 27 to April 9, 2016
2016 FCA Gallery, Van, B.C. March 1 to 13, 2016
2016 CACGV Women's Show, Victoria, B.C. Feb. 26 to March 13
2015 "Big & Little Ones", CACGV Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
2015 Betwixt & Between, Duo Show, Gage Gallery, Oak Bay, B.C.
2015 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2014 Sooke Fine Art Juried Show, Sooke, B.C.
2014 Duo Show, “Good Vibrations”, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
2014 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2014 CACGV Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.
2013 Sooke Fine Art Juried Show, Sooke, B.C.
2013 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2013 CACGV Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.
2012 Sidney Fine Art Juried Show, Sidney, B.C.
2012 Solo Show, “Boogie Towns”, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
2012 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2012 CACGV, Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.
2011 Group Art Show, Sooke Museum, Sooke, B.C.
2011 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2011 CACGV Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.
2010 Trio Painting Show, Gallery at The Mac, Victoria, B.C.
2010 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2010 CACGV Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.
2009 Trio Painting Show, Gallery at The Mac, Victoria, B.C.
2009 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2009 CACGV Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.
2008 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2008 CACGV Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.
2008 Group Show Collective Works Gallery, Metchosin, B.C.
2007 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2007 CACGV Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.
2006 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2006 CACGV Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.
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