Harley needs your help!

WE DO NOT USUALLY CREATE BLOGS FOR ASSISTANCE - HOWEVER A YOUNG PUPPY COULD USE SOME ASSISTANCE...
A FRIEND OF OURS NEEDS YOUR HELP TO PAY FOR SOME UNEXPECTED VET BILLS.
IF YOU CAN HELP - SHE WOULD BE VERY GREATFUL - AND SO WOULD WE!

FROM FACEBOOK PAGE!
Basic Info


Name: Harley needs your help
Category: Common Interest - Pets & Animals
Description: Harley is my BFF's puppy. I was puppysitting and she jumped out of the back of the truck. Yes she was tied down but made it out anyway. She is recovering but needs an operation to fix a broken shoulder. I can't pay for it...it's gonna be almost $3000...but with a little help from our friends we can get her back to 100%.
Privacy Type: Open: All content is public

Contact Info
.Email: belforget@hotmail.com
Location: 1410 Begbie St
Victoria, BC, V8R1K7

Recent News:
From Bel Manson
If everyone I know could send just a little bit to Harley, we can pay off the bills that I had to beg borrow and steal to get the money for...over $1800...and we can get her repaired too. So anything you can spare would be welcome.



Please send or drop off ANYTHING you can spare to

1410B Begbie Street

Victoria, BC

V8R1K7



And please invite your friends. There is an animal lover in all of us!!

Meet the Artists - Part 11

Elizabeth Litton

Elizabeth Litton is a painter who has made Victoria her home for the last nine years. She has been in a variety of group shows in various exhibitions in Victoria and South Africa. While her practice is predominantly painting, her work has also been included in several printmaking exhibitions. Elizabeth also teaches at the University of Victoria.

A fun, inteligent, world traveled artist! She is family orientated and ensures her work also interacts with her homelife - using her cute, hyper puppy and her son as models for her collection of her different times in her families life stages! When you first meet her, you just get lost in her various displays of works in progress, works completed and her personal collections of her images of her son and his varying stages in life! You just don't want to leave; especially when you hear some of the stories behind the works!

We have been told by some collectors in Victoria they have atleast one "Litton" work! Her only obstacle is the ones that she creates for herself! Don't miss out on adding one of her amazing creations to your collection!

You won't be disappointed - enjoy her "Push Me Pull You" series!

http://www.elizabethlitton.com/

Meet the Artists - Part 10

Debbie Jansen

I was born in Rotchford England and my family immigrated to Canada while I was a young child and settled in Victoria.

Always having a love of things made of glass, I took a class in the making of cement stepping stones with glass inlays. This quickly led me to copper foiling, leaded glass works and then glass fusing. Many workshops, tools and kiln acquisitions later have taken me to where I am today.

Always having a love of things made of glass, I took a class in the making of cement stepping stones with glass inlays. This quickly led me to copper foiling, leaded glass works and then glass fusing. Many workshops, tools and kiln acquisitions later have taken me to where I am today. All of my works are hand signed by, of course, me!

www.gardenpathglass.com/Welcome.html

F.A.S.T. - Fairfield Artists Studio Tour

The artists in the Fairfield area of Victoria BC held their 9th Annual F.A.S.T on the 24th and 25th of April 2010.  It was a successful event where interested art collectors and lovers were able to wander through numerous artists studios to take in and enjoy all of the talent found in just this one corner of Victoria!

It is obvious from all of the open studios that art is still alive and thriving in this great city! The Capital of BC is known for the artists and talents it has given to the world and this was a fun way for artists to see young and old enjoy their works! Each artist we encountered was more than willing to boast about their projects and provide stories of where different pieces came from. 

Unfortunately, due to our busy schedules, we could not meet all the artists that created this event; however, we have had friends and other artists tell us tales of what was seen.  What a great way for the arts to be represented and a fun way for others to experience it!  Saturday was a bit dreary but Sunday shined through, giving people a great way to experience the arts for free.

Congratulations to the artists who pulled this together and an aknowledgement to all of the sponsors who made this weekend a success for all!

Thanks to the following sponsors on behalf of fellow art lovers across Victoria!
Garry Oak Room
Fairfield/Gonzales Community Place
Fairfield United Church
Fairfield Activity Centre New Horizons
RBC Royal Bank Cook Street Location
Harbord The Home Insurance People
Sweet Peas At Home
Fairfield Gonzales Community Association

We look forward to next years F.A.S.T! Great job to all involved!

Big Plans, Big Things Happening!

Long time no blog but it was for good reasoning! We are getting booked more and more to meet with various artists and to have the honour of seeing some of them at work!

We have one artist who creates pens.  we know - what makes creating a pen "art work"? Don't worry, you were not the first to think that! NOPE! However, when you see his creations you will understand! He is one who truly understands the process of reduce reuse and recycle as well of having a creative flare of art! Creating various pens out of things like deer antlers (no he is not a hunter - he finds bits of antlers in the woods...he uses pieces of toilet paper and bamboo strips.  He uses various scraps of woods, metals and stones!

His fiance is a photographer, and she is definitely going to be scooped up as a free-lancer! She has an amazing talent and ability to take that "Perfect shot!"  We are waiting patiently to have her works displayed on our gallery.  We cannot wait to promote her to help her in her quest to follow her dreams of becoming a professional photographer for a specific nature magazine!

We are not stopping there either! We have another amazing artist who is interested in being represented in our gallery!  She does beautiful work! Her oil works look like they were real photographed pictures! However - her imagination brings things to light.  Her creative skills bring humour and nature to the front lines.  Giraffes on stoves with vines - hippos in livingrooms...

Next we are bringing more acrylics onboard from some talented ladies - each one has their own marks of creativity!  We are meeting both of them this coming week and from the images we have been provided - we are truly looking forward to helping them succeed as artists!  One is younger in her early thirties - the other is slightly older in her mid fifties but age has no boundaries as they both seem to be able to perhaps light a creative fire if they were to meet!!

So, our blog may have been quiet but our schedules are far from it!  Between meeting with artists and buyers alike - we are amazed at how many people know of us already!  One small business meeting we attended downtown Victoria the other week - when people heard our name - all we kept hearing was, "You're the owners of Griffin Gallery!!" "We love what you are doing for the artists and art society"!! It was like we were standing on a soap box giving speaches!  Being spun from one direction to the next - our hearts were humbled by the reaction we recieved!

We have to say - THANK YOU to everyone who are supporting not just us - but our artists as well!  This has been such an amazing experience and business decision!  We are so glad that we are able to help keep art alive in Canada when the are so many cuts by the government!  Keep posted and send others our way - Keeping art real and alive in all hearts and homes!  Bare walls equal a deepen depression - but with art on walls and shelves and floors - always create a sense of balance!

Our dying Laptop...

MY FRIEND - MY LAPTOP

We sailed around the world together - going from port to port!  Passed through the locks of the amazing Panama Canal.  Shared memories while sipping latte's, flipping through images of San Juan, Pillars of Hercules, the Rock of Gibralter and even things as drinking from "Das Boot"!

Through good times and bad (a small chance of upset from a wee typhoon)! Suntanning in Greece to amazing foot therapies in Malaysia!  Rode a train around South Korea - visiting friends in Wanju and saw the DMZ!  Sent live feed to chat with family at home from U.A.E.  Climbed tall heights to see the view in such things as gondolla's and glass elevators!

You helped my spouse obtain greatness while storing and providing assitance when writing papers and creating formulas!  No matter what the hour - there when she needed you most and when fun was to be had.

You sang songs to us and played videos! Gave us laughter and tears! 

Yet - like all of the best things in life - they can come to a abrupt stop!  Your bright smile faded and quickly went dark. There was no recessitating - for your whole system failed.  Even though you had one of the best cares through Norton - a virus got you down! You gasped for one last breathe and then silence.  No purring of the motor - no lights on your screen...silence.  

We cried "No!!" "This can't be so!" We can save you - to a doctor we will go!  Then the results from testing came - to repair you - we would have lost all that made you ours - you would be provided a new motherboard with no guarantees - set back to factory settings and yet - since it was a virus that attacked, there could not be a guarantee!

So, our friend, our laptop - you were at my side for a long time - almost 3 years!  No need to change your operating profile - never running out of steam!  It is now time for you to rest...my friend, my laptop - may you go on to be bigger and better things as you join the cycle of recycling!

Our laptop - Our Friend - A Replacement Model sits in your place - Yet You Sit in a Place in Our Memories :) 

Meet the Artists - Part 9

Fern Walker

A very talented ceramic sculptor who resides in View Royal, a municipality of Victoria B.C. She enjoys working on her pieces in her studio that overlooks her beautiful backyard.

Inspired by nature and form.  Finding her muse in the female body and imagination.  Her creation of the three Sky Dancers are a work to be admired.  The dancers are inspired from the Cirque De Soleil. The acrobatic rope artists who utilize curtains to do their routines intrigue to Fern and she had fun adding this series to her list of accomplishments.

Fern is a lighthearted aritst who enjoys life.  Encouraging feedback on her works, Fern is always interested in what her audience has to say.