Kettle Valley Winery
www.kettlevalleywinery.com
Drawing its name from the Kettle Valley Railway, which traveled through the Naramata area on the east side of Okanagan Lake, the winery opened to the public in 1996. Kettle Valley Winery is known for its dark, intense and well structured red wines. They are all flavorful and aromatic, with a rich mouth feel.
BRUCE CRAWFORD
Bruce decided in the mid 1960s that he was ready for some formal art training and attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) studying drawing for one year. However, he found no subsequent teacher of the traditional art forms to continue his studies. As he put it, ‘everyone at that time seemed more interested in creating art by smashing tomatoes against the wall'! so, he became an ‘artistic vagabond' traveling across Canada, picking up life's education along the way and developing his own art style.
Having produced art for over forty years, Crawford says that his style has evolved, that he has reached a point where he doesn't have to go through as many steps to reach the end product as he did in his earlier works. He likens the process to handwriting and its refinement after doing it for so many years. Interestingly enough, he considered Irvine Adams his mentor and often sketched with him upon Crawford's return to Summerland in 1974. Crawford works and teaches from his Summerland Studio. His works have received wide acclaim and his many commissions include the vintage label for Summerland's Sumac Ridge Winery.
BILL HIBBERD
As a child I would draw on anything that was available. It was a big event to salvage the packaging from my dad’s new shirts to draw on a clean white surface. Through my adolescence and early twenties I drew for pleasure.
My first venture into painting was encouraged by Margorie Croil , an excellent local artist. I was admiring some of her work in her home one day and she suggested I take a free correspondence course through the University of BC. That initiated several years of exploration through books and workshops. I completed one year of Fine Arts at Okanagan College which was hugely stimulating and cemented my resolve to become a painter.
Marriage and children took precedence over any full-time artistic ambitions but every chance I had to liberate a block of time to work in I would paint.
In our first year together my wife Joanna and I lived at Alert Bay on Cormorant Island, BC. We lived beside a large native burial site bristling with totem poles. I rented and modified a space in a net loft over the ocean and painted daily. Aboriginal stylization obviously influenced that period of my development.
My most influential teachers have been the Group of Seven, Vincent, Monet, Sorolla and contemporary masters like Lucien Freud and so many others. I’ve learned much from studying their work.
I have transitioned into a full time painter over the past three years and look forward to every day painting in my studio or plein-air.
JIM GLENN
Jim is an art refugee from the 1970's, having received an art education of non-objective painting and untutored figure drawing at
University of Washington and Emily Carr. He has continued his education by participating in many workshops with contemporary artists from the Art Students League in New York and the Scottsdale Art School. He aspires to work in the tradition of world impressionisum and strives for strong and accurate drawing in his work . His goal is to achieve the qualities of poetry in his work and occasionally has some success. His work is currently displayed at Lloyds Gallery in Penticton and Hambleton Gallery in Kelowna.