Van Westen Vineyards

www.vanwestenvineyards.com

Van Westen Vineyards has evolved from over 50 years of family tradition, cultivating the soils of The Naramata Bench and producing some of the best wines in BC. With our expertise and emphasis on sustainable, cool climate viticultural practices, we continue to grow quality vinifera grapes and make premium wines for you to enjoy.

GLENN CLARK

FROM 11 AM - NOON

Painting outdoors allows me the freedom to explore the British Columbia landscape and every year I map out a couple good road trips, hope for good weather and search for paintings.   I grew up in Kelowna during the sixties.  It was a different city then and its once scenic agricultural landscape left an impression at a young age.  As a kid, traveling on family vacations I would stare in fascination from the back seat of the family sedan at the British Columbia landscape rolling by, already foraging “secret spots” and daydreaming about one day coming back and painting them.  My landscape paintings are truthful and as a general rule I don’t add or shift much on the landscape but look for what it has to offer me.  So if the weather is game, usually so am I.

PETER CORBETT

Peter is a professional fish and wildlife biologist with extensive experience throughout British Columbia. Peter’s current efforts are being directed at the conservation of the native Westslope Cutthroat Trout, a species currently considered to be at risk. Peter is also an enthusiastic mountain climber, back-country skiier and fly fisher. Mountains are a central theme in his life, as reflected in both the style and content of his work. Most of the images presented here have been painted outside, en plein air. The challenges of painting outside force one to paint quickly to capture the play of light on the multitude of shapes presented by the landscape, leaving details to the imagination.

With his vast knowledge of the local mountains, Peter often acts as a guide to groups of artists in an ensemble of outdoor enthusiasts, setting up easels in a variety of great painting locations and sharing insights on plein air painting as well as the surrounding mountain ecology. He combines his scientific powers of observation with his emotionally driven passion for the mountains to create paintings that are charged with the memories of great moments.