August 3 – 27, 2023
MEET THE ARTISTS: Saturday, August 5th, 12 pm – 2 pm. Please join us for conversation and refreshments with the opportunity to ask questions of each the artists, plus hear poems from Short Bear Tales read by Heidi Greco and Marion Quednau.
LEONARD BRETT | Short Bear Tales (mixed media)
Inspired by stories, videos, movies, legends, and the artist’s own experiences, Short Bear Tales captures and celebrates the multi-faceted ways we see and think about bears. Everybody has a story about a bear; they can be scary, or they can do things like get stuck in a garbage can. They can be intimidating, funny, playful amongst themselves, and they can even dance. Working with woodblock prints, linocuts, etchings, and oil paints, the artist conveys his fascination with these magnificent beasts.
Leonard Brett is a local artist who has worked with a huge variety of techniques and mediums. Born in Vancouver, he studied Fine Arts at the Vancouver School of Arts and graduated with Honours. Afterwards, he then did post graduate studies in Lithography at Emily Carr University and received a Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University. He has taught at all of these institutions as well as at Douglas College and in the BC public school system. He was a founding member, president, and designer of the Dundarave Print workshop on Granville Island, and he has also worked in the film industry as a scenic artist.
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