Okanagan Fine Art by Kelowna Artist Janice Sich
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As a Canadian artist living in Kelowna, BC, Janice Sich produces fine art landscape paintings of the Okanagan valley in oil on canvas. Her contemporary, original art varies from Okanagan landscape paintings including vineyard and lake paintings, to floral paintings, painted turned wood and portraiture.Some of her work is available on art cards.
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Artist’s Bio
From an early age, Janice has excelled in articulating in a visual format. Her first notable recognition as an artist came in 1965 when her ceramic sculpture, “Polar Bear” was exhibited in a children’s international art exhibition. Janice won The Alberta Distillers’ Award for Landscape painting in 1974.
Upon graduating from the Alberta College of Art (and Design) with a diploma in Applied Arts, Janice worked over 30 years as a graphic artist, creating logo designs, illustrations, brochures, magazine ads, signage, and other visual marketing aids. She also designed and produced stained glass pieces, both functional and decorative. She re-designed and re-finished furniture as functional and whimsical art under the trade name, FuNiTuRe.
She believes that living in the Okanagan Valley offers a vast array of artistic subjects. Janice doesn’t take the Okanagan landscape for granted. She captures in her paintings the light, contrasts, tones, textures and moods in her paintings. “My relationships with landscapes are intimate and comforting, and are intended to evoke similar feelings in the viewer.
Janice resumed oil painting in 2009 developing and honing her skills. Beginning with Okanagan landscapes, she progressed to incorporating people in her landscapes (Family from the Back series), and to creating fun portraits. Her latest collection of work, Making Faces, is a series of unusual and humorous portraits bringing laughter to the gallery. It pokes fun at our seriousness and brings playfulness back to appreciating art.
She has exhibited at the Dow-Reid Gallery, The Art Ark, Ritchcraft Gallery, Artsco at Kelowna City Hall, the Kelowna, Penticton, Summerland, Peachland, and Vernon Art Galleries, and with the Federation of Canadian Artists in Kamloops and Vancouver. Her works are in private collections in western Canada.
Janice has donated paintings to the Kelowna SPCA, public art galleries, and the Kelowna Women’s Shelter 2017 fundraising calendar.
From an early age, Janice has excelled in articulating in a visual format. Her first notable recognition as an artist came in 1965 when her ceramic sculpture, “Polar Bear” was exhibited in a children’s international art exhibition. Janice won The Alberta Distillers’ Award for Landscape painting in 1974.
Upon graduating from the Alberta College of Art (and Design) with a diploma in Applied Arts, Janice worked over 30 years as a graphic artist, creating logo designs, illustrations, brochures, magazine ads, signage, and other visual marketing aids. She also designed and produced stained glass pieces, both functional and decorative. She re-designed and re-finished furniture as functional and whimsical art under the trade name, FuNiTuRe.
She believes that living in the Okanagan Valley offers a vast array of artistic subjects. Janice doesn’t take the Okanagan landscape for granted. She captures in her paintings the light, contrasts, tones, textures and moods in her paintings. “My relationships with landscapes are intimate and comforting, and are intended to evoke similar feelings in the viewer.
Janice resumed oil painting in 2009 developing and honing her skills. Beginning with Okanagan landscapes, she progressed to incorporating people in her landscapes (Family from the Back series), and to creating fun portraits. Her latest collection of work, Making Faces, is a series of unusual and humorous portraits bringing laughter to the gallery. It pokes fun at our seriousness and brings playfulness back to appreciating art.
She has exhibited at the Dow-Reid Gallery, The Art Ark, Ritchcraft Gallery, Artsco at Kelowna City Hall, the Kelowna, Penticton, Summerland, Peachland, and Vernon Art Galleries, and with the Federation of Canadian Artists in Kamloops and Vancouver. Her works are in private collections in western Canada.
Janice has donated paintings to the Kelowna SPCA, public art galleries, and the Kelowna Women’s Shelter 2017 fundraising calendar.
"My favourites are "Rabbit Brush & Sage" (you've achieved amazing dimension... I can feel the distance between sage & mountain and beyond!), and "Winter Wine" (...which shows the snow shadows so believably)...keep painting throughout 2016."
~ Karen Pidcock
~ Karen Pidcock
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