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Meadowlark
View (Osoyoos)
24"x30" Acrylic Painting by Angie Roth McIntosh
Chosen by OSCA for the Meadowlark
Festival Painting 2010
This painting will be raffled as an OSCA fundraiser.
Contact the Meadowlark
Festival for tickets.
Statement about Meadowlark View (Osoyoos)
The grasslands habitat of the Okanagan Valley falls within the summer
breeding range of the
Western Meadowlark. They will make their shallow grass woven
nests on
the ground or even in the centre of a patch of cacti. When I
first started thinking about painting a Meadowlark I hadn't yet been
fortunate enough to see one. I spoke to the seniors in the painting
group I volunteer with about my plans. Many are avid bird-watchers and
filled with good advice. They told me I was most likely to see one
perched on a fence post near one of our local golf courses especially
as males like to perch to stake and defend their territory.
Having been born in the Okanagan I have
for long been concerned about the impact of the large population growth
in the area, and how it will affect our wildlife habitat and water
resources.
I painted my Meadowlark sitting on a fence post on the
east side of Osoyoos overlooking the local golf course, with the
developed town and Osoyoos Lake in the background from a photo I took
while on a visit to the NK’MIP Desert Cultural Centre a few years
ago. I chose to paint my Meadowlark in a rather puffed up fashion
( I saw it posed like this in a US Fish and Wildlife photo by renowned
wild life photographers John and Karen Hollingsworth) as
if in indignation over the local town development and vineyard
expansion that could put pressures on the birds' ability to secure
several acres of habitat, necessary to successfully breed in our region.
While we humans may chose to live in one of the most favourable and
beautiful regions of Canada, we must also be cognizant of the results
our choice in habitat is having on the other creatures within our
environment. We must think of how we can best reduce these impacts
whether through education, restoration, or other steps we may take to
mitigate our presence. In my art work, many pieces are painted
landscapes done en plein air or from photos of my journeys near and
far, most recently the Okanagan-Skaha area and the glaciers of northern
BC near Stewart. While I enjoy the natural beauty of the areas that I
am painting, I am also thinking about how my presence is affecting the
opportunity of future generations to witness the same. While I have a
strong desire to network people and communities through art, I am also
hoping that I may somehow inspire people to do more to protect our
fragile environment.
Angie Roth McIntosh
www.WorldArtTours.net
Meadowlark 2010: Landscapes and
Habitats
of the Okanagan Art Show
at the Penticton Art Gallery
Opening May 21st 7-10pm
 Show will be on until mid June
See Poster here.
2010 Meadowlark Festival artist
Angie Roth McIntosh and Meadowlark
presentor and Geoscapes artist Dr. Murray Roed  will
be featured in this
years
Meadowlark exhibition at the Penticton Art Gallery.
The show will feature acrylic paintings
of
the Okanagan-Similkameen landscape and habitat. Angie will highlight
some of
the human impacts on the treasures of our local environment while
Murray will
focus on the geology of our amazing region.
Painter
and creator of WorldArtTours.net, Angie Roth McIntosh is the  Meadowlark
Festival Artist for 2010. As a true
Okanagan
resident born and raised in Kelowna,
Angie chose to return to the valley and raised her family in the Naramata and Penticton area.
Living in the south end of town, Angie has often ventured down to the
Skaha/Vaseux area to work en plein air as well as north to Naramata.
McIntosh has
seen many
changes in the south Okanagan and wa nts
to
share the beauty and fragility of the local landscape
while working
towards
creating an awareness of ecological issues
important to the region. During her
journeys across the province to paint she has seen the melting
of
northern
glaciers and the habitat loss and heating up of our southern pocket
desert. It is her dream that the arts
community will play a strong role in
protecting and enhancing our
precious land.
Cards, Prints, T-shirts, bags, and waterbottles with this image
are available from the Meadowlark
Office.
The painting will be raffled off at the banquet Saturday May 22, 2010
so get your tickets as this is the major fundraiser
for the Okanagan Similkameen
Conservation Alliance!
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MEADOWLARK
FESTIVAL PENTICTON: Angie
led a  plein-air
paint
out in May 2009,  one
of the many wonderful workshops at the Meadowlark
Festival organized by
OSCA in the South Okanagan. Angie was delighted
that ecologist, writer,
and philosopher Don Gayton
agreed to expla in
the habitat,
biology and ecology of the White
Lake region south of Penticton
to the group of artists who ended their day painting the hillside south
of Kaleden lo oking
towards Okanagan
Falls. This year
(2010) artists
will meet on Friday April 21st at 8 AM at the
Vaseux Lake Wildlife
Sanctuary and will do a walkabout with naturalist Anthea Bryan.
(Please register through the Meadowlark Festival).
They will journey around
the area learning about the local
habitat and then will spend the day painting in watercolours or
acrylics. On Saturday the artists will me et
again there for a
paint out and day of  inspiration.
Artists of all crafts may join. They'll learn
a bit about the geology of the local region by Geoscapes
artist Dr.Murray Roed
before they set to work.
During the day we are hoping that all might consider what role artists
of all fields
might play to save and restore our wonderful
pocket desert natural
habitat. Anyone wishing to partake in the fun are asked to contact the
folks at the 2010
Meadowlark
Festival website. For more
information contact Angie.
 En Plein Air is a French
expression which means "in the open air" and is particularly used to
describe the act of painting outdoors. Artists have long painted
outdoors but in the mid-19th century working in natural light became
particularly important to the painters of the Barbizon school and the
Impressionists. The introduction of paints being sold in tubes and the
"Box Easel", with its telescopic legs and built-in paint box and
palette made painting in oils truly portable. The ability for an artist
to take their studio out into the wilderness opened up infinite
possibilities and allowed artists to truly capture the spirit and mood
of the landscape. While this began  to
take firm root in Europe, here in Canada painters
like Paul Kane and the early C.P.R. painters began to take advantage of
this new found freedom and ventured into the uncharted landscape in
search of the unknown. The most famous advocates of this new found
freedom and the idea of painting en plein air were the members of the
Canadian Group of Seven and Tom Thomson who traveled out of the city in
search of the natural beauty of the landscape creating iconic paintings
which helped galvanize a sense of national identity. We are
pleased to
offer this event as an introduction to painting en plein air and hope
that it will bring greater understanding and appreciation of this
tradition and in a small way strip away some of the mysteries behind
the creation of art.
On Saturday May 8th, the Penticton Art Gallery has invited Angie to
again
participate with some of the regions best known artists as they take
their studios out to local wineries to paint at spectacular
sites in and around Penticton for the 2nd Annual
Starry Starry Nights Plein
Air Paintout. 
Angie completed
the above 11x14 inch acrylic on canvas painting this year
and it will be auctioned this year at Penticton Art Gallery's 3rd
Annual Starry Starry Night
Fundraiser in
2010. Click here
to see the Paintout Brochure.
All the artwork at the
Plein Air Paint out will be on display in the Toni Onley Gallery
until the summer fundraiser and
these works will form a major part of the Penticton Art Gallery’s 33nd Annual Art
Auction, Starry, Starry Night. In the event you can’t attend this
years auction and are
interested in acquiring one of the works you can leave an advance bid
on these or any of the amazing lots offered can be left at the front
desk. Call them at 250 493-2928 to get
your tickets. See their poster here.
The 24 participating
artists
in our 2nd Penticton En Plein Air were: La Frenze Winery ~ Robyn
Lake, Ken Gillepsie, Jerry Markham, Dave Nicholas; Therapy Vineyards ~
Ingrid Winkler, Angie Roth McIntosh, Ingrid Mann-Willis, Nel Witteman;
Poplar Grove
~ Loraine Stephanson, Kindrie Grove, Robert Jenkins, Ron
Stacy; Lake Breeze ~ Viv Lieskovsky,
George Traicheff, Rod Charlesworth, Connor Charlesworth; Elephant Island ~ Jan Little, Laurel Cormack,
Carol McQuaid; Kettle Valley Winery ~
Bruce Crawford, Bill Hibberd, Jim Glenn; Van
Westen Vineyards ~ Glenn Clark, Peter Corbett
Many of the artists then spent a wonderful Mothers Day Morning painting
on Allendale Road south of Okanagan Falls with a great view of
Vaseux Lake.
Thank you Glen Clark for
organizing the paint out!
Starry, Starry Night ~ Penticton
Art Gallery's
33nd Annual Art Auction coming
this Summer!
Click Here to see
their poster for 2009
 2009 Featured over 120
items, one of the gallery’s biggest and best auction ever!  Artists
were on hand to create another masterpiece on site. The
event was held in the gallery, the Japanese Gardens and Okanagan
Lake Park with musical
accompaniment by the Rob Dewar Trio. Auctioneer Doug Levis from Levis
Fine Arts in Calgary joined us again for an evening of  brisk bidding on fabulous artwork
and unique packages. All artwork was displayed in the gallery from
June 23. Plein air artists will be meeting to paint at local wineries
on the Mother's Day Weekend Saturday to create more paintings for the
auction. For further
information please
contact the gallery at 250-493-2928. To see great pictures from
last year's festivities click here.
ONLINE ART
GALLERIES
See paintings from around the world by
clicking on our world map at the bottom of this page or going here.
You will see the
work
of other artists which are being added right now. Learn
where you can go to see
their work in real life.
See the work artists do while travelling or were
inspired to do when they got home. See works created
en plein air in the artists' own neighbourhoods or painted in their
studios. Artists please
contact McIntosh to submit your work.To see florals and garden
scenes painted by Angie McIntosh click here.
ARTIST'S
NOTECARD AND PAINTINGS
Artist Angie Roth
McIntosh has created notecards
from the images of many of the paintings you see on her website.
The cards and original paintings are for sale at her studio gallery at
3961 Lakeside Rd. Penticton
B.C. Studio discounted price for notecards are $3 each.
They
come
in a clear cellophane protective sleeve. They may be ordered and
shipped at your expense. Some of the paintings are also still
available for sale. Please
enquire by e-mail. Angie is also displaying her
northern paintings, cards, and small prints at the cute HarbourLight Store
on Main Street (5th Ave) in Stewart, BC. Angie's work
is now available at the George
Little House Gallery at the VIA Rail Station in
Terrace. There are also some of Angie's Kootenay
landscape paintings available at Halcyon Hotsprings,
Nakusp. Angie's notecards of the local region are available at
the Penticton
Winecountry Visitor Information Center, Cowpucchino's
Coffee Shop in Prince George and Heartstrings Gift Shop
in Smithers.
PHOTO GALLERIES
Check out
the great photos of some of the most
inspiring places to paint and travel in the world. You don't have
to leave
the comfort of your own home to go on our virtual tours. Enjoy
the treasures of the world when
you look at the photos of the wonderful places that artist Angie
McIntosh and others have visited and painted.
ART RETREAT OF
THE NORTH
Artist Angie McIntosh has created a
simple rustic painting studio in an
old house in Stewart
BC
which is near some of the most scenic
painting locations
of Western Canada and Alaska, in the
beautiful Pacific Northwest. In the summer
of 2008 artists from
all around gathered together to paint in this
amazing inspiring location and join McIntosh for a painting
retreat. Read about the first Bear
Festival in 2007. Coming soon will be a post of our painting there in
2009. It is wonderful to be in the north
in the summer and early fall to
paint. If you wish to
participate next year contact
McIntosh
. Remember the wonderful old days when Group
of Seven artists
inspired
each other on painting trips to the Canadian countreyside? Angie
was
also inspired
by walking through Renoir's home in southern France. The comraderie and
inspiration felt and created by the artists who met at Renoir's home
must have been amazing. Seeing the art works left in the rooms by
his
artist friends who would visit and paint moved her and so she is trying
to create a similar environment right here in northern BC. Click here to
learn about joining McIntosh as an artist in residence at her art retreat in Stewart, BC, in
northern Canada, minutes from Alaska.
Please note that the Art Retreat of the North is not
available for commercial rental or as a B&B--it is Angie's place of
art and
creativity. If you wish to work there or join other artists there
you must contact Angie first. Email or phone in Canada 250
809-7932.
ART IN RESIDENCE
PROGRAM IDEAS
Communities around the world are invited
to use this information to increase the connection between locals and
visiting artists.
BC
ART TOURS
Please visit the home pages of
WorldArtTours.net
creator Angie Roth McIntosh. Check
out her biography, stories of her journeys, and the galleries
of photos and paintings inspired by her wonderful home area and
incredible travels
around the world. Learn about friends she made
during her time studying art in China
and
her return trips back to this remarkable scenic country to
paint and to get to know wonderful people. Learn how she lived
her dream of taking other
artists to explore this picturesque country and how she has
discovered the painting beauty of France, Mexico and her own part of
the world in the Northwest of North America.
INTERACTIVE
ACTIVITIES FOR
ARTISTS
There are many great online learning
websites for painting and you should visit some of them. We have
and we've learned alot. Check out ours! Watercolour Lesson 1 and
Watercolour
Lesson 2 and Art
Lesson 3 which is about acrylic painting.
See which artists
have
inspired Angie.
CULTURAL
TRAVELLERS
Make sure you check out all of our interesting
activities for viewers and cultural visitors and submit your ideas. Where
is your
favorite painting location? Where is the most exciting place in
the world to paint? What was the most exciting painting trip or
workshop that you've been on? Who is your most inspiring
teacher?
What is the most helpful artbook you've read? When did you
discover your
burning dream to paint? Submit paintings that you did around the
world so they can be linked to our interactive map. If you are part
of a group of Plein Air Painters that would like to
show painters from around the world where you like to paint in your
area please let us know.
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Angie McIntosh
getting inspired
in the Desolation Sound Sept. 2009
Desolation Sound
Kayaking Desolation Sound
 
Resting for the Evening
Diving into the Lake
Beautiful Blues
Waterfall in the Sound
Yellow Plane on the Dock in Lund
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Artists wishing to join a studio tour map are asked to contact
WorldArtTours.net to create our own network of studios.
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Contact Us.
I guess I need to change my sign because I do acrylics
now too!
Sign at McIntosh's Studio
3961 Lakeside Rd.,
Penticton, B.C.
Canada
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