You are invited to our Private View with Raven's Rest Studio and 5enses hosted by Bird on a Wire Creations!  View this email in your browser Share Tweet Forward to Friend +1 Share Please join us for an evening of Art! Hosted by Bird on a Wire Creations When:  October 3rd, 7-9:30 pm Where:  2535 Main Street, Vancouver Who:  The Bird on a Wire community, you and your guests! What:  Private View is a series of events scheduled to run on the first Thursday of every second month. These informal evenings feature works by select visual artists. You're welcome to drop by, or stay for the whole evening. Wine and snacks will be served. Why: View affordable art, and meet local artists! Meet this month's featured artists: Please join us as we feature Raven's Rest Studio, and the art collective, 5enses this Private View! With a focus on upcycling, Raven's Rest creates quirky yet delicate gifts for those you love, while the five women painters of 5enses have such a special synergy, we felt the need to highlight them as a group. We look forward to seeing you! RAVEN'S REST STUDIO has a way of taking forgotten items and making them absolutely unforgettable. Jennifer Conway, owner and designer of Raven's Rest, works out of her home studio where she repurposes recycled items and creates the most beautiful keychains, necklaces, and even cuff links! Her objects are delicate, yet bold taking inspiration from her surroundings, while also embracing the quirky.   CATHERINE FIELDS  -  A background of creative expression in art teaching, writing children’s books, doing pottery, quilting, and numerous other artistic endeavours was not enough for Catherine. With her energy, emotion, and life experience set to burst, she was compelled to start painting. With no time for traditional approaches to art, she had to paint as free, wild, and abstract as the storm of energy inside her. Using brush loads of colour that sweep from one end of the canvas to the other, she creates the painting that is full of her happiness, joy, and good feelings about life. Intuition, acrylic on canvas, 24"x24" THERESE LYDIA JOSEPH  - Every day she stumbles upon the hidden beauty of ordinary, often unnoticed, and disregarded subjects. Her aim is to grab hold of the intense feeling these experiences provoke in her, and capture it on canvas. When she feels the same awareness of wonder stirring, as when she first came upon the hidden beauty, she knows the painting is done and art is created. Her new abstract series Dare to Dream echoes possibilities of a strong pursuit. Her figurative/abstract and textured series Dare to Live portrays critical and tender moments of life in general. A Third Time Around, acrylic collage, 16"x16" MENA MARTINI - "Art is a flickering moment of beauty, a grasping silence." Born in Italy, Mena Martini has lived in France, Mexico, and Canada. Today she works in Vancouver as an artist and a writer. She has exhibited in Canada and in Europe where she was part of the Italy in the World multimedia installation at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Mena's compositions are mostly abstract; her spontaneous brushstrokes and vivid colours convey a personal vision of nature as a reflection of the soul. Exuberance, acrylic, 36"x36" SARA MORISON -  For Sara, painting is a visual conversation -- a sensational dance, a moment, a feeling, an experience. She loves the process of creating, of delving into the unknown, of being in the moment, intuitively letting go to create balance. To risk, to veil, to try again. She enjoys playfully contrasting opacity with transparency, dark with light, and an emphasis on colour, line, and gesture. Take Me to the Moon, cold wax & oil on panel, 16"x20" Winter's Rust, diptych 12"x32", mixed media on cradle panel, 2013 LORI BAGNERES -  She is a contemporary visual artist living and working on the North Shore. Through mixed media techniques and the consistent employment of archetypal shapes such as circles, ovals, and spirals, her compositions draw the viewer into a natural continuum, suggesting our commonality with diverse forms on earth and in the cosmos. Her latest series combines her textured painted cradle panels, photos of crows migrating to and from urban and rural parts of the lower Mainland with images of grungy worn walls accumulated throughout her travels - a unique genre of abstract landscape.