Photo Walk & Artist Talk | The Hearth Gallery, Bowen Island/ Human & Nature: an Island Photo Walk

ADMISSION
Free

Limited space
Please register by emailing [email protected]

Artist Talk: 2 pm
Photowalk: 3:15 pm

Photographers Cosmo Campbell, Marty Levenson, and Dane Murner, will facilitate a lakeside photo walk through old growth stumps and regenerative forrest on Bowen Island.

This is a free event following the artists’ talk, but please pre-register (with [email protected]) as the group is limited to ten participants. This is not a class, but simply a chance for a few photographers to meet, discuss photography, take photographs, walk in nature and perhaps grab a coffee after.

Please note: no car is required as the gallery is 200 meters from the Snug Cove ferry dock with cafes close by.

The Forest Walk is not suitable for individuals with limited mobility.

The Hearth Gallery features a ramp, accessible doorways, and a wheelchair-accessible bathroom.

Cosmo Campbell is a Vancouver-based photographer and artist, who studied Graphic Design at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in, South Africa. Having travelled extensively, and lived on four continents, he has become a keen observer of the environments we inhabit and create.

Cosmo uses photography as a tool to explore the vulnerability of existence. His high-resolution graphic images provide hauntingly peaceful scenes that aim to draw viewers into a state of contemplative hypnosis. In this series of nocturnal photographs, he strives to create images that explore the comfort of solitude, scenes that expose the beauty that can be found in the loneliest of places.

The need for soulful reflection is what drives Cosmo to create images that are both soothing and evocative. His creative work has been awarded by many national and international award shows and has been featured extensively in publications such as Applied Arts, Clio’s, Communication Arts and Graphis, amongst others.

Marty Levenson cares most about narrative photography: the more ambiguous, banal and psychological the better. Currently, his focus is on how we internalize images of the altered landscape. His studies include photography and ceramics at Franconia College, N.H., printmaking at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C., and art therapy at the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute. He pursued a career creating and showing monoprints internationally through the 1980’s and 1990’s. In the mid-1990s, his passion for depth psychology and art blended into a new profession as an art therapist in Vancouver.

Dane Murner was born in Winnipeg, MB and currently lives in Vancouver, BC. He works with digital photography in both medium and APS-C formats. Dane’s introduction to photography began ten years ago after moving to Vancouver, originally as a way to catalogue and share his new environment with family. Soon after, he discovered the meditative nature and enlightenment of photographing his surroundings. Dane’s photographic approach is guided by his internal world, where the photos themselves become the description of his thoughts, feelings and memories

Russell Hackney, born in Stoke-on-Trent, England comes from a long family tradition of ceramists. He learned to model commissioned shapes and embossment designs for a variety of clients in his family business. It is this work history that led to his current method of working in ceramics, which forms the foundation of my art and craft. Hackney enjoys freehand modelling fine, embossed detail and contemporary textures. In recent years he has begun to create larger, more sculptural pieces in cast porcelain, exploring his relationship to the land.