Boathouse, Deep Cove V.I. (New!)
Avis Rasmussen
Watercolour
11 x 14 in.
Value: $560.00
Rental cost per month: $12.00
Avis Rasmussen is a Victoria artist and printmaker of national significance. Rasmussen completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction in painting in 1979, and her Masters in Art Education in 1982. She is a celebrated poet and has been an advocate for the arts community in Victoria through a variety of organizations, and in her capacity as mentor to a younger generation of artists.
Rasmussen achieved international status at the Pretoria International exhibition (2000), the International School of Drawing, Painting, Sculpture exhibition in Montecastello di Vibio (2003), and at an international exhibition in Hastings, New Zealand (2006). Her paintings are in both public and private collections worldwide.
Avis Rasmussen developed her style in the same practice and space as Emily Carr’s own narrative, with deep dedication to home, garden, beach and field, and countless hours of process with attention to image and form. Influences from John Dobereiner, Don Harvey, Pat Martin Bates and a litany of fellow artists shaped her path to paint France and Italy, and then to come home with fresh eyes. Rasmussen’s contemporaries express investment in her sheer will to overcome all adversity and paint in her way, what she sees and experiences.
“I paint on site and in the studio. In my Jazz series I combine sketches from live performances. Colour, shapes on ground, interest me.”