We’re proud to be bringing back The Summit Bid silent auction! Win big on experiences, art and gear while supporting the future of our outdoor leaders. This year’s auction will raise money to support ACC Sustainable Energy Projects and ACMG’s Simon Parboosingh Fund. Browse the artist contributors below to learn more about them.
Art
Art is important to the way we understand our outdoor spaces – it inspires us to get out and protect the places we play in. We’ve gathered a variety of work that instills that feeling and we’re proud to highlight our art and book supporters for the Summit Bid.
If Gisa isn’t in her studio, you can find her outside skiing, hiking, and swimming in cold mountain lakes. Her paintings are on display in many private and corporate collections in Europe, North America and Australia.
Andrew considers himself extremely fortunate to be able to thrive in the constantly changing art world. Never changing his realistic style or subject material over the years has shown how dedicated he is to his work and his love of landscape.
Preservation of our world and the beauty that surrounds us is what this artist wants to convey with every brushstroke. To be able to evoke one’s memory of a hike, family camping trip, or special place visited is the vision that Andrew has with his work. He hopes each painting will be a window to our precious world and a reminder that we should never take it for granted.
Alberta artist Patti Dyment has been living, hiking and painting in the Canadian Rockies for nearly forty years. She is a studio and plein air painter in oils. Patti is a popular instructor in oils, acrylics and water-colour sketching. She has been exhibiting in commercial and public galleries in Western Canada since 1988, and had one exhibition in Japan. Primarily self- taught, Patti is a signature member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.
Phillipa (Phee) Hudson was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and obtained an arts degree at the University of Cape Town before working in London and Cambridge in England. She moved to Canada in the late 1970s and to Vancouver Island in 1981, where she lives in the Deep Cove area with her husband. Her studio is a boathouse overhanging the sea.
Phillipa has always been an active mountaineer, back country skier and sea kayaker, so it is not surprising that her choice of subject has focused more and more on the spectacular alpine country of the Canadian Rockies, the Coast Mountains, and the fiords and inlets of BC’s crenellated coastline. In those places, the seasons are intense, the light magical, and the challenge to a painter considerable.