Artist Residency Aug 6-13

During the second week in August, Slough Studios hosted Margarete Beekman, from central Alberta and Jennifer Danvers, from Canmore Alberta, along with Jennifer’s daughter. Margarete is a landscape painter who arrived at Slough Studios with the intention of leaving her busy family life behind and to dedicate her focus to creating a new body of work. She was interested in stepping out of her comfort zone and trying new techniques to generate a fresh impression of the beauty she surrounds herself in. Margarete primarily painted with oil sticks on canvas boards using photography as her visual reference. Magarete also created a series of ink and water color on paper, of the Columbia River from Canal Flats to Golden, BC. These speedy sketches were largely completed while accompanying me ( Kathryn Cooke) on a field trip to collect water samples from the river. Speed created a necessity to capture the essentials of a complex landscape, resulting in a startling body of work to build from.