Xchanges Summer Atelier Series 2022

David Hunwick

Atlelier – Drawing with Clay

David studied sculpture at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design in London, UK. (1981-1985). After graduating, he trained as a teacher of Art and Design gaining his P.G.C.E. He has been teaching and exhibiting ever since. 

David founded, and co-teaches clay sculpting at the ‘Sculpt Italy’ summer school, in Pietrasanta, Italy. David specializes in sculpting and painting . Some of David’s sculptures have been displayed in the Sidney Sculpture walk; Kingsbrae Sculpture walk; Castlegar Sculpture walk; Cranbrook; and the Oak Bay Sculpture walk in. David’s sculptures are currently located in many private and public collections in the UK, Australia, Germany and Canada.

Website: https://davidhunwick.com
Instagram: @davidhunwick

Brian Chandler

Atelier – Life Drawing

Brian has always been active in drawing and painting since childhood, encouraged by parents who both painted.

Art was his first love and one of only 4 subjects he studied during latter years at the Grammar school in Dunstable, Bedfordshire just north of London in the UK. Here he received high level of training in the fundamentals of life drawing, painting and sculpture from an Alumni tutor of the Royal Academy in London.

Water colour became and still is Brian’s passion, and he has given water colour workshops across Canada particularly in the North from the Yukon to northern Ontario, as well as southern BC. He has also taught workshops in the UK, Ireland, Indonesia as well as several Countries in West and Southern Africa.

Many of his watercolours include figurative and animal subjects, a figurative piece is located in the small permanent collection at Xchanges.

For the upcoming Atelier workshops in July at Xchanges, Brian will be sharing the fundamentals of figure drawing: open our ability to draw what we see and not just what we know, backed up with stories and tips and a focus on positive recognition to catch people doing it right!

Please come out and enjoy this opening session at Xchanges and get the week off to a good start with a sense of fun.  

Constance Cooke, Kayla Henry, Heidi Bergstrom

Atelier – Experimental Drawing – Moving Bodies – Drawing Dancers

Constance Cooke is a contemporary choreographer for Stage, Screendance and Site Specific Work, Educator of Contemporary Dance, Mentor, and Somatic Movement Teacher. Her work has attracted and cultivated curious, open and intelligent audiences for contemporary and experimental work for over 30 years.

Website: Xchanges Blog

Kayla Henry is a 2011 graduate of The School of Contemporary Dancers, in affiliation with the University of Winnipeg where she received her Bachelor of Arts. Since graduation, Kayla has worked closely with many Canadian choreographers and companies, including Canada’s longest-running contemporary dance company, Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers (WCD). Kayla’s national exposure has so far reached Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Regina, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria and Winnipeg, Canada. Internationally she has worked in Berlin, Germany; Vienna, Austria; Graz, Austria and New York City, USA.

Kayla is the Founder and Artistic Director of Noble Riot Dance Theatre in Victoria BC (2021), and is deeply inspired by her recent dance with cancer.

Website: http://nobleriot.ca
Instagram: nobleriotdance

Heidi Bergstrom, MA, BFA,  is a multimedia visual artist and cultural researcher in Victoria, BC, Canada. Her fine art practice and exhibitions include works in painting, printmaking, video and photography and multimedia installations. Heidi has led online life and portrait drawing and worked with Connie and Kayla in developing the approach to experimental drawing at Dance Days 2021. She is the Artistic Director of Studio H Canada International Artist Residency in Metchosin, BC.

Website: https://studiohcanada.ca
Instagram: @hjbergstrom

Alain Costaz

Atelier – Mono Prints & Portrait Drawing

Alain Costaz is a visual artist and instructor in Victoria BC.

Alain is a BFA graduate of Concordia University in Montréal, studied at Université Laval in Québec City and the Victoria College of Art.

In his Victoria Chinatown studio Alain works at drawing, painting, and printmaking. He teaches at the Victoria College of Art and in the community. Alain exhibits regularly with Ground Zero Printmakers, participates in printmaking biennales and exchange projects and held a duo exhibition of paintings and printmaking and a solo exhibition of large paintings in 2021.