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Event Penticton, 200 block Main Street, June 27, 8:30am to 1:30pm:
Watercolour and Ink Bookmark Workshop

Draw, ink and paint your own or choose an an S. Middler inked design to paint yourself. A Toonie for each original fine art bookmark covers materials. Come out and have some fun and take home a beautiful fine art BookMark.

Artist Out of Canada -- Some History

Middler first registered Artist Out of Canada in 2003. Most names that had both Artist and Canada were already taken and that is how the search for a memorable name began.

At the time Middler was doing Canadian Landscape paintings and Portraits with some already at home in places like Norway, United States and China. Her paintings expressed the wild sensuousness of the Canadian Landscape.

Were there people out there who had never seen anything but cement?

Canada is one of the few places where you can still experience nature at it's most beautiful. Were there people out there who had never seen anything but cement? Had they ever seen trees, 300 foot trees, lakes, eagles, owls, deer or coyotes?

The raw natural energy of Canadian Landscape awed. Powerful falls, mountain lions and other inhabitants lived in the mountains which rose and stretched into new beginnings.

Why not "Out of Canada"?

The incredible natural beauty that is seen in the movie "Out of Africa" reminded Middler of our own wild and beautiful forests. Why not "Out of Canada"? That name gradually morphed into "Artist Out Of Canada" as she considered her goal of creating an appreciation and respect for nature and getting those images out internationally.

Money won't replace the oxygen

She considered how wholesale cutting of forest may provide money and swimming pools in someone's back yard but money won't replace the oxygen these missing trees were providing for all of us to breathe.

Images of those things that create health in us are perceived as beautiful.

As amazing images of Canada go out internationally people will take more interest in their surroundings, will they not. These images are beautiful to us because they have so much value in terms of creating health and well being in each one of us. And we recognize that automatically at a deep level.

The True Wealth

The true wealth is our amazing green and blue planet. Let's keep it a vibrant green and blue. The haze over some places is reversable. Many years ago fish couldn't survive in the Thames River and now they can. The Thames was a wonderful achievement. It is exciting to think of what we can do.

Appreciation Works!

Awareness is the first step. Feeling good about it is the second step. After that is is easy and fun and exciting.

We get what we are focused on

We continually get more and more of what we are focused on and that is specifically why fear doesn't work but appreciation does.

This site is continually evolving. The goal remains the same though as the site highlights various diverse and creative items or ideas that are appealing or that Middler has been artistically involved in the creation of.

Middler's fine art gallery of landscape paintings has a link on the main menu called simply 'Art Gallery' or you can go directly to http://sharronmiddler.artistoutofcanada.com

"Appreciation leads us to protect and care for our true valuables and loved ones. Trees, fresh air, clean water etc. are definitely the most valuable assets we have on this beautiful earth. Art contributes to saving our environment, benefiting everyone's health and well being. So this rather strange subjective activity of producing art has surprising importance and value to all of us." S. Middler