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"Relaxing Naturally"
Join Cavelle for Monthly Art Retreats at the spectacular… Taku Resort on Quadra Island, British Columbia, Canada Cavelle offers a unique combination of experiences to unlock your creative potential, enabling you to explore new directions, and to go beyond current ideas and perceptions. Your art-making skills will greatly improve when you work with a variety of materials.
BOOK NOW to be part of our monthly art retreats and take advantage of the Introductory Rates. Come on your own and meet new friends or create your own affinity group with family, friends and co-workers. Pets welcome! Open to Beginners of all ages and levels of experience. Taku Resort is framed by majestic mountains and tranquil ocean waters, providing artists with unlimited creative potential. From cosy beachfront cabins bordering ornate gardens to luxurious suites surrounded by towering firs, there are lodging options for every taste.

Creativity depends on experience including knowledge and technical skill and talent, an ability to think in new ways, and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells. TAKU Resort artist-in-residence CAVELLE is an outstanding artist/educator who will guide and inspire you to create your best work ever. CAVELLE teaches a Classical approach to Fine Arts exploration and a study of the Fundamentals of Arts and Design will strengthen your visual relationship with 3-d form. Participants will create Still life studies incl. natural & made made forms, en plein air (landscapes), Life drawings (model). Be present, relax, enjoy the discovery and watch your unique voice unfold.

TESTIMONIALS:

"Cavelle combines her sketching lessons with wonderful music and lively conversation. Rather than proving a distraction, this leads to a sense of relaxation and focus as she guides her pupil's awareness along the path towards that final goal, which for me was to be able to sketch decently. The experience is enjoyable, uplifting, and all together quite brilliant." Dr. David G S Reid, Vancouver, March 2006

"Cavelle consistently teaches the same basic concepts and reinforces them, with endless patience. To know of a concept and to internalize it is two different things. She has caused me to look at what I am doing in a way that will move me forward in my attempt to be a credible novice artist. Thanks, Cavelle." Jean McClure, Victoria, 2004/5

"Cavelle is insightful with immediate feedback - on point when the students' struggle or reach an impasse." Mary Lynn, MFA. Artist - Victoria, 2005

"I decided to use my summer holidays and get back to painting landscapes, after 25 years absent. In our week long Plein Air Course at Government House Gardens I learned to push forward, make mistakes, loosen up and be open to instruction." Charlotte - Victoria 2004/5