• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 10 / 20 / 2010

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Vancouver Island North. Artists merging at Pearl. Published: October 19, 2010 3:00 PM. Rochelle Nehring’s exhibit Regarding Red is a vivid representation of the people, street scenes and life in a place where time stood still: Cuba.

In these paintings hanging at the Tidemark Gallery from Oct. 21 until Nov. 8, Nehring has used her brush to paint a light hearted and down to earth view of her experience there. Portraiture for her is like people watching in a crowded place.

“Painting a portrait is such a challenge because a face can say so much about the character of a person without words, and it can be so subtle,” Nehring says.

Nehring moved to Vancouver Island two years ago. She paints with water color, acrylic and oil. Photography is one of her passions as well. Most of her paintings begin with photographs she takes on location and then she will transform them in her home studio.

During a 10-year stay in Alberta, Nehring took photography and graphic design. She also taught outreach drawing and painting for Red Deer College. She was instrumental in the organization and opening of the community arts centre in Innisfail, Alberta.

After returning to B.C. in 1989, she taught outreach painting classes for Northern Lights College and worked on the Theatre Board and the Arts Council in Ft. Nelson, B.C.

As well as showing solo, she has participated in many group shows. Her paintings have been chosen as the recipient of numerous rewards.

Nehring is now living and working in Campbell River. She says she is very excited to have a new landscape to explore and her future is filled with West Coast landscapes.

Source: www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_north/