“FIRST PLACE – at Cowichan Exhibition 2016”

“FIRST PLACE – at Cowichan Exhibition 2016”

It’s often been said that “An artist continues to live on after death in their art.”
My dear husband, artist Hans van der Werff, continues to live on in his art,
as well as many other ways.

Every winter, he and I would spend time in the Studio creating,
playing and preparing for the Fall Cowichan Exhibition.
This past winter was no exception.
We created, played, and together and each prepared our entries for the Exhibition.

While Hans enjoyed working with watercolours and pastels,
his love and artistic creativity was most evident and best expressed
in his pen & ink and pencil sketches.

Each winter, he would make a number of pen & ink / pencil sketches
and would decide which one he would enter into the Exhibition
(only one entry per person was allowed in the combined pen & ink/pencil category).

Sadly, when he died this past summer, he had not made his decision
so that decision became mine on his behalf.
I chose this one.

It won First Prize in the pen & ink / pencil category.
This was no a surprise to me. 🙂
Well done,Hans!
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© June Maffin   www.soulistry.com/blog

“PASSION FOR ART”

“PASSION FOR ART”

As his wife, I’m claiming “bragging rights” today about Hans.

When our local paper learned of his recent two-page feature article in the March edition of the national magazine “More Of Our Canada”, they sent a delightful young man, Paul Brian to interview Hans.  While we knew that Paul’s article about Hans would appear in the March 23 “Citizen” paper, here in the Cowichan Valley, we had no idea his photo would be on the front page … but it is (!)

While the actual article (a couple of informational-errors but what-the-heck <g>) is inside the paper on page 16 it and the “More of Our Canada” feature article about him are early birthday presents for my artist-husband.  🙂Hans-CitizenFrontPage-DSCN0353