Changing Gallery
‘Mind's Eye: The Campbell River Drawings of Sybil Andrews'
Opening Reception June 30, 4pm. Drawings will be on display throughout the summer.
Sybil Andrews was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England in 1898. During World War I she studied art through John Hassalls’ home correspondence course, then exhibited watercolours and pastels with Cyril Power in Bury St Edmunds in 1921, before moving to London to attend Heatherley’s School of Fine Art. She later learned the art of linocuts from Claude Flight.
She met and married Walter W. Morgan in 1943 and they settled in Campbell River, British Columbia where Sybil became interested in local scenes of farming, logging, and forces of nature.
Prior to her death in 1992, she donated 126 works to the Museum at Campbell River, including lino and wood block prints, watercolours and drawings. Several of these drawings with excerpts from her book ‘Artist’s Kitchen’ will be on display at the Museum until the end of the year.
Ken Blackburn MFA, who curated the exhibit, will be giving a talk on 'The Mind's Eye' on Thursday, September 16, at 7pm at the Museum.
