Art Hub Location: Bowen Cider House/Meadowbrook Market, ART HUB # 9
1125 Grafton Road, Bowen Island, BC, V0N 1G2
Performances during the Tour -
Sat, May 25th, 2024 1-2pm at Bowen Cider House/Meadowbrook Market
Sun, May 26, 2024 12 -1pm at Bowen Cider House/Meadowbrook Market
Medium: Collaborative Art & Poetry
Website: www.judeneale.ca
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Instagram: __judescool
Email: bowenpoet@gmail.com
Jude Neale has written twelve collections of poetry, and is an opera singer, mentor, educator, workshop organizer and facilitator, mother, grandmother, and wife. She first published when she was eight, winning a youth competition on travel for the CBC, and has been writing professionally since 2006.
Her book, A Quiet Coming of Light, was a finalist for the League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Award and her manuscript, Splendid in its Silence, won publication in the UK. Jude’s poem, Blue Bowl, was finalist for the prestigious Irish Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Award, and her poem, Emptiness in the Garden, was chosen by Britain’s Poet Laureate, Sir Andrew Motion, to ride the buses in the Channel Islands for a year.
Jude frequently collaborates with artists from many disciplines, bringing her command and sensitivity of language to their communal creations. Notable among these is the 2018 poetry collection Cantata in Two Voices with Bonnie Nish, and Where We Sto
Bio for Nick Jennings
Nick Jennings is a prolific Bowen Island artist. As well as having worked with oils, gouache and acrylics, he has painted watercolour scenes in Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, New Zealand, Ireland, England, Mexico, and multiple locations around BC. He moved to Canada from the UK in 2005 to be closer to his father, who recently retired from SFU after 50 years in the Philosophy department.
He particularly enjoys exploring the textures and values created by inclement weather, as well as the richness of sunsets reflected in water, making Bowen Island the ideal place to be an artist! Nick has recently adopted the use of oils as his primary medium, but also continues to paint in watercolour, using a technique he developed, which subverts conventional approaches. By profession, he is a lecturer specializing in academic literacy at Capilano University, and he has a Master’s Degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham. Nick had private lessons at age nine with a celebrated local artist, later studying art, literature, philosophy and education.
