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Arts Umbrella Splash Gala + Auction 2013

Splash: Arts Umbrella 31st Annual Art Auction & Gala
 CBC Vancouver October 19, 2013

Splash, Arts Umbrella’s 31st annual gala, raised over $450,000, with more than 400 people in attendance at the CBC studios in Vancouver. Guests had the opportunity to bid on more than 100 works by artists from Vancouver and beyond at this high-profile charitable arts event.

The studios featured a diverse silent auction, as well as an astounding live auction. The room was packed with artists, donors, sponsors, Splash Luminaries and friends of Arts Umbrella. The top three art pieces were by Ross Penhall, Gordon Smith and Bobbie Burgers, and half of the art auctioned sold for over value.

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Painting For A Cause

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As a fine artist, Athena Bax’s preferred medium is acrylic on canvas, but when she was first invited by The True Patriot Love Foundation to create a work of art from a helmet, like the ones that protect Canadian soldiers, she was intrigued. For the last four years, the Foundation has auctioned original works of art created by various artists from these helmets. Athena has been invited to participate since the beginning. A single piece can go for as much as $7,000. The finished product is meant to be a portrayal of the artist’s vision of Canada. The final result honours the sacrifices made by military families. Proceeds go to help support them.

“If you stand still and do what you love, good things happen,” says Bax. “This is such an important cause. Being invited to participate each year has been such an honour. I’m thrilled to support these families through my craft.”

Art Show 2013

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Urban Rush TV Appearances

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View Athena’s latest appearance on Urban Rush chatting about her upcoming donation to the Splash Charity event as well as her latest work and upcoming show. – 2013

Athena talks about her work on Urban Rush – 2011

Various Events Gallery

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Open Studio Night – 2009

Unicef Art Auction Galla 2010

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Artists Unite – UNICEF Art Auction Gala, 2010

Athena alongside wood artist Brent Comber and musical artist Sarah McLachlan

Chefs Around the World

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Chefs Around The World, Cookbook, 2009

Chosen to represent Vancouver art by Iron Chef Rob Feenie. Athena’s work is displayed alongside the chef’s creations in the new international Chef’s Around The World cookbook by Eckart Witzigmann.

Ethereal gardens with watery trees that look as though they were painted with a soft-focus lens: Athena Bax applies up to 200 layers of color, gold leaf, ink and sand, and her canvases literally take form from within. She calls her original technique »washing through.« The award-winning artist and self-taught painter uses structures and varnish to express the ocean’s gentle glazing that changes everything she does, washing over it all. The relationship between Athena Bax and Robert Feenie is one of respect and friendship. »It’s not just his astonishingly good food or the friendly way he greets you with a quick wave from the kitchen: his restaurants also make me very proud,« explains Bax, who was born in Vancouver and started creating artworks at the age of only three in the same part of town where Lumière and Feenie’s are located. »My neighborhood has grown up since Mr. Feenie arrived, bringing with him a touch of urbanity and lively, cheerful atmosphere.«

Athena Bax loves Feenie’s cuisine, his friendly manner and the touch of urbanity his restaurants have brought to her neighborhood.