Redekop wins five categories at annual art and photography show

By Ian MacKay

Kerri Redekop won five art categories in the annual art and photography show on the May 2-3 weekend.

Redekop's works received first-place ribbons in the open categories of pure watercolour landscape and any subject, portraiture and coloured dry mediums plus a novice open class. She also finished second in portraiture, coloured dry mediums and animals and captured a second in a photography category.

Featured artist Brenda Winny (facing away) tells viewers how she creates art using a pouring technique on May 3 during the art and photography show presented by the Rosetown Arts Council that weekend at the United Church. Photo by Ian MacKay

Elenore Sparks and Nita Larson earned two firsts in art categories. Sparks took first and second in both the open nature and dry monochromatic medium divisions and also received a second in open landscape. Larson won in both landscape and animals.

Brenda Winny, the featured artist with a display containing photography, quilts and artwork, took first and second in mixed medium and had other seconds in landscape and open. Winny also received an honourable mention.

Gary Hatch won first and second in 3D art, received an honourable mention in sculpture and also finished first and second in nature photography.

Annette Hunter earned a first and second in digital art.

Magan Macinnes and Alyson Harris finished first and second in sculpture, with Danielle Hunter receiving an honourable mention.

Harris topped abstracts, with Daniel Wiebe second.

Honourable mentions in open categories went to Danny Pagé, with two, Stan Hingston, Terry Hall, Naomi Schnitzler, who also captured the novice nature category, and Bryn Josdahl, who also received one in a novice category.

Bill Simpson took first and second in novice landscape, a first in novice animals and a second in novice open.

Kelli Machart took first, second and third in novice portraiture and received seconds in open pure watercolour any subject and novice nature and an honourable mention.

Cheryl Bastian won first and second in novice 3D art and a second in novice pure watercolour any subject, which Michelle Buck won.

Shayla Robertson won novice dry monochromatic medium, while Jennifer Lloyd was second in novice animals and received an honourable mention.

In photography, Cheryl Hare won the monochromatic and landscape categories and earned seconds in landscape, people and four-legged.

Jim Turner took first in birds and abstract and earned seconds in nature and abstract.

Rusty Morris won in open and computer-manipulated, Kayce LaSalle in people, Winny in the four-legged animals class and Elayne Foursha in youth.

Other second-place photography ribbons went to Angela Donkers in monochromatic, John Crawford-Brown in birds and Redekop in open.

Hingston, with two, Hare, Winny, Morris, LaSalle, Donkers and Hatch received honourable mentions.

In school art, Mackenzie Willmek won for Grade 12, Paul Wipf for Grade 8, with Michael Wipf second, and Junior Peters of Abbotsford, B.C., took first in Grade 7.

Aria Purcell earned both first and second in Grade 6.

Robbie Kadler and Jessie Hofer finished first and second, respectively, in Grade 5.

Andrea Wipf and Randy Wipf were first and second in Grade 4.

Heidi Wipf was first, Zachary Tarrant second and Grady Hingston third in Grade 3.

Ezra Hofer won in Grade 2, with Laura Hofer second, while Maria Wipf won in kindergarten.

Emily Johnson, Jess Murdoch and June Gilchrist took first to third in pencil drawings.