Nicola Valley Community Arts Council

The Nicola Valley Community Arts Council is proud to play host to internationally-noted portrait artist Joy Caros, as a artist in residence at the Courthouse Art Gallery for the next 3 weeks. The public is invited to stop in and see her at work on a painting that will be auctioned to benefit Angel’s Animal Rescue, run by Joy’s daughter-in-law, Judana Caros.

Joy began her career as a professional artist painting portraits of clients at Trader Vic’s in Vancouver. Since then, she has made a name for herself and travelled the world painting portraits of the interesting and famous — such as tenor Andrea Bocelli and Chef Pino Posteraro, among others. Joy is also known for her portraits of dogs.”This is an extraordinary opportunity for local artists to be able to watch a painting being developed by an artist of such calibre,” says gallery director MK Dahlquist-Gray. Angel’s Animal Rescue has been involved in the Pepsi contest that could build a new and much larger kennel area for Angel’s, and the sale of the painting will go towards funding this project.

FMI, call the Courthouse Art Gallery, 378-6515.