Painting on the Edge will offer $5,000 in prizes including three unique Opus Awards. The Opus Awards are three $1,000 art supply shopping sprees at an Opus store location of the winner's choosing. The three prize categories are: $1,000 of fine art framing; $1,000 of fine art papers and painting supports; and $1,000 of paints and painting mediums.

These fine art categories represent three unique areas of Opus: Many of you know of our unique framing services - our very first frame, the Opus Metal Exhibition Frame, is still one of our most popular frames amongts artists, galleries and museums. We also take pride in the line of artist papers we have developed, with the newest addition being the Opus European Watercolour paper. Finally, our selection of paints and mediums includes Gamblin, Golden and Daniel Smith products, among many other artist-quality materials.

The FCA is proud to have world-renowned watercolourist Christopher Schink as their guest slide juror. Christopher Schink is an elected member in both the National Watercolour Society and the West Coast Watercolour Society, as well as an honourary SFCA member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. Christopher has been a favourite instructor at the FCA popular Salt Spring Workshops.

The FCA and Opus hope that all artists who meet the eligibility criteria will be inspired to take on the challenge of the first annual juried exhibition of Painting on the Edge. Please contact the Federation of Canadian Artists, 1241 Cartwright St, Vancouver, BC at 604-681-8534, email: fca-admin@artists.ca or visit their website at www.artists.ca for more information on this exciting exhibition opportunity.

Eligibility:

This exhibition is open to all living artists worldwide. Entries must not be copies, derivatives, or based in any way on other copy-righted or published paintings, photographs or other artistic works. They must be entirely the work of the entrant, executed without the supervision of an instructor and within two years of the slide entry deadline. Work must not have been exhibited previously in any other FCA exhibition.

Exhibition Dates to Remember:
Slide Entry Deadline:   June 16, 2003
Notification Mailed:   July 10, 2003
Artwork to Gallery by:   August 15, 2003
Awards Jurying:   August 18, 2003
Opening Reception:   August 21, 2003
Awards Ceremony:   August 21, 2003
Show Closes:   September 7, 2003