Copycat (Autoportrait)
acrylic on canvas
Sidney Fine Arts Exhibition
Mary Winspear Centre
(Sidney, BC)
2009
Island Art
Pendulum Gallery
(Vancouver, BC)
2008
Dominic Fetherston is a painter and mixed-media artist who was diagnosed with glaucoma nearly thirty years ago. Upon discovering that he had to ability to treat his own periods of blindness and pain, he became an advocate of relaxed marijuana laws.
Marijuana reduces intraoccular pressure - the primary cause of blindness in people with glaucoma.
He began volunteering to take part in the Canadian government's medical marijuana program, and subsequently experienced years of repeated bullying and injury at the hands of unscrupulous physicians in Canada.
Unfortunately, his eyes were unnecessarily damaged.
In 2009, he was the recipient of overdue eye surgeries and needed medical care from physicians in Tijuana.
It was ironic to travel to the dangerous Mexican border town for medical treatment in order to avoid dangerous persons of authority in Canada.
The medical care received in Mexico was professional, expert, and successful.
Prior to his career as an artist which he began in earnest in 1999, Dominic worked in art and health-related capacities including family therapist, youth addictions specialist, counsellor trainer and lecturer to the BC Child and Youth Care Conference. He is certified in Reality Therapy, practica New Orleans, Vancouver, Saskatoon, and Regina, and has been employed at clinics, universities, colleges and hospitals across western Canada - including the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Victoria, and at Royal Jubilee, Victoria General and Gorge Hospitals in Victoria, BC.
He attended Camosun College and the University of Victoria, and is an alumnus of the University of Saskatchewan.
Artistic projects include Pick A Card - Any Card, the Hot Potato Cafe, I See - You See - No One Sees, the "I Believe In Dog" series, the Fetherston Color Prism, and involvement in a multicultural sculptural venture for the Royal British Columbia Museum.
“Art is an ongoing stream of the known and the unknown, problems and inventions, challenges and rewards, with its share of both glorious and stinking days - each one providing another golden opportunity to grow. I’m still growing.”
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