They offer:
• an intensive instructional experience.
• access to a number of quality instructors.
• a combination of demonstrations, and hands-on sessions.
• on-site painting in spectacular surroundings.
• discussions and critiques.

• WaterWorks Symposium, Arts Court and University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, June 2011
• Gaelic College of Cape Breton, St. Anne's, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Aug. 2009
• University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, 2006
• Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Nov. 2002
• White Mountain Academy of Arts, Elliot Lake, Ontario, Aug. 2001
• Bowen Island, British Columbia, Sept. 1999
• Ottawa, Ontario, Sept .1998
• Jasper, Alberta, May/June 1997
• Gananoque, Ontario, June 1995
• Elliot Lake, Ontario, Sept. 1992
• Five public seminars in Toronto and two Watercolour Weekends in Calgary in earlier years.

The teaching that transpired that week could best be described as a smorgasbord of artistic delights. Edward Shawcross, Bowen Island, 1999

As a very new member of the CSPWC I attended the Bowen Island Symposium in 1999 where I met Les Tibbles. Each morning I rose at the crack of dawn to find Les already up, waiting for the sun to rise so he could get out there and paint. By evening most of us would have one or two small paintings. Les would often cover two tables with his work.
At the comments about the amount he was producing he would reply, "I don´t know about you, but I came here to paint." I hope this painting captures, not just a moment in time, but the life´s purpose of an artist I admire and respect. Tim Packer.