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| Newsletter March/April/2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arts on Main Gallery presents: Metamorphosis Reception Sat. Mar. 26 from 2-4 All new artwork by 27 amazing artists from Prince Edward County Mar 23 – May 9 Image: Reincarnate Pecan by Brandy Gale Metamorphosis Student Guest Artist Arts on Main Gallery will bring you new works by our talented members with the help of a young student artist as our guest. His name is Jacob Wiens, aged 13, and talk about talented…..He studies at St. Gregory Catholic School in Picton in Grade 8. Jacob started carving about three years ago with his grandfather. “I get to spend time with him in Brockville on weekends and work on sanding and details at home. I'm working on a Goldfinch for a competition in the USA in April and I am taking another soapstone carving course at St. Lawrence College in Brockville in February,” the young artist tells me. Jacob works in wood as well as stone and has already received several awards. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arts on Main Gallery Award Arts on Main Gallery was one of four Prince Edward County businesses to be honoured for its collaborative efforts at a packed "Bridges for Better Business" event in Picton on Feb 23rd. In announcing the award, host Karen Desveaux: "Not only is AoMG a wonderful collaboration between fantastic artists, the gallery also works hard with other local Businesses, organizations and the community." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rick Matthews Master Series Rick Matthews has launched a new Master Series of limited edition photographic prints. The exceptional images in the Master Series were taken during travels in Asia, Europe and North America. These images hold deep personal meaning, reminders of unique experiences and physical challenges often in remote locations. The first image offered in the series is "Prayer Flags". Rick comments, "This image was made near the completion of an arduous ten day trek in the Annapurna Range of the Himalayas. Suffering from the altitude and continuous uphill trekking we arose at 4 a.m in the biting cold and dark. Hiking steadily uphill for two hours we arrived at the sacred peak almost precisely at sunrise. Regaining our breath we hung our prayer flags and envisioned the mantras being released into the winds. Tibetans believe these mantras bring compassion, good will and benefit to all people in the region. I shot images until my camera batteries died in the intense cold. To me, this image evokes the spiritual experience of that cold morning high in the Himalayas. I can almost see the mantras fluttering off the ends of the flags." Each Master Series image will be offered in a limited edition of five 30 x 20 inch prints artfully framed to suit each image. click here to see Rick's artwork -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mia Lane in Canadian Home Workshop Magazine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pamela Carter Painting Class Pamela Carter’s oil painting class entitled “Fearless Oil painting” has successfully concluded after 9 sessions at the Town Hall in Wellington with the participants eager for a sequel! The class of 11 students ranged from absolute novice to very experienced painters, each with their own set of apprehensions and/or questions about the mysteries of oil painting. Over the course of the 9 weeks, all of these issues were addressed as Pam shared her particular approach, each week challenging the students with new ways of tackling colour mixing, composition, drawing, blocking in, layering, working from life, using photos, and more. click here to see Pamela's artwork -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dayna Law on Inspiration Dayna Law, one of our members who is painting in Florida was asked what inspires her work, she writes: “I am inspired by vivid colours, earthy textures, the ebb and flow of tropical tides, sumptuous flora, musky swamps and the treasures of sea and sand. The mottled colours of sea grape leaves inspired my painting and brings me pleasant memories of a stormy day treasure hunting on the beach.” click here to see Dayna's art |
Mia Lane and her family are featured in this April's issue of Canadian Home Workshop Magazine as the
winners of the Ultimate Deck Design contest, where Mia designed a deck for her home and won based
on the design, and the family had the summer to make the deck.
click here to see Mia's artwork
winners of the Ultimate Deck Design contest, where Mia designed a deck for her home and won based
on the design, and the family had the summer to make the deck.
click here to see Mia's artwork
