Native art

Today, Saturday 11th September form 2- 4p.m there will be an opening at the Tweed Heritage centre gallery of Native Art. Refreshments will be served.

Studio Tours

I could not make it to the Rednersville Road Studio Tour in Prince Edward County last weekend, but I heard from one of the studios that there were about five hundred visitors to their venue. That is an amazing number for a studio tour. Well done, all the studios in the Rednersville Road area!

The next one coming up is the Tweed and area studio tour. This is on October 1st and 2nd, Saturday and Sunday and runs from the Plainfield area off Highway 37 up to and including the Madoc area. Tweed is about the middle, and there are several artists studios right in town.

There will be paintings, pottery, jewelery, fabric art and dolls, photography and much more.

The scenery is very beautiful in this area, so it makes a nice drive into the country roads. The maple trees should be turing red by then.

Kingston Womens Art Festival

I will be pitching my tent at the Kingston Women's Art Festival this weekend- Sunday August 15th. This is a big event with over 2000 visitors. There is just one catch- you can only exhibit if you are female. Husbands can help put up the displays, but cannot man-pardon the pun-the booths. It is all for a good cause, as 20 percent of the sales goes to womens' charities, such as the local shelter for battered women.

The festival is held at the City Centre Park -Bagot and Barrie street. That's the one with the statue of John MacDonald.

Oh, and to keep the men amused there is always an antique and vintage car show on the other side of the park.

The music is good too! Hope the thunderstorms keep away.

The small sketch above is one I did on location at the O'Hara Mill north of Madoc, Ontario. It is watercolour with some pastel added.