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.

Tweed Heritage Centre Xmas Arts and Crafts

The second annual Tweed Heritage Centre Arts and Crafts sale will be held from 26th November 2009 till Dec 5th 2005.
I wll have a few smalll paintings and felted fibre art works there.
See picture on the right.
Most items are reasonably priced to reflect the economic downturn!
20 percent of the proceeds of sales help to keep the Tweed Heritage Centre going.
Please come and visit us and support the museum and art gallery.

Art for literacy, Tyendinaga Library

Ten artists and artisans exhibited there work for the day last Sunday and $400 was raised to help children learn to read, as well as artists making their own sales.

Participating artists were Cynthia Guthrie, who as art co-ordinater for the library also planned and organised the event, Suzanne Cavers with her expressionist abstracts, Rita Woodburne who draws beautiful cats and horses, Ann Buckley with her rug hooking and very fine weaving, Catherine McDonald with her "real"precious stones jewellry, Joyce-Empey Smith- terrific watercolours and myself amongst others. I think most of us sold at least one or two items.

Lots of people with bags seemed to be leaving the area where Ann was stationed! Vases of fresh lilacs were on every table and visitors enjoyed free home made cookies and tea or coffee.

Cynthia, Ann and I are also involved in a show along with internationally acclaimed sculptor Paul Sheir, at the Tweed Heritage Centre starting next week. The opening is on June 4th at 6-8 p.m. Free goodies! Unfortunately this clashes with a big show in Belleville Library ("Portals") so we may not have a large attendance. Come if you can. If you don't mind a half hour drive up to Tweed, why not take in both shows?

Tweed Artist and Artisans Xmas sale

Sorry I haven't posted for a while. I was away on a trip to London, England. London is great at Xmas time and of course not complete without a trip to Harrods in Knightsbridge. It has been beautifully renovated by its Egyptian owner with an Egyptian theme. There are huge gold Tutan Carmun's ( I don't know how to spell this) and Sphynxes. Fortunately, the famous food hall is still more or less the same as I remembered it - I lived in london until I was thirty. The servers still wear their straw boaters. There were no signs of the recession as Gucci and Prada handbags were selling in the thousands of dollars!

Back to Tweed, Ontario where we put on a nice gift sale to raise money for the Tweed Heritage Centre, an old house renovated to house a museum and art gallery. I have a couple of pictures in the permanent collection there.

I made some small hand-felted "paintings" which sold quite well for about $25 each. Of course, hand-made original soaps and beeswax candles were the most popular items.

Here is one of my small fibreart pieces:

Tweed flowerama

Today was Canada Day, so I donned by red and white outfit and headed for the park in Tweed with my paintings and my tent.
It was a lovely sunny day, and it is always pleasant sitting in the park, looking at the lake and the fountain. Best of all I sold a large framed painting of Chisholm's Mill, (see above)
The buyers were very pleased as they lived just round the corner from the view I had painted. BY the way, this is often how you sell paintings - paint something that people can relate to, or has some personal meaning or revives memories for them.
The "Flowerama" is put on to celebrate Canada Day by the Tweed and area horticultural society. There is also a flower show, as well as arts, crafts and plants for sale.

Art and glass exhibition in Tweed

On Saturday I was invited to an opening at the Tweed Heritage Centre of the "3 C's" artist. Suzanne Cavers was one of them. She paints interesting abstracts mainly in acrylics, but has recently ventured into watercolours. There were also beautiful, delicate watercolours by an artist (Joni) recently relocated in the area from Arizona. She said that she and her husband preferred Canada to the states and so had decided to move up here. I wonder why?

There was also work by glass artisan, Carol Cavers, from the Kingston area, who etched glass "drawings" on various glass objects.

I think the show is on till the end of the month, so go and check it out.