This is a listing of confirmed shows that I will be exhibiting my artwork at this year. I will update the list as more shows are added.
Norwood Skillet, 4247 Highway 7, Norwood Ont.
25 Mar - 27 May 15
The Evinrude Centre, 911 Monaghan Road, Peterborough Ont.
02-04 Apr 15 The 15th Annual Peterborough Garden Show
Kawartha Artists’ Gallery, Peterborough, Ont.
KAGS
08-30 Apr 15 Emerging
Opening Reception 11 Apr 15 from 1-4pm.
10 Jun - 05 Jul 15 Warm and Cool
Opening Reception 13 Jun 15 from 1-4pm.
26 Aug - 27 Sep 15 Faces and Figures
Opening Reception 29 Aug 15 from 1-4pm.
11-29 Nov 15 Outdoor Painters' Show - Elements of Nature
Opening Reception 14 Nov 15 from 1-4pm.
02-20 Dec 15 and 06-17 Jan 16 Winter Show
Opening Reception 05 Dec 15 from 1-4pm..
Kawartha Arts Network - Art on Kent, Lindsay, Ont.
KAN
09 Apr - 02 May 15 Local Floral
Opening Reception 11 Apr 15 from 1-3pm.
02 Jul - 01 Aug 15 Annual All Members' Show
Opening Reception 04 Jul 15 from 1-3pm.
03-31 Dec 15 and 07 Jan-16 Jan 16 Affordibleism
Opening Reception 05 Dec 15 from 1-3pm.
Peterborough Public Library, 345 Alymer Street, Peterborough, Ont.
Trent University, Canadian Studies Department, Art and Culture Tour
22 May 15 from 6:30-9:30pm.
MacKelvie Gallery, Keene, Ont.
PioneerVillage
28 May - 25 Jun Lang Pioneer Village Museum, Keene, Ont.
The Lindsay Gallery, Lindsay, Ont.
LindsayGallery
24 Jun - 25 Jul 15 Motion in Stillness
Reception 25 Jul 15 from 2-4pm.
St. John the Baptist Anglican Church, Lakefield, Ont.
27 Jun 15 Artists in Bloom II 2-4pm.
Lockside Trading Company, 2805 River Ave, Youngs Point, Ont.
18-19 Jul 15 3rd Annual Art @ the Locks from 9am-6pm.
16-17 Aug 15 4th Annual Art @ the Locks from 9am-6pm.
St Matthews Church, Buckhorn, Ont.
BuckhornArtistsGroup
16-23 Aug 15 25th Annual Shades of Summer Art Show
Township of Douro-Dummer Library Art Gallery, Warsaw, Ont.
08 Sep - 24 Oct 15 Three Good Friends
Opening Reception 11 Sep 15 from 7-8pm.
Millennium Park, Peterborough, Ont.
5th Annual Purple Onion Festival
20 Sep 15 from 11am-4:00pm.
Dancing Blueberries, 360 George St. N., Peterborough, Ont.
02-28 Oct 15
Fenelon Falls Fair Grounds, Fenelon Falls, Ont.
KawarthaArtsFestival
05-06 Sep 15 Kawartha Arts Festival
Please come out and enjoy the artwork displayed at these shows.
Friday, April 3, 2015
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Hanging the Peterborough Garden Show
Today was a beautiful, mild and sunny day with the temperatures reaching 53F (11.7C) which is wonderful although by the weekend we are to get more snow.
It has been over three weeks now and still no sign of Junkyard; I can only hope that he is safe and has found a new home.
I started the day by going to KAGS to help load the grids, lights and tables that were to go to the Evinrude Centre for the Peterborough Garden Show.
Once there, the panels were quickly unloaded and two of us went to work setting them up. In the meantime others on the committee were doing the take in of paintings for the show.
When we finished the grids, we hung the cloth panels and finally the lights were added and turned on; we were ready to start hanging the fifty one paintings that were entered for the show.
We first set up the center panels with the larger paintings and from there tried to give each artist a grid for their artwork to keep it all together.
We put the tags with the paintings and had everything set up by 1:30. It was a lovely display of floral artwork.
I returned at 5:00pm to do my sitting for the art show and while there decided to work on this drawing of African Violets in a basket. This original graphite pencil drawing when framed will be available for $65.00.
I hope you will be able to come out and enjoy the Peterborough Garden Show and visit our art show during the weekend.
The hours for the show are:
02 Apr 15 - 5:00-9:00pm
03 Apr 15 - 10:00am - 5:00pm
04 Apr 15 - 10:00am - 4:00pm
African Violet Sketch
It has been over three weeks now and still no sign of Junkyard; I can only hope that he is safe and has found a new home.
I started the day by going to KAGS to help load the grids, lights and tables that were to go to the Evinrude Centre for the Peterborough Garden Show.Once there, the panels were quickly unloaded and two of us went to work setting them up. In the meantime others on the committee were doing the take in of paintings for the show.
When we finished the grids, we hung the cloth panels and finally the lights were added and turned on; we were ready to start hanging the fifty one paintings that were entered for the show.
We first set up the center panels with the larger paintings and from there tried to give each artist a grid for their artwork to keep it all together.
We put the tags with the paintings and had everything set up by 1:30. It was a lovely display of floral artwork.
I returned at 5:00pm to do my sitting for the art show and while there decided to work on this drawing of African Violets in a basket. This original graphite pencil drawing when framed will be available for $65.00.
I hope you will be able to come out and enjoy the Peterborough Garden Show and visit our art show during the weekend.The hours for the show are:
02 Apr 15 - 5:00-9:00pm
03 Apr 15 - 10:00am - 5:00pm
04 Apr 15 - 10:00am - 4:00pm
African Violet Sketch
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Lone Tree I
Today has been a busy day and full of many surprises. The morning started off cool 26F (-3.3C) but by late afternoon the temperature was a wonderful 40F (4.4C) when I took Kyora out for a walk through the fields, which still have a little snow on the trails but most of it has melted.
When I returned from running my errands in Peterborough I was delighted to see my pair of North American Kestrels have returned and will once again be nesting in the hawk box on the south side of the house.
We have had a pair of Kestrels nesting there for over 35 years; originally they nested in a hole in the building under the eaves but after five years we finally finished that side of the house in the late fall and closed the opening. Rather than the birds trying to find a new home when they came back in February I called the Toronto Zoo and received the dimensions for a hawk box that would be appropriate for them.
Ron built it and put it up in the late fall and they adapted to their new nest with no trouble, other than the first year kicking out the starlings that tried to take over their nesting site.
With wear and tear from the elements over the years we have had to replace the box three times with a new one.
I wanted to work on a drawing of one of the old dead trees along the fence line that will soon be felled and turned into firewood. It didn't take me long to do this little drawing and return to the house to warm up with a nice cup of hot tea.
Thank you for coming to look at my artwork and I hope you will return often.
When I returned from running my errands in Peterborough I was delighted to see my pair of North American Kestrels have returned and will once again be nesting in the hawk box on the south side of the house.
We have had a pair of Kestrels nesting there for over 35 years; originally they nested in a hole in the building under the eaves but after five years we finally finished that side of the house in the late fall and closed the opening. Rather than the birds trying to find a new home when they came back in February I called the Toronto Zoo and received the dimensions for a hawk box that would be appropriate for them.Ron built it and put it up in the late fall and they adapted to their new nest with no trouble, other than the first year kicking out the starlings that tried to take over their nesting site.
With wear and tear from the elements over the years we have had to replace the box three times with a new one.
I wanted to work on a drawing of one of the old dead trees along the fence line that will soon be felled and turned into firewood. It didn't take me long to do this little drawing and return to the house to warm up with a nice cup of hot tea.
Thank you for coming to look at my artwork and I hope you will return often.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Countryside Art Group Blog - Show Updates
On the first of each month I will update the Countryside Art Group's blog with a listing of shows where the various artists in the Group are exhibiting their work.
If you get a chance come out and visit them at one or all of the shows.
If you get a chance come out and visit them at one or all of the shows.
Sunday, March 29, 2015
ACEO - Shapes 2
Today was the final day of the Small Treasures Show at KAGS. It was very well attended and 57 tickets were sold to raise funds for prize money for the students exhibiting in the Best of High School Art Show that is held in May each year.
I arrived early and had everything set up for the ticket draw and while I was waiting I worked on this little painting by blocking in some rectangular shapes with a pencil.
Using Antwerp blue I painted in the lower right shape; this was followed by paint the upper right shape with alizarin crimson.
I added some cadmium yellow to the Antwerp blue to make a green and painted the lower left shape.
Using the same yellow I added alizarin crimson and painted in the shape on the upper left side.
I set this painting aside to dry as people were coming into the Gallery for the draw and within an hour it was quite crowded when it was time to start. Mrs. Vera Penrose of Peterborough, Ontario had the first ticket drawn and I would like to thank her for choosing my painting A Winter Sunset (see posts on 30 January and 27 February 2015).
The people wasted no time choosing their paintings as their number was called. I would like to thank Mrs. Joanne Fernall of Norwood, Ontario who is a long time collector of my work and she selected First Snow (see posts on see posts on 23 December 2014, 19 January and 15 March 2015) with the fifth ticket that was drawn.
When the seventh ticket drawn I was very pleased and would like to thank Mr. John of Toronto, Ontario for selecting the my final painting in the show, Autumn Reflections I (see posts on 30 December 2014, 28 January and 26 February 2015) as his choice.
Everyone had a wonderful time at our closing ceremonies and perhaps we will have another one in about five years.
Before I left the Gallery I wanted to complete this painting and I painted the remain square with cadmium yellow.
If you would like more information about ACEO please go to my post on 11 March 2010.
The ACEO shown here is an original watercolour painting using Artist quality Winsor & Newton paint on 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $20.00 and sold unframed.
I arrived early and had everything set up for the ticket draw and while I was waiting I worked on this little painting by blocking in some rectangular shapes with a pencil.
Using Antwerp blue I painted in the lower right shape; this was followed by paint the upper right shape with alizarin crimson.I added some cadmium yellow to the Antwerp blue to make a green and painted the lower left shape.
Using the same yellow I added alizarin crimson and painted in the shape on the upper left side.
I set this painting aside to dry as people were coming into the Gallery for the draw and within an hour it was quite crowded when it was time to start. Mrs. Vera Penrose of Peterborough, Ontario had the first ticket drawn and I would like to thank her for choosing my painting A Winter Sunset (see posts on 30 January and 27 February 2015).
The people wasted no time choosing their paintings as their number was called. I would like to thank Mrs. Joanne Fernall of Norwood, Ontario who is a long time collector of my work and she selected First Snow (see posts on see posts on 23 December 2014, 19 January and 15 March 2015) with the fifth ticket that was drawn.
When the seventh ticket drawn I was very pleased and would like to thank Mr. John of Toronto, Ontario for selecting the my final painting in the show, Autumn Reflections I (see posts on 30 December 2014, 28 January and 26 February 2015) as his choice.Everyone had a wonderful time at our closing ceremonies and perhaps we will have another one in about five years.
Before I left the Gallery I wanted to complete this painting and I painted the remain square with cadmium yellow.
If you would like more information about ACEO please go to my post on 11 March 2010.
The ACEO shown here is an original watercolour painting using Artist quality Winsor & Newton paint on 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $20.00 and sold unframed.
Saturday, March 28, 2015
In the Shade I - A Work in Progress
It is -3F (-19.4C) and with the wind chill it feels like -18F (-27.8C). Needless to say when I returned from doing the ban chores it was time to warm up with a nice of cup of tea.
I wanted to do some more work on this drawing that I had started a couple of years ago (see post on 04 August 2013).
Rather than having just a single horse in the drawing I started doodling and adding a couple of foals and then some adult horses soon I had an entire herd of horses.
Next I started adding some grass below the hooves of the horses and soon it was time for me to get ready to go out for supper.
I will post this painting at a later date as more work is completed on the horses.
Thank you for looking at my artwork.
I wanted to do some more work on this drawing that I had started a couple of years ago (see post on 04 August 2013).
Rather than having just a single horse in the drawing I started doodling and adding a couple of foals and then some adult horses soon I had an entire herd of horses.
Next I started adding some grass below the hooves of the horses and soon it was time for me to get ready to go out for supper.
I will post this painting at a later date as more work is completed on the horses.
Thank you for looking at my artwork.
Friday, March 27, 2015
Taking Down the Show at the Douro-Dummer Library Art Gallery
Today was a very busy day with starting the morning off by going to Fenelon Falls for a seminar on business plans and marketing. It was interesting and very informative with plenty of new ideas that I can put to good use.
From there it was off to Douro-Dummer Township to take down the Countryside Art Group show at the Library Art Gallery.
Finally I was back home and wanted to do a little work on a painting and I chose this one (see post on 20 January 2015).
Using various mixtures of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna I started first by painting the island.
Then I started on the tree trunks and branches in the foreground and darkening the mixture started to add in the pine needles.
Evening Sky 5
Painting in the negative I created the rocky base against the water below the tree trunks. I added growies above the rocks and around the base of the trees.
Lastly I put in the reflections in the water below the rocks. I will post this painting at a later date once it is completed.
From there it was off to Douro-Dummer Township to take down the Countryside Art Group show at the Library Art Gallery.
Finally I was back home and wanted to do a little work on a painting and I chose this one (see post on 20 January 2015).Using various mixtures of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna I started first by painting the island.
Then I started on the tree trunks and branches in the foreground and darkening the mixture started to add in the pine needles.
Evening Sky 5
Painting in the negative I created the rocky base against the water below the tree trunks. I added growies above the rocks and around the base of the trees.
Lastly I put in the reflections in the water below the rocks. I will post this painting at a later date once it is completed.
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