When growing up at our Bass Lake farm, the after school activity was lying on the living room floor with the Globe & Mail and drawing figures from 'Mark Trail' comic strip. My love of drawing flourished and I finally studied Watercolour with Donna Cameron at Loyalist College, Belleville in 1976.
Provincial Parks provided 'fodder' for my love of photography, and from 2000 - 2006 I received two First place awards from Arrowhead, and other awards from Awenda, Chutes, and Lake Superior Provincial Parks. This year I placed first in an 'Arts in the Wild' competition at MacGregor Provincial Park with a watercolour, and an Acrostic poem.
Since moving to Barrie in 1980 I attended many workshops given by the Barrie Art Club, and attended Exhibitions at The Art Club, the Quest Gallery in 2006, Huronia Museum in 1990,and the MacLaren when it was at Maple Hill. I'm beginning to paint with Acrylics but Watercolour is my first love.

When: Friday May 4, 2012
Featured Artist: LINDA MIELKE FEATURED ARTIST FOR MAY 2012
LINDA MIELKE
FEATURED ARTIST MAY 2012
OPEN HOUSE MAY 6
1 TO 3 PM
My 2011 Calendar
January through December- painted in oils.
Scenes that inspire and captivate as I walk
and drive through my new home in SImcoe
County.
Most of these scenes are in my own
neighborhood, and as I walk through the
changing seasons, I am thankful of the
beauty around me.
Linda Mielke,
When: Tuesday May 1, 2012
Featured Artist: LE LOOVRE ARTIST JOAN RYAN
LE LOOVRE ARTIST FOR MAY 2012
JOAN RYAN
OPEN HOUSE MAY 6TH 1 TO 3 pm
Joan started painting in the mid '80s while stationed in New Brunswick with her military husband. Her paintings hang in 6 provinces and Germany as a result.
While in New Brunswick, she studied with Ellen Gosse and Joyce Johnson both students of prominent Atlantic artist Bill Alexander.
Her motto is "kwwp on paingint and learning as long as it's fun!'
Joan Ryan
When: Monday April 30, 2012
Featured Artist: MEMBER'S SHOW PET PORTRAITS
May 2012 Calendar of Events & Shows