I have lived in Ontario most of my life. I am a nature lover, who canoes into the Canadian wilderness annually. I have spent hundreds of hours canoeing and camping into remote areas. I use a camera to capture my own images and impressions for my paintings. I am a self-taught oil and acrylic painter, with formal training in graphic arts. I love to paint nature in realistic and abstract ways. I am quite the realist on most days. But every once in a while I like to break all the rules and just throw paint on the canvas and use colors that aren't quite like the real thing. Just spending time feeling instead of thinking. Which I guess would be my rebel side. Or sometimes I blame it all on being a Gemini. My hope is to give people the love I feel for nature, when viewing my images. I like to say a little piece of myself goes into each of my paintings.

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