With a friend, I first stopped at the Imperial Theatre to view "Public Displays of Affection". Photography by Hailey McHarg captures souls and lets us into what her subjects love. A showcase to help others recognize the passion of these individuals.
Hailey on the left chatting with a viewer.
Next stop - Gallery Lambton to view this year's Student Art Exhibition - very lively with a sense of fun. Working in cooperation with nine of Lambton County's secondary schools, this art exhibition features art work by students from grade nine through twelve. A wide range of media is represented, including work in painting, drawing, print-making, design, sculpture, mixed media, photography and computer art. Through this exhibition Gallery Lambton encourages the idea that art is for everyone and that learning is both knowledge based and experiential.
Left - Band outside Gallery Lambton.
Below - art by students.
Pierre Houle along with live music from "Operation Hot Mother" appeared at the Cheeky Monkey. Pierre Houle has had a life long passion for the beauty of the natural world and captures this vision with his camera. Pierre captures breath taking panoramic images of Sarnia and Western Canada.
Mary Louise White showed her acrylic paintings and glass at Bear Creek Studio. Mary Louise operates a gallery/studio in Port Stanley and her work was also featured as a part of the Grand Bend Studio Tour.
It was a tight squeeze to get into Artopia Gallery - people wall to wall! Ian McLean was the featured artist with his latest series of paintings exploring imagined private residential exteriors. An established local artist, Ian McLean has exhibited extensively in Ontario and teaches art at Northern Collegiate.
An inhabited home built on the roof of a tall building downtown is shown below. High in the sky!
This is high living!
The Lawrence House featured Wolf Mendritzki demonstrating printmaking in
the FROG Studio. Wolf is pictured to the left.Barbara Klunder's "Deep Papercuts" and book signing took place in the main gallery.
Upstairs in the Turret Room multimedia artist Cat Cabajar displayed her art. Cat demonstrated the delicate and ornate art of henna in the form of tattoos.
Below are photos of the band at the Lawrence House and Cat drawing a tattoo along with a finished tattoo - interesting canvases.
At
First Sarnia Place, Peg Kivi's art enhanced the model suite. The condo came alive with the addition of Peg's acrylics so rich and textural. Her style has developed from realism to abstraction and most recently to conceptualism. Peg invites her viewers to allow themselves to be taken into her painting and to derive personal meaning through the rich layers of colour and texture.
On The Front Restuarant featured the unique and lively art of Judy Brady. Beautifully framed, jewel like acrylics on canvas filled the round room on the fourteenth floor of the First Sarnia Place building . Above, Judy poses with one of her paintings.
The evening ended with drinks at On The Front Restaurant.The band plays on the balcony. What a great view.
Below are photos taken from the balcony
on the 14th floor restaurant.
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