The Art by the Water exhibit and sale is back for its 13th edition on Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Beaconsfield Yacht Club. Admission is free.
Bring added warmth into your home with the purchase of an original painting. The exhibit and sale offers a wide variety of styles, including modern abstracts, classic realism, watercolour, and mixed media. A percentage of the sales and the contents of the donation jar will benefit the Lakeshore General Hospital Foundation, with sincere and deep appreciation of all healthcare workers and staff everywhere.
Hospitals need our help now more than ever before.
Art comes from the heart.
“Our mission is to paint to our heart’s content, share our artworks with the public through exhibitions while also contributing to a worthy cause,” stated artist Aud’rey Riley. “Putting paint on a canvas and expressing oneself is very gratifying. Thus, it is a proud moment when the last stroke of paint is applied to the canvas and the final signature marks the completion of the artwork.”
Art by the Water has heart and visitors are often touched by the work the artists put into the exhibit to make it a welcoming event. People are encouraged to browse at their leisure and enjoy the art and the ambience the artists have lovingly created.
Art lovers have come from far and wide outside the West Island area, including West End Montreal, Laval, the Eastern Townships, the Laurentians, and even Ontario.
The two-day event is held rain or shine, inside the charming 200-year-old fieldstone building, outside under the large, elegant tent, as well as on the very large, covered veranda. “So, whatever the weather, we’ve got you covered,” said Riley.
Every year, to add more interest and variety to the show, three guest artists are invited to participate with the group. This year, Beatrice Cluney, Johanne Turgeon, and Ginette Parizeau bring a wealth of talent and stunning art to the exhibit.
Beatrice paints in an exquisite classic style and has also expanded to using a palette knife, creating amazing art. Johanne is known for her unique whimsical house paintings and has recently delved into other styles as well. Ginette is an interior designer with a well-known Montreal home builder. She has a great eye for detail which reflects in her striking watercolour paintings.
All of the participating artists in the group offer a wide variety of art to suit everyone’s style, from the beginner to the more serious collector. Affordable art can be had for gift giving, the home or office.
Recently, more time has been spent inside our homes. Perhaps it is a time to change the decor, move things around and experiment with new ideas of a focal wall of art.
“I would be very happy to help with ideas of different ways to hang art,” said Riley, who has always been very interested in home decor. Gone are the days of hanging one painting over the sofa.
The artists extend a warm welcome to all. Discover the quaint Beaconsfield Yacht Club and see the clubhouse transformed into a two-day art gallery. Boating and social memberships are offered with or without a boat. Adult sailing courses are also available. For information call David at 514-695-1272.
The Yacht Club is located at 26 Lakeshore Road in Beaconsfield. H9W 4H3
LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
