Espanola resident Penny Bois says it is an honour and a privilege to have been chosen as one of two distinguished artists for the La Cloche 43rd Art Show. She is also happy to get back to showing her artwork in person as she doesn’t think virtual art shows well. Bois is a member of the Manitoulin Art Club and the Sudbury Art Club.
The La Cloche Art Show is a juried exhibition and sale, with prizes awarded in a number of categories for those artists exhibiting their artistic creations. The categories are: acrylic, coloured pencil and drawing, mixed media, oil, pastel, photography, sculpture and watercolour. It takes place from July 2 to 9 between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the Whitefish Falls Community Centre and is free to the public.
Due to COVID-19 this very popular annual event has not been able to take place for the last two summers. The last time the art show was held in 2019 there were 100 artists registered for the event, coming from all across Canada and even internationally. This year the turnout for both artists and art aficionados are expected to be high.
Bois said she was surprised to have been chosen as a distinguished artists as she has only been focusing on developing her talents over the last six years. She started drawing when she was 12 years old and still has some of the sketches she created when she was 16, but then she put it aside.
“By the time I was 19 I didn’t do any more painting.”
She says she looks back at the old drawings and regrets not continuing.
Life took her in a different direction. Bois laid her pencils and brushes down to begin a career as a cardiac intensive care nurse. It was at least 33 years before her creative urges were once again ignited and now, she is exploring, at her own pace, a new artistic career.
She works in six mediums: charcoal, pastel, oil, graphite, acrylic, and ball point pen. Just recently she discovered gelly roll pens, which come in many different colours and thicknesses. While she has been told it is better to stick with one or two mediums Bois says, “I like to explore many avenues of creativity so I’m not limiting myself to one medium.”
Her main interest is portraits. She recalls doing a sketch of her family which she was quite proud of only to be told by her eldest daughter, “Whose family is this?” Her husband, children and grandchildren are part of the artwork adorning the walls of her spacious studio.
She has also focused on a lot of commissioned pieces over the last two years and started tutorial art classes in the last year. She prefers to facetime one-on-one with her students which she says range from 14 to people in their 80’s. Since she has health issues she prefers to limit the number of people coming into her studio. She doesn’t charge for her tutorials, since she says as a budding artist she had help from some amazing people and it is her way of passing it on.
Bois has a Facebook page called P. Bois studio, which includes little two-minute lessons in artistic techniques along with the various materials she uses in creating different drawings and paintings. There are a number of things she has learned from trial and error that she passes along.
Two of the key techniques she mentions are layering and knowing the limitations of the various mediums she is using. She says it is impossible to erase ball point pen.
“Once you commit gelly roll pen to paper you are done.”
Also, with white ballpoint pen on black paper a fixative is not needed. For other mediums such as charcoal and graphite a fixative must be sprayed on between layers to be able to continue. The fixative dries within 15 minutes. In creating one of her pieces she says she uses a minimum of seven to eight layers and sometimes as many as 10. The properties of the different grades of paper used also comes into how the finished piece will present itself.
Some of her favourite corrective tools are white and black mono erasers and a simple make-up brush or Q-tip. For those people who dabble with acrylics, and are slow painters, she recommends an acrylic retardant to keep it from drying too fast. “I’ve learned to pace myself.”
Her tutorials mention as well the types of paints she uses and how she mixes them to get a particular shade.
As part of being the distinguished artist Bois will be conducting a tutorial during the art show as well as donating one of her charcoal sketches for the raffle. The painting to be raffled, called ‘Emotion’, is an 18″ x 17″ white and black charcoal on a double matted wood frame with an anti-glare glass front. It’s valued at $350. She plans on bringing a minimum of 10 to 12 of her creations to exhibit at the show. They will also be available for purchase.
After the La Cloche Art Show the exhibition that Bois will be a part of is the Manitoulin Art Tour, from July 15 to 17. There will be 40 locations all across Manitoulin Island for people to meet the artists and view their creations. Her spot for the three days will be in the basement of the Anchor Inn.
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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.
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