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Manitoulin art gallery celebrates 39th season by moving online – The Sudbury Star

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4 years ago

May 19, 2020

Ivan Wheale is a mainstay of the Perivale Gallery. Supplied photo

A Manitoulin Island art gallery launched its annual opening show online on the weekend to kick off its 39th season.

Perivale Gallery, which is located in Spring Bay overlooking Lake Kagawong, showcases masterworks by outstanding Canadian artists.

The opening show, called Huron Moods, features the new works of Ivan Wheale and it is entirely available online.

“This is not the welcome to our 39th season that we were hoping to share with you,” said Owner and Curator Shannon McMullan in a release.

“These are indeed challenging times for everyone as we await day to day for the next steps to move forward. However, creativity does not stop, nor do our celebrations of the exceptional creativity of our outstanding Perivale Gallery artists.”

Wheale is a self-taught artist who was born in Sunderland, England, in 1934. He settled in Canada in 1957 and moved to Manitoulin Island in 1975 where he now lives and works.

His paintings are strong studies in realism that capture the atmosphere, texture and nature of the landscape in front of him. He paints landscapes in watercolours and oils.

The artist’s works hang in numerous public and corporate collections including the Queen’s Collection, Windsor Castle and the Government of Ontario. He is the recipient of many awards including an Honorary Degree from Laurentian University and the Rotary International Paul Harris Award.

Anyone interested in purchasing works of art can do so through the gallery’s website.

Should anyone wish to spend some quality time with pieces that appeal to them, the gallery is open by appointment only so the public can visit the gallery safely.

To make an appointment, call 705-210-0290.

Perivale Gallery has also set up a new show called Vision 20/2020, which will be viewable online until May 2021 to highlight the new works of all its artists.

Visit www.perivalegallery.com for more information.

The Local Journalism Initiative is made possible through funding from the federal government.

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40 Random Bits of Trivia About Artists and the Artsy Art That They Articulate – Cracked.com

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November 3, 2024

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John Little, whose paintings showed the raw side of Montreal, dies at 96 – CBC.ca

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October 31, 2024

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A misspelled memorial to the Brontë sisters gets its dots back at last

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1 month ago

September 26, 2024

Anne Joseph

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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