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Today I will be setting up at South Gate Centre in Woodstock in preparation for this weekend’s Oxford Creates Art Expo, organized by Oxford Creative Connections, Inc. I will have several of my newest watercolour paintings available there, as well as a sampling of my fractal pieces. There will be many other artists, as well as authors, exhibiting at this show.
In two weeks, I will be opening my own gallery/studio doors to welcome the public for our 23rd annual studio tour here in Otterville: Welcome Back to Otterville. This will feature a much larger selection of my own work. We have a very good variety of stops this year with several new artisans! I will post again soon with more details about that.
For now, here are the details of both shows:
For even more information:
Oxford Creates: https://oxfordcreativeconnections.com/oxford-creates/
Welcome Back To Otterville: https://www.welcomebacktootterville.ca/
The opening for this show was on Sunday and it continues until August 18.
OCCI stands for Oxford Creative Connections Inc., and it is a not-for-profit Arts and Culture organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in Oxford County through the preservation and advancement of arts and culture.
The Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre is located at
125 Centennial Lane (in Victoria Park)
P.O. Box 384, Ontario
N5C 3V3
(519) 485-4691
Its hours are:
Open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 10:30 – 2:00 p.m. & 2:30 – 5:30 p.m.
I have one of my new fractal pieces in the show, Time for Tea. Check it out if you go!
Time for Tea. Digital Fractal Art. Single metal print is 24×32″. Artist Lianne Todd. $595.00
This Saturday I will be one of the artists displaying their work at Art in the Park in Woodstock, Ontario. It is scheduled to start at 2 pm, and goes until 9 pm, at Victoria Park, 413 Buller Street
Woodstock , ON
Canada.
More information is available here and here.
I participated in this event last year, which took place at the beginning of September, and really enjoyed all the music that played during the afternoon and evening. It was a lovely, relaxing event, great setting, and many talented artists were present with their work. I wish I had taken some photos to share with you!
I will have a selection of fractal pieces and watercolours in my booth.
I know we need rain – the photo below shows what our falls in Otterville look like right now – but I kind of hope it either rains the night before or after we leave the park!
Hey everyone, the 10th Annual Oxford Studio Tour is this weekend, May 6 & 7! That’s just in case I haven’t reached you yet… I have been so busy promoting the tour on its website, and on Facebook and Twitter, I almost forgot to post on my own blogs!
As you may know, my gallery/studio is Location #3 this year. There is another near me, Location #4, and we are always happy when studio tourists make the trip out to the southeast corner of Oxford County, Ontario, to see us. Here is a peek at what you’ll find when you get here.
The entrance to my gallery is at the rear of the house:
I’m still saving the new art for when you get here! 😉
Have you seen our posters or picked up a brochure yet? They are in libraries, tourist offices, and many nice businesses in and surrounding the county. You could also get one from the first artist you visit. This is what they look like:
But here is the basic information to get you started, and our website is full of maps as well:
It is time again for those of us who are artists, artisans and specialty shopkeepers in the little town of Otterville, to open our doors and welcome visitors from all over Southwestern Ontario. This is our 20th year holding Welcome Back to Otterville, a studio tour that was founded by my good friend Sue Goossens years before I moved here, and continues to change and evolve as do the participants.
A press release for our tour follows – please feel free to publish the release as we are on a limited advertising budget! We are very grateful to Ashlyn Kernaghan for writing this up for us.
Welcome Back to Otterville Studio Tour Celebrates 20 Years
By Ashlyn Kernaghan
Glendale Student
On the weekend of November 19th and 20th, the artists and crafters who call the historic village of Otterville home will be opening up their doors for the 20th annual studio tour. Visit Otterville and browse through unique shops and studios. Meet the artists and experience a world of creativity. Studios and shops are open from 10am – 5pm and each day and the event is absolutely free to attend.
This year the studio tour includes 6 local artists – watercolours, oils, acrylics and mixed media – who will showcase the best of their best throughout the weekend in their homes or studios. The participating artists include Mae Leonard, Lianne Todd, Linda Hoffman, Trudy Verberne, Shirley Hokke, and Sue Goossens. In Bloom Designs featuring the jewellery of Jillian Driedger will be in the old general store in Hawtrey. Ralph Moore & Sons has a large selection of bird seed and feeders and all things bird! Shawn Pinnoy, owner of Styx and Skids, and Nordale Woodworking are new to the tour this year. Shawn Pinnoy creates up-cycled decor including wreaths, bird houses, barn board signs and much more. Nordale Woodworking, owned by Bryan Mertens, specializes in the production and sales of solid wood furniture and outdoor poly lawn furniture. Nordale Woodworking is open all year.
All participants on the tour live in Otterville and area and create their own unique products or own a shop in town. The event has evolved throughout the past 20 years with three of the original participants still on the tour – Sue Goossens, Linda Hoffman and Shirley Hokke.
“Artists truly enjoy meeting new visitors, old friends and sharing their passion for the arts.”
“Each year the tour attracts visitors from all over Southwestern Ontario from Windsor to Toronto,” said tour organizer Goossens. “People are always impressed with the quality of the artwork that is available. We have the reputation of having many accomplished artists in Otterville.”
This self-directed tour provides the opportunity to personally explore the creative approach of various artists, along with the chance to wrap up some Christmas shopping. Tour participants can visit as few or as many of the artists as they wish, over one or both days. The Otter Creek Golf Course club house will be open for lunch Saturday and Sunday.
Welcome Back to Otterville brochures and maps can be found at participating sites, the Station Arts Centre in Tillsonburg, and online at http://www.welcomebacktootterville.ca. Look for yellow flags that mark the studios.
Styx and Skids is not on the map, but can be found just around the corner from Linda Hoffman’s studio, on Grove St.
For more information call 519-879-6352 or visit www.welcomebacktootterville.ca
Here is the map of the tour. Hope you can make it out!
September 10 & 11 is the Halls Creek Festival of Creativity in Ingersoll, and I will be participating again!
This festival was good fun last year and I kind of wished I was one of the attendees rather than an exhibitor – lots of learning and creating going on all over the place, and great live music most of the time.
I plan to have some of my fractals there – last year I ONLY brought the fractal metal prints – but I think I will also bring some paintings of fractals this year and some other paintings as well. I also hope to do some painting while I’m there.
Check out the website for details.
It’s April, and that means it is almost time for our annual Oxford Studio Tour here in Oxford County, Ontario. My studio has been one of the locations for this tour since its inception nine years ago (I also look after the website and some other stuff!). I will have plenty of work here for visitors to see. If you’ve never been out on the tour, it is a great way to celebrate spring, which I am hoping is right around the corner… here is a view out my front window yesterday:
So yeah, we’re not quite there yet. But the daffodils in my back yard are really trying to bloom. The ones out front are a little slower but they are hopeful. Here is a painting I did of the ones out front a few years ago – it’s still available, along with several other watercolours in a variety of styles:
They’ll get there.
One of the newer fractals that I showed at our recent Artists of Oxford show at Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre, is Diaphanous. It will be here for the studio tour, along with some other new pieces. I will even have a couple of Artifact scarves available for purchase.
Diaphanous. Original Digital Art, available printed as single edition on acrylic. 20×20″
I hope if you live in the region, you’ll grab a friend or three, hop in the car, and make a day of it. There is a ton of talent to see on this tour, as well as a lot of lovely countryside, and I especially hope you’ll make it out to my location, #6, at the south end of the county. Here is a google map of the whole tour.
Keep an eye out for our red posters advertising the tour around the region, and our printed brochures designed by artist and graphic designer Rhonda Franks (she’s at location #7 along with Sue Goossens, who is the founder for the tour). The brochures include descriptions and maps to help guide you around the tour. If you’d like me to mail you a brochure, please contact me!
Some of you may not be familiar with Welcome Back to Otterville. Every year the little rural town I live in hosts a studio tour the third weekend in November. This is our 19th year. It’s one of the reasons we chose to settle ourselves here ten years ago rather than in some of the other nearby communities. Now I am so fully entrenched in the planning that I design the postcards and posters. My friend Sue Goossens is the founder and main planner though. She has done a lot of work over the years and we thank her! Otterville is full of artistic talent and many of the people on the tour are now long-time friends. Others are new on the tour this year and I look forward to meeting them… some other weekend maybe. 🙂
My studio/gallery, which is at the back of my house (go up the driveway and in through the patio doors from the deck), will be open from 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday November 21 & Sunday Nov 22, along with the other stops on the tour. Here is a convenient sampler of the stops, and here is a map to help you find us. Once you get here, yellow flags will act as markers to guide you. We also have a Facebook page you may like to follow. I will, of course, have my fractal art on display, as well as many of my more traditional watercolours. And, I will welcome you with hot cranberry wassail to help combat the colder weather.
See you then!
P.S. I kind of wish the tour was on a week or two ago, when the falls (steps from my house) looked like this.
Otter Falls, Otterville, ON KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA
It seems that the first weekend of May has crept up on me and while I’ve been posting about the Oxford Studio Tour on my Facebook page and my Twitter account (@artnaturali), and on my other website, I neglected to do so here! It’s this coming weekend already and I hope you haven’t made other plans yet.
I will be in my gallery/studio which is Stop #7 on the tour, to welcome you all this weekend. Visitors will be flocking to Oxford County, Ontario to view, enjoy, and purchase art. I have an abundance to show. Many of my fractal paintings, photos, and original single edition prints will be here, and many of my original paintings of other subjects. These include watercolour paintings on traditional paper, on gesso-coated paper, and on yupo. I will have two brand new fractal metal prints on display, as well as a new piece printed on acrylic! In addition to this, there will be some new fractal photos, and some new non-fractal pieces in watercolour. Brochures for the tour are available at a number of locations – including here at my studio! To get you started, here is a map to my location. I’m about an hour from Hamilton/Burlington, an hour from London, or an hour from Kitchener/Waterloo.
P.S. I accept cash and cheques for purchases of my art – but not credit cards, sorry! (There is an ATM at the Royal Bank just down the street though).
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