Laura Trach

Rails End Gallery
Haliburton

March 10 - April 21, 2012

Meet the Artist Saturday 10 March 2-4 PM. Laura Trach is a well known textile artist and owner of Orange Cat Studios.
Web Site Click Here

Stay at Resorts, Inns, Hotels Haliburton, ON, Haliburton hotels on-line.

Haliburton Highlands Secondary School Portfolio Class Exhibition

Rails End Gallery
Haliburton

April 5 - 28, 2012

A celebration of young talent, this annual exhibition features work by students in their grad year. For details  www.railsendgallery.com. Presented with support from Trillium Lakelands District School Board.
Web Site Click Here

Stay at Resorts, Inns, Hotels Haliburton, ON, Haliburton hotels on-line.

MacLaren Art Centre
Barrie, Ontario

Alex Colville
Book of Hours, Labours of the Months
January 12 through June 3
Joan Lehman Gallery

During medieval times, pictorial calendars defined and evoked the tasks and pleasures ushered in by each month. One’s very existence was tied to the cycle of the seasons. For illiterate, agrarian societies, the recognizable depictions in such illuminated “books of hours” served to instruct and comfort those lives dependent on annual patterns.The internationally renowned Nova Scotia painter Alex Colville was fascinated by this ancient art form, yet felt himself alien to its presumption of a common lexicon of images. In 1974, he made twelve paintings of the months, each with a personal meaning. To learn more click here...

stay at Inns, Resorts, Hotels,  Barrie, ON