Corynn KokOlakis: M(Y)OTHERWORK
July 6 - September 7
(image shown here by C. Kokolakis, Manifesto, 50 x 72 oil & charcoal on linen, 2022-2023)
Corynn Kokolakis' "M(y)otherwork" paintings are a poignant exploration of identity and belonging, inviting participants to confront societal constructs around care-giving and celebrate the richness of human diversity. Through her art, Kokolakis encourages us to embrace our differences, honor one another's experiences, and recognize the humanity in each other, imperfect as it may be.
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IN PERSON 2024 peoples choice winners - total votes CAST 326
1ST GREGOR GILLESPIE
Gregor Gillespie 34 votes
"Unscheduled Departure", 2021, wood and stone, 38 x 18 x 18
2ND HARVEY WALKER
Harvey Walker 28 votes
"Open Lines of Communication", 2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 40
3RD FERNANDO DIAZ DE LEON RENDON
3RD FERNANDO DIAZ DE LEON RENDON
Fernando Diaz de Leon Rendon 20 votes
"Crow Under the Crescent Moon", 2024, embossed aluminum, 21 x 15
SAFE & WELL
Haliburton County youth share their concerns
Haliburton County residents between the ages of 12 and 24 are asked to share their thoughts and concerns on one or all of the four identified priority areas of Haliburton County’s Community Safety and Well-Being Plan through artwork, photography, a digital piece, audio, music or a piece of writing (including poetry):
- Housing and Homelessness;
- Poverty and Employment;
- Substance Use, Mental Health and Addiction;
- Healthcare and System Access OR
- on the broader subject of Community Safety and Well-Being
CSWB Youth Engagement Survey, visit the County of Haliburton's Wade In page.
Haliburton County’s Community Safety and Well-Being Plan visit the landing page for CSWB plan.
REWILDING
MICHELE KARCH-ACKERMAN
TANYA ZARYSKI
April 15 - June 30, 2023
Image shown (detail):
"Michele and Virginia (the Artist, aged 59, in a Dress Stitched for Virginia Woolf, Adrift in an Autumn Garden)" by Tanya Zaryski, acrylic on cradled wood panel.
intersection
ANNUAL MEMBERS' SALON EXHIBITION
PEOPLES CHOICE FOR 2023
ANNOUNCEMENT
This year's Members Salon “Intersection” was a resounding success.
“Great variety, so impressed so much talent, so hard to choose my vote” were just some of the comments left in our guest book. With 43 paintings and photographs and 19 three-dimensional pieces comprised of wood, metal, glass, ceramics, fibre, mixed media and jewellery the range was impressive.
Over two hundred votes were cast, with many having to experience the exhibit several times before selecting their favourite. Children were particularly enamored of Wendi Fox’s painting of the endangered Green Turtle.
A huge thank you to all the artists that submitted work and to the art lovers that braved the elements to experience this show. Here are the results of the voting:
First: Gregor Gillespie - Ruby Throated Hummingbird on Wild Columbine and Bunchberry
Second: Keli Schmidt – Art and Politics
Third: Keith Rydberg – The Way
Enjoy this virtual exhibition by using the arrow keys on your keypad or taking the tour. To see individual works up close and read artist statements while you are "cruising" the room click on the image.
2022
hhss annual SHOW
NOVEMBER 18 - DECEMBER 17
an exhibition by the Grade 12 Art Class Haliburton Highlands Secondary School
IN THE ZONE
July 15 - September 3
in person and virtual (use link or see below on this page)
BEL ANGELES
OLGA CHUDNOVSKY
IRENE FAIZ
HOLLY HUTCHISON
CAROLE MILON
PATSY TELPNER
IAN VARNEY
This exhibition was an invitation to spend time with 7 abstract paintings, to allow them to take the lead on a personal journey into your imagination and emotions.
Sit. Look. Observe how a painting makes you feel. How the colours, pattern, forms, textures relate to one another, and to you, the viewer. It is natural to try and make sense of a painting. But have you ever considered that a painting need not make sense to anyone, not even Artist? Have you heard an Artist refer to being in the zone, the sweet spot, in a flow state? Maybe you have been there too. Who's to say that a painting needs to make any sense to be enjoyed and revelled in?
Abstract art can be bewildering and uncomfortable. Here in the boreal forest of Haliburton Highlands we are familiar with the landscape painting genre; paintings of sky, water, rocks and trees. The seven paintings you see here "In The Zone" come from a different zone. Let them paint their way into your consciousness. You may be surprised at the nooks and crannies you recognize or discover in your own head and heart.
Image shown: Ian Varney
Cy Has Gone Missing Again
Acrylic On Birch Panel
40"x40"
Ramune Luminaire
LOVE & LOSS
April 30 - July 2, 2022
An exhibition of drawing, prints, painting and photo transfers by Ramune Luminaire.
Opening reception
April 30, 3 to 5pm
presented with support from the Ontario Arts Council
A collaboration. Words by palliative care nurse Jocelyn Brown, who holds space for death every day and has learned that love is the only way through. Art by Ramune Luminaire. The artwork starts with extracts from Brown’s journals, notes made on her phone and other scribblings, detailing her experiences over sixteen years of working with people who face the reality of death every day, living with terminal cancer. Their stories express despair, hopelessness, anger, worry for the people left behind and surprising currents of joy and peace. The drawings, prints, painting and photo transfers are Luminaire’s response to Brown’s writing, sometimes illustrative, sometimes purely intuitive.
A book accompanies the exhibition. Further information/book orders at https://ramuneluminaire.com/
About the Artist
Ramune works in her studio in the woods north of Peterborough, Ontario. www.ramuneluminaire.com
collage of works by Ramune Luminaire from Love & Loss
POV
ANNUAL MEMBERS' SALON EXHIBITION
February 12 - April 2, 2022
"POV" is the title of Rails End Gallery's Annual Salon Exhibition. POV stands for "point of view". There are myriad ways to interpret POV; a visual angle or style, a subjective opinion, a perspective, a narrative style... and yes, we do mean to attract as many points of view as there are entries! For that reason each Artist was invited to include a brief bit of text with their entry.
READ about the show in The Haliburton County Echo HERE
Visitors vote for The Peoples Choice every year.
The winner of the 2022 Peoples Choice was David Douglas with his installation titled "Flipping the Bird", 2022, mixed media, (watercolour/graphite). Rachel Charyk with "Reflections 3", oil on canvas. was 2nd and in 3rd Place was Renee Woltz with "It ISna't Just Black and White", ceramic.
The Virtual Exhibit is available for viewing below.
-to tour the show you can wander with your touchpad or mouse or use up down keys.
-learn pricing, size, media and read Artist Statements by clicking on individual works
-purchase enquiries? Use the send email feature under the Artist Statement after you click on the work
-Sold works are marked with a dot
Flipping the Bird, 2022, David Douglas
2021 and 2020
John Lennard
“The landscape speaks to me like no other subject matter. Working in oil paint on canvas I try to capture the elements of the larger issues that nature presents using bold colour and tonal contrasts. I feel challenged by the inherent characteristics of my surroundings and believe that is possible to make meaningful art about these characteristics. I attempt to organize the surface where every move is related to every other by placement, direction, scale and colour. There are descriptive elements, but I try not to lose sight of the larger issues that represent my thought and energy, not merely engage in a copying instinct or descriptive facility.”
John Lennard
Local Colour September 30 - November 13, 2021
Rails End Gallery heralds the return of Fall colour with "Local Colour", an exhibition of 13 recent oil paintngs by Minden painter, John Lennard. His mastery of pigments and knowledge of how colours play beautifully together are a perfect pairing with Ontario's Highlands. While you're taking in the annual colour bath the boreal forest offers, or on a Studio Tour, be sure to stop in and see John Lennard's work.
Please enquire for catalogue and price list. VIRTUAL EXHIBITON below:
GORD JONES
TRANSPARENT
watercolours
JULY - SEPTEMBER 2021
Gord Jones is an award winning watercolourist who resides in Algonquin Highlands.
Read about Gord Jones in this article from The Highlander
FIREWORKS
THE ONTARIO CLAY AND GLASS ASSOCIATION BIENNIAL JURIED EXHIBITION
September 21 - November 14, 2020
Participating artists:
Ann Allen, Hana Balaban-Pommier, Judy Blake, Jean-Francois Boivin, Gayle Buzzi, Keith Campbell, Anne Chambers, Paula Cooley, Alix Davis, Judy Donaldson, Teresa Dunlop, Reid Ferguson, Mark Flink, Jane Garcia, Catharina Goldnau, Carol Grant, Kim Harcourt Roman, Eleanor Hendriks, Steve Irvine, Amy Klinkhamer, Liliann Lozanovski, Louise McCann, Alexandra McCurdy, Marney McDiarmid, Lesley McInally, Brenda Nieves, Cynthia O'Brien, Maja Padrov, David Paolini, Frieda Pereira, Karla Rivera, Debra Sloan, Denise Smith, Chris Snedden, Joe Speck, Catherine Thomas, Chiho Tokita, Layne Verbeek, Andrea Vuletin, Mary Louise White, Carol Wong, Queenie Xu
Jurors: Denis Longchamps and Katrina Chaytor
SUSAN RANKIN
SHADOW GARDEN
July 4 - September 5 2020
About Susan Rankin
"We are all constantly surrounded by something. The landscape that surrounds us shapes us and influences us as we function within it. In my continuing series of ‘Wired Forms’ the wired landscape, in its complexity, transforms the simple glass form. The ‘Wire Form’ series explored the combined use of glass and metal in a more sculptural format. This series liberated my work from the constraints of the functional vessel and has lead to the development of the ‘Grove Columns’. I have worked with scale to create a presence; they demand that observers engage with them in a more physical and direct way. Using numerous columns to define a space, I incorporate light through the multiple transparent or opaque glass elements. Drawing on natural and abstracted forms I have created a series of work, which is harmonious and compelling through the seasons."
Susan Rankin's lively, voluptuous vessels wrapped in vines, leaves and flowers have been shown in 34 solo exhibitions and numerous invitational and group exhibitions across North America in many of the most prestigious venues for contemporary glass. Rankin has work included in public collections at the Corning Museum, Claridge Collection, Michel-Pierre Grenier Collection, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Winnipeg Art Gallery, USB Bank (Canada), Department of Foreign Affairs, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Glazen Huis, Flemish Centre for Contemporary Glass Art, Lommel, Belgium, well as in many fine private collections. Susan Rankin lives in Apsley, Ontario.
Image detail shown: Susan Rankin, vase
BE OUR ALLY
MAY 2 - 16
2015
“Be Our Ally” is a collaborative project facilitated by Joan Chandler, david
sereda, and Anna Gaby-Trotz. It combines new interactive theatre,
photography, soundscape and music to give new words and voices to youth
who have often been branded and labeled as outlaws in their communities,
and to energize others to be allies.
It is shameful that we live in a society where people who are seen to love “differently” are targets of hate crimes and discrimination. We believe that we must begin to reshape the words and values that create victims of hate crimes in the LGTBQ community.
Image detail shown: Exhibition promotional image
HUMOURS OF HALIBURTON
HELEN VELLA
January 24 - March 7
2015
shadow garden installation images
selected images from fireworks 2023
