HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2007-10-04, Page 27It’s a sure sign of fall when the
crops are in full harvest and the
farmers move on to the land to till
the soil. Farm folks gather to
celebrate our rural heritage at the
counties’ plowing matches. Time is
always set aside to visit the
International or the Outdoor Farm
Show to catch up with the latest
farm innovations or just to visit
friends.
Anne Laviolette, a resident artist
at the Goderich Co-op Gallery has
mustered an assortment of images to
show off the culture and tradition of
the annual plowing matches. Her
collection of works is done mainly in
acrylic. Visitors are welcomed to the
gallery with a harvest
window display, complete with a
genuine antique walking plow, on
loan from the Huron County
Museum.
In preparation for the winter
season ahead, there is also a
miniature hand-made lumber sled
hauling timber from the old
Baechler Mills, as fashioned by Syd
Lawson, a long-time and well-
known local senior.
Laviolette’s paintings attempt to
present the busy sense of commotion
and celebration of the harvest
season at a local plowing match. Her
images of people, animals and
bustling activity invite comers
of all ages to enjoy this special
show.
As a University of Toronto
Honours Biology, Medicine and
Psychiatry graduate, Laviolette
enjoyed a full and rewarding career
in medicine. But, she always loved
to paint, both spiritually and
emotionally.
“Early on,” she says, “I favoured
floral creations and found relaxation
and satisfaction in expressing my
love of nature through watercolour
sketches and paintings. Colour,
shape and composition as well as
subject matter naturally include
these kinds of meanings for me, so
that encouraging such expressions in
others was a natural part of my
work.”
As she moves into another stage of
life, she is devoting more energy to
her artistic passions. “Over the past
three years I have spent more time at
my easel,” she declares, “And now I
work primarily in acrylics.”
“The ‘big skies’, the farms and
terrain of Huron County are a
continuing source of joy to me. The
landscape is never still; it is
sometimes very flat, now and again
gently undulating, but always
wonderfully changing across the
seasons.”
Laviolette’s show accompanies a
complementary retrospective of
mainly pencil sketches by
guest artist Gwen Smithers-Kiar
from childhood days to the present.
Both shows run through Oct. 31 at
the Goderich Co-op Gallery, 54
Courthouse Square, Goderich.
Doors open Monday to Saturday 10
a.m. until 4 p.m. There is no
admission charge.
A participating artist is on hand
daily. For more information, call
519-440-0523.
Her face sold his first commercial
photo.
Over six different magazines in
Canada and the States featured her
and a friend enjoying a holiday
moment on the beach in front of the
Point Farms resort in their
publications in the early 1900s.
Florence Sallows, first daughter of
Reuben R. Sallows, was among
Reuben’s favourite photographic
subjects as he strove to break into
the emerging commercial
photography markets of Canada, the
States and Britain.
It is Flo’s face that is subject of a
new exhibit opening at the Reuben
R. Sallows Gallery in Goderich on
Oct. 5. This woman’s existence was
documented by her famous
father’s camera from the time she
was an infant until his death in
1937.
The exhibit, “…this fascination
with Flo:” a portrayal of Florence
Sallows through the creative lens of
her father, captures this lively young
woman in settings as varied as the
Huron lakeshore and the heart of
Algonquin Park.
While Florence posed against a
backdrop of dark cedars for her
father’s camera, the famous Group
of Seven artists explored the same
wilderness untouched. Sallows
documented, with Flo, the
interaction of man’s presence on the
wilderness. Both achieved
commercial success with the subject
of their work.
For the month of October only, the
Sallows Gallery will also be
featuring the exhibit – A Lifetime –
Day by Day: Five Women and their
Diaries – from the Archives of
Ontario. The combination of the two
exhibits promises to provide a
unique peek into being a woman in
the early 1900s in Ontario.
Sallows’ photographs of his
daughter, friends and family reveal
the reality sought by the commercial
magazines of the time while the
words of Martha Hastie, Beatrice
Edgar, Phoebe Holden Gregg,
Bessie George Stewart and Frances
Tweedie Milne give voice to its
realities. Phoebe and Bessie’s diaries
are interconnected because they are
mother and daughter. Bessie’s
writings contain local Huron
County references because she
wrote from her husband’s farm in
Clinton.
This travelling exhibit will only be
at the Sallows Gallery until Oct. 31.
Gallery hours are Tuesday to
Saturday – noon to 5 p.m.
Admission is free.
THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2007. PAGE 27.
Singing and signing
Popular Canadian folk singer Valdy and Canadian Idol
contestant Kati Durst signed a guitar to be auctioned at the
Teddy Bear Dream Auction this past weekend in Blyth. The
performers entertained at the 19th annual event, presented
by the Huron County Child Abuse Prevention Committee.
Doors opened at Memorial Hall for the silent auction at 6
p.m. The live auction followed at 8 p.m. with local
auctioneer Richard Lobb. Entertainment began at 9 p.m.
Masters of ceremony for the evening were Rob Bundy and
Floyd Herman. (Vicky Bremner photo)
Happy 25th Anniversary
Shirley and Alan
September 25, 1982
All our love and best wishes
~ your family
Golden
Anniversary
You are invited to join our family
in the celebration of the
50th Wedding Anniversary
of our parents,
Ken and Dawn White
at an open house
Saturday, October 13th, 1-4 pm
at their home in Brussels.
The couple requests no gifts.
A donation of a non-perishable
food item for the Huron County
Food Bank would be
gratefully appreciated.
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Plowing match artfeatured in Goderich
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A walk in the city
Joan, Linda and Norma Mair (from left), formerly of
Brussels, were in Toronto last weekend participating in The
Weekend to End Breast Cancer. Their team, Breast Step
Forward, raised $18,522 for the cause, while just over 5,500
people participated, raising a grand total of $17,300,000 to
support breast cancer research. (Photo submitted)