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A place for artists
The Bainton Gallery at Memorial Hall offers opportunities for area artists to show off their work
to the thousands of people who visit the Festival each year.
Congratulations Blyth Festival
on your 28th Season!
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It's hardly surprising that the
Blyth Festival is about plays and
play-going. What is surprising is just
how integrated into the cultural life
of Huron County and south-western
Ontario the Festival has become.
The Bainton Gallery opened in
1990 and since that time has
presented shows featuring, artists
from local to world renown. This
year will be no exception with three
exhibits in different mediums.
The initial offering in June is a
non-juried community exhibition of
the work of local artists. This is one
of several opportunities for local
artists that the gallery has presented
in the last several years.
Art in any medium is welcome.
The show will have its official
opening Sunday, June 2 at 7 p.m. It
will continue to run until June 28.
Starting on July 3 the gallery will
be presenting, Dimensional Illusions
and Incarnations until Aug. 3. Artists
Roberta Cory and Cyril Leeper will
be presenting a selection of their
works.
Cory is a mixed media assemblage
artist living in London, Ontario. Her
work features recycled castoffs that
in their original form were familiar
to us all. These items are altered,
joined and painted in bright acrylics
to become new furniture or wall
pieces. The new item comes with an
ironic twist or a surprise for the
viewer because it is not always what
it seems.
The Cubist still-life may contain a
drawer. The lamp on the Matisse
table may actually work.
She uses her work to comment on
the painting styles of the early
Modernists. Critics say her work is a
unique combination of homage and
humour.
Leeper on the other hand is
Canada's premier portrait painter.
His world-renown portraits are said
to hark back to the old masters of the
formal portrait.
He includes members of the royal
family, industrialists and politicians
among those who have sat before
him to be captured in oil.
This show however features the
other sides of his painting
personality. It demonstrates and
explores the complete range of his
abilities in all aspects of oil-painting.
The third of the summer's shows is
called the Selective Eye. Two
photographers and a painter will
offer their visions of the natural
landscape.
Photographers Jerry McDonnell
and John Palmer will offer their view
of the landscape both large and
small. Greg Sherwood will provide
his ideas through works on paper
and oil on canvas.
Palmer is a Clinton artist who has
had numerous shows in south-
western Ontario. His photos, both
original and computer-enhanced are
often about the patterns found in
nature both in the wild and out.
McDonnell has a passionate
interest in the process of decay and
the changes that occur during that
process. He says, "art captures the
stages of disintegration."
Sherwood is interested in nature as
we experience it. He explores the
seasonal and physical forces in
nature that surround us.
The show closes the summer
season and will run until Sept. 1.
The Blyth Festival Art Gallery
committee which mounts the shows
in the Bainton Gallery is a separate
committee of the Blyth Centre for
the Arts comprised of art lovers from
across the region — people like Ron
and Bev Walker of the Blyth 'area,
who were there at the beginning and
moved with the gallery over more
than a quarter century as it grew.
Back in 1975 the Blyth Festival had
barely been formed when Festival
founding artistic director James Roy
approached the Walkers one spring
day.
Based on that request, the first
exhibit was prepared for showing in
the basement of Memorial Hall in
1975.
The gallery eventually moved to
the former Stewart's grocery store,
once in the building where the
theatre administration is housed,
then to the loading dock area of the
theatre, now the Blyth Library.
It wasn't until 1990 that the
gallery moved to its permanent
home in the newly-constructed
connecting link between the
administration offices and Memorial
Hall. It was rededicated as The
Bainton Gallery the following year.
Still today a visit to the gallery is
made simple as it is right beside the
Memorial Hall box office.
The .Blyth Festival Gallery is the
only non-profit public gallery in
Huron County. You can visit the
Bainton Gallery during the Festival
season any time the box` office is
open by entering the box office of
Memorial Hall.
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on your
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