The opening is on Sunday 15 November 15 from 1:00p.m.to 4:00p.m. where you can meet many of the artists whose work is on display.
The show features the art of nineteen members of the Group, a Silent Auction of original art, with a minimum of 25% of the purchase price going towards prizes for the Best of High School Art Show held in May each year at the Gallery.
As well as seventeen 8" x 10" paintings available at $30.00 each from the Small Treasures Art Show which was a fund raiser for the B.H.S.A. Show with 100% of the purchase price going for prizes for the students.
With the four members of the Countryside Art Group also being Outdoor Painters, all of us are exhibiting in this show.As you enter the Gallery along the first wall you will find the art of Cindy Allan.
This year she has been working on much larger canvases and is displaying two recently completed oil paintings.
The top painting is is of a calm, peaceful, late summer afternoon on the lake.
The bottom painting features one of the canoes for which Cindy is well known; this one in green and looks as though it is waiting to be taken out on the calm waters of the lake.
Cindy Allan
Norma MacEacheren's paintings are further along the same wall as Cindy's artwork. When she retired she started painting in oils and less than a year ago in the fall she started painting in watercolour.
She has taken classes with a number of watercolour artists as she continues to develop a unique style all her own as she works with this medium which she is mastering quite well.She paints a wide variety of subject matter ranging from floral, landscape, buildings and animals.
Recently Norma has started doing some fantasy artwork featuring fairies and toadstools.
The top painting is of one of the many local family farms which are reminiscent of her childhood home on a large working farm north of Burleigh Falls.
The lower painting features the delicate beauty of a water lily in full bloom highlighted against the calm, dark water of the lake.
Norma Macheren
On the far back wall of the Gallery just around the corner from Norma's artwork is a lovely exhibit by Diane Collins.
Her display features two watercolour paintings and a small autumn landscape in acrylic. Diane works equally well in both media.
The first watercolour painting is a floral still life of Black-Eyed Susans in a copper vase. Beside it is a riot of autumn coloured leaves spread across the ground like a carpet.
Below the second watercolour is an acrylic painting of a forest of maple trees at the height of the autumn season.
Mary Diane Collins
Directly across the Gallery in the opposite corner from the paintings of Norma and Diane is the artwork of Susan Sydney.
She chose to display a collection of watercolour paintings featuring different times of day from the beauty of a sunrise on reflected in calm water, the silhouette of trees against a sunset or the beauty of the northern lights over a lake.
The remaining watercolour paintings show the glory of autumn with the brilliant hues of the changing leaves and the beauty of the Canadian winter.
Susan Sydney
On the table are a collection of her ACEO in a wide variety of subject matter contained in two binders.
We hope you are able to come out and enjoy the exhibit before it closes at 4:00p.m. on Sunday 29 November 15.
