Watching you paint
30 x 30 inches
Acrylic on canvas
Barbara Muir © 2011
Our second opening of Faces and Places is happening on
November 24th -- two weeks from yesterday between6 and 8 p.m. at Studio Vogue Gallery, 216 Avenue Road,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 416 659-9809.
It is close to Christmas, and near the start of the holiday season,
so it's fitting that part of the purpose of our closing
party is to raise money to give a high school education
to two little girls, currently living at Peace Matunda in Africa.
Peace Matunda is an orphanage school in Tanzania where
Gill Cameron volunteered for three months last winter.
Gill is raffling off tickets to win one of her glorious watercolours,
and I am giving a portion of the proceeds from the sale
of two paintings to the girls' high school education fund.
But the main reason for the second opening is to give anyone
who didn't get a chance to come out to the first wonderful
party, an opportunity to see the show and talk to the artists.
Please come out if you couldn't make it earlier, or come
again if you like -- we'll be thrilled to see you.
A Busman's Holiday
Thursday was my first full day off in two months. I couldn't
wait to get out of my studio to see the great show of
Marc Chagall's work on at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Double Portrait with Wine Glass
Marc Chagall
On view at The Art Gallery of Ontario
As part of the Chagall And The Russian
Avant-garde exhibition on loan
from the collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris
made supper, then Steven and I went to see Valda
Zoben's show at Propeller Gallery. Valda is a wonderful artist
and gets inspired by her travels around the world.
Her paintings in this show have a deeply spiritual feel based on her
travels last winter through Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
Check it out at Propeller if you get a chance in the next
two weeks.
Valda Zobens discussing
her work with visitors to
Propeller Gallery
Her painting is on the left.
My head spinning with images from Chagall, Kandinsky (my
favorite in the Russian painters show), The Group of Seven,
(which we can't leave the gallery without seeing), and Valda
Zobens I slept like a happy baby. Clearly art is my working life.
Have a can't-get-enough-of-art day
