editionap.ca ARTour: at home and at ease with artistic souls GREGGCHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca ARTS & CULTURE
The Clarence Creek artist has been an enthusiastic participant in the ARTour pro- gram since it began. “I love to meet people,” she said. “Also I find a lot of other artists like to come over and share techniques.” Curran artist Tina Petrovicz enjoys variety in both the styles and types of media she uses to express her artistic visions. She is comfortable working in acrylics or oil, but may switch over to digital photography or picking up a charcoal drawing stick for some of her works. “Different kinds of media allow me to ex- press different things,” she explained. “I’m often looking at specific things about a sub- ject. I am a very visual person. I see things and I see the art in them.” On right, Ghislaine Auger-Boileau and Minoumi welcome visitors to their home.
Walk into the home studio of some local artists during an ARTour visit and a purry furry welcome committee may be waiting in ambush for a nice new soft lap to curl up in. A sit-down session with Ghislaine Au- ger-Boileau in bright and sunny upstairs painter’s studio also means sharing the couch with Minoumi, the black-and-white stray cat who decided to“adopt”her several years ago. He’s maybe part of the inspiration behind the “Wild Ones” series of jungle cat paintings that graces the foyer of her home. Over the many years she has put brush to canvas, Auger-Boileau has let her heart and soul guide her in her choice of subjects. “I go by what I feel like doing,” she ex- plained, though she confessed that nature and all its wonders are favoured subjects.
Photos Gregg Chamberlain
Tina Petrovicz works on the final reproduction of one of her etchings.
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Le gouvernement fédéral investira un montant de 59 000$ dans un projet à sa- veur culturelle de l’Union des cultivateurs franco-ontariens (UCFO). Ce projet sera réalisé par l’UCFO en col- laboration avec le Campus collégial d’Al- fred et le Réseau du patrimoine franco- ontarien. Pierre Lemieux, député fédéral de Glen- garry-Prescott-Russell, en a fait l’annonce au nom de Shelly Glover, ministre du Patrimoine canadien et des Langues offi- cielles, le 26 septembre, au Club de golf de Hammond. Le projet de l’UCFO, intitulé «Recherche du patrimoine humain agricole et rural franco-ontarien», permettra de consigner et de mettre en valeur la contribution des personnes qui ont participé au dévelop- pement du patrimoine rural et agricole franco-ontarien. «Nous remercions sincèrement Patri- moine canadien pour leur soutien et l’aide qu’ils nous apportent afin de mettre en valeur l’immense contribution des bâ- tisseurs de nos communautés agricoles francophones», a affirmé Simon Durand, directeur général de l’UCFO. 59 000$ à l’UCFO
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