By Pepper Parr
October 30, 2014
BURLINGTON, ON
They have been doing it for more than ten years.
Artists who put on an arts tour during a weekend that give Burlingtonians a chance to visit nine studios where there are three, sometimes four different artists displaying their work.
Art in Action has been doing this for more than ten years. Each year new artists are added and others who have been showing for a while are dropped off. The studios are scattered about the city with well-marked directions.
The selection this year in the nine studios include:
STUDIO 1
654 SPRING GARDEN RD
Teresa Seaton – Stained Glass Artist
Helen Griffiths – Fine Artist
Josh Tiessen – Fine Artist
Silvana Terry – Jewellery Artist
STUDIO 2
1247 LEMONVILLE RD
George Wilkinson – Wood Turner
Kim DiFrancesco- Fine Artist
Done Graves-Fine Artist
Monica Bell – Quilter
STUDIO 3
1292 HIDDEN VALLEY RD
Ed Hoyer – Fine Artist
Maria Hoyer- Fine Artist
Kathy Fenton – Jewellery Artist
Casandra Ward – Fine Artist
STUDIO 4
1359 HIDDEN VALLEY RD
Julio Ferrer – Fine Artist
Tamara Kwapich – Fine Artist
Liz Meister – Jewellery Artist
STUDIO 5
1295 Knights Bridge Court
Ian Cowling – Photographer
Aubrey Denomy – Sculptor
Brian Harris – Fine Artist
Karen Harris – Clay Sculptor
STUDIO 6
711 ROSS ST
Dan Jones – Photographer
Glen Jones – Photographer
Fred Oliver – Photographer
STUDIO 7
531 Limerick Road
Anne More – Fine Artist
Donna Fratesi – Fine Artist
Joe Speck – Glass Fuser
Marilyn Walsh – Sculptor
STUDIO 8
424 SPARLING CRES.
Donna Grandin – Fine Artist
Lois Shaw- Fine Artist
Louise Young – Jeweller
STUDIO 9
377 Cosburn Crescent
Dave Lawson – Photographer
John Highley – Glass Mosaic Artist
Peter Schlotthauer – Artist Blacksmith
Tammy Warren – Jewellery Artist
For those who make the tour an annual event – there is the opportunity to watch an artist grow and evolve. And you tend to meet people at a one studio that you met at a different studio earlier in the day and you exchange views on what you saw and what you liked and didn’t like.
You find yourself returning to favourite artists and wondering if you can afford what they have knowing that you would like to have that painting or piece of quilt work in your home.
Don Graves, on the right, showing a canvas to a perspective buyer (she bought) will head up the Art Discussions program for the Art in Action crowd.
During one of the previous tours it was a delight to watch Don Graves selling a small piece of work to a young woman who was a first time art buyer. Nice too to see Graves mount a show at the Art Gallery of Burlington that saw a slightly different direction in his work.
It was with some delight that we got a request from a Gazette reader asking if we could put them in touch with Don Graves – they had seen one of his paintings and wanted to talk to hm about a possible purchase. We put the two people together but never learned if a sale took place.
Darlene Throop, on the right, presents Bateman High School students Sarah Tom with the 2014 Art in Action $1500. scholarship.
Each year the Art in Action group awards a scholarship to a Halton student. The award for this year went to Sarah Tom.
