Girard Portfolio: Juried Show for Arts and the Arch

Friday, June 22, 2012

Juried Show for Arts and the Arch

This June the Frontenac Arch Biosphere Network, an organization that promotes and celebrates this unique region of Ontario, hosted an art show at the Marianne Van Silfhout Gallery in Brockville. It was a juried show and many artists who vacation or live in the Frontenac area were invited to submit works of art.
I sent this piece that is a four part panel in encaustic that is 72"x24" and is intended to immerse you in the Frontenac Park where I have canoe camped. The fall colours invite you to share the experience.
I won an Honourable Mention at the opening on Friday, June 7 this month. It was a privelege to share the stage with other artists who exhibit their love for this region as well. Here is a look at the piece.

It will also be on view at my show that will be held July 27 to August 22, 2012. Reception will be held on August 2 from 6-8 p.m. I look forward to seeing you there if you live in this region.

Credits for the Works:
Frontenac I,II,III,IV encaustic on board 72"x24" $1500. + hst.

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Biography

My childhood has been delineated by my marauding father who joined the Forces to have us uprooted from place to place: stationed in Picton, Prince Edward County, Petawawa, the Rhone Valley, Germany, and Edmonton. Finally I concluded my high school days in Timmins, Ontario, my birthplace.

I graduated from Queen’s in Kingston in 1974 with a minor in art history and history followed by a teaching degree in secondary visual arts education the following year, 1975. At Queen's, I was instructed by Jennifer Dickson, Trevor Hodgson and Allen Dickinson. In 1975, I began exploring painting with wax using the traditional Javanese tjanting needles on textile and exhibited in a student show.

In the early years in my education career, I travelled to northern Ontario to the James Bay region and worked as an arts & crafts co-ordinator. I learned more from them at that point than they me.

In the late seventies, I saw the work of Joyce Devlin in North Gower and was observant of her exquisite portraits and layers of acrylic paint.

I left teaching and travelled to work as an artist in Montreal. There I handmade folk clothing and accessories using the wax resist techniques on natural fibres I had learned years earlier.

In Ste. Rose north of Montreal island I began my family and in 1980 Emilie was born. Soon in 1982 Camille followed and I returned with my husband to Ottawa and gave birth to Andrea in 1983. In the 1980’s I returned to the teaching profession and was employed with the Ottawa Carleton Catholic School Board for 13 years working solely at St. Mark’s in Manotick.

In the early 1990’s I moved to Kemptville and began working with watercolour being attracted to its fluid line and challenging techniques. I was introduced to an academic method of watercolour by the artist, Jaw Shaw then in Oxford Mills. Her knowledge and careful manipulations still impress me and have influenced my work. I exhibited with her and a group of artists in Oxford Mills at the stackwall building next to the dam. I also exhibited with the North Grenville Art Guild at this time, showing a series of watercolours of historic buildings in the area. I worked behind the scenes in set design with the Kemptville Players and later became part of the leadership team of the Dandelion Festival, North Grenville. In the late 1990’s I taught Visual Arts Education in the Education Faculty of the University of Ottawa as a part-time professor to 2003. I transferred in 2000 to teach at St. Michael’s Catholic High School and retired from formal education in June 2010.

Presently I am exploring the medium of encaustic painting soon becoming a new series. I hope you enjoy these blogs as a new series comes to completion.

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Friday, June 22, 2012

Juried Show for Arts and the Arch

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