Happy New Year!

Here are some photos of Lynn Chidwick, Terry and Evan Petrie's fantastic backyard light display.  They have a yard that backs onto the walking path by the river, below Dufferin St. and started out with a few strands of sparkly things to brighten the dark Winter evenings. Over the years many more lights and ornaments were donated to their wonderful display and now they have quite the forest of twinkling loveliness.  You can wander through and might notice clues to a story or two here and there. They now have a donation box by the entrance for a charity close to their hearts, to help at-risk kids.
This is the Guelph Mercury article about them.
It is a very special place.

 

New Mural

As I was walking to the bus stop the other morning I got to see the mural that Andrew Frazer was working on before he left to return home to Australia. He did the original bird painting and some other bits, later more artists finished the work.  I like all the different patterns working together and especially the paper pasted birds on top. Will have to find out who did those. Lots of paper pasted graffiti going on in Guelph lately.  
Unfortunately I was passing it very close and did not have time to cross the street to take the photo.  Kind of fun to see it in pieces. It is on the side of the Guelph Mercury building beside the Albion Hotel.

Big Arts weekend in Guelph

 Culture Days time again! We will be missing all the fun in Guelph but will be enjoying some good times with family out of town. Because there is so much going on, I thought I would share some of
the fine events planned with you. Lydia and Gillian will be hosting a hands on print event in the studio (3rd floor of 123 Woolwich St.)on Sunday, check the culturedays.ca website for more information.

 

 This Friday is also a fourth Friday and in Guelph that means lots of wonderful free events are going on. Click here for all the details.

 I am very sad to miss the wonderful and talented Janet Morton's opening at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Friday night at 7pm. Front page of the Guelph Mercury today has all the information. But will be happy to take in the show after the weekend, it runs until November 11th. Click here and here to read a couple interesting articles about Janet. Here are a couple examples of her work that I love but you should look her up yourself as she has done so many amazing things with wool that really need to be seen to be believed.
This is one of Janet's installations at the Paul Petro gallery in 2010

This image is from her exhibit at Museum London, last September.

 


Graffiti Fest is happening in downtown Guelph this Saturday, September 29th!
Here are a few good street art examples I noticed outside the RedBrick cafe the other day.  The fox is by an Australian artist, Andrew Frazer and Elizabeth Taylor is by a highschool student who did most of their projects this way and then submitted the
photos to their art teacher.