Art Exhibition at MERA

Ankarat Dean | Jan 22, 2014

“A Month by Month Art Exhibition” is an exciting new event at the MERA Schoolhouse in McDonalds Corners. Each month a new exhibition will be mounted by a different artist or artists, and these will vary in style and media.

Currently, the MERA weavers are displaying 17 hand-woven pieces, which include a variety of items and techniques, from hand-woven clothing to rugs, woven hangings, to felted hats and hand towels.

The month of February will see the paintings of Gloria Lee-Shoebridge and basketry wall sculptures by Ankaret Dean. The Show is called “Inspired by Nature”. The paintings and the wall sculptures will reflect the energy of the world and nature, animal and bird life.

A vernissage will be held on Sunday, February 2, 2 - 4 p.m. open to the public, friends and family.

Gloria Shoebridge is a mostly self-taught artist who enjoys the textural effects that acrylic, collage and other mixed media can produce. As she was also a sculptor, Gloria has a natural interest in creating tactile images. Over her part-time career as an artist, she has felt connected to the energies that flow through all of the elements of this world and those energies are what captures her interest. Because of this, her work often translates into abstractions and vibrant colours.

Gloria has operated her own speciality painting business in Ottawa, and has offered workshops in personal creative expression through art.

Ankaret Dean has been involved with weaving and basketry since her graduation from The School of Design, Sheridan College, Oakville in 1975. After a long career of teaching and exhibiting, which included travelling to research her interest in baskets and working for C.E.S.O. (Canadian Executives Over Seas), she moved to Lanark Highlands in 1994 to keep sheep and bees.

She is one of the founders of MERA, and is always busy growing flowers for the farmers market, and being “alive and well” in the creative world of the arts.

Beth Girdlers from Elphin will exhibit her "Art and Photogtraphy Exhibition" during the month of March.

Please call 613-278-1203 for further details.