You are invited! Art Auction in support of Camp Mi-A-Kon-Da's Campership Fund
Join Camp Mi-A-Kon-Da on Sunday November 3, 2019 from 3pm to 5pm at Leaside Gardens in Toronto for an Art Auction & Open House in support of their Campership Fund. All welcome!
As the Featured Artist, I will be presenting a series titled Summer of over 20 paintings depicting Camp Mi-A-Kon-Da and Birch Island.
The Art Auction will also include work by Susan Friedman, Samantha Gaetz, Anne Potter, Jessica Vergeer, Gary Jacobson, Tina Jacobson, Janus Pilon and Brandon Smith.
Proceeds go towards the artists and the Campership Fund which gives Mi-A-Kon-Da the opportunity to sponsor families in need, giving their daughters the chance to experience the magic of Camp Mi-A-Kon-Da.
Come bid on art, and help send a girl to camp!
My goal with this series was to capture the Camp Mi-A-Kon-Da experience - the natural beauty of the land and lake, but also camp life, friends and activities. I’m drawn to the reflections and distortions caused by water and refracted sunlight, and Birch Island and Lake Wah Wash Kesh provided ample source material - light bouncing off the water, the sun breaking through the trees, the glow of a sunlit tent in the forest.
As an impressionist painter, I try to create a work that is realistic and recognizable, but also loose and expressive. I’m interested in painting more--and sometimes less--than what presents itself. The paint itself is part of the story, with visible brush strokes, drips, scumbled layers of broken colour and abstract passages.
Camp Mi-A-Kon-Da is a magical place, and I am excited to be able to help build their Campership Fund through my art.