On Friday, 30 November 2012, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., at the
Canadian Music Centre (Chalmers House) (http://www.musiccentre.ca/home.cfm),
Suzie LeBlanc and friends are holding a fund-raiser for the Elizabeth Bishop Legacy
Recording.
We are excited to announce that part of that fund-raiser
will include a silent auction on a painting done by Ontario artist Alfred Villeneuve. You can
learn more about Alfred at his website:
Alfred has kindly donated a beautiful painting, “Pic Island
Revisited.” Alfred writes of this painting, “It was inspired while walking the
beach along Pic Bay. We has stopped the night before to
camp. The next morning I got up early and went out to explore the bay area. I
scanned the horizon, the small group of land masses, and up to the mountains to
the northwest. I watched a train, high up along the skirt of the mountain,
making its way around. Suddenly, I was struck by the realization that it was
probably along that same ridge that Lauren Harris and others had painted from
when he created ‘Above Lake Superior’ and ‘Pic Island.’ That morning, I felt
the vapors of history about. I sat and absorbed as much of that beautiful early
morn before going back to the bustle of four adults and the daily routines of
life….It is a work that is dear to me, and so much the better that I pass it
on.” Alfred has kindly provided a image of this painting....
This painting is 12 x 16 inches, oil on canvas.
It retails for $1,100.00
There is a minimum reserve bid of $400.00
We regret that Alfred is not able to attend the fund-raiser
in person, but something essential about his vision of the world will be there
to represent him. We are profoundly grateful to Alfred for his support of the
Elizabeth Bishop Legacy Recording.
Ed. Note: On a personal note, I had the great privilege of
seeing several of Alfred’s painting “in the flesh,” so to speak, at the home of
a good friend of mine in Halifax,
N.S. She has one of them, a large
canvas, hung on her living room wall and when I entered this room for the first
time and saw the painting, I stopped in my tracks in amazement. Alfred’s
paintings are wondrously dynamic, richly textured, vibrantly expressive. One of
his heroes is Emily Carr, a painter whose work I deeply admire; and I can say
that seeing Alfred’s work gave me the same “hair standing on the back of the
neck” feeling that a Carr painting gives me.
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