Multi-media artist inspired by her Back Forty

Multi-media artist inspired by her Back Forty

Given that artist Deborah Farquharson is inspired by and makes most of her work in the Mulmur area, Curiosity House is the perfect venue for Farquharson’s first solo show, My Back Forty.  Having spent much of her weekend and vacation life in Mulmur, first at her...

Local artists teach art in Nunavut every year

In 2005, Nottawa’s Rob Saley and Clarksburg’s Paul Mantrop took their first artist trip to the Canadian Arctic. They were part of a Group of Seven Southern Georgian Bay artists’ collective known as Drawnonward, onboard an Adventure Canada ship that visited several...

Creemore ultra runner breaks Canadian record

If you’ve seen Creemore’s Lee Anne Cohen, 61, running her 50-kilometre loop around Creemore again and again, you’ve probably wondered what she’s up to. All her determined training has paid off. Over Labour Day weekend, Cohen ran in The Race for the Ages in Tennessee...

Artist from tiny hamlets goes big on cities

Dunedin artist, Steve McDonald, has published his first book – Fantastic Cities: A Colouring Book of Amazing Places Real and Imagined. An adult colouring book, it is filled with 48 pages of McDonald’s detailed cityscape drawings. From cities as diverse as Tokyo to...