Christine Gamus

I first joined a painting club in 2012 with the idea that supporting such a group by contributing a yearly membership fee would help to create a strong, vital presence of artists in the Grey Highlands community of Flesherton. This would let me dabble with a variety of mediums, while assuring myself that “I was there to enjoy the camaraderie of a group of creative and stimulating individuals and just to play at art”. No pressure. Two years later, I was enticed enough by acrylic and pastel mediums to admit that I was a serious pupil of the arts.
Living just west of Flesherton, in the Beaver Valley, offers me endless tableaux. The lure of re-creating, in paint and pastels, droplets of sunshine splashed on snowy landscapes, wind stirred trees of autumn hue partly obscuring a cottage or azure waters blending to deep turquoise as they tumble between tossed rocks take me outdoors to capture nature’s vignettes with brushes to canvas.