The Ramblin Rose Report: Many Artists At Brighton Arts Council Show and Sale

With the skies opening up for the last day of spring rain Brighton Arts Council’s show and sale that was to be hosted at Proctor House was relocated to the King Edward Park Community Centre. BAC President Malcolm Schofield along with other members spent most of Friday getting the shows displays ready for the show.
A large representation of the over one hundred members of the BAC showed off their talents and artistic abilities. Painters are always a strong and colourful showing. With portraits and landscapes painters working in oils and acrylics inspired smiles and awe. The watercolours splashed colour on land and lane and washed away the grey skies outside.
The photographs and the prints show the local and the studied spaces with a well focused eye and an experienced hand. Fantastical fractals play graphically amongst traditional art of the hand. Decorative painters imbuing wood with traditional European images as animals grew out of carved wood to gather atop tables.
Janice Daniels and Kerry Burke demonstrated a fine hand at rug hooking and fibre spinning. Ron Waddling and his bunny friends set up a easel and posed and painted their cottontails off.
New faces and new talents were showing for the first time along with unique artistic crafts like decorative eggs and jewellery.
A barrel organ grinder entertained the artists and the adoring crowds of fans.
Brighton Arts Council welcomed the Brighton branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario and the Brighton Horticultural Society as they would have felt at home at Proctor House their enthusiasm might have inspired some new ideas.
Brighton Arts Council will participate in several shows over the summer in Brighton and around Northumberland. RGG