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AUDREY BAIN LANDSCAPE PAINTER OILS AND ACRYLICS Email audreybain@cogeco.ca |
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Audrey Bain is a “plein aire” painter in oils and acrylics. Her works are varied and reflect her response to family ties, social concerns, scenes of nature, images of rural Ontario and the Canadian landscape. |
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Audrey was Gallery Director for the Cornwall Regional Art Gallery from 1983 to 1992. She has retired and is working to further develop her art. She shares the operation of Winddrift Gallery and Studio with her artist husband Alan. In the 70’s Audrey taught part-time classes for St. Lawrence College Cornwall. In 1954-55 Audrey was granted a two-year scholarship to Nova Scotia College of Art. Audrey graduated from St. Lawrence College, Cornwall, Diploma in Visual and Creative Arts (WITH DISTINCTION) in 1982. Audrey studied with Robin Wall, printmaker, Jack Reid, C.S.P.W.C., Danis Meizajs,O.C.A., Robert Hyndman, Larry Halpin. At the Schneider School of Fine Arts she studied painting with Alexander Millar. Earlier studies were with Owen Chicquin, teacher Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Audrey also studied portraiture at the Sadie Bronfman, life drawing Ottawa School of Art, and at Thousand Islands Summer School of Art, Brockville. She studied life drawing with Andrea Green at St. Lawrence College, Brockville. And has recently attended workshops with Carol Barnes and Douglas Purdon Audrey has participated in numerous exhibitions; solo, group, joint and juried exhibitions. From 1968 to the present she has exhibited on a regular basis. Some of the highlight exhibitions were: 1968, 1969 - Group Exhibition, St. Hilaire Women Painters. 1975 - 81 Morrisburg and District Arts and Crafts, Group Show. (Founding Member) 1978 Penny Cole Leukemia Invitational Exhibition, Beaconsfield, P.Q. 1979, 1980 - I.O.D.E. Invitational, Brockville 1982 - Solo Exhibition, Moulinette Gallery, St. Lawrence College, Cornwall 1988 - Juried Exhibition Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery 1994 - Two person exhibition, Cornwall Regional Art Gallery. 1997 - CIVA International Juried Exhibition (Christians in the Visual Arts) (Audrey’s painting Easter Sunday Warrior, was chosen among 44 from 200 entries from across North America and Australia) 1999 - Belleville Public Library Gallery (Joint with Alan Bain) 2000 - CRAG Juried exhibition, Cornwall Since 2000 Audrey has participated in regular yearly juried and group exhibitions with SGGOFA, VAGA, OWS and Ottawa Art Lending. 2006 ECOAA Juried Exhibition, Belleville Public Library and SLC Alumni exhibition, “A Touch of Red” 2007 SLC Alumni, August BAC, Apples & Art Tour Cornwall and Coloris Sur la Baie Rockland October 2008 Apples and Art, SSGFA, Focus Art Black & White, BAC Alumni, Coloris Sur la Baie Rockland
AWARDS: NATIONAL TRUST AWARD, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery. HONORABLE MENTION Cornwall Regional Art Gallery PURCHASE AWARD, Exhibition 80, Cornwall Arts Development Council. 2008 Honourable Mention ECOAA Juried Exhibition, Ottawa 2009 Second Place Acrylics OAA Juried Exhibition, Ottawa
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