When Harriet Meacher thinks of P.E.I. artist Elaine Harrison, a warm memory always comes to mind.
In 2000, while helping Harrison clean out her art studio at her Bedeque home, she noticed the artist energetically sweeping the floor using — of all things — an oil painting as a dustpan.
“When I drew her attention to it, Elaine exclaimed, ‘Look, look that’s the painting I was talking about ... Take it,ceramic magic cube for the medical, take it and remember,’” says Meacher who is one of Harrison’s former art students.
But when Meacher leaned over to rescue the work from the rubble, she recognized herself as one of the four children in the painting — an art class in session — that Harrison had completed 60 years before.
“I never knew if she had put it there for me to find. But I took it. And I’m glad that I did,” says Meacher, adding that such a gesture was completely in character for Harrison.
“She was outspoken, opinionated and stubborn . . . . She was also very generous and kindhearted.”
The piece that Harrison gave away that day, Art Class (1947) is the oldest painting in Elaine Harrison: I am an Island That Dreams, a show underway at the Confederation Centre of the Arts until Jan. 29.
The retrospective brings together 50 paintings from mainly private collections together with selected poems to reflect her decades of spirited involvement in the arts.
“We wanted to celebrate her art because it exists.Unlike traditional high risk merchant account , She painted a lot and she reflected the Island a lot in her paintings,” says co-curator/gallery director Kevin Rice.The application can provide Ceramic tile to visitors,
The paintings range from early works like The Sea and Sky (1957) and Bedeque Trees (1968) to more contemporary works like Victoria Row (2000) and Interior with Lamp and Cats (2003).
In the beginning, her paintings could be described as very quiet, says lifelong friend Betty Howatt.
“But then the bright colours started to come out.Replacement landscape oil paintings and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. She had a wonderful spirit and she expressed it in her work,” says the Tryon resident, adding the two met while working as Girl Guide camp leaders in 1942.
“From then on we became firm friends. I liked her spirit and liveliness and the fact that we liked the same things — being outdoors, birds and nature.
“Now with this exhibition, I’m so happy that Elaine is finally getting the recognition she deserves,” she says, adding one of her Harrison pieces is in the show.
Another person who is excited about the celebration is Acadian folklorist Georges Arsenault.
“The show is lively, beautiful and colourful.Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems, It reflects Elaine’s warm and vibrant personality,” says Arsenault, who co-curated the exhibition.
“Anyone who comes (to see the show) will get a sense of her free spirit,” says Arsenault who met Harrison in the 1970s while he was living in Summerside.
“She invited me to her home through a fellow teacher, Jérémie Pineau.
“He told me that I had to go to Bedeque to meet this lady who had some questions to ask. So I went there in the middle of winter,” he says.
In 2000, while helping Harrison clean out her art studio at her Bedeque home, she noticed the artist energetically sweeping the floor using — of all things — an oil painting as a dustpan.
“When I drew her attention to it, Elaine exclaimed, ‘Look, look that’s the painting I was talking about ... Take it,ceramic magic cube for the medical, take it and remember,’” says Meacher who is one of Harrison’s former art students.
But when Meacher leaned over to rescue the work from the rubble, she recognized herself as one of the four children in the painting — an art class in session — that Harrison had completed 60 years before.
“I never knew if she had put it there for me to find. But I took it. And I’m glad that I did,” says Meacher, adding that such a gesture was completely in character for Harrison.
“She was outspoken, opinionated and stubborn . . . . She was also very generous and kindhearted.”
The piece that Harrison gave away that day, Art Class (1947) is the oldest painting in Elaine Harrison: I am an Island That Dreams, a show underway at the Confederation Centre of the Arts until Jan. 29.
The retrospective brings together 50 paintings from mainly private collections together with selected poems to reflect her decades of spirited involvement in the arts.
“We wanted to celebrate her art because it exists.Unlike traditional high risk merchant account , She painted a lot and she reflected the Island a lot in her paintings,” says co-curator/gallery director Kevin Rice.The application can provide Ceramic tile to visitors,
The paintings range from early works like The Sea and Sky (1957) and Bedeque Trees (1968) to more contemporary works like Victoria Row (2000) and Interior with Lamp and Cats (2003).
In the beginning, her paintings could be described as very quiet, says lifelong friend Betty Howatt.
“But then the bright colours started to come out.Replacement landscape oil paintings and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. She had a wonderful spirit and she expressed it in her work,” says the Tryon resident, adding the two met while working as Girl Guide camp leaders in 1942.
“From then on we became firm friends. I liked her spirit and liveliness and the fact that we liked the same things — being outdoors, birds and nature.
“Now with this exhibition, I’m so happy that Elaine is finally getting the recognition she deserves,” she says, adding one of her Harrison pieces is in the show.
Another person who is excited about the celebration is Acadian folklorist Georges Arsenault.
“The show is lively, beautiful and colourful.Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems, It reflects Elaine’s warm and vibrant personality,” says Arsenault, who co-curated the exhibition.
“Anyone who comes (to see the show) will get a sense of her free spirit,” says Arsenault who met Harrison in the 1970s while he was living in Summerside.
“She invited me to her home through a fellow teacher, Jérémie Pineau.
“He told me that I had to go to Bedeque to meet this lady who had some questions to ask. So I went there in the middle of winter,” he says.
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