Owen Sound Banner Project

The Owen sound Banner project is now complete .
All 40 banners now bring our Harbour alive. Come see and enjoy.
We still need a few sponsors for our wonderful banners.For just $100. the banner will be yours to hang proudly at your place of business or home, after they are taken down to be replaced with new banners.

Owen Sound Banner Project

Owen Sound Art Banner Project
The Owen Sound Art Banner Project Committee is a group of local volunteers interested in Building broad community support and participation in displaying the work of local artists in the form of street banners. In addition to adding artistic value to the downtown streetscape, this project has great potential to increase tourist interest and civic pride in the downtown area.The images displayed on the banners will be selected by a committee of local artists, and will be fully self-funded by art patrons, who will then receive the banners at the end of their public display period. This process keeps interest high, and creates an annual stream of fresh images.
The City of Owen Sound has approved this concept on a trial basis, with the initial launch scheduled for the harbour front area in late summer 2009. “Can you just visualize 40 banners along the waterfront all images from local artists. What a wonderful way to promote Owen Sound”.
If successful, the goal is to roll this program out to the downtown area in 2010.
We now have 40 banners beautifully displayed on Owen Sound'
You can support this wonderful project … For only $100 you can sponsor one of the banners. This means it is your to keep after the public display period is over.

Owen Sound Banner project

Enchanted Garden of Poppies

Mt. Baker from Canada

Recent adventures of this summer

The summer is disappearing fast so many art shows, and new paintings here are a few of my more recent paintings.

A group of artists spent the best part of a week on Vim Island in McGregor Bay just north of Manitoulin Island. A wonderful work shop of plain air painting. We call ourselves “Earth Artists”.

This was my first venture of painting quickly before the colors change. I used acrylic in order for quick drying. Must do this again, we had a great time. Good Food, Good company, and lots of paintings.

McGregor Bay Vim Island

White Pines

Secret Garden

Reflections Vim Island McGregor Bay

Wintering in Owen Sound

Kepplecroft Hill

More Winter Paintings

Gateway To The West

New Winter Scenes

Oil Paintings this winter

Elora Gorge

New Lady Knight, in the Order Of Alexander The Great

Artist from Canada was made a Lady Knight
The Alexander Order welcomes the painter Eleanor Pauling

Knight Arnulf Damerau (London) congratulates the new Lady Knight Eleanor Pauling after the speach by the European Grandmaster of the Alexander Order, Mr. Joe F. Bodenstein from the Noervenich Castle near Cologne.

Clarence/Berlin (bpb) The International Order Alexander the Great pour le Mérite for Arts and Science welcomed the Canadian painter Eleanor Pauling as a new Knight. "The Order is happy to have another lady in this society of knights", said the European Grandmaster Joe F. Bodenstein, Lord of Noervenich Castle.
Traditionally, men dominated the OAG. On the other side it is known that in the history of the Order, two ladies had leading position as Grandmasters. The daughter of the last German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II., the Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia guided the Order over several decades. Her successor was the diplomat Erica Pappritz, Chief of Protocol in the time of the West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
At present, three ladies are known to be taking active part in the affairs of the Order: The theologian Professor Dr. Uta Ranke-Heinemann (daughter of the late German president Gustav Heinemann), the author Ruth Zucker (Israel) and the painter Dr. Birgit Sewekow. The Order expects that the new Knight Eleanor Pauling will become active in the American-Canadian cooperation on the field of fine arts.

Honoured with an Alexander Dinner
Eleanor Pauling was knighted at an Alexander Dinner in the town Clarence, New York. It was hosted by the OAG Chancellor Consul B. John Zavrel. The ceremony took place in the presence of the international Grandmaster, Dr. Wilson Greatbatch, the inventor of the implantable pacemaker. Among the illustrious guess he welcomed a European delegation, led by John G. Bodenstein. The "Salute America" to the audience of invited guests and knights was delivered by Knight Sigurd K. Kuepper.
The Ribbon of the Order in red-gold-dark blue was handed over to Eleanor Pauling by the European OAG Grandmaster Joe F. Bodenstein, assisted by Knight Arnulf Damerau (London). In his laudatio, J.F. Bodenstein pointed out that Mrs. Pauling has dedicated her life to introduce fine arts to the public as a part of an all-round education. In cooperation with James Culligan, she founded and operates the "Bridges Art Gallery" in Owen Sound (Canada), to give the local artists more opportunities to show their works to the public. The Alexander Order appreciates their engagement to show works of artistes from the area, organize workshops and lectures to make art come alive.
The Alexander Order encouraged Eleanor Pauling, besides her important work for the general public and the art community, not to forget her own career as a painter.
Her landscapes, mountains, lakes, rivers and the paintings of the Niagara Falls are an important contribution to the art of our time.


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