In collaboration with Kawartha Arts Network, the goal of the program was to enliven our landscapes with eye-popping artwork that captures and displays the individual and collective experiences of our community on traffic control boxes around the municipality.
Kawartha Lakes put out a Call for Submissions to local artists for the program and we received 30 entries. The theme for 2024 was agriculture and rural life in Kawartha Lakes. Ten submissions were chosen for wrapping, and three more were chosen to join the ten as the monthly artwork in the upcoming 2025 Municipal CalendarWithout further adieu, please see the chosen submissions for this year's That's a Wrap art program:
A Golden Day
By Janice Addison
I have been a resident of the beautiful, Kawartha Lakes area most of my lifetime. Art has always been a part of my life, but it wasn't until I retired from teaching elementary school, that I added a studio to my home and began painting in earnest. Watercolour and acrylic are my main media of expression, but I experiment with various art forms.
Being a rural girl at heart, I have always enjoyed the open spaces of the countryside.
"A Golden Day" is a farm I pass on my way to Lindsay. The field is ever changing with the seasons. This is a view, on one of those golden harvest days.
Find it in the Municipal Calendar: April
View more of Janice's work on the Fenelon Station Gallery and Victoria County Studio Tour websites.
Dwelling in the Sun
By Adryan White
Adryan is a local Transgender and Queer artist who is attending I.E. Weldon Secondary School. He works with a variety of different mediums and materials and is always up to trying something new. After graduation, Adryan plans to become a local tattoo artist as a way to share his art as well as his passion for it. His contribution reflects how he spent a considerable amount of time on and around farms as well as surrounded by the country. He has always had a love for animals on and off the farm.
Find it in the Municipal Calendar: July
Daisy Dream Tree
By Annabelle Murray
Annabelle Jane Murray is an artist residing in the beautiful Kawartha Lakes. Born in 1961 in London, England, Annabelle grew up in Quebec, and has a B.A. from Queen's University, with a subsequent career as a graphic designer. Annabelle is a poet with two published chapbooks of poetry, and winner of numerous awards and recognition for her writing and art.
Annabelle is a self-taught artist working in acrylic. Some of her earlier pieces include poetry as an additional layer to the work. The final painting is a portal into the beauty of the natural world. Her process is entirely intuitive, and her paintings are joyful and vivid representations of the natural world. The application of hundreds of tiny dots adds a final layer to each painting.
Find it in the Municipal Calendar: December
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Camping at Night
By Alivia Nozdryn
Alivia recently graduated from I.E. Weldon Secondary School in Lindsay. Throughout her high school education, Alivia has taken many Media and Visual art courses. Alivia's submission is a digitally illustrated scene of camping. It is inspired by her local camping trips with her family. Alivia often enjoys painting images of nature. Her goal is to broaden her art skills and to learn how to draw people. Most of Alivia's artworks are created using Acrylic paint or a digital illustration program on her phone.
Find it in the Municipal Calendar: August
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Gone Fishing
By Abbygail Murray
My Dad and I often go out fishing with our puppy Lana, sometimes it's nice to enjoy the quiet scenery. Almost makes up for the fact we never catch anything.
Find it in the Municipal Calendar: May
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Wanderlust
By Rhonda Laurson
Rhonda's experience comes from a journey of self-directed experimentation and a quest for technical and expressive excellence by learning from other professional artists. Rhonda's inspiration comes from the out of doors. She is a resident of Kawartha Lakes where she built an art studio on her waterfront property and can look out the window of the studio and enjoy the beauty and get inspiration from the lake view in many conditions with a wide variety of water fowl at her back door. A kayak lays ready for a gentle paddle into natures art.
She was born in Campbelton New Brunswick. Her love of art and inspiration comes from many years spent living in Germany and traveling Europe in her twenties as well as the connection she felt spending much time in the heart of Algonquin Park. Her many adventures paddling, 4x4 excursions and portaging the back woods inspired her love of nature which is evident in her compositions to date.
Find it in the Municipal Calendar: November
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An Autumn Day
By Heather Atherton
Heather spent her teenage years in Bobcaygeon, but worked and raised her family in the GTA. After a long career in municipal recreation she and her husband retired to Bobcaygeon. In retirement Heather has had time to take up her interest in art. She dabbled in acrylic painting for a few years but discovered soft pastels in 2021, this is where her passion lies.
Basically self taught, rather YouTube taught, Heather paints what appeals to her in the moment. Her works lean towards realism or impressionistic. They could be still life, landscapes or florals, but all have bright bold colours
Find it in the Municipal Calendar: October
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View from my Window
By Lesley Drummond
Lesley Drummond is an artist, educator and curator actively involved in the arts community of Kawartha Lakes.
After graduation, she worked in both the private and public gallery sectors in Toronto, then ran the Art Departments at three Kawartha area high schools, teaching studio art, art history and applied design for thirty years. She also travelled extensively and worked as Artist in Residence at Ontario provincial parks. She has been Director of the Kawartha Arts Network – a local artist's co-operative – since it's inception in 2008 and recently completed nine years on the Board of the Kawartha Lakes Arts Council.
Find it in the Municipal Calendar: September
Daisy
By Dagmar Pinney
Soon after moving back to the Kawartha Lakes area, specifically to Lindsay, I was amazed to discover the depth of artistic talent in the area. As a member of the Station Gallery of Fenelon Falls and a yearly participant in the Kawartha Arts Studio Tour and local art events, this further supports the notion that the area is rich with local artisans.
Inspiration comes from my love of nature, especially trees and water. Lately I am best known for my landscape painting depicting vibrant colours, both in watercolour and acrylic mediums.
Find it in the Municipal Calendar: February
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View more of Dagmar's work.
Sheep Grazing
By Marilyn Britt
Marilyn moved to the Fenelon area in 2011 after retiring. It was a natural progression from enjoying her old cottage on Cameron Lake since 1984 and previously her grandparents' cottage since childhood.
She says that watching the lake, trees and countryside change with the seasons is a wonderful pastime; painting them is a little more challenging!
Landscapes, water and flowers predominate in her art with people and animals peeking in here and there.
Find it in the Municipal Calendar: March
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View more of Marilyn's work on the Fenelon Station Gallery website.
Peaceful Reflections
by Laura Densmore
Find it in the Municipal Calendar: June
Passing Storm
By RoseMarie Condon
Born and educated in Toronto RoseMarie's studio in Fenelon Falls is close to the environment that inspires her work. RoseMarie expresses concern for Canada's unique and fragile ecology and heritage in paintings and drawings of people, landscape, flora, fauna and architecture. Many of RoseMarie's paintings and book illustrations express an irrepressible sense of whimsy.
RoseMarie illustrated the award winning books Canadian Shield Alphabet, Terror on Turtle Creek, Wagons East plus numerous children's activities, games and pastimes. Her works are published in 'Artists of the Kawarthas' as well as 'Artists for Conservation' 2022, 2023 and 2024 books and online exhibitions.
RoseMarie is a signature member of 'Artists for Conservation', a member/volunteer of the Kawartha Art Gallery, KAN Kawartha Arts Network and the Rails End Gallery, Haliburton. She enjoys teaching children painting, drawing and sculpting. RoseMarie has received numerous awards; her paintings and illustrations in oil, acrylic and watercolour are in collections throughout North America and Europe.
Find it in the Municipal Calendar: Cover
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View more of Rose Marie's work.
Too Cold to Sit Outside
By Rob O'Hoski
Rob migrated to Lindsay in 2019 and immediately joined the local art scene by becoming a member of the Kawartha Arts Network (KAN). He is also a member of the Kawartha Art Gallery (KAG) and Kawartha Lakes Arts Council (KLAC). Rob's favourite mediums are pastel and oil. His preferred subjects are people, whether portrait or figure work, and landscape.
Rob's submission is titled "Too Cold To Sit Out", featuring a typical winter scene at a KL lake. It is a mixed media piece (monotype, pastel, paper) and measures 10" x 8".
Find it in the Municipal Calendar: January
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View more of Rob's work.
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| About the That’s a Wrap Jury |
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All submissions were judged by the That’s a Wrap art program jury in the following three categories: Artistic Merit, Community Impact and Project Viability. Artwork was given a score between 1 and 5 in each category. The jury’s goal was to find the artwork that best met the theme of the program and would have the best visual impact in the community when it was wrapped around a traffic control box.
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| About Kawartha Arts Network (KAN) |
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Kawartha Arts Network is a not-for-profit artists’ co-operative operating in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario. They are committed to:
Members have a wide variety of exhibition options with KAN throughout the year. Some of these include an on-going and ever-changing display in the Guild Room of the Academy Theatre in Lindsay, participation at outdoor shows such as Kawartha Palooza and the “Made in Kawartha Lakes” art/artisan show and sale which is sponsored by the Kawartha Lakes Arts Council. |
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| The 2024 That's a Wrap traffic control boxes were wrapped by local company Auto Trim & Signs. A big thank you goes out to them for their work on the project, we couldn't have done it without their expertise! |
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