Left to right: Gala Girls: Michelle Casey, Wendy Southin, Sheila Cain-Sample, Maggie Jordan, Olive Jones and Maya Hum.
The following are some images from my “Opening Gala” which took place on November 8, 2011 in the Atrium Gallery at Ben Franklin Place (Ottawa, Ontario). A big thanks to my friend and photographer Carmin Davidson for making a special trip down to Ottawa from Toronto to take these shots. She did an amazing job! I’ll be posting many more photos in my Facebook album this month.
Various views of the Atrium Gallery…
Left: My youngest sister Teresa and my best friend Jean; Right: My sister Lorraine and her daughter Julia.
Left: Penelope Kokkinos, Gallery Coordinator and I; Right: My best friend from high school, Tammy and her son Sam came out to support me… Sam wrote a wonderful comment in my guest book…
Left: Olive looking lovely in red; Right: Maya, Gallery Assistant and a talented artist herself, was a great help.
Left/Right: Margos, my hairdresser, and his mom Peggy (of Toronto) surprised me with a visit. Margos translated all the words on my journal pages for his mom from English into Armenian so she could understand them. Her favourite piece was “A Memory of A Photo of My Parents” – of that page she whispered: “so true, so true..."
Left: Our friend Bob. Right: An artist/friend painter, Hamid Ayoub has been so supportive of my work.
Left: Olive, artist/friend painter David Kearn, and I chatting it up. Right: I had an animated discussion with my sister's Lorraine's friend/artist Urbano and his wife.
Left/Right: Among the visitors were a number of my hubby’s work associates: Bruce, Susan, Marta, Kathy and her husband Eric – they had such enthusiastic comments and thoughts to share about my work. Kevin’s here in the very far right-hand corner.
Left/Right: Friends Diane and artist Michael from my old neighbourhood on Gilmour Street dropped by; I hadn’t seen them in ages! It was great to catch up about life and their kids who are all grown up! They shared such insightful reflections about my work. It was also great to exchange thoughts with Doris, a local artist, who also loves miniature art work.
Left/Right: More opening visitors… That's Leslie, a former Vision Board student, and her partner peeking out from behind the divider.
Left/Right: More visitors... in all nearly 100 people attended the Opening!
Left/Right: At the opening I sold fine art cards which were a great hit and also displayed work related to my workshops which attracted many new students. Wendy and her son Christian did a fabulous job of helping me arrange the display case.
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