“I am learning how to look at pictures. What has changed is my capacity of feeling. Art opens the heart.” Jeanette Winterson On April 2, the Art Gallery of Northumberland…
Category: Northumberland Art Lovers
Northumberland Art Lovers: Spirit of the Hills Writers’ Group
“I’m constantly blown away by the sheer number of people in this county involved in writing and publishing. I’m also awed by the amazing projects that have come out of…
CBC’s Still Standing Celebrates Resilient Warkworth March 9
“From its roots as a farming community to its unlikely transformation into an artists’ hub known for its thriving LGBTQ community, the village of Warkworth has become a beacon of…
Northumberland Art Lovers: Cardboard Reality’s bekky O’Neil and Keith Del Principe
“We know that art can feed you too. And maybe field grown vegetables are also art.” bekky O’Neil Today, we’re reposting NFOTA’s interview with bekky O’Neil and Keith Del Principe…
Northumberland Art Lovers: Melanie Browne
My proudest moments are as an art teacher…the immense pride I feel when I see the light bulbs going off over their heads,…how engaged they are, how they’ve grown, and…
Northumberland Art Lovers: Melody Crowe
Whenever I teach indigenous people–our own people–the language, I see it as a relearning. I always feel like that language is there. It just needs to be able to be…
Northumberland Art Lovers: Douglas Syrota
I admired a house under renovation – a typical Ontario 19th Century Gothic cottage near Cobourg’s West Beach. Going forward six months, on another walk, I passed the house again…
Northumberland Art Lovers: Rosie Riviera-Lopez
“The most challenging thing about painting is knowing when to stop.” Rosie Riviera-Lopez Rosie Riviera-Lopez spoke with NFOTA’s Cynthia Reyes. Rosie, an artist and educator, moved to Port Hope in 2020….