Arowhon Pines and Algonquin Park
"For the past two years, I have been the artist-in-residence at Arowhon Pines. I love this opportunity! Theresa, the owner, treats me like royalty. One day a week in the summer, I set up my easel on the grounds of the resort and paint. Guests can come and watch the progress and ask questions about painting, or about the painter. I even have my own little gallery on the premises from which I sell just about everything I produce. When the lunch bell rings, Theresa, or another staff member, fetches me to come into the historic, hexagonal dining hall to enjoy a gourmet lunch, on the house! Sometime, I canoe around Little Joe Lake and paint the landscape, too."
Canoeing on Little Joe Lake, Algonquin Park
On occasion, my husband paddles me around Joe Lake to paint. I particularly like to paint the small creek at the north end, that flows out of Little Joe.
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Servers at Arowhon PInes
Here is the inside of my favourite dining hall. I love to sit and watch the young servers dressed crisply in formal white and black as they silently move around the hall, attending to every need of the guests.
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Friends
One much loved place to paint is at the Taylor Statten Camps, mainly Camp Ahmek. It was my friend Dave who introduced me to the place. Dave runs the huge camp and is also the master canoe maker. He has lived his life making, repairing, paddling and living with beautiful, colourful, and graceful canoes.
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Dining Hall at Arowhon Pines
The dining hall at Arowhon Pines is a soaring, hexagonal, wood structure with a huge, central fireplace open on all sides. The buiding was built in the early 1900's by Polish men using only hand tools. It is stunningly beautiful as well as an engineering feat! I love to paint out on the covered verandah that overhangs Lake Little Joe.
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Rock Lake, Algonquin Park
The best day of last summer was a tour of Rock Lake and Whitefish Lake in Algonquin Park. My friend Mike ferried my husband and me all around the lakes in his wooden boat on a warm, sunny day in August. These were one of the spectacular and inspiring cliffs that we visited.
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