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  Friends of
  Bon Echo Park
  16151 Hwy 41 RR 1
  Cloyne, ON K0H 1K0

  Derek Maggs
  Executive Director
  (613) 336-0830
  Fax - (613) 336-2712
  e-mail:  logistics
  @bonechofriends.ca

   E. Helen Yanch
  Operations Manager
  Greystones Gift &
  Book Shop
  (613) 336-9863
  (May to Thanksgiving)
  (613) 336-0830   
  (October to April)
  Fax - (613) 336-2712
  e-mail: greystones
  @bonechofriends.ca

     DIRECTORS
   President -
  Dave Deacon
  Vice-President -
  Ernest Lapchinski
  Secretary -
  Phylilis Mills
  Treasurer -
  Don Patry
  Red Emond
  Bill Campbell
  Mary Kelly
  Pat Nobbs
  Jane Potyok

Colin Edwards Memorial Art Gallery
Artist Schedule 2012
Located in Greystones Gift & Book Shop

Mazinaw Lake and Bon Echo Provincial Park have drawn artists to its shores for hundreds of years.  Continuing the example of the aboriginal peoples, the Group of Seven and the many who still come to appreciate and create, the Friends of Bon Echo Park (the Friends) provide numerous venues for artists to showcase their work.  In addition to the Bon Echo Art Exhibition and Sale on July 27, 28, 29, the Friends provide the Colin Edwards Memorial Art Gallery in the Greystones Gift and Book Shop.

The Art Gallery was renamed in 2008 in memory of Colin Edwards, long time resident, educator, artist and active leader in the Friends. His wife, Grace Edwards, stated, “What a wonderful honour and a credit to Colin’s memory this dedication and designation of the Greystones Art Gallery is. For Colin, living and working in this community meant  giving back as well. He was always involved in community organizations from the Volunteer Fire Department in the early 70's when he first moved here, to the Mazinaw Community Fund as one of the Founding Directors. But the Friends of Bon Echo was the Organization to which he dedicated the most time and energy. He saw in Bon Echo Provincial Park and North Addington Education Center the potential of a valuable partnership that could complement and benefit from each other.                   

With the many challenges that Bon Echo has faced and continues to face, Colin believed that the mandate of the Friends Organization would be one of the means to Bon Echo being able to continue to offer to its visitors what those visitors before them had seen and experienced. Colin's own canvases reflected the landscapes around his home in the Land O'Lakes area. So many landmarks were captured in his work. But Bon Echo, with such a unique ecology and a deep and long history was more than an artistic inspiration and he recognized it as a special place and landmark to be explored by the residents and visitors in this world 'north of 7'. The natural, historical and cultural heritage of Bon Echo was a draw and a teacher, the beauty and majesty of the Park - a refuge and inspiration. 'Preservation if appropriate, and education – key.’ ”

Gallery hours:  

May 17  – July 5:
Donna Bonin,        Watercolour, Oil   www.donnabonin.ca
Audrey Thomas    Acrylic   www.bellevilleart.ca

July 5 – July 26:
Patricia Savoie      Oil     www.twilmotsavoie.ca
Carla Miedema     Acrylic/mixed media on canvas   www.carlamiedema.com

July 26 – Aug. 16:
Katie Ohlke          Acrylic on canvas & vintage paddle   ohlkek@limestone.on.ca
Lisa  Johnson      Oil paintings on wood    www.lisajohnson.ca  

Aug. 16 – Sep 6:
William Bickle       Photography    www.BillBickle.com
Margaret Chwialkowska   Oil on canvas    www.artistsincanada.com/margaret

Sep 6– Oct 21:
Chris Perry           Watercolour   chrisphoto04@hotmail.com
Judith  Versavel   Acrylic, Jewellery  judith.versavel@gmail.com