Our Current Show: NATURE'S INSPIRATION

   “Art takes nature as its model”.    Aristotle

For Aristotle, nature was the ultimate source of knowledge and understanding, and art, in its mimetic capacity, draws inspiration and models itself on the natural world. Those words resonated with the thirty+, selected Headwaters Arts members who have created over 55 works for the third, themed Headwaters Arts members’ show of the year called, “Nature’s Inspiration”. The immensely diverse and moving collection of art work in this new exhibit at the Headwaters Arts Gallery opens on March 19, 2025 in the Alton Mill Arts Centre, in the Village of Alton. The art show and sale features art work in a variety of mediums including: acrylic, clay, oil, watercolour, wood, textiles, wool, stoneware, multi and mixed media, pastel, acrylic/pen, raku, photography an d gouache/ink.

“As a woodturner my inspiration from nature comes from within the piece of wood. The Polar Bears inspiration was brought to life by using pyrograpy and imaged in the obverse with many dots using a 2mm tip. The creamy white sugar maple was sourced locally and was perfect for the bear’s fur colouring.”, says Sam Meandro from Terra Cotta.

Participating member artists include: Andrea Elmhirst; Annette Hansen; Christine Schubert; Claudio Arcuri;  ail Backus-Clark; Hildegarde Sausik; Jackie Warmelink; Janice Gittings; Katerina Bohac Linares; Kevin Ellis; Kathy Melanson; Lindsay Pearson; Marnie Cooke; MaryLou Hurley; Pat Hertzberg; Marjorie Gegear; Nancy McNabb; Nicole Georgi; Piera Pugliese; Rosemary  Hasner; Sam Meandro; Susan Kelly; Sofiya Stevens; Susan Powell; Suzanne Walsh and Wayne Hudson.

Meet the artists at the official Opening Reception to be held on Saturday, March 22, 2025 from 1-3 pm at the Headwaters Gallery in the Alton Mill Arts Centre, Alton, Ontario.

Nature’s Inspiration runs from March 19 – April 19, 2025.

The Headwaters Arts Gallery is open Wednesday-Sunday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m, and Holiday Monday’s.

Note that we are open on Good Friday and Closed on Easter Monday.

Alton Mill Arts Centre, 1402 Queen Street West, Alton, Ontario. Be sure to follow us on IG @headwatersarts and Facebook.

Winter in the Forest by Susan Powell

You can view the pieces in the show in the slideshow below. Click on the Cart to purchase online using a credit card. Curbside pickup at the Alton Mill can be arranged by contacting the Headwaters Gallery at 519-943-1149 or by email info@headwatersarts.org.

We acknowledge that the land on which we gather, and on which the Region of Peel operates, is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples inhabited and cared for this land. In particular we acknowledge the territory of the Ani-shinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa peoples; the land that is home to the Metis; and most recently, the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation who are direct descendants of the Mississaugas of the Credit.

We are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land, and by doing so, give our respect to its first inhabitants.