Emil Varga

Emil's images portray the beauty of flowers, the tranquility of evening sunsets and visions of Ontario landscapes captured in watercolour and mixed media in a semi-realistic style.

He was born in Cornwall, Ontario and he has lived in Peterborough, Ontario since the early 1940’s where he attended several public schools, followed by high school at Kenner and PCVS.

After which he was offered a drafting apprentice ship at C.G.E., later transferring into product and design engineering.

Forty two years later, when Emil retired and decided to pursue a life long interest in the arts.

He is self taught, but has taken workshops from many notable artists.

"As far as creating a piece of art is concerned, I would say that as I am working on a project (in the solitude of my workshop with my classical music playing), the mood, which is serene and peaceful, seems to be almost spiritual and when finished, I am amazed at what I have accomplished. Because I did not start my painting full time until my retirement, I recommend to all budding artists study and read as much as possible because it is never too late to start a creative journey."

2018 Peterborough Garden Show

Today we set up our exhibit at the 18th Annual Peterborough Garden Show, held at the Evinrude Centre, at 911 Monaghan Road, in Peterborough Ontario.

This year it is the Buckhorn Artists' Group exhibiting there, instead of the artists from the Kawartha Artists' Gallery and Studio as none of the members from the Gallery were willing to organize and run the show.















We arrived at the Evinrude Centre in the morning and it didn't take very long to unload and set up the grids.

Once everything was securely in place the artists picked out where they wanted to hang their paintings. Some of the artists had larger paintings than others and used an entire set of panels, while others had smaller pieces and shared the panels.















Once we everything was hung we decided we needed to bring in some lights. The sitters for tonight's 5-9 p.m. shift brought them in together with light bars and extension cordss.

It didn't take long to hang the lights on the panels, turn them on and get them positioned to enhance the look of the paintings.
















It wasn't long before people started to arrive to look at the various displays throughout the building and come into the conference room to have something to eat and view our show.

Many of the people we spoke with came out tonight in the rain and hoped to return home before the temperature dropped and changed to freezing rain for the overnight.

















For those of us who were sitting tonight we were fortunate that the freezing rain held off until we made it safely home.

Three paintings were sold by Diane Collins and Susan Sydney.

The Last Day of the Shades of Summer Art Show and Sale

Today was a very busy day with fifteen paintings purchased from Diane Collins, Ron Desjardine, Heather Grant, Sharon Harper, Susan Sydney and Bonnie Windover. Pottery was sold by JoAnne Connell Northey and small items were bought from Diane Collins, Penny Little and JoAnne Connell Northey.
















The hours for our show are:
20 Aug 17 - 12:30pm - 4:00pm

Hopefully some of you will make it out to see the show before it closes.

27th Annual Shades of Summer Art Show and Sale

It was a fairly busy day with six paintings sold by Diane Collins, Ron Desjardine, Sharon Harper and Bonnie Windover; pottery by JoAnne Connell Northey and small items purchased from Diane Collins, Irene Smith and JoAnne Connell Northey.


















The hours for our show are:
19 Aug 17 - 10:00am - 4:00pm
20 Aug 17 - 12:30pm - 4:00pm

We hope you will be able to come out and visit the show either today or before it closes tomorrow.

Shades of Summer Art Show and Sale

Today, we had a larger attendance than yesterday and eight paintings were purchased from Rebecca Bilcox, Ron Desjardine, Heather Grant and Susan Sydney as well as small items from Diane Collins and pottery from JoAnne Connell Northey.

















The hours for our show are:
18 Aug 17 - 10:00am - 4:00pm
19 Aug 17 - 10:00am - 4:00pm
20 Aug 17 - 12:30pm - 4:00pm

Please come out and enjoy our art show at some point over the weekend.

Setting up the 27th Annual Shades of Summer Art Show

Today we set up the 27th Annual Shades of Summer Art Show at St. Matthew's Church in Buckhorn, Ontario.

While we were waiting for the main grids to arrive, we set up all the tables along the window wall, the ones at the front, the large table at the back of the room and the one in front of the bookcases.

Each table was then covered with long white tablecloths, followed with smaller green tablecloths to create a pleasing contrast from the stark white.

Next we brought in the short grids that I store for the front display tables.



















Now that the main grids had arrived they were set up down the centre of the hall in a zig zag pattern that was carefully measured so each panel grouping was the same distance.

Then the narrower panels were set to each side of the main panels to provide stability so they wold not fall down if they were bumped into by someone not paying attention.

Once the grid set up was completed and each artist's name was put in their space we were allowed to bring in our paintings and start hanging our work in our space.



















Each artist had to be sure that their panels filled and all of their exhibits where completed tonight as the show opens tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m.

Then each artist had to make sure the list of their paintings was at the front table for the people who would look after sales in the morning.

The hours for our show are:
17 Aug 17 - 10:00am - 4:00pm
18 Aug 17 - 10:00am - 4:00pm
19 Aug 17 - 10:00am - 4:00pm
20 Aug 17 - 12:30pm - 4:00pm


















We look forward to seeing some of you at our show during the next four days.