Multi-media exhibit features Brenda Winny
By Ian MacKay
A multi-media exhibition will greet visitors in the United Church board room during the annual art and photography show this weekend.
Brenda Winny plans to display a roughly even mix of quilts, photography and paintings as this year’s featured artist.
Brenda Winny poses with one of the quilts she expects to display, along with artwork and photography, as the featured exhibitor for the art and photography show at the United Church this Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Photo by Ian MacKay
The event, presented annually by the Rosetown Arts Council, runs Saturday and Sunday in the lower level of the church. Doors open at noon each day and close at 5 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday.
Entries will be accepted at the church Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. and Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon.
Winny has been making quilts since the late 1970s, working with her mother-in-law after she got married.
“It’s been on and off my whole life, it seems like,” she said in an interview. “I just find a pattern and the fabrics that I think go together.”
She began taking photography more seriously in 2008 after moving to town and joining the Rosetown Photography Club.
Before that, she had taken “hundreds and hundreds” of slides of flowers to use while leading gardening classes.
“The camera’s always come with me” on her many trips to destinations such as Iceland, Europe and Texas, she said. Her next excursion, to Yukon and the Northwest Territories this fall, could prove the most interesting.
“My goal was to sleep in all the provinces and territories in Canada,” Winny said. “I’m only going to be short Nunavut. I’m hoping for good weather.”
She began painting after retiring from teaching in 2012.
“Then I had time to take art classes,” she said.
Winny taught French and other subjects, mostly to students in grades seven to nine at Rosetown Central High School.
Her exhibition will include both older and newer works.
“Unless you had a really good memory” of what she has shown at previous exhibitions, “I don’t think you’d recognize anything,” she said.