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22 Independent & Free Press,Thursday, October 13, 2011 Madole opens Water-mark on Saturday The Canadian landscape is shaped and the spaces­ all of it changes you, by the power of water­ by rivers, and and it changes how you feel about it lakes, and glaciers­ and one of Canada's afterward, and what you choose to leading watercolour painters, Marlene present at a moment in time. All this, Madole, shares her personal vision of and it provides a never-ending source that landscape through her new exhi- of inspiration for the future." Drawn from those travels, and paintbition of watercolour paintings, titled ed both both en Water-mark, at plein air and in the Williams Mill the studio, MarGallery, lene's paintings in The opening this show range reception will be from Prince Edheld on Saturday, ward Island to the Oct.15, 7-10 pm. Pacific Rim, from In addition to the the French River evening reception, to Georgian Bay Marlene will also and Lake Huron, be present in the from Alberta's Williams Mill GalKananaskis dislery on the Suntrict, to the BC day, Oct. 16, 1-4 Collins Inlet, Georgian Bay interior, including p.m. the Okanagan and For 17 years, by artist Marlene Madole Atlin Lake, and Madole has operranging far north ated her painting studio at the Williams Mill Visual Arts to Yukon's Kluane Lake and Northwest Centre in Glen Williams, where she Territories' Nahanni area. An award-winning artist and teachis one of the founding artists­ at the same time, she also traveled across er, Madole is an elected member and a Canada, from coast to coast, gathering Past President of the Canadian Society inspiration and reference material for of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC). The Williams Mill Gallery is located her paintings. "I've always treated my travels as a in the Williams Mill Visual Arts Centre, kind of research," says Madole, "though at 515 Main St., Glen Williams. Galit's clearly more than that. I encounter lery hours, in addition to the reception, the landscape, the shorelines, the light, are Wednesday to Sunday, 12-5 p.m.