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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, September 18, 2015 | 26 Art on The Bluffs showcasing works of three local artists Art lovers interested in seeing the latest works of three local artists in Art on The Bluffs have until Wednesday (Sept. 23) before the exhibit closes. Bernadette Duzyk, Mary Jean Mailloux and Michelle Nettleton have a variety of works in several mediums on display at The Sovereign House, 7 West River St., including Chinese brush paintings, still life, figurative, landscapes and florals painted in watercolours, oils and acrylics. Nettleton is a graduate of the University of Windsor Bachelor of Fine Arts program and says she draws inspiration from life, nature and spiritual sources for her works. "From early childhood she has travelled and painted the world as her artist's eye sees it," stated a media release. "As an art teacher, she inspires her students to create visual expressions of their heart's reflections." Nettleton has also written and illustrated for magazines and newspapers in Canada and the U.S., and her commissioned works can be found internationally. Mailloux's passion for drawing and painting started as a child and took her to France to study oil painting and watercolor. She has also trained at OCAD, Three Schools Art, and under the tutelage of Ben Woolfit and Duzyk studied classical art in Europe and has specialized in Chinese Brush Painting for more than 20 years. In the mid-1980's, she studied under renowned Chinese artists Jeremy Tsai and Baoxing Zhang. Duzyk moved to Montreal in 1996 and took courses with Yao Kui and also studied with Zhenhu Han, moving back to Oakville in 2001 where she continues taking courses with Zhang today. She is a past-president of the Mississauga Sumi-e Society and has displayed her art form on TV . Her works have been previously exhibited at: Art and Sales Gallery (Juried Show) at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Encadrements Laurier, Outremont, Que.; the A.H. Campbell Gallery, Westmount, Que.; Cannington House Gallery and Sovereign House, both in Oakville; Sunrise Gallery, Hamilton Beach, Ont.; and the Art Gallery of Mississauga. Duzyk was a finalist at the Oakville Arts Council's inaugural event Stars Among Us, held June 11, 2009, and most recently exhibited her works at the Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre in May. The Art on The Bluffs open Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday from 1-4 p.m. Artscene "Connected to your Community" Art on The Bluffs features the works of three artists whose works are on display at The Sovereign House. From left are: Mary Jean Mailloux (holding a watercolour titled Old Sneakers); Michelle Nettleton (with her watercolour piece Sunflower); and Bernadette Duzyk (holding her Chinese brush painting Take a Walk. The exhibit is on display until Sept. 23. | photo by Graham Paine ­ Oakville Beaver (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog) June Handera. "Though her themes vary from still life to botanical and scenic, her strongest images reflect the human form," stated the release. Mailloux has had her works shown in group shows and been part of the art auction with the Oakville Art Society (OAS). She also has had her own exhibition on display at OAS. Textile exhibit inspired by travels of Sybil Rampen's aunt on display for first time Artist Sybil Rampen is sharing her collection of textiles and fibre art for the first time with Oakville residents in her latest exhibition. The opening reception of the RampenCalverley Textile Exhibition is set for Sunday (Sept. 20) at the Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, of which Rampen is the founder. The Oakville family textile collection spans five centuries and 15 countries, and was inspired by Rampen's aunt Amice Calverley. Calverley collected more than 800 Balkan embroideries as she travelled from Egypt to England in her two-cylinder Jowett, arriving in England just three days before the start of the Second World War, according to Rampen. While most of Calverley's pieces were gifted to Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum, her passion for textiles inspired Rampen and her husband Leo to gather works from Egypt, Romania, Greece, Turkey, China, Guatemala, Indonesia, England, India and Canada, among other countries for the exhibit. From left, Egyptian Harrania Tapestry and Guatemalan Huipil are part the Rampen-Calverley Textile Exhibition, on display until Nov. 1. | submitted photos "The colourful and varied pieces range in age from the 16th century to contemporary, providing a tremendous opportunity to appreciate and study the artistic merits and cultural importance of the world's textiles," said Rampen in a media release. The reception runs from 2-5 p.m. on Sunday, while the exhibit is on display at the 1086 Burnhamthorpe Rd. E. art centre until Nov. 1. Allegro Gallery Café to host meet-the-artist event The Allegro Gallery Café at Whole Foods Market is hosting a meet-the-artist event Sunday (Sept. 20) for its latest exhibit Summers Past. The show features the art photography of Donald Orlando Nicholson, who will be at the 301 Cornwall Rd. café from 2-5 p.m. "His unique artistry is displayed using special effects and mixed media on aluminum panels," stated a press release. "These works, inspired by daily life, illustrate the dynamics of landscape, nature, and food, depicting what he holds dear, from memories of summers past." Born in Wolverhampton, England, and raised in Toronto, Nicholson attended the A.Y. Jackson Secondary School for the Arts, where he was exposed for the first time to the legendary Group of Seven painters. His love for photography became cemented after meeting Frank Worth -- the Hollywood photographer famous for taking the image of Marilyn Munroe standing over a street vent wearing a white dress -- in 1996. In 2006, when Nicholson's mother was first diagnosed with breast cancer, he took up his camera and began capturing events after realizing he had limited family photos and to immortalize the memory of his mother's image. Discovering his mother's love of tulips, Nicholson would take family trips to the Tulip Festival in Ottawa every year for her, and take pictures. "Today, six years after her passing, the theme of tulips (and memory of his mother) is still present as well as reminiscent in his work reminding him, and all who have lost a loved one to cancer, that their memories live on in symbols from our lives spent with them, and Summers Past," stated the release.