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in si de ha lto n. co m O ak vi lle B ea ve r | T hu rs da y, A pr il 4, 20 19 | 44 Join Us Guest Speaker: Sandra Pennington Tuesday April 9th • 7-9 pm in our office: 77 Bronte Road (Bronte Rd./Lakeshore) R.s.V.P. 289.813.1969 info@furtherafieldtravel.ca Upcoming Presentations: Ireland May 7 • South America May 850021919 inTRodUcing newesT shiP...celebRiTy edge 461972-41972-41972- 201720172017 Best Travel Agency Suite 300, South Oakville Centre • 1515 Rebecca Street, Oakville 905.827.1100 travel@mctavish.comwww.mctavishtravel.com CORPORATE • GROUP • LEISURE Enjoy five days of fun and intrigue on a cultural extravaganza in the City of Legends - St. John's Newfoundland. No driving, no planning, no worries. Let the expert guides at McCarthy's Party Tours regale you with anecdotal interpretations and humorous stories about our brilliant history, unique geology, rich archaeology, and dramatic weather. A vibrant arts scene, including a bar and restaurant culture that's become the darling of the foodie world, ensures this is your time for a time in the far east of the western world. Tour includes Airport meet and greet, Four nights accommodation in a 4-star downtown hotel, Four Breakfasts, Two Lunches, Two full day McCarthy's Party Tours - 'Excursion Around the Bay' and 'The Irish Loop to Ferryland.', One half day tour of Historical St. John's & Cape Spear, Whale/Puffin Boat Tour and Ground Transportation. Contact Us for Tour Dates and Rates! A free exhibit of award-win- ning artist Tony "Marinus" Van- der Voet's last works will be pre- sented at the Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre in Oakville in the Main Gallery from March 23 to April 12. The series, titled Iced: Alaska to Southern Patagonia, includes 35 works, and is mounted by his wife and fellow artist Susan Mc- Crae and supported by the Onta- rio Society of Artists in honour of Vander Voet's work and life. The society most recently awarded Vander Voet the 2019 Eleanor Be- sen Award. A true adventurer, Vander Voet began this series after a trip he took to Alaska in 2016 with Mc- Crae to celebrate their 50th anni- versary. The voyage took the pair by boat up the inside passage of the area, over the mountains from Skagway to Carcross in the Yukon, a week on land travelling from Anchorage to Fairbanks, and returning home by bus and train. The journey provided great inspiration and encounters with ice fields and glaciers - images he documented through photogra- phy. From thousands of photo- graphs he selected a handful of stunning vistas to commemorate and present as paintings. In early 2017, the duo travelled to Chile and spent a week in the southern Patagonia region of Chile, shared with Argentina, home to the third largest ice shield in the world after Green- land and Antarctica, the South- ern Patagonia Ice Shield. They visited Torres del Paine, Balma- ceda, Serrano and other glaciers in Chile and took a special trip to see Perrito Moreno Glacier in Ar- gentina. Paintings of these sites form part of the collection as well, along with vistas of the Pat- agonian landscape with snow- capped mountains and tur- quoise, glacier-fed lakes in the distance. From the series to be exhibit- ed, Inspired by the Glacier is the recipient of the grand prize, In- ternational Juried Online Exhi- bition, Society of Canadian Art- ists. Vander Voet learned of his prize shortly before his death in April 2018. Vander Voet was born in Hol- land and immigrated to Canada with his family when he was five years old. Although he was al- ways an artist, he studied sci- ences at university and graduat- ed with a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Toronto. Though primarily a self- taught artist, Vander Voet stud- ied drawing and painting with a number of well-known Canadian artists at both the Haliburton School of the Arts and at the To- ronto School of Art, including Harold Klunder, John Leonard, V. Jane Gordon, Peter Kolisnyk, Joanna Nash, Brian Smith and pastel artist Ursula Reese. He al- so studied printmaking with Otis Tamasauskas, Moira Clark and Stephanie Rayner. He also had a love for fabric arts and has exhib- ited embroidered drawings, paintings and tapestries. Having been invited to exhibit his work at several juried shows across the Greater Toronto Area, Vander Voet's works can now be found in the Government of Onta- rio Collection (Archives of Onta- rio) and private collections in Canada, Germany and Chile. ARTIST TONY 'MARINUS" VANDER VOET'S WORKS ON DISPLAY AT OAKVILLE GALLERY Artist Tony 'Marinus" Vander Voet, whose works will be on display at the Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre in Oakville in the Main Gallery from March 23 to April 12. Jeff Gardner photo JULIE SLACK jslack@metroland.com COMMUNITY VISIT INSIDEHALTON.COM /VOTE2019 FOR THE LATEST ELECTION NEWS