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TIMES The Voice of North Grenville
Vol. 3, No. 23
June 10, 2015
Marjorie Mosher featured artist at NG Arts Guild Exhibit
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by Hilary Thomson Marjorie Mosher sits in her living room, dressed in pink and surrounded by paintings. The paintings of flowers, landscapes, people and abstract images that decorate the walls of her home are the product of Marjorie’s accomplished life as an artist
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that started before she was old enough to go to school. Marjorie grew up on a farm in Quebec along the shores of Lake Champlain. She remembers loving to draw at an early age but being a child in the great depression meant there was no extra money for art supplies. “I just drew on whatever was handy,” she says.
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Marjorie moved to Chateauguay, Quebec after she was married so her husband could take a position as the principal at a school there. It was then that she began to hone her talent as an artist by joining the Chateauguay Arts Association and attending classes taught by a teacher who came to town once a week from Montreal. Mar-
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jorie says she learned a lot during her time in Chateauguay however she was very interested in learning about watercolour, a medium that was not taught by her current teacher. She finally got the chance she was looking for when she and her now family (Marjorie has 3 children) relocated to Nepean for her husband’s job. She found a woman named Sylvia Garay who taught watercolour and she and a neighbour decided to take her class. It turned out that Sylvia lived in their neighbourhood and she suggested that they get together to paint. They began painting together on a weekly basis and their group grew to six members, all drawn together by their love of watercolour. The group named themselves Aquamedia and they painted and exhibited together throughout eastern Ontario for over 30 years. Marjorie remembers her time with Aquamedia very fondly and thinks of her first exhibit with the group as one of the highlights of her career. “The painting was a great thing but the group I was with was a wonderful thing,” she says. “It was like suddenly having a bunch of sisters that I never had.” Marjorie has also had an impressive solo career exhibiting at Montreal’s Square Des Arts in 1964, Mount Royal Art Centre and a show called Women Painters in Montreal in 1969. She also held a solo exhibit at Artica Gallery in Kanata in 1993. continued on page 2
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