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ART GALLERY This current exhibition in the Art Gallery is entitled "Naturescapes - Up Close and Faraway" and is the eighth solo show for artist Gay Torlay. Gay's painting was nurtured by courses at London, England art schools as well as at Kwantlen University College and various workshops after she emigrated to Canada. She has exhibited her work in her home city of Port Moody, Coquitlam, Maple Ridge and with the Harrison Gallery in Vancouver and the Adele/ Campbell Gallery in Whistler. She has received several juried awards. Gay paints in two quite different styles with her watercolour scenes of the Port Moody inlet alternating with "organic paintings " done with acrylics and collage. All Gay's work is matted with acid free rag mats and backing. UPCOMING GALLERY EXHIBITS The following schedule has been announced by Bridget McDowall for the first part of the year 2000. January 6-23 "Millennium Masterpieces All mediums Children & Teen Exhibition January 24 - February 20 Tapestry and Drawings By Stanislaw P. Dusko Sculpture By Danuta Kowalczyk-Frydrych February 21 - March 19 "Home and Abroad" Gouache, acrylic & Comte crayon By Pamela Scott "Canadian Prairie Paintings" Watercolour By Margery Powell March 20 - April 9 "Persian Dreams" Acrylic and watercolour By Reza Doust April 10 - May 7 "A Spring Show" Watercolour By Peggy Smith May 9-21 Grad Show May 23 - June 17 "Je me Souviens" Card By Robert Gordon McHarg June 19 - July 8 "Summer Days" All mediums By Elizabeth Martin July 10 - August 5 "Montages" By Anna Milton. THANK YOU Welcome back Mary Pearson, and a bouquet of flowers to you and Marion Nodwell for the lovely flower arrangements you both provide for the library. They add a warm welcome to our library and are greatly appreciated by all. Many thanks again to you both. To one and all from your Newsletter Staff Editor - Mary Holland Printing & Circulation -Maureen Eagle Contributing Writers -Sophia Weremchuk Mary Holland Ted Hill