All Aboard! The Via Rail Budd Car provides travellers with an opportunity to experience the vastness and beauty of Northern Ontario while travelling through a wide range of communities and meeting people along the way.
There has always been a connection between railways and the
arts.
Last month, members of the Sudbury Art Club participated in
the Fifth Annual Nature Festival in Chapleau by putting on an
art exhibit called Along the Line. It was the result of a
number of excursions that artists have taken over the past
several years on the Budd Car from Sudbury to White River.
The inspiration for their work was based on photo and
sketching opportunities at stops along this route.
This exhibition featured works by 15 artists including some common northern Ontario scenes such as Liz Peekstok, Doreen Saunders and Joanne Dingee Staples, who is formerly from Chapleau. Staples got this show on the rails in the first place.
While in Chapleau for this event, the Sudbury artists enjoyed a
tour of the Chapleau Game Preserve, where nature lovers took
inspiration from the vast forests and lake district.
The artists wish to extend a special thanks to the citizens
of Chapleau, the Nature Festival steering committee and
volunteers as well as Diane Jean, director of the Louis Hemon
Gallery in Chapleau.
Story filed by Liz Peekstok, Joanne Staples and Jim Cook for the Sudbury Art Club.
