NEWS & UPCOMING / RECENT EVENTS:
- 2025. 25 to 30 of Brenda's paintings will be featured throughout the lobby of Huntsville's Hidden Valley Resort for the year plus.
- March, 2025 Juror for the Annual Art Show of the Scarborough Arts Guild.
- April, 2025 Guest of the SAG, critiquing several of the accepted & not accepted works of art.
- Solo show: The Journey at the Huntsville Partners Hall Gallery Mar 27-Apr 29/24.
- Showing at the Huntsville Summit Center until April, 2024.
- Group show. Summit Centre, Huntsville. June 1 - Sept. 30, 2022
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1 of 7 regional artists chosen to paint a Group of 7 image on a canoe.
The canoes were displayed in River Mill Park, and Pioneer Village, in Huntsville, then auctioned in Sept. 2023.
- Live Interview on Hunter's Bay Radio, July 15 at 9:00 a.m.
- Solo Show. Baysville Public Library. July 2022
- 1 of 3 artists chosen to showcase artwork in the inaugural display at the Huntsville Hospital. August 2022
- Hockey Paintings Fundraising Auction by Spinal Cord Injury Ontario. 2022
- Square Foot Art Auction in support of Hospice Huntsville. September 2022
- Solo Show. Dwight Public Library. October 2022
- Featured in the Spinal Cord Injury Ontario 2023 Calendar with my hockey painting.
- Please check back again for more upcoming events.
ABOUT BRENDA:
Huntsville and Island Lake resident,
Brenda Behan Turnour began studying art at the age of eight, in a church
basement in Orillia, where she was taught by Arthur Shilling of Rama, one of
Canada's premier aboriginal artists. She subsequently sold her first oil
painting at age twelve. Through her teen and early adult years, Brenda
designed student council and Cancer Society posters, cards, party
invitations, etc. but discovered that she preferred to paint/draw when the
mood came upon her, rather than according to demand.
Brenda holds degrees from the University of Toronto and University of Caen,
France where she won her first major art competition with pen and ink sketch
of a 'manoir'.
In 1993, watercolours beckoned and since this time Brenda has been
painting, teaching and entering juried shows on a full-time basis.
Brenda is Past President of the Central Ontario Art Association, and Past Vice-Chair of the Cambridge Arts & Culture Advisory Committee to Cambridge City Council,
which created Cambridge's Arts and Culture Master Plan.
Among Brenda's many honours, is a nomination in 2003 for the K-W Regional Artist of the Year. In
the spring of 2004 she was awarded the "Bernice Adams Award" as Cambridge's
Artist of the Year
"Any talent that I have is a gift from God and my inspiration is received from the joys and beauty of life, which constantly surprise and surround me."
For more information, please contact brenda.turnour@live.ca
Phone : 705-789-3636
e-mail address:
brenda.turnour@live.ca
Here are some samples of Brenda's work. Click on a picture to view more samples.
Acrylics & Mixed Media Watercolours
January, 2025. National Winner of the Yellow Pages Cover Competition for a watercolour & ink "streetscape" painting. This painting will be featured on over 50,000 Yellow Pages books across all 10 Canadian provinces.
May, 2024. Commissioned by the Huntsville Festival of the Arts to paint a piano to be outside Algonquin Theatre.
Invited to be one of 4 regional artists to take part in an "Art Challenge" at the Huntsville Hospice Annual Gala.
2019 - Served as the Juror for the Annual Scarborough Arts Guild Show
2018 - Served as the Juror for the Franklin Carmichael Art Centre's Annual Show
2018 - Served as the Juror for the Humber Valley Art Group's Annual Show
June, 2017 - 1st Honourable Mention for "Fall Folly" at the COAA Annual Juried Show: Art Gallery of Hamilton.
June, 2017 - Best Watercolour in Show for "On Golden Pond" at the Toronto Botanical Gardens' Spinal Cord Injuries Ontario Open Art Show.
2016 - 1st Place : Lake of Bays Annual Juried Art Show for "Autumn on Trading Bay", watercolour.
October 2016 - 1st Honourable Mention, Central Ontario Art Association's Annual Crossection Juried Show, Etobicoke for "Living on the Edge", watercolour.
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1st Place in Art Battle 2015-Huntsville Jan. 23, 2015 with these 2 - 18" x 24" acrylics:
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1st Prize in the Lake of Bays Inaugural Annual Juried Art Competition, Jan. 2015 for her large watercolour "Top of the Oxtongue".
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"Gerald John Carmichael" award for "Best Landscape in Show", Sept. 2014 at the Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Show at the Etobicoke Civic Centre.
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November 2013. Received an art commendation from Cambridge City Council at an Arts & Cultural Recognition Night at City Hall.
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Recent winner of Cambridge's top art award, the "Special Trustee of the Arts" award, at the May 2013 ceremony of the Bernice Adams Memorial Arts Awards.
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2nd Place, People's Choice at the Central Ontario Arts Association's annual non-juried Members' Show, May, 2013.
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"Best Watercolour in Show" for "On the Oxtongue River". Franklin Carmichael Art Centre, Etobicoke. October, 2011.
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"Best Acrylic in Show" for the triptych, "Return to the Land of the Silver Birch". Franklin Carmichael Art Centre, Etobicoke. October, 2011.
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"Best Pen & Ink in Show" for "Yorkville Firehall". Franklin Carmichael Art Centre, Etobicoke. October, 2011.
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"First Place" in the People's Choice Category for the watercolour, " Wonderland Revisited". Toronto Watercolour Society. November, 2011.