{"id":15854,"date":"2016-11-16T18:55:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=15854"},"modified":"2016-11-16T18:55:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:55:03","slug":"why-buy-canadian-art-from-your-local-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/why-buy-canadian-art-from-your-local-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Why buy Canadian art from your local artists?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s very simple: because you can.
\nEmil Simon, former Owner of Wellington Gallery, once mentioned to me, \u201cDeborah, 50 years ago there were less artists, therefore more art to choose from.\u201d
\nHe\u2019s absolutely right.
\nThe late Dick Illingworth stated, \u201cA community without artists is like a body without a soul. A community needs its artists. To help portray the past: Artists may come and go, but their paintings last and last.\u201d That was from Poor Richard\u2019s Scrapbook in 2002. Dick is absolutely right.
\nAurora has and always will have superb artists both professional and emerging. Yes, this market is flooded with every type of creative endeavor imaginable both traditional and contemporary. Therefore, there is something for everyone.
\nThis is our seventh year and the Aurora Artist Studio Tour is once again opening its doors to the general public on Saturday and Sunday, November 19 and 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with eight studios featuring 28 artists. This is a free event. Free is a good thing. This is an opportunity for students pursuing an art career, or for families wanting to do something unique that particular weekend, to come out.
\nOriginal art is a nice addition to any redecorated room. You do not have to match the color of your couch to a painting, or a trendy new lipstick color we will create a piece to suit your home environment or commercial location.
\nWhere and how an artist lives isn\u2019t the essence but how we live is the essence of our creativity, capturing our world in paintings. We do have social boundaries, we have political viewpoints, we have families, even lovable furry pets; most importantly we have art for sale.
\nArt, of course, is always in different price ranges and medias from oils, watercolour, acrylics, photography, to sculpture.
\nThese artists also offer their greeting cards, calendars, books and prints. When you look at a painting it shall provoke an emotion within you whether positive or negative, and if that is the case we as artists have done our jobs. <\/p>\n

Deborah Campo
\nAST Director
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It\u2019s very simple: because you can. Emil Simon, former Owner of Wellington Gallery, once mentioned to me, \u201cDeborah, 50 years ago there were less artists, therefore more art to choose from.\u201d He\u2019s absolutely right. The late Dick Illingworth stated, \u201cA community without artists is like a body without a soul. A community needs its artists. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-47I","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 03:33:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}