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There’s a new face at Canvasworks. Louisa Oney, from just up the road, is here to learn and help! I met Louisa when she came with her father ( a veterinarian) to give my horse his spring vaccinations. Through a casual conversation while holding my horse I learned that she is a very eager, young [...]
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My cousin lives in Newtown and when she told me about this project I just HAD to get cutting paper! “The Sandy Hook school community plans to move to a school in an adjoining town this week. The surrounding towns plan to send a “blizzard” of snowflakes to welcome them to their new school. Anyone [...]
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Canvasworks Holds Grand Re-opening Reception and Open House Submitted by VT Journal on Mon, 11/19/2012 – 2:29pm Lisa Curry Mair By BY NANCY SILLIMAN The News Review WEATHERSFIELD, VT -On Friday, November 17, artist Lisa Curry Mair, owner of Canvasworks at 326 Henry Gould Rd. in Weathersfield, Vermont held a grand re-opening [...]
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Do you love to make your Christmas presents? If you’re like me, you cringe at the thought of giving a gift card to show how much you care about someone. And if you’re like me, you sometimes find yourself up all night for days before Christmas determined to get that last handmade gift finished. But [...]
The new gallery at Canvasworks is open and ready for you to come check it out! Just in time for Christmas, we’ve got some great things under $25. There are sets of note cards with prints of Lisa’s folk art style paintings like “Golden Retriever”, “Rufus Porter Westwood Landscape”, “Ship and Lighthouse” and “Green Mountain [...]
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It’s been a long spring, summer and fall, but the construction on our new studio and Gallery is nearing completion. To celebrate, we are having a series of events on November 16 through 18. We welcome floorcloth, folk art and mural aficianados to join us at Canvasworks at 326 Henry Gould Rd. in Weathersfield, Vermont. [...]
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We’re in the home stretch! George stained the floor yesterday and will finish it then do all the trim for the windows and doors and then I can start moving in. I can’t wait! It’s a bright, airy space with great views of our horse pastures and distant hills out the front and back . I [...]
Do you have a wall that is just begging for some decoration? Do you wish Rufus Porter would come knocking on your door, ready to paint a beautiful historic New England scene in your front hallway ? Lisa Curry Mair is expanding her use of canvas to include walls. Here’s how it works: Lisa will [...]
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Canvasworks will have a BIG booth at this great show in Manchester, NH. I purchased an extra large booth so that I could display my latest mural project. It’s a 20-foot scene, painted on canvas which incorporates an old farmhouse (gee, it looks kind of like MY house!), an overmantel with a village scene, and [...]
Wow! 2011 has been quite a year! At the beginning of the year we finished up a large piece for a private home using the Finch stencil design. At more than 16′ x 16′ this was one of our largest private home projects to date. For a little bit of fun I came up with [...]
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