Huff Estates and the Oeno Gallery are pleased to announce that the official opening of Oeno’s Sculpture Garden at Huff Estates will take place on June 25th at 11:00am.

The 3.5 acre Sculpture Garden has been designed as a place of discovery and contemplation, a celebration of the interplay of dynamic works of art and the perennials that surround them. Located next to the Gallery and the Inn, the Sculpture Garden promises to be an engaging new attraction within the community. “This is really just an extension of the way that our businesses have been collaborating and working together,” says Lanny Huff. “We are getting over 20,000 people visiting the Estates every year now, and this will give them another interesting thing to do here.”

The Oeno Gallery received sculpture proposals throughout the year. The 2011 exhibition includes 30 sculptures by 15 Canadian artists. Ruth Abernethy, Edward Falkenberg, Anne O’Callaghan, Mark Clark, Clare Scott?Taggart, Floyd Elzinga, Victor Cicansky, Po Chun Lau, Susan Rankin, EJ Lightman, Kathryn Lipke Vigesaa, and from our own region, Shayne Dark, Rick Lapointe, John Paul Robinson, and James C. Smith. Later in the summer, Peta Hall’s Celebrating Elders sculpture will also be installed. “I’m most interested in creating the opportunity for people to experience the interplay between the colour and beauty of nature and the artists’ response to the different environments created by the ridge, the pond or the wind,” says gallery owner, Carlyn Moulton. “Each piece transforms its own area of the garden.”

The Scott Wentworth Landscape Group and landscape designer Drew MacCandlish from Wight’s Greenhouses have completed the project after collaborating on the development and design. The Sculpture Garden is home to over forty thousand perennials, grown over the winter at Wight’s Greenhouses in Wellington. Due to a very wet spring planting of the Garden was slightly delayed but the perennials and grasses are now beginning to take hold. The limestone, sand dune and grass paths lead to many points of discovery – groves of maples and poplars, a grapevine arbour, a herb garden, the healing labyrinth, the spring fed quarry, and Catharine’s Rose Garden.

“The garden is a beautiful outdoor space that embraces and celebrates dynamic works of art,” says Drew MacCandlish. “Gardens such as these become very energized places,” says Wentworth. “The materials we are using –limestone, sand, and the plantings – all celebrate the landscape of the County.” The works in the garden are all available for purchase. Visitors will be asked for a minimum contribution of $2 which will go toward the upkeep of the garden.

Located just north of Bloomfield, for a map please click here: http://tinyurl.com/24untxd

A visual representation of the sculpture garden is available. For more information, please contact: Carlyn Moulton 613?503?1001, cmoulton@oenogallery.com; www.oenogallery.com; www.huffestates.com

Tags: Arts Council Prince Edward County, Prince Edward County Arts, Sandbanks