Beryl Code, at the Ottawa Curling Club
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All Colors • Styles • Sizes Metal • Plastic • Wood Glass Faces All Work Done in the USA Your Photo or Event Picture Portrait of the artist’s mother, Beryl Code, at the Ottawa Curling Club. Dornacilla Peck (née Drysdale) Born in Rossland B.C. Canada and raised in the picturesque Ottawa Valley, Dornacilla Drysdale studied with Frederick Varley and Franklin Carmichael founders of the Group of Seven. Early works were of Northern Ontario landscapes. At Yale she studied under Louis York and Rudolph Zalinger where she developed her compositional style and painting technique. Her works have been exhibited in the United States, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, and are part of a collection in the Fogg Museum. http://www.edwardpeck.com/dornacilladrysdale/ Dornacilla Peck (née Drysdale) http://www.edwardpeck.com/dornacilladrysdale/ Born in Rossland B.C. Canada and raised in the picturesque Ottawa Valley, Dornacilla Drysdale studied watercolour under Eleanor Curry, life drawing under George Ernst Fosbery and oil painting under Peleg Franklin Brownell. Drysdale took classes at the Ottawa Art Association with Frederick Varley, one of the founders of the Group of Seven. Her earlier works were of the surrounding landscapes in Northern Ontario. During this time she traveled to the Grange, now part of the Art Gallery of Ontario, to study with another member of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, receiving a supervision of art certificate. This experi- ence led Dornacilla Drysdale to Yale on a full scholarship, completing her BFA in 1947. There she studied under Louis York and Rudolph Zalinger, developing a unique painting technique and compositional style. This style combines a non-objective composition with the sculpted stylistic characteristics of the Group of Seven. Her paintings create an inner landscape of colours and reconstructed objects. Her paintings have been exhibited widely in Boston, New York, Providence, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, and are part of a col- lection in the Fogg Museum. Also she taught at the Providence Mary C. Wheeler School, Ottawa, Windsor, Woolongong, Vancouver and Calgary. This painting is of the artist’s mother, Beryl Code, from a photograph taken at the Ottawa Curling Club. The Club, founded in 1851, was originally located near the present site of the Supreme Court of Canada, but moved in 1916 to its current loca- tion. Beryl and Edmund Code started the Code Cup, an encouragement award. http://www.ottawacurlingclub.com/ Individually Hand Cast Event Commemorative Medallion or Name Tag.