Press Release - June 14, 2011 – Bloomfield Ontario
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 collaboratingand working together,” says Lanny Huff. “We are getting over 20,000 people visiting the Estates everyyear 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 springfed 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.

Grand opening June 25th, 11-2:00pm. Ribbon Cutting at 11:30.

For more information, please contact: Carlyn Moulton 613-503-1001, cmoulton@oenogallery.com
www.oenogallery.com, www.huffestates.com