The Sunnyside Beach Juried Art Show & Sale wrapped up its fourth edition over the September 9-11 weekend, bringing together over 70 emerging and established painters, sculptors, illustrators, photographers and installation artists in the grounds of the historic Sunnyside Pavilion.

Our warmest thanks go out to the participants, visitors, volunteers and sponsors who helped make the September 2011 edition such a success. Art brings us all together.

During each show, we invite a jury of distinguished professionals from the field of the arts in Canada to select our award winners. This yearʼs prize selection jury included: Jamie Angell, Owner, Angell Gallery; Claire Christie, Director, Edward Day Gallery; and John Kelly, Art Consultant, Collector and Principal at Kelly McTernan Lavoie Designers/Artists/Managers.

We would like to extend our congratulations to the show’s award winners. The First Place Award for Outstanding Artist, a $1000 cash prize generously sponsored by Dara and Marvin Singer, was awarded to Caitlin Doherty. And The Spotlight Award, a $250 cash prize sponsored by Jeffrey Prince & Zbigniew Kantorosinski, went to Jillian MacLachlan.

Visitors to the show had the opportunity to cast their vote for their favourite artist. The People’s Choice Award, a $500 cash prize generously sponsored by Ania Baska, was awarded to E.J. Davy of davyglass.ca.

Did you see something you liked? You’ll find all the wonderful artists that took part in the show, along with their contact information, in the official catalogue. View it here: Sunnyside Beach September 2011.pdf

Did you hear something you liked? DeeJay Kirby took us on a gander through just some of his 1200 vinyl albums, instrumental trio Luke Vajsar’s Hypnotc Smash had us hypnotized, singer-songwriter AHI had us grooving to his vocals and flutist Kaili Maimets inspired us with her music.

Thank you again for supporting us and helping us support practicing artists.