Kent Farndale Art Gallery
231 Water Street L9L1A8 Port Perry, ON, Canada

UPDATE: Scugog Memorial Public Library will launch Stage 3 Services on July 28th with reduced hours and some continuing limitations of service. For more information about Library services, please visit us on Facebook or at www.scugoglibrary.ca. Gallery exhibitions have been cancelled through to the end of the summer for the safety of artists, patrons and staff. We are hoping to re-launch in the Fall. Watch for updates in September!

UPDATE: Scugog Library will be moving into Phase 2 on Tues. July 14th and will be re-opening its doors to the public, however there will still be reduced hours ...and some service limitations to protect the health of our staff and patrons. Here’s what you need to know: - Hours of operation will be 11 am 6 pm Tuesday through Friday, and 11 am 3 pm on Saturday - Patrons can continue to return their items through the exterior book drop to allow for 72 hour isolation of materials - Contactless Pickup service for books, audiobooks & DVDs will continue with some modifications - Online programs will continue via our Facebook Page - Online Summer Reading Club will begin (more details soon!) - Online collections will continue to be available 24/7 - Exterior access to Library Wi-Fi will continue - Limited in library use (45 min max) of public computers will begin along with access to printing & photocopying - 10 patron limit in the building will be observed for safety and mask use will be strongly encouraged - There will be no access to public washrooms - Shelves, lounge areas and meeting rooms will remained closed to public until we move to Phase 3 - Kent Farndale Gallery will remain closed to public until we move to Phase 3 Please message us if you have any questions.

Public Notice: Closure of Scugog public facilities and cancellation of camps and programs Effective: March 13, 2020 4:30 p.m. Following the Province of Ontario...’s order to close publicly funded schools until April 5, 2020, the Township of Scugog will be supporting the government’s efforts to curtail the spread of COVID-19 by taking the following actions: All public Township facilities, with the exception of Municipal Office (181 Perry St.), will be closed as of 4:30 pm on March 13, 2020 until April 5, 2020 (inclusive). This includes: Scugog Community and Recreation Centre (SCRC), 2020 March Break Camps are cancelled The Lookout located at SCRC Blackstock Recreation Complex All Township Community Halls including the Latcham Centre Scugog Memorial Public Library (closure effective 6 p.m., March 13, 2020) Township of Scugog public events, open houses and recreation programs and rentals will be suspended as of 4:30 p.m. March 13, 2020 until April 5, 2020 (inclusive). Due to the evolving nature of the situation, please visit scugog.ca or follow @TwpofScugog for updates. https://www.scugog.ca/Modules/News/index.aspx

Experience a multimedia partnership that will engage your senses with the art exhibition Light, Mood, Silence" by Janice Brown, Anita Stevenson and Jennifer Stevenson. The Opening Reception will begin Saturday, February 29th, 2020 at 2 pm. The show will run February 29th to March 26th, 2020 in the Kent Farndale Gallery in the Scugog Memorial Public Library at 231 Water Street in Port Perry. The Kent Farndale Gallery is open 7 days a week during library hours. Please call 905-985-7686 for more information.

Experience a multimedia partnership that will engage your senses with the art exhibition Outside In" by Leslie Beauchamp and Pat Neal. The Opening Reception will begin Saturday, February 1st, 2020 at 2 pm. The show will run February 1st 27th, 2020 in the Kent Farndale Gallery in the Scugog Memorial Public Library at 231 Water Street in Port Perry. The Kent Farndale Gallery is open 7 days a week during library hours. Please call 905-985-7686 for more information.

Experience a breath of spring and colour in the midst of winter with the art exhibition Paint in the Peripheral" by Barb Klei. The Opening Reception will begin Saturday, January 4th, 2020 at 2 pm. The show will run January 4th 30th, 2020 in the Kent Farndale Gallery in the Scugog Memorial Public Library at 231 Water Street in Port Perry. The Kent Farndale Gallery is open 7 days a week during library hours. Please call 905-985-7686 for more information.

Embrace culture and explore colour and light with the upcoming art exhibit The Myth of Away" by Valerie Ashton, Beth James and Sally Cudlip. The Opening Reception will begin Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 at 2 pm. The show will run November 2nd 28th, 2019 in the Kent Farndale Gallery in the Scugog Memorial Public Library at 231 Water Street in Port Perry. As a culture, we rarely think about our waste once it is thrown away; our garbage becomes an afterthought as soon as it h...as left our possession. In this show, the artists hope to reinterpret waste, forgotten and overlooked items from the past, and things often discarded without consideration, to bring awareness to the omnipresence of refuse in contemporary life. Valerie Ashton, Sally Cudlip and Beth James come at this theme from very different directions both conceptually and aesthetically, but ultimately the work overlaps with a message of awareness, a desire to reinterpret and explore unconventional materials and create art that has a strong narrative and social commentary. The Kent Farndale Gallery is open 7 days a week during library hours. Please call 905-985-7686 for more information.

Embrace culture and explore colour and light with the upcoming art exhibit Windows and Doors, Literally and Figuratively" by Marion Meyers. The Opening Reception will begin Saturday, October 5th, 2019 at 2 pm. The show will run October 5th 31st, 2019 in the Kent Farndale Gallery in the Scugog Memorial Public Library at 231 Water Street in Port Perry. Meyers favours the encaustic medium for her art. Encaustic is an ancient process of melting beeswax and damar resin together... with pigment to paint, hot and fluid, on birch panels. It dries immediately and each layer of encaustic paint must be fused with a blow torch, heat gun or hot iron to the layer beneath. Encaustic paint is a wonderful medium for scraping away, layering colour, adding texture and making glossy surfaces. says Meyers, The images swirling in my head, either from photos I’ve taken or abstract impressions of places, are ideas I bring out in my encaustic paintings. The Kent Farndale Gallery is open 7 days a week during library hours. Please call 905-985-7686 for more information.

Canadian Encaustic Painter, Marion Meyers, invites you to the opening reception of a solo exhibition, Sat. Oct 5, 2-4 pm at the Kent Farndale Gallery Scugog Memorial Public Library Show runs to Oct 31.

Please Join Us For the Opening of a Special Art Exhibit on loan from the Canadian War Museum: The Arnold Hodgkins Collection in the Kent Farndale Art Gallery on Saturday, September 7th at 2:00 pm at the Scugog Memorial Public Library, 231 Water Street, Port Perry. Hodgkins was born in 1911 in Silverdale, Ontario. He was a well-respected artist and exhibited with David Milne, Duncan MacPherson and Franklin Arbuckle. In WWII, Hodgkins served in the ambulance corps and brought b...ack many sketches from Europe, some of which he would later turn into paintings. Many of these paintings now comprise part of the permanent collection at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. After the war, Mr. Hodgkins attended the Ontario College of Art and opened a gallery in Leaskdale. Guests at his gallery opening, included Group of Seven artists Frederick Varley and A.J. Casson. See more

Embrace culture and explore colour and light with the upcoming art exhibit Fused Glass Meets Live Edge" by Debbie Dell. The Opening Reception will begin Saturday, July 27th, 2019 at 2 pm. The show will run July 27th September 5th, 2019 in the Kent Farndale Gallery in the Scugog Memorial Public Library at 231 Water Street in Port Perry. Devouring new ideas and excelling at the challenge and creativity presented by working with glass, Debbie Dell has pursued the development of her own style. Fused glass became her medium for creating pieces that seem to float with color and charm. Inspired by the endless possibilities, Dell endeavors to create the unification of beauty and elegance with a contemporary flair of her own. The Kent Farndale Gallery is open 7 days a week during library hours. Please call 905-985-7686 for more information.

Embrace culture and explore colour and light with the upcoming art exhibit "A Suggestion of Landscape" by Louisa Lau. The Opening Reception will begin Saturday, June 22nd, 2019 at 2 pm. The show will run June 22nd - July 25th, 2019 in the Kent Farndale Gallery in the Scugog Memorial Public Library at 231 Water Street in Port Perry. Before Louisa moved to Toronto, she was a primary school teacher in Hong Kong, teaching art and showing her work in Hong Kong City Hall with frien...ds. Since she graduated from Toronto School of Art in 2005, her work has been shown in Toronto frequently. Lau learned Chinese ink painting and Western oil painting techniques simultaneously in her early teens, so reconciling both worlds' aesthetics has always been her goal. The Kent Farndale Gallery is open 7 days a week during library hours. Please call 905-985-7686 for more information.

Celebrate the artistic talent of the youth in our community at the upcoming exhibit "ART = POWER" by students from Port Perry High School Visual Arts. The show will run June 8th June 20th, 2019 in the Kent Farndale Gallery in the Scugog Memorial Public Library at 231 Water Street in Port Perry.The Kent Farndale Gallery is open 7 days a week during library hours. Please call 905-985-7686 for more information.

Explore colour and light with the upcoming art exhibit " Spark: a Polychromatic Response to Life" by the Carol Matsuyama. The Opening Reception will begin Saturday, May 4th, 2019 at 2 pm. The show will run May 4th June 6th, 2019 in the Kent Farndale Gallery in the Scugog Memorial Public Library at 231 Water Street in Port Perry.