Each Tuesday in July and August, the organization provides a free two-hour guided tour. I joined this tour recently and was more than pleased with the selection of highlighted works and the expertise of our volunteer guide, Lorrie. If you are unable to join a guided tour, the exhibit offers a self-guided audio tour, using your smartphone to access QR codes displayed at each site. The audio tour provides information about the sculpture and the artists. Incidentally, the exhibition shares the same property as the Haliburton School of Art and Design, where I took an Introduction to Stone Carving last year and where I hope to repeat the same course—hopefully, without the 35-degree temperatures.
A complete surprise to me is the fact that there are three sculptures by the Estonian-Canadian blacksmith artist, Leo Sepa, retired owner/operator of the Iron Jive Studio. Maybe other Estonians would have guessed, “Well, of course! Considering our love of the forest and art, it’s just natural that an Estonian has made a contribution.” Lorrie knows Leo, but she was pleased to learn from me that Sepa is like “Smith” in Estonian and that Leo’s grandfather had been a blacksmith in Eesti.
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