Events | Exhibitions

Permanent Exhibition

The permanent exhibition Estevan Lodge: A Vacation Haven presents a selection of objects from the daily life of Elsie Reford and photographs taken by her husband, Robert Wilson Reford. This exhibition illustrates the history of the Villa and its occupants and allows visitors a glimpse into the lives they led, not only of the owners but also the servants, fishing guides and gardeners.

Temporary Exhibitions

D'émotions en paysage
Paintings by Andrée Lévesque
Room Thérèse Beaulieu-Roy, Estevan Lodge
From June 5 to July 15, 2010
Opening of the exhibition June 5 at 2 pm.

Showing the influence of New Expressionism and Fauvism, Andrée Lévesque presents trees with broad brush strokes. Their forms, vibrations and colours evoke the bright coloured Saris of India. With their graphic presentation, the large format canvasses of D'émotions en paysage provide the viewer with an invitation to connect emotionally to the works and their subject.



Elsie
Paintings by Janis Gillan and Rasa Pavilanis
Room Thérèse Beaulieu-Roy, Estevan Lodge
From July 17 to October 3, 2010

The exhibition will feature works by Métis-sur-Mer summer residents Janis Gillan and Rasa Pavilanis. They have been inspired by the life of Elsie Reford to create a series of paintings that will show the other facets of her life and times and her other interests, fi shing, horses, music and travel.



Rooms of Estevan Lodge: The Temple of Flora
The Temple of Flora is the fruit of the rich imagination of Robert Thornton (1768-1837), an English doctor and naturalist. In 1797, after inheriting a family fortune, Thornton gave up the practice of medicine to devote himself entirely to publishing this work. His ambition was to publish a botany book featuring nearly 90 plates and of better quality than any existing work in the field.

Thornton called on eminent painters specialized in botanical illustration such as Peter Henderson, Philip Reinagle or Abraham Pether, and he teamed up with the best engravers in London. The first engravings of The Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature, Picturesque Botanical Plates of the New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus were published in 1799; the entire set of thirty-two plates was completed in 1807.