Waiting For My Friend — Gill Cameron

One of my favourite galleries is The Roberts Gallery on Dupont in Toronto. I lived for many years around the corner from the Roberts Gallery. If I had time I would pop in. If I didn’t have time I would admire the work from the window.
Last month my painting Waiting for My Friend was accepted into the 100th Anniversary Exhibition of the CSPWC. I was so excited that my work was going to be shown at the Roberts Gallery. When I went to visit the show, not only was my painting in the show, it was in the front window!! My painting was sold and has now gone to a new home.
”Who were you waiting for?” people ask. It was September 12, very hot and sunny and I was on a painting trip on an island with many Collingwood artists in Georgian Bay. The phone rang and I found out my daughter had gone into labour, 3 weeks early! I was so excited, nervous and could not really concentrate on painting. I did a small sketch of this tree that morning before I got the call that my new friend had arrived, Sophie was born:)