Head Tale

…is an $18,000 piece of art!

But I should back up…

After picking up Sasha for her art class (she’s decided she wants to be an artist or art teacher when she grows up), we all went to Pile of Bones Brewery intending to have a Saturday afternoon beer/soda.  But it was packed so we headed to the other end of the list in terms of beverage options – the Excalipur Cat Cafe but same thing – very busy on a beautiful Saturday afternoon.

Right beside the Cat Cafe, there’s the Nouveau Gallery and so we decided to go in and let our budding artist have a look around, having never been before.

They had a Wilf Perreault exhibit on and it was of extra interest to me since this one had a Beatles theme to it (I’m a “super fan”, don’t you know!)

The gallery is operated by Mr. Perreault’s daughter and she was very engaging – telling us about the art, offering to take our picture, and even letting Sasha play with their resident cat which was a bonus having missed out at Excalipur.

I was particularly taken with this piece, titled “Abbey Road”, which she showed us even has a hidden detail of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road!

(Can you spot The Beatles?  Look right above the fence…)

Anyhow, it pays sometimes to be pretty spontaneous – we wouldn’t have likely ended up going into this gallery if the other places we’d stopped hadn’t been so busy and/or Sasha hadn’t just came from art class.

But we turned out having a great experience, talking about art, arts funding, book publishing (Coteau Books had published a book of Mr. Perrault’s art on behalf of the MacKenzie Art Gallery) and even our respective close encounters with different Beatles!