Dr. Arnulf Remole, left, with Homer Watson House and Gallery curator Sandu Sindile, held his first solo art exhibit on Monday. Remole is a resident of the Westmount Long Term Care Residence.

Professor with a passion for painting hosts first solo exhibition
Westmount resident has been creating art for decades
Wednesday September 28, 2011 -- Deb Bartlett
After decades of creating art in a variety of media, Dr. Arnulf Remole, a resident of the Westmount Long Term Care Residence, held his first solo exhibition.

The exhibition, entitled Fantasy Perceptions, was held at Kitchener’s Homer Watson House and Gallery on Monday.

Amie Wilker, resident support service manager of the Westmount, says about 70 people attended the two-hour exhibition, which came to fruition after a wish was put in the home’s wishing well.

Remole earned his first degree in fine arts. He pursued a masters of science, doctorate of optometry and PhD in visual sciences. He was a professor of optic physics at the University of Waterloo until his retirement.

Wilker says Remole is “a private, humble person” who has been quiet about his passion for art.

The guests at the exhibition included his former neighbours of more than 30 years who had no idea Remole was an artist. They read a story in the local paper and attended the show.

Other guests included University of Waterloo colleagues, family, friends and “people who didn’t know him, didn’t know his family, but just read it in the paper and wanted to support him. It was a wonderful mixture of people.”

Wilker is grateful to the Homer Watson House and Gallery for the professional manner in which they handled the exhibition. The pieces were hung professionally with name cards stating the medium “just like every other artist would get” in an exhibition, says Wilker.

“It was amazing that Homer Watson could do it up so well for him,” she says. “It was wonderful.”

The pieces in the exhibition were acrylic on hardboard and canvas, and a few watercolours.

Remole has more than 120 framed pieces of art, and the family had difficulty selecting only 19, says Wilker.

Kitchener-Conestoga MP Harold Albrecht was in Ottawa and unable to attend, but sent a delegate with a certificate of congratulations for Dr. Remole on his first solo exhibition and for sharing his talents.

“It was so nice for him to be recognized in that manner,” says Wilker.

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