![]() ![]() This house was on the beach.”Īlthough Rowles is now a U.S. The home I grew up in was in town, five miles away. It’s a magnificent part of the world,” says Rowles, who reluctantly sold her family’s vacation home there earlier this year. “The Gaspé Peninsula is a destination now for people who want to kayak, whale watch and bike. It is now considered a mainly French-Canadian region. Running as a Progressive Conservative in 1958, Keays was elected to Parliament representing the electoral district of Îles-de-la-Madeleine later representing Quebec’s Gaspé district.Īccording to Rowles, “The Gaspé was more English than the English,” during her childhood in the 1940s and ’50s. ![]() He was also a politician who served as the mayor of Gaspé for a decade. Rowles’ father, Russell Keays, built on his family’s success there, as an industrialist whose businesses included lumber, ship-building, hotels and heavy construction. A Canadian by birth, she was raised in the town of Gaspé, where her Irish great-grandfather came to claim a parcel of land that extended from the forest to the sea, using the land for lumber and the ocean for commercial fishing. Rowles divides her time between homes in Florida and Vermont (where her flower garden inspires her art) and, until recently, the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec. Rowles has of late become known for her abstract flower paintings, which are as upbeat as the Statler Brothers’ 1966 hit, sans the blue notes of “playing solitaire till dawn with a deck of 51.” The first exhibition of the 2020 calendar at the Center for Spiritual Care in Vero Beach is Barbara Rowles’ “Counting Flowers on the Wall,” on display through Jan. ![]()
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