Renowned local artist Brenda Wainman Goulet has died, eliciting an outpouring of grief and disbelief from Huntsville’s arts community and beyond. Her death was confirmed by Billingsley Funeral Home. “We’ll be meeting with the family tomorrow,” said Kevin Billingsley.<\/p>\n
Brenda was a graduate of Ontario College of Art and Design and a founding member of the Artists of the Limberlost. Her love of Algonquin Park influenced much of her bronze on stone works. Brenda’s life-like bronze sculptures have also received international acclaim. Locally, she created the statue of Tom Thomson at Civic Square, George at The Table Men’s Shelter<\/a><\/span>, Donnie Eagles’ broom at the entrance to River Mill Park, and others across Muskoka including statues of Norman Bethune in Gravenhurst and nurse Rene Caisse, developer of the essiac herbal formula, in Bracebridge \u2014 a legacy that will keep her memory alive.<\/p>\n\n\t\t