Local Eston artist oil painting

Eston’s museum president, Barb Derbawke-Stevenson, left, and acting curator Shari Collinge are admiring a painting by the late Catherine Bertram, which was hung in the Heritage Manor lounge courtesy of Velma Knippleberg for the recent afternoon social hosted by the Prairie West Historical Society. Catherine Bertram was a local artist whose oil paintings were noted for depicting many aspects of rural pioneer life. In 1997, Eston’s Heritage Gallery featured 17 of her paintings in a show titled Victims of Progress, which chronicled changes she observed in rural Saskatchewan during her lifetime.

PHOTO BY VERNA THOMPSON