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true
child of the Canadian timberland, Ethel had been inspired by
the striking beauty of the forests, an inspiration that remained
deep within her throughout her life. She believed nature was
God himself and she worked very hard to study and learn from
all that nature had to offer. She devoted weeks one year to
pencil sketches of the movement of water, documenting the essence
of the endless forms of water and all its characteristics. Ethel
was brought up in the deeps of Haliburton by a kind father,
W.R. Curry, who taught her to investigate the mysteries that
nature had to offer. He also inspired her to imagine and create
as he demonstrated the first breed of new capitalism, resourcefully
establishing needed ventures for the growing village. Ethel's
mother, Jesse Ellen, was also a strong influence in her life
as she initiated her own version of the suffragette movement
in Haliburton, teaching Ethel that women could enjoy the same
freedoms and aspirations as men, and are competent to do much
of the same work that men do.
 
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"The solace and inspiration of nature's
wild beauty inspires the artist to interpret and create, to carve
and to build, to sculpt and to paint."
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