The Toronto Field Naturalists (TFN) is an organization whose members have worked for 85 years to help Torontonians explore, love and conserve our city’s unique natural heritage.

To celebrate its 85th anniversary, the TFN is hosting a Nature Art Exhibit/Sale at which some 20 TFN member artists and photographers will display their interpretations of Toronto’s flora and fauna. The event will take place at The Papermill Art Gallery, Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum and Arts Centre, 67 Pottery Road, Toronto, and will be open to the public from August 27 to September 14. Artists will be available to discuss their work.

At the Art Exhibit, special tribute will be paid to artists Eva Davis, the late Diana Banville, and Mary Cumming who is credited with founding, some 40 years ago, the Nature Arts group within the TFN. This group of artists and photographers frequently work together in Toronto’s parks and ravines, and their creations enhance the pages of the TFN’s newsletter, published eight times a year since 1938.

Robert Bateman, world renowned Canadian artist, naturalist and environmentalist has donated a framed print Canada Geese with Young, which attendees at the event will have an opportunity to win. Mr. Bateman credits his early experiences in Toronto’s woods and ravines as a member of the Toronto Junior Field Naturalists for his lifelong fascination with nature.

For more information and gallery hours please visit http://www.torontofieldnaturalists.org/t-exhibit.htm .

The TFN offers over 100 nature walks in Toronto each year, led by knowledgeable naturalists who are eager to share their interests in ‘Ferns and Wildflowers,’ ‘Birds and Butterflies,’ ‘Lost Rivers,’ etc. In addition, the TFN invites the public to a series of eight illustrated lectures, on subjects of local or global interest, by experts in various fields of natural science.