318:“My aims – what they are – are not perhaps high. I do not think of my art works – as it seems is the fashion nowadays – as having a socially significant message – unless in trying to tell in my work, of beauty I have felt or observed, and so to bring it to the attention of others, does good to mankind and has some social value. If what I have said in my art, or have fostered in my teaching, carries into the world a sense of greater happiness and beauty in my day, then all my aims will be gratified” - Violet Gillett.
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Gillett promoted the teaching of creative art to children. In 1937 she delivered a lecture to the
Maritime Art Association entitled "A Plea for the Furtherance of Art Education in the Public Schools", arguing for its importance in promoting young people's development. In the same year she also wrote
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After retiring from the Saint John
Vocational School in 1948 Gillett returned to Andover, joining her recently widowed sister and parents in the family home. She and her sister opened a shop selling Gillett's paintings as well as a wide variety of craft works including hand-printed fabrics. They
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to make coloured drawings of pathological specimens in the university's collection. For four years she was employed full time as artist and cataloguer of specimens, while taking evening art classes at the
College. She also provided illustrations for publications by the medical school's faculty,
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Gillett painted four murals for
Trinity Anglican Church in Andover. The murals, which were unveiled in 1966, illustrate: on the southeast wall, various children's hymns; on the northeast wall, the hymn
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speech. Gillett's inspiration and rationale behind this piece was to include both food and love through mother and the child, symbolizing differing freedoms from want. This piece is part of the
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magazine. This publication was the first
Canadian magazine with a sole focus on the visual arts. The first issue was published in 1940 under the auspices of the
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