Artist Statement

Art is a political act, providing colour, shape, and genre to speak to how we move and see reality. Abstract forms of the everyday things—imbued with light and vivid colour—are simultaneously nostalgic and modern. Those things embedded with us and mostly unnoticed are the tools of political acts. Changing the colour of everyday things—recycling bins, telephone poles, bridge—forces a new and skewed reality of things, jarring a new perspective.

Biography

Brian Hotson grew up in Northwestern, Ontario and is now a Nova Scotian artist living in Gaspereau. Always drawing, his hobby turned from an interest to working artist. Brian is interested in the everyday things embedded in our reality—recycling bins, telephone booths, bridges, and telephone poles—those things of utility that go mostly unnoticed. Brian has had both solo and group shows at the Dart Gallery in Dartmouth, NS, and at the Ice House Gallery in Tatamagouche, NS. His prints are carried at these galleries as well as at Inkwell Modern Handmade in Halifax, NS and Steeplegreen Books in Musquodoboit Harbour, NS.