Wayne Boucher

In his forty-year professional art practice, Wayne Boucher has been a founding member of the Annapolis Regional Community Arts Council (ARCAC), Annapolis Royal, NS. He has been Chairman of ARCAC, The Milford Community Hall Association, Vice-Chairman, Canadian Artist Representation (CARFAC), and former board member of VANS, King’s Theatre and Annapolis Royal. He has served as Chairman of the Membership selection committee for the Royal Canadian Academy (RCA) for the Arts. His areas of expertise are governance and mediation.

Boucher has maintained professional studio practice and has facilitated and instructed in his well-known workshops “Painting from the inside out” throughout the province. He has mentored and collaborated with high school students in the creation of artworks.

Wayne was the recipient of the 2006 Nova Scotia Portia White Award for excellence, innovation, and expression in the arts. The recipient of numerous grants from provincial and federal agencies including a Canada Council Established Artist Grant in 2001, other key professional successes include winning the 2004 juried competition to execute the mural entitled Réveil for the new Interpretation Centre at Grand-Pré National Historic Site. Boucher became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy in 2002. In 2012, “Drowning in Colour” http://vimeo.com/71404777 was the first comprehensive documentary to be made about the Art of Wayne Boucher and was directed and edited by Alan Collins. In 2014, three of his paintings were selected in a Foreign Affairs Canada design competition for meeting room carpets in the redecorated Nova Scotia Room, Pacific Room, and a Reception area at Canada House, London, UK. http://youtu.be/YrLDOQNEszU