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Christopher Webb – September Artist Profile

My work is rooted in questions of spirituality and morality. Compositions are calculated, controlled and attempt to reach perfection. They are resolved. Conflict has been removed. They are intended to act as a counterpoint to our chaotic society and the lack of control I have as an individual struggling with my place.

Bethany Riordan-Butterworth – June Artist Profile

Bethany currently shares a studio at Wonder’neath Studio where she produces functional pottery as Bread and Butter Pottery; she an instructor at the George Dixon Centre and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; and shares a collaborative practice with Ella Tetrault- together they facilitate the Fuller Terrace Lecture Series, a community-based project in Halifax’s North End.

Threads, wool, linen and cotton threads, installation on the artist's property

Karen Langlois – May Artist Profile

After a 20-year career in Early Childhood Education Karen Langlois walked through the doors of Toronto School of Art and never looked back. Three years later she left Ontario to pursue her other long-neglected dream: a house in the woods in Nova Scotia. For the past seven years she has been making art and gardening in Port Medway.

Image: Caroline Woolard, Work Dress for Barter Only, size medium, traded for basic needs/desires, 2007-2017.

En Route Artist Talk Series: Caroline Woolard in Lunenburg

Visual Arts Nova Scotia presents an artist talk by Brooklyn-based artist Caroline Woolard at NSCAD’s Lunenburg Studio Residency, Saturday March 8 at 1pm. In Collaboration with NSCAD University’s School of Extended Studies, and Art + Activism @ NSCAD project, this free artist talk is offered as the fifth and final installment of Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s En Route Artist Talk Series.

Jay LeBlanc, "pathway", (detail), 15" x 16"

Jay LeBlanc – February Featured Artist

Jay LeBlanc is a proponent of serious play who indulges in abstract art of varying kinds. Mostly known for her innovative stained glass hangings, she also experiments with painting, printmaking, mixed media, photography and poetry, along with a recent dabbling in installation. Her work “homing / vol de rentrée / de vuelta” is currently being shown at Gallerie Le Trécarré.

Joy Laking, Autumn Marsh, oil painting 2013, 34" x 36"

Joy Laking – January Featured Artist

Joy Laking is an artist and longstanding member of VANS. For the past forty years, she has tried to capture the beauty of her surroundings with paint, mainly working close to her home on the shore of the Bay of Fundy. Her work is featured in the Dalhousie Art Gallery exhibition CAPTURE 2014: Nova Scotia Realism, curated by Tom Smart.

VANS in Residence at the Woodlawn Library

Visual Arts Nova Scotia is pleased to announce a new VANS in Residence project. In partnership with The Woodlawn Public Library and with the support of the 2013 HRM Artist in Residence Initiative, this residency of a PAINTS artist will take place in March 2014.