Past mentee Barbara Schmeisser began her full-time practice after graduating from NSCAD in 2005. Working largely in steel, Schmeisser reveals familiar things about and around us that are not always visible. Ironic contrasts, humour and visual metaphor are common elements.
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.
Karen Langlois – May Artist Profile
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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.
Janet Larkman – April Featured Artist
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While I prefer not to be limited by media or genre, I mostly work as a painter with a 3-D sensibility, incorporating materials such as metal, stone, glass, wood and clay. I have always done installation art and often use paintings as elements of installation.
Dawn MacNutt – March Featured Artist
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Dawn MacNutt is an artist and sculptor, from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Dawn’s work is most often inspired by her lifelong love of the human condition. …what she describes as ‘the beauty of human frailty’.
Jay LeBlanc – February Featured Artist
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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 – January Featured Artist
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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.
Sherry Lynn Jollymore is a fan of the fantastic, awe inspiring and funny and tries to reflect these qualities in anything she makes.
Nancy Stevens – October Artist Profile
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Nancy Stevens left a safe and successful career to explore ideas and methods which resulted in HORIZON PAINTINGS, a solo exhibition of abstract paintings at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. After a 15-year career of teaching drawing and painting, creative and critical thinking, Stevens now lives and works in Antigonish County where her studio overlooks her vineyard, Cote St. George.
Bonnie Baker – September Artist Profile
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Bonnie Baker has always engaged in some form of cultural work. As a full time artist in Annapolis Royal, she explores the rich overlap between drawing, painting and printmaking while experimenting with the natural form.
Ed Huner – August 2013 Artist Profile
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Born in the Netherlands and raised in southern Ontario, Edward Huner holds a BFA(’76) degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Ed is an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists and is a founding member of the Professional Living Artists of Nova Scotia. He regards his work as figurative and representational and enjoys the disparate placements of objects and environments.
Andrew Maize – July 2013 Artist Profile
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Andrew Maize is an emerging artist, art educator, and coordinator of the White Rabbit Residency and Festival. He is curious about the transference of energies, the obscenity of obsolescence and consumption, and inspired by craftsmanship and the possibilities and processes of working with materials.
Based in Dartmouth, Hannah Minzloff is a respected member of the arts scene in Nova Scotia, where she is a documentary photographer creating community portraits.
From my studio on the Shubenacadie River, I am a daily observer of the powerful Fundy tides, the change of the seasons and the cycles and rhythms of the land.
April 2013 Featured Artist – Pat Loucks
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Inspiration for my work usually comes from my observation of seasonal changes in the natural environment or the effects of human intervention in the landscape.
Teena Marie Fancey is a Nova Scotian artist working in mixed media and relief printmaking methods.
February 2013 Featured Artist: Ron Hayes
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Ron Hayes opened Art Can Gallery in Canning in 2001 and has been actively involved in the support and promotion of the arts in the Annapolis Valley, most recently as Chair of the Alliance of Kings Artists (AKA) Board of Directors. Ron completed his Masters degree in Expressive Arts Therapy in Switzerland in 1999 and…
Anne Macmillan has lived in Halifax since earning a BFA in Intermedia from NSCAD University in 2009. She grew up in Wolfville, Nova Scotia with motorbikes, dairy farms and apple orchards. Anne has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage. She has exhibited…
Barbara McLean is a graduate of Graphic Design (Sheridan College) and has a BFA with a major in fine art (NSCAD University). She teaches painting courses for the NSCAD University Extended Studies Division and conducts workshops for art associations throughout Nova Scotia. Her work has been purchased by the Nova Scotia Art Bank, GPI Atlantic,…
Adrian Fish is a Toronto born photo-based artist and educator currently living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Adrian holds an MFA from York University, as well as undergraduate accreditation from OCAD University in Toronto and the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Oakville, ON. His work has been shown nationally at numerous public institutions,…