Painters



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Rose Adams

Rose's oil paintings and drawings, mix medical imagery with a more subjective understanding of experience.

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Suezan Aikins

Suezan's atmospheric paintings on gold leaf and unique Japanese woodblock prints have been collected internationally for 31 years. Her images evoke meditations on nature.

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Taiya Barss

Taiya works with acrylic, oil and watercolour, often drawing subject matter from nature, but adding her imaginative spin to the ordinary.

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Dwayne Carberry

My recent work has been about painting scenes of reflection. I've been painting from a wide range of photographic sources, trying to capture frozen moments in time that evoke very different kinds of emotional responses.

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Dan Caron

Dan is renowned for the photographic realism of his pencil and charcoal art. Working from favourite images, he creates treasured classic art pieces. His attention to detail is also found in his beautiful acrylic paintings. Sat: 7-4 or by appointment

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Kit Clarke

Kit produces narrative-based collage or assemblage works using a wide range of found and manufactured digitally altered materials to create three dimensional and flat surfaces, generally on paper-based surfaces.

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Rosemary Clarke Young

Although always experimenting with new ideas, most recently encaustic painting, I am frequently drawn to painting interiors in oil. I love the play of light and shadow and the way light or sun on objects affects colour.

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Sarah Jane Conklin

Elements of nature in a kaleidoscopic environment are my primary interest. Motion and mystique are created through deliberate entanglements of brushstrokes, rich colour contrast and the chance effects of impasto. Painting alla prima allows every painting to exude its own energy and excitement.

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Shelagh Duffett

I try to infuse my work with elements that evoke happiness. Living here in Nova Scotia, surrounded by the sparkling sea and constantly shifting colours as the seasons play out, is inspring

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Leya Evelyn

Leya’s intense, powerful colours, in rich painterly applications dominate her mixed media works. She is internationally recognized for her paintings which can be seen at Secord Gallery on Quinpool Road.

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Emma FitzGerald

Emma brings to life the places she visits and people she meets using pen and water colour. These in turn inform her interests in her architectural work, which has taken her all the way to her birth country of Lesotho.

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Suzanne Gauthier

Gauthier’s current practice consists of mixed media landscape drawings and paintings inspired by views of the Fundy shore. These evocative images hover between abstraction and representation.

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Cameron Graves Hayden

For years I focused primarily on figure painting, but have more recently forayed into commissioned portraits. This includes pets as well as people. The paintings are playful and portray a unique sense of character.

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Anna Horsnell Wade

Anna’s bold, intuitive paintings embrace spontaneity and the vitality of free expression. Rich colour, varied textures and organic shapes move across each canvas with an energy both dramatic and joyful. Visit her oceanfront studio.

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Alex Janvier

Janvier, whose career spans 40 years, is one of the most important of the First Nations’ artists. He is one of three remaining members of the Indian Group of Seven. Janvier created a unique style, which he calls “visual language”. His major work is the painted ceiling in the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa.

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Hal Jones

Sport is but a small part of Hal’s repertoire. Due to the success of Hal’s art for the Canada Games, they are presently his most recognizable images. Creative use of colour dominates his work.

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Denise Lanterman

I paint the essence of what I see, how it makes me think and feel, in an impressionistic style with as little detail as possible. When I’m painting, the canvas becomes an all encompassing world.

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Maud Lewis (1903-1970)

Maud is probably the best-known folk artist to work in Canada in the 20th Century. Her work and life has been the subject of numerous articles, books and films. Maud’s pictures of the simple life around her resonate with people who now live in a much more rushed and anxious world.

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GEORGE LING

Ling was born in Halifax to a Chinese Canadian family. At age 12, he was given a Brownie camera and he has been taking pictures ever since. George has an innate sense of composition and lighting and his work is an established part of the growing art photography market in Halifax.

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Grace Luke

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her love of music. She is primarily 
a watercolour artist but paints in 
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JOHN MALMSTRÖM

Malmström is a brilliant artist, who recently moved to Nova Scotia from California. His work is meticulously painted and reflects the artist’s intelligence and sense of humor.

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John Malone

John's work is represen-tational paintings of wet streets dripping with colour! He creates individual pieces for all tastes and budgets. Commissioned portraits of people, pets, homes and recreational vehicles welcomed.

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HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)

Matisse, along with Picasso, is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century. Matisse pushed the boundaries of art by developing new forms in painting, sculpture, murals and printmaking.

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Laurie Mireau

Laurie pays close attention to detail in her realistic paintings and murals of Halifax scenes, coastal locations and florals, which are rendered in vivid watercolours, oils or acrylics. Selected images are available as print reproductions.

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Carol Morrison

Carol paints a variety of subjects in oil and acrylic, including landscapes, portraits and still-life and figurative studies. She especially enjoys travelling around the province painting en plein air. Carol welcomes commissions.

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Debbie Mosher

Debbie enjoys capturing time in art. These moments of time are transformed with each brushstroke into a variety of art styles from realism to expressionism. She works in acrylics, oils and mixed media. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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Natan Nevo

My work might be called ‘new modern geometric’ abstract painting. With caricature and satirical meanings, I depict human eccentricities in real life situations. I express a joy of life with acrylic colours on canvas
and stones.

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Helen Painter

Helen's humourous colourful paintings and drawings depict her sense of fun, love of nature, life with pets, and plays on words. Originals can be found at the Secord Gallery and Helen's greeting cards at the Halifax Seaport Farmers' Market.

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Daniel Peck

My work is colourful, modern and textural. It is sometimes dreamy and moody. I tend to gravitate to one colour until I get bored and move on to something new.

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Andrea Pottyondy

Andrea creates layered landscapes, narratives and colourful florals using a variety of mediums. Paint, inks, handmade paper and found objects are incorporated into artworks. With each layer of texture and colour Andrea hopes to reveal life’s essence.

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Andrea Redmond

Currently Andrea works on acrylic collages. Her studio lies “off the beaten path”, off grid and some 185 feet above sea-level, where the sky is as wide open as her eclectic body of work.

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Violet Rosengarten

Violet works with oil and collage to create textured surfaces with brilliant colour. In her abstract paintings there is an interplay between geometric and organic shapes.

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Lynn Rotin

Lynn uses oil paint, encaustic (beeswax and pigment) and mixed media to produce work ranging from abstraction to her popular bowls and pears. Colours are rich and often earthy, texture and surface are emphasized. Encaustic taught. Commissions welcomed.

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Robert and Kath Rutherford

Kath’s playful engravings and mosaic work feature local folklore and sayings. Robert’s unique landscapes in silkscreen and acrylic cover his solar studio from floor to ceiling.

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Daina Deblette Scarola (Art By Daina)

Inspired by the ocean near my home studio on the Eastern Shore, my paintings portray sunrise and sunset beachscapes and waves, while my current body of work Ocean Playground portrays a joyful celebration of maritime life.

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Mahnaz Sobhani

Mahnaz sees the spirit of life within all natural surroundings and enjoys painting the essence of what she observes. She works in acrylics and prefers painting larger pieces of work that reflect seasonal beauty.

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Kay Stanfield

Kay's current work is marked with daily notations and is an exploration of waxes and handmade papers that have been discovered by deconstructing former works.

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Marlien Suermondt

The source of inspiration for my photographs and paintings is the Nova Scotia landscape; the curious rock structures and the shapes and figures that appear in their forms and colours.

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Gail Sutherland

Nova Scotia’s natural beauty is the inspiration and catalyst for Gail’s watercolours. Her original art work, giclée prints and cards are now available at Maples Gallery and AGNS Art Sales and Rental Galley, Halifax.

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Cheryl Wilcox

Cheryl does landscape paintings and drawings in the style of painterly realism.

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