Painters
Rose Adams
Medium: Painting
Rose’s oil paintings and drawings, mix medical imagery with a more subjective understanding of experience.
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Suezan Aikins
Medium: Painting
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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Brian Atyeo
Medium: Painting
"The ‘Pre-Cambrian Series’ is a landscape based group of paintings, non-objective in nature, and representative of my response to the surface integrity and patterns of this exposed rock found in many parts of Canada."
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Jo Beale
Medium: Painting
Beale’s scenes of the Cove present compositions of rough shapes defining boats, water and the granite rocks lining the coast. One feels lead by the representational way of a natural land, through the gentle authority of Beale’s craftsmanship.
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Kathy Brown
Medium: Painting
Kathy's evocative watercolours, depict the shores of NS and the surrounding ocean, featuring coastlines, waves, sky, weather, sailboat racing, passage making and lighthouses. She also paints historical subjects and is well-known for using nautical charts as image or inspiration. Cards and prints available. Commissions welcomed.
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Dwayne Carberry
Medium: Painting
"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
Medium: Drawing
Dan specializes in pencil drawings renowned for their photographic realism; transforming a favourite photograph into a classic piece of art. Dan’s attention to detail
crosses mediums creating beautiful still-life, landscape and abstract acrylic paintings.
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Kit Clarke
Medium: Mixed Media
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
Medium: Painting
"Although always experimenting with new ideas, I am frequently drawn to painting interiors in oil. I love the play of light and shadow; the way light or sun on objects affects colour."
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Alex Colville
Medium: Painting
Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Alex Colville is probably the best known living Canadian artist. Many of his paintings are contemporary Canadian icons.
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Sarah Jane Conklin
Medium: Painting
"Elements of nature in a kaleidoscopic environment are my primary interest. Impressions are created through deliberate entanglements of brushstrokes, rich colour contrasts, and the chance effects of impasto."
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Leya Evelyn
Medium: Mixed Media
Leya uses intense, powerful colours, in rich painterly applications which dominate her mixed media works. She is internationally recognized for her paintings which can be seen at Secord Gallery (Quinpool Road) and Jo Beale Gallery (Peggy’s Cove).
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Cynthia Grove
Medium: Painting
"My paintings and drawings are influenced by the infinite soulfulness of the coastal landscape. My work captures the impressions and interconnetectedness of ocean, land, figure and sky in oil and mixed media on canvas and paper."
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Paul Hannon
Medium: Painting
"I take two approaches to my painting practice. My subjective paintings are based on imagination and personal vision. My naturalistic paintings look a lot like how things appear. I focus on creating luminosity arising from light and colour."
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Cameron Graves Hayden
Medium: Painting
"Great portraits capture more than just physical representation. Capturing spirit and personality is the key to a creative, beautiful painting. I really enjoy working with my clients (both human and furry) toward this end."
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Anna Horsnell Wade
Medium: Painting
Anna paints bold, intuitive abstracts. A painter for over 30 years and a 2009 Progress Women of Excellence award-winner for Arts and Culture. Visit her oceanfront studio for your personal viewing of new work.
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Evguenia Ioganov
Medium: Painting
Originally from Russia, Evguenia now lives and works as a full-time artist in Nova Scotia. Her work is found in many private and corporate collections in North America and abroad. Evguenia’s realism is similar to that of the Old Masters, paying close attention to detail, light and rich use of colour.
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John Malone
Medium: Painting
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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Laurie Mireau
Medium: Painting
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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Shelley Mitchell
Medium: Painting
"I render the space and objects around me to give meaning and value to them and as a meditation. The resulting paintings are an imperfect means of sharing my perceptions and sharing the joy."
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