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Imaginary Steampunk Novel " The Girls of Fogg Academy" Part Two
Number Forty Three longed to back in the reassuring warmth of the swarm, but the Queen needed his eyes. The rat's whiskers twitched in response to all the alluring scents of a New England port-raw fish, spices, rum.
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Figure Drawing
I've started attending figure drawing sessions once a week with a couple of other artists and professors from NSCAD. We had a beautiful model tonight, the rounder the better I say.
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Imaginary Steampunk Novel " The Girls of Fogg Academy" Part One.
In the woods of Northern Canada at Her Royal Majesty's behest , Clara searches for signs of wandering spirits or phantom armies. Her mount groaned and huffed, showing it's age. suddenly she became aware of a sound in the distance, like a strong wind that carri...
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What's Done is Done.
Ok, I started the new blog anyway, and I'm glad I did. It's perty.
Here's the link, I hope everyone checks it out and spreads the work and the word.
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Painter Trial
I had planned to post a new pen and ink drawing today but got totally sidetracked by a free trial of Corel Painter X. It's a pretty amazing program. First I'll tell you about the drawings above. The first one is the initial sketch in Rapidograph, scanned right...
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I Need Your Help....Again
I decided, (sort of), to launch a brand new blog. My second year of school starts on the 4th, and needless to say my free time will be reduced drastically. My income is made with artwork, it's how I pay for school, rent, chocolate, and I think I can manage two...
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Daredevil: The Luckiest Guy in the World
Daredevil [v.1] #77 is a great comic.
In it, we get to see Spider-Man, Daredevil and Namor fight each other for no reason. We see rampant brooding by both Spider-Man and Daredevil. We see no brooding whatsoever from Namor. And we get to see Spider-Man make a ...
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One more thing on goals and aspirations. An Alan Moore interview.
On the subject of goals here's one more thing. A very compelling interview with Alan Moore. He discusses goals and aspirations in a very witty, wise manner.
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Wallpaper - Truth is in your dreams
I awoke with another line in my head the other day, and created this image based on it. The full size version is 1680×1050 and suitable for desktop wallpaper.
The base photo for this came from Ruud Visser, who was gracious enough to allow me to use his photo ...
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Eperimental Mermaid
And here is my first experiment in digital media in a long time. I have to admit, it's a very compulsive thing to have this much control over an image and it actually reminds me of when I worked in oils, it can go on and on, you can retouch and perfect forever...
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Inflatable Jesus, great name for a punk band!!
After a summer of reading about PZ Myers getting dragged through crap by the Catholic League for supposedly “desecrating” a communion wafer (for the uninformed, it started here and got progressively more tedious).
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Goal 2 : Be Bolder
My friend Bruce was by two days ago for coffee and to return my copy of Kirby's Mr. Miracle and over the course of the afternoon he asked two questions. One was "why aren't your paintings more dynamic?" and two was" why aren't you using photoshop?"
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Portrait of John
The first photorealistic portrait I've completed in quite a while, and I can't say I miss doing them. This was for a friend though, so I didn't mind, and they requested that it be more painterly than what I usually do.
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The Diamond Age
I just finished Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age and was pretty blown away. It's a futuristic novel about a girl who gets a hi-tech lady's primer ( or text book ) in a future where people look and talk like Victorians. I'm really oversimplifying but I highly ...
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Harbour Nocturne
For a dear friend who moved away, to remember Halifax by.
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Tree Art
If you look in our trees, you might just find some window art. I haven't created one for a few years, but made several when we lived in Ontario.
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Avatar Scultpure Works
In keeping with yesterdays post about realistic looking paper models of human subjects, I came across Avatar Scultpure Works which consists of two amazing artists named Jamie Salmon and Jackie K. Seo. Their work is created entirely by hand using silicone rubbe...
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Paper Sculptures
There are a lot of resources around the web for making paper sculpture and models. (Try googling either “paper scultpure” or “card modeling” for instance), but Bert Simons has some really neat stuff. I’ve come across models and plans for airplanes, houses and ...
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Cecily Briggs And Her 400 Fireflies.
Orphaned on her father's secret hide away, Cecily uses her father's laboratory to finish his bizarre experiments. Like the army of electronic fireflies. She than uses this technology to fight evil as she attempts to puzzle together the mystery of her parents d...
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Clock Work
Here is another sketch for a new painting, which I work at between more pressing things. After getting many positive responses from artists I've asked to critique my work I got a negative one, which is, of course, enough to make me want to run away to a monast...
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Totoro Project Tickets On sale!
Finally! Here's all the info you need to attend this amazing event and get an original piece of art...maybe mine!
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Scott Altmann
I'm consistently blown away by the generosity of illustrators. They always are willing to share with people who have questions about the field. I was particularly impressed with Scott Altmann. I sent him an email and I got back a thoughtful, encouraging and ex...
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New Painting: Storm Passing
August is a mad rush to finish up commissions before school begins again. I have portraits, landscapes and cityscapes on the go. This painting is for an upcoming group nautical exhibit later this month.
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Cartoon WWI Maps
This is new (to me anyway)… a series of world war I era maps done in a very comic book/cartoony sort of style. Here’s my favorite;
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Green Skies
And here's the final piece, Green Skies. I think it's funny that this still looks a bit like a kid's book. I don't think I'll ever reach further than YA in my paintings, which is fine with me of course.
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Jason Aaron's Ghost Rider is a Helluva Ride
I am so into Jason Aaron's run on Ghost Rider. I urge everyone to jump on board.
Jason Aaron, of course, being the very talented writer behind the amazing ongoing series Scalped, along with the Vertigo mini-series The Other Side. He also recently completed a ...
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Green Skies Colour Rough
This is something I rarely do, a colour rough. I saw another illustrator doing this and thought I'd give it a go and it really helped. There's always something I forget about when working out a composition , something that could trip me up when working on the ...
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Process
I'm just finishing up a new painting for my updated portfolio and I thought I'd post the process, starting with sketches. I think it's one of my favorite paintings ever, it has a kid, a pink robot and a planet with green clouds.
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Iron Man is a Terrible Friend
Here's an adorable and hilarious cartoon that was emailed to me. It was done by Silver Snail (Toronto) employee Anya Lipchak. It really made me laugh. I love it!
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10:18 - part 1
This is part one (of three) of an unfinished short story called “10:18″ that I started awhile back.
One
The bus sits at the station, rumbling and shaking like a great angry beast that can’t be bothered attacking the pests that infest it. These pests ar...
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Mini-ninjas
It is 6pm on Tuesday evening as I write this. I’m sitting on my deck under the umbrella in the sun with the laptop, and really thinking that this vacation needs to last longer than a further week and a half. It’s just damned nice out here.
Anyway, so the site...
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Making Plans
I would really like to have Robot Museum done within a year or two, it's very hard to plan like that because the most surprising things keep happening. And I don't know how having a baby will affect my life. According to some people nothing gets done and it's ...
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Lady in the water : 1947
Now this is an inspirational photograph, found via Shorpy.com
A woman floating in the water at Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida. The image by fashion photographer Toni Frissell was published in Harper’s Bazaar in December 1947.
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Exhibit
Here are some photographs from the exhibit at the Black Duck Gallery. The show was a great success, a lot of people were there, and everyone was in good spirits.
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I'm Looking for Names!
Here's a rejected panel from the Robot Museum, although I quite like it. I've become totally addicted to Tor.com. The conversations are great. Fun, nerdy topics and I'm learning lots about the industry.
I've met a number of people there and we got to talking ...
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Trying Things
Something that was a bit inevitable was that I was going to influenced by the other artists working on the Totoro project. Many of the artists working on that project I had been a fan of for years but there were many I was being introduced to.
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Nice Review
The Terrible Horrible Smelly Pirate got a very nice review in Toronto's Globe And Mail yesterday in the Sunday book section. Here's the link:
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Robot Museum Page Three
Here is the finished paintings for page three of the Robot Museum.
The bottom panel will have Nora saying: Go home Potbot!
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Now Showing @ The Argyle Fine Art Gallery “Vinylview”
A few months ago The Argyle Fine Art Gallery invited local artists to submit an original piece for their exhibition titled “Vinylview”. Artists were given one rule only, all submissions must incorporate vinyl records in some form. Selected artists would then h...
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Economy = Starving Artist
I’m going to be very honest… pride aside.
Times are very slow, the economy is ROUGH, and now I understand the meaning of ‘starving artist’. Thankfully, my boyfriend and family are making sure that I’m fed and sheltered. I’m so touched by all the people who be...
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At the next table
This group of bikers, who were having just as much fun as the three of us.
And that ended Paint-On-Site in Mahone Bay. Several other paintings remain up on the walls at the Mahone Bay Nursing Home on Main Street.
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Creative Rut
A while ago a friend commissioned me to make a pepper pendant. I have tried various methods of coming up with different ideas on how to make pepper pendants and I am not happy with any of them.
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Emergency Totoro Post/Guardians Of Autumn
The cat's out of the bag! I can finally talk about this great secret project1 I was asked to take part in this some time ago and was absolutely thrilled, because it meant being part of something that was important and special and to be involved in a project wi...
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Rod has been at the easel.
Its back to the future with people in their natural habitats. The first of a series which I aim to take with me to the paint-on-site at Annapolis Royal.
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New Painting: Transience
I think transience sums up the meaning of this exhibit. For me, the sky has always personified the fleeting nature of our experiences. Clouds have the capacity to connote every emotion and mood, which never last long, but are nonetheless powerful when they occ...
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Ron Turner Cover Collection
Inspiration time again. Today we have a collection of Ron Turner covers over at flickr, and more here along with a bio of the man. Ron turner was a British illustrator and comics artist for a variety of pulp magazines back in the 1950’s.
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I'ma Light the Bat Signal!
Josh Elder wrote me into a Batman Strikes comic! And you can buy it today!
Here's Gordon asking me to do an important job:
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Robot Museum Pencil Roughs Page Three
And here is page three of the Robot Museum, or at least the pencils. I'm finishing up the coloured pages this morning. There are so many projects i want to get to these days it seems like I'm not sleeping.
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The faces of objects
I once read that the human brain is predisposed to see patterns that look like faces. There’s a great post hodiho.com that is along those lines, with each image showing a found pattern resembling a face. The blog post that goes along with the photos says;
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The Story of Stuff
The Story of Stuff is well worth watching, especially the bit about consumerism.
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is...
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Medusa In Technicolor!
And here is the painting! Sorry about the cropping..I haven't quite figured that out yet. Sat up in bed late last night finishing the book about Jack Kirby ( probably should have been working) and went to sleep feeling inspired.
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We're Getting Wild!
Last evening we attended 2 events at the Osprey Arts Centre in Shelburne. At 6:30PM, there was an opening of a new show in their Coastline Gallery, an exhibit of framed tile art by local artist, Rebecca Tudor.
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The warm up drawings of John Martz
Before I put pen/pencil to paper I tend to do some warm-up, nothing formal just some casual drawing to loosen my creative side up a bit before plunging into whatever I’m doing. John Martz, of robotjohnny.com has taken the warm-up to it’s own end and posts them...
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Robot Musem Page Two
And here's page two. I'm putting up earlier than I meant but I'm pretty excited about it. There is text in the bottom panel, Quentin says: Hi Feebot, have you seen Nora.
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Paper, Paper, and Paper.
Three quick links having to do with paper: first, you can download patterns to make working paper locks from the amazing Flying Pig, a site dedicated to animated paper toys.
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Revolving Blog
As a bit of a stop-gap measure I've started a new blog that will act as a temporary portfolio site. I can't really afford a designer right now and I want a nice site but the one I have now is full of older pieces and stuff that probably shouldn't be on there.
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The Interimaginational Institute for Fantastical Exploration and Cartography
This map of Mysteria is the work of etsy seller Alison Whittington. She's also done maps of The United Kingdom of Jubilation (sounds like the name of a funk band or perhaps a charismatic church), Strange Island, Unicornia, the Sea of Laughter, and many more.
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Shake It Baby........
I was painting page two of the Robot Museum late last night and Julie came into my studio on her way to bed. I was painting a panel of Quentin levitating a bunch of robot parts while smoke billows out of the robot. I was listening to Tom Waits album Real Gone ...
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New Painting: Sturm & Drang
This is the second last painting of the exhibit. One left to go!
The exhibit is at the Black Duck Gallery, in Lunenburg NS. July 13th-August 8th. Opening reception, Sunday, July 13th from 2-4pm.
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New Painting: Devil's Paint Brush
This was my favorite wildflower when I was a kid. It looks a lot like a dandelion, only red and orange around the edges, and smaller. Unlike a dandelion, it was a real treasure to find one.
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Back to Work
As I write this I am procrastinating. I can see my studio from where I am sitting but I have thought of a dozen things that need doin' before I go there. First of which is update my blog. The second is update my i-pod with more Andrea Bocelli.
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Traffic Box Murals in Halifax
My next mural project will be painting traffic boxes at two intersections in north Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The two locations I will be painting are at Windsor at Kempt Road , and at Joseph Howe at Scot Street . I will take up to a week's time to com...
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Future Retro: Drawings from the Great Age of American Automobiles
An eclectic ensemble of American car styling, from the post World War II generation of automotive designers – Future Retro is a rich collection of illustrations, which ranges from styling exercises to fully rendered prototypes.
This is an exciting peek int...
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AGNS Adds Important Painting By Sam Gilliam
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia has added an important painting by internationally acclaimed artist Sam Gilliam to its permanent collection.
One source suggests that he and Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) are the two most significant African-American artists of ...
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Eyelevel Gallery moving to new Gottingen St. space
Eyelevel Gallery is relocating to a redesigned space just down the street at 2063 Gottingen. The gallery moved to Gottingen from barrington Street three years ago.
For more than 30 years Eyelevel Gallery has fostered research and development of innovative ...
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The North End
The North End is an archive of posters that celebrate the abundance of cultural activity emerging from this small Halifax neighbourhood. Artist Cathy Busby presents them as a floor-to-ceiling installation at Art Metropole, papering the walls with hundreds of s...
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Friends and supporters of the Art/Craft World, artists, clients, collegues...
I write to you briefly and ask for your help, for a friend, and have attached some info about Sandra Winter and the fund raising that needs to happen ASAP! Many of you already know her-some of you might remember her from the past-others may just be reading abo...
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Mathew Reichertz Gets Beaten Up
It’s a funny impulse, really, to want to depict yourself getting beaten up, again and again and again, until you’re a bloody, defeated mess. Unless, of course, you’re Mathew Reichertz.
Because his current body of paintings, called The Fight, does just that...
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'Forgotten' Homes Make Stunning Subjects
When I was a kid, driving with my family through rural Ontario, I was fascinated with old, abandoned houses. Taking a regular route to my grandmother's house, we'd often pass the same old buildings and I'd check it with them, once a season or so, to see how t...
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Gerald Ferguson's 'Frottage' paintings leave an Impression
The current exhibition of Halifax-based artist Gerald Ferguson’s work is more than just an impressive survey of paintings created in the last 12 years. The exhibition, encompassing Ferguson’s ‘Frottage’ paintings (more on this in a sec) and more recent ‘Ash C...
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Argyle Fine Art
Argyle Fine Art represents a unique variety of contemporary art by established and emerging Canadian artists. Selection includes painting, drawing, limited edition prints, fibre, sculpture and photography.
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'After Hours' Student Art at Anna Leonowens Gallery
One of the great things about having a major art school in town is in the artistic influence it wields, even if you aren’t dreaming of being the next conceptual art star or world-renowned painter.
If you’re interested in learning more about art, but can’t...
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22 Artists win big with the Nova Scotia Art Bank
On behalf of artists everywhere (no, I am not an artist, but my sympathies are that way inclined), I’d like to commend and thank the Nova Scotia Art Bank for their recent purchase of 22 works of art by Nova Scotian artists for their collection. This, I think, ...
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Stuffed Angst at Argyle Fine Art
Last night’s opening at Argyle Fine Art was a well-attended affair, as people clambered to see (and buy!) new paintings by Marcel Piet-Hein Kerkhoff (downstairs) and Sara Caracristi (upstairs).
If I could bet money on art, I’d put mine on Marcel Piet-Hein K...
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George Steeves: Photographs
It’s hard to know where to begin in writing about George Steeves whose work is on exhibition at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery until Sunday. He may be, as Halifax critic Sue Carter Flinn wrote on a recent arts blog, the kind of artist you either l...
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The Khyber's Kitchen Party
The Kitchen, the Khyber’s Annual Member’s exhibition, on-now, is a literal smorgasbord of work. From paintings of lentil soup to silk-screened tablecloths and crochet donuts, this is a show that explores food in all its tasty, messy, rotten glory.
The me...
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Making Noise on Hollis Street
Yesterday someone said “you’ve got to see the snare drums on Hollis St.” Snare drums on Hollis street, eh? So I went.
And there they were - three of them in a row - just below NSCAD’s second story windows, above the Christmas Store, the university art suppl...
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Wearable Art Show Dazzles The Senses
Flashing back to last Saturday, 7:30 pm, I was striding through the doors of Hell's Kitchen and it was a mad house everywhere I looked. Dozens of artists from all walks of life were in a mad dash to get the big show ready. The show I'm talking about is only NS...
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Daniel Joyce: Fogging up the Window at Substation
If you happen along Gottingen Street this week, don’t miss the odd collection of circles gracing the window next door to eyelevel gallery.
The window is actually a small gallery of it’s own called Substation — and until March 30, it’s hosting Newmarket, Ont...
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Emerging Artists Impress at Argyle Fine Art
There is all sorts of room here for me to haul out the cliches about 'seeing the artists of tomorrow today' and 'buying 'em now before you can't afford them,' but I'm going to resist using them.
Instead, I'm just going to point out that if you happen to be ...
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Soothing the Frazzled Spirit
Art is amazing stuff: take a blank white wall in an empty room and hang, for example, a fiery red, kinetic painting. The result is that the entire space is invigorated. If, by contrast, you hang a serene, muted painting of, say, a soft, unidentifiable landsc...
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Hartman Impresses at the AGNS
I know, I know—I wrote about John Hartman’s paintings last week. His work, lush, juicy depictions of cities from above, is on-view at Studio 21 Fine Art until the end of the week. But that’s not all.
A substantial touring exhibition of Hartman’s work, cal...
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Halifax Loves Hartman
This town’s got a thing for painter John Hartman.
A significant travelling show of the Ontario-based artist’s work, Cities, is currently on view at the AGNS—I haven’t seen it yet, though, so I don’t have much to write. What I do know is this: the concurr...
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Life in a Bubble at Eyelevel Gallery
It didn’t take long for me to become a serious Karine Giboulo fan.
The current show, Life Bubbles, is essentially a collection of 12 Plexiglas sphere’s hung from the ceiling. Captured within them, are the most compelling little diorama-like scenes, all usi...
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Awkward Curating Trumps Decent Painting at the Khyber
The biggest problem with the current exhibition at the Khyber is not the work - that bit is fine. The problem is in the amateur curating and awkward hanging, and in the fact that I had to ask a gallery attendant in another room to confirm that I was properly ...
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Salads Tossed with Landscapes at Fred
There was a funny moment at Fred Salon today: I’d gone into the stylish hair salon-cum-café/gallery to check out the current exhibition of paintings by Sharon Davis when I spotted a couple of friends eating lush-looking salads and typing away on their laptops....
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Heartbreak and Hilarity in New Video Work by Duke and Battersby
I’ve always liked Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby’s work, though it’s hard to articulate why. Their videos- richly textured, vaguely surreal- have intrigued me ever since I saw the first one at a screening in Toronto a number of years ago. The couple (re...
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Tiny Town: Graeme Patterson's Woodrow
So this isn’t news: Graeme Patterson is an art star. Neither is this: his exhibition, Woodrow, on now at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, is impossible not to like. It’s funny, inventive, and skillfully built, with a hint of genuine wistfulness. A visit to W...
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Cereal Boxes Become Landscapes
An Hour of Landscape Painting: 1-Minute Paintings on Cereal Boxes is the accumulation of a series of robust acrylic paintings on commercially produced cereal boxes - each of which took no longer than one minute of time to accomplish.
"I began to make 1 minu...
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Beautiful Destruction at Dalhousie Art Gallery
Once and awhile, a show will come along that feels important, right deep down in the gut. This is one of those shows. I’ve now been to see it three times, lingering for different lengths each time— but it’s a weighty show, and its content almost demands that i...
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Susan Wood's flowers bloom at Studio 21
I’ve always had a soft spot for really good botanical drawing, which may be why I am attracted to many of Susan Wood’s works. Whether bending gracefully over vase edges or reaching upwards, Wood’s mixed media drawings of flowers, currently being exhibited at ...
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Sugar High
A few notes on Sweet Tooth: The Craving Continues, currently on show at Argyle Fine Art in downtown Halifax.
1. This is a show that oozes cuteness:
From ceramic cupcakes to paintings of gummy worms, every work in this exhibition is sweet food related. ...
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Contemporary Life and Other Anxieties
Peter Dykhuis is a multi-talented, multi-tasking sort of an artist. His prolific practice, squeezed into the spaces between life and work (he’s also the director of the Anna Leonowens Gallery at NSCAD) is dense and rich, textural and delicious.
The exhibi...
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Jeff Friesen's photographs capture Peggy's Cove with a new perspective
Photographer Jeff Friesen moved to Halifax from Winnipeg in 2005. On arrival, he became transfixed by the barren landscape of Peggy’s Cove. His first exhibition since moving to the east coast, inspired by that landscape, is on view at Studio 21 Fine Art.
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Centre For Art Tapes screens scholarship program films
I know, I know… I’m the art person. I’m supposed to write about stuff that happens in galleries, stuff that gets applied to canvas, stuff that people like to dismiss with an “I coulda done that” sneer.
But one thing I haven’t been doing enough of is writ...
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Brendan Fernandes: Wish You Were Here
Though at first viewing it appears simple, Wish You Were Here, an installation by Brendan Fernandes, is anything but.
His work is mostly created out of commercially available materials brought together in interesting combinations – in this case, a troupe ...
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Suzanne Gauthier's 'Fox River Diaries' at the Corridor Gallery
I must confess, I couldn’t find the Corridor Gallery.
I was standing in a grey hallway at 1113 Marginal Rd, a complex housing a number of local arts organizations – and though I knew I had the address right, I couldn’t find the art. My blank stare must h...
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Tiny gallery, Titanic exhibit
The current exhibition on view at Gallery Deluxe Gallery involves Celine Dion, the Titanic, and a lot of white liquid that looks suspiciously like milk, all in an overhead space only two and a half feet high.
Gallery Deluxe Gallery is a miniature gallery s...
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AGNS Remembers Forgotten Female Artists
I was initially turned off by the title: if, as the show suggested, time had forgotten these artists, then surely there would be no point in seeing their work? I must confess that I dragged my feet in going to see the show… and only ended up catching it becau...
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Zwicker's Gallery acquires two paintings by Jean-Paul Riopelle
This is a story to make both gallery owners and casual art collectors salivate. It’s the stuff of fiction and fantasy – the kind of story the people who watch Antiques Roadshow are always hoping to see.
It began with a phone call to Ian Muncaster, directo...
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Pizza Box Art Takes Viewers on a Journey
Pete’s not there, but it’s clear his mom is thrilled to see his work on the walls. “You forget that’s on a pizza box!” she exclaims, gesturing at a bright painting on the wall. Then, almost as if she’s just come around to the idea herself, she says “It’s art...
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New gallery on Gottingen features ceramic work
Burnt.normal, Halifax’s newest gallery (it’s not even a week old yet) is on the main floor of a house – and in many ways, it still feels like a home. That’s because it is.
The gallery’s co-owner/director/curator, Eo Norris, (she runs the gallery with her...
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Zimmerman's imagined spaces at the AGNS
Carl Zimmerman: Landmarks of Industrial Britain
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
On display until Sunday, January 14, 2007
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a big public gallery exhibition as engaging as Carl Zimmerman’s Landmarks of Industrial Britain, on ...
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Small Stuff Gets Big at Eyelevel Gallery
MacroMicro
November 2- December 10, 2006
Eyelevel Gallery, a small, non-profit, artist-run gallery space on Gottingen Street does consistently interesting things. This is not big news—galleries are more-or-less expected to do interesting things—but I am c...
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Drawings by Rachael Parsons tell strange stories
Rachael Parsons: New Drawings
One World Café
Nov. 5 – 19, 2006
Rachael Parsons has a sense of humour. In one of her mixed media drawings, currently tacked to the walls of the One World Café, Anxious Dog and Summer Camp Counsellor, a figure wearing...
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Helen Gregory: Desiccate
Sometimes, when you first walk into a gallery and have a look around, you’ll have an immediate reaction: 'This', you will think to yourself, 'is good. I like this. This makes me feel something.'
Other times you’ll dislike what you see - or even worse, ...
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Edward Burtynsky finds beauty in destruction
Ray Cronin, Senior Curator of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, doesn’t hold back when he introduces photographer Edward Burtynsky, calling him “the most distinguished Canadian photographer working internationally.”
In town from Toronto for the opening of a...
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Abstract painting meets experimental media at MSVU
So here’s the thing about experimental, non-narrative film and video: even when you’re wedged between two people in a dark theatre, all your attention focused on the screen ‘cause there’s nowhere else to go, it can be tough.
The very nature of the term e...
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David Lacey's One Man Show
Photographer/painter David Lacey showcases his work on an on-going basis in what he describes as a "continous one-man show" at his gallery.
Presently, David has a variety of watercolours and oil paintings up for sale. Many of which depict serene Maritime su...
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Anna Leonowens Gallery
Named after NSCAD’s Victorian founder—feisty heroine of film and theatre productions of The King and I—the Anna Leonowens Gallery is the public exhibition space and resource centre on campus. Three public galleries are devoted to the exhibition of contemporary...
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