In/Visible comprises fourteen thematically linked works. The show opened in 2018 at ARTsPlace Gallery, Annapolis Royal, and then toured to Memory Lane Heritage Village and St. Francis Xavier University Art Gallery. It will open at the Craig Gallery in 2020. In 2019 In/Visible was nominated for the Nova Scotia Masterworks Award and was one of four finalists chosen for the Lieutenant Governor’s Nova Scotia Masterworks Award’ in 2019.
SKY/SEA is comprised of seven works, created in response to being selected for the cover of the 2016 annual CBC Halifax/Feed Nova Scotia, Sharing the View calendar fundraiser. The works explore the nebulous zone between ‘calendar art’, realism and abstraction.
Clam Harbour Summer #1
Oil on canvas 36" x 30"
Clam Harbour Summer #2
Oil on canvas 36" x 30"
Sunrise, Clam Harbour, Winter #1
Oil on canvas 36" x 30"
Sunset Mabou #1
Oil on canvas 36" x 30"
Mabou Findlay Point #1
Oil on canvas 36" x 30"
Mabou Findlay Point #2
Oil on canvas 36" x 30"
Mabou Findlay Point #3
Oil on canvas 36" x 30"
2014 Bird Maps
Bird Maps are six small exploratory works exhibited in 2014 at Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s ‘Corridor Gallery’. They examine the layers of organic matter that one finds in a salt marsh, perhaps as migrating birds flying overhead might see them as maps to nourishment after a long winter.
Bird Map #1
Multi media on board 6" x 6"
Bird Map #2
Multi media on board 6"x6"
Bird Map #3
Multi media on board 6"x6"
Bird Map #4
Multi media on board 6"x6"
Bird Map #5
Multi media on board 16"x16"
Bird Map #6
Multi media on board 16"x16"
2004-09 In/Finite
In/Finite is a body of work exploring the transformation of abstract watercolour fragments into an enlarged digital print, which is then worked on with coloured pencil to create the finished work. The exhibition premiered at ARTsPLACE in 2006, with an introductory essay by Wayne Boucher, before presentation at Inverness Centre for the Arts and Zwicker’s Gallery.
In/Finite #1
Giclée 23" x 20"
In/Finite #2
Giclée 23" x 20"
In/Finite #3
Giclée 23" x 20"
In/Finite #4
Giclée 23" x 20"
In/Finite #5
Giclée 23" x 20"
In/Finite #6
Giclée 23" x 20"
In/Finite #7
Giclée 23" x 20"
In/Finite #8
Giclée 23" x 20"
In/Finite #10
Giclée 23" x 20"
In/Finite #11
Giclée 23" x 20"
In/Finite #12
Giclée 23" x 20"
In/Finite #13
Giclée 23" x 20"
In/Finite #14
Giclée 23" x 20"
In/Finite #15
Giclée 23" x 20"
In/Finite #16
Giclée 23" x 20"
In/Finite #17
Giclée 23" x 20"
In/Finite #18
Giclée 23" x 20"
In/Finite #20
Giclée 23" x 20"
2002 Landscape with Thighs
Landscape with Thighs was a retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 2002, curated by Peter Dykhuis. The exhibition totaled thirty works, fifteen of which are shown here. If the work in this show had been previously exhibited this is noted at the beginning of the information about each work.
Arrival, Nude #1
Oil on canvas 48" x 48"
Arrival, Nude #2
Oil on canvas 60" x 60"
Arrival, Nude #5
Oil on canvas 72" x 48"
Clam Harbour Collection, Beach Grass
Oil on canvas 72" x 108"
Land and Sea, Diamond Field
Field, oil on canvas 72" x 56"
Dune Clam Harbout #4
Oil on canvas 48" x 36"
Shadow Rock Lichens
Pencil on paper 48" x 48"
Naked Nude, Hand Shadows Rock #2
Pencil on paper 30" x 24"
Intimate Communium, Nature's Blood
Mixed media on foam core 48" x 48"
Intimate Communium, The Space Between
mixed media on foam core 72" x 48"
Watercolour #1
7" x 10"
rtü Untitled #1
Ink, gel and oil on Japanese paper 48" x 36"
rtü Untitled #2
Ink, gel and oil on Japanese paper 48" x 36"
Surfacing #1
Mixed media on canvas Detail
Surfacing #2
Mixed media on canvas Detail
2000-02 rtü
Rtü (Sanskrit for ‘ritual’), a body of eight works focusing on birth, death and regeneration, is all now in the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. The exhibition, with a curatorial essay by Peter Dykhuis, premiered at ARTsPLACE, before presentation at St. Francis Xavier University Art Gallery and the Craig Gallery, Dartmouth.
