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• Leyton Gallery celebrates a decade in colour
  Eleven artists come together in the Leyton Gallery’s group summer show, Celebration of Colour, which also marks the gallery’s 10th anniversary. ...
• Canadian moving portraitist on display in London
  —London If personality is not static, why should portraiture be? That is one question Peter Wilkins poses with his “12 Writers’ Portraits.” The ...
• Hartman thinks big with new paintings
  “Tracing Terra Nova” is John Hartman’s new solo exhibition. As usual, he’s thinking big. Like his earlier landscape series, such as “Painting the ...
• ‘Feast’ for the eyes
  The 23 works in Jonathan Howse’s “The Feast” (his first solo exhibition) are often about ritual and observance. People gathered around a kitchen ...
• Holocaust survivor to speak at memorial service
  One of the last Holocaust survivors connected to Newfoundland and Labrador will speak at the Holocaust Memorial Service on April 7. Philip ...
• Artist uses a variety of cameras to capture landscapes
  “No matter what kind of camera you use, the photograph is taken in what seems to be an instant. I want to put time into what we perceive to be an ...
• Tomova bridges past and present in ‘Crossings’
  “Crossings” is a solo exhibition from Veselina Tomova, and includes 30 pieces, about evenly divided between prints and mixed media. Neither term ...
• Thinking inside the box
  “Boxed In: Small Sculptures” brings the work of 67 visual artists into two different St. John’s galleries, at The Rooms and the Craft Council. ...
• Exhibit puts Scott Goudie’s talent on display
  The new Scott Goudie exhibition is a room full of prints, drawings and watercolours dating from 1977 to two weeks ago. The range of media ...
• Jessica Scott can surprise with her work
  Visual artist Jessica Scott paints with a fantastic vocabulary, a blend of natural forms and otherworldly scenes. For example, one of her ...
• Ink articulates culture and memory in ‘Nine...
  The evocatively titled “Nine Daughters” is an exhibition of eight big ink drawings from Boyd Chubbs, all recent. The daughters (nine models in ...
• The shape of the ‘Ships’
  Two years ago, Barbara Pratt had an exhibition titled “Train”, inspired by journeys she took across mainland Canada. These were pieces of rolling ...
• ‘Inspired by the landscape’
  Peter Jackson is an architectural intern who studied at TUNS (now part of Dalhousie) in Halifax before moving to Vancouver, San Francisco, and ...
• The last of the Regiment widows?
  In mid-August I wrote an obituary for The Globe and Mail on Loretta Smyth Martin, who had died at the age of 91. Martin was thought to be the ...
• Ebb and flow
  “Between Tides”, Michael Fantuz’s solo exhibition of 22 oil and acrylic paintings inspired by trips to the south coast of Newfoundland, is as ...
• ‘Ghosts of Violence’ a powerful portryal of...
  “Ghosts of Violence” is a ballet of contemporary choreography exploring the vital issue of domestic violence. That may seem an uncomfortable ...
• Ilse Hughes brings vistas of colour and light to Red...
  As a painter, Ilse Hughes is very involved with colour. These 25 pieces (acrylic on canvas excepting four watercolours, all 2012 or 2013) dazzle ...
• Beautifully broken
  Diana Dabinett has long been interested in the natural world around her, but while her focus remains there her work is becoming less ...
• Louise Moyes’ ‘docu-dance’ performance is fluid
  Louise Moyes creates and performs in a genre she calls “docu-dance.” These are pieces with rhythm and choreography that is braced by research and ...
• Pondering private moments
  “Private Moments Revisited” is the newest exhibition at The Leyton Gallery, a duet between Ginok Song and Bonnie Leyton. Song is primarily a ...
• ‘Landlines’ embodies both equilibrium and anchorage
  Visual artists will often talk about how a painting should be about painting, that a viewer should be aware of how the medium of oil or ...
• Group effort
  Three artists have work in a group show opening Sunday at the Gerald Squires Gallery, and they are an interesting mix. Gerald Squires and George ...
• Echoes and refractions
  Two very fine solo exhibitions are showing in evocative and resonant counterpoise at the Christina Parker Gallery. Michael Gough's "From the ...
• Petals and paint
  Spring, taken as a season, may not always be recognizable as such in Newfoundland and Labrador, but it does have its portents. The 19 visual ...
• Writer discovers Jewish heritage
  Alison Pick is the featured speaker for this year's Holocaust Memorial Service, and she has a fairly intimate story to tell. Pick, whose ...
• ‘Abracadabra energy’
  “Outport Lights’ is a solo exhibition by Brenda McClellan, 41 oil on canvas paintings of settlements and coves and lighthouses and shorelines in ...
• Bringing the spring
  “Wrap Yourself in Warm Colours for Winter” is a big group show — 16 or more visual artists, and many with two or more works. There are pieces in ...
• Reflecting on ‘The New Romantics’
  As a word, “romantic” seems intimately connected to “love”, denoting something amorous and perhaps impractical. But as an art style it signifies ...
• Red Ochre Gallery features versatile group
  There is a challenge to reviewing a group exhibition which is neither anchored by theme nor linked to a small gathering of artists — which is ...
• The 12 artists of Christmas
  A dozen artists are featured in Leyton Gallery Christmas show, which just makes it a match for the Twelve Days of Christmas. Also, Anthony Barton ...