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• Girardin’s international encounters
  In a brief artist’s statement, titled “Why do I paint?,” Girardin writes that he is taken by, even obsessed with, “the subtlety of lights of our ...
• Wax on
  Not so much a theme exhibit as a collective display of the gallery, "Our Annual Summer Show" at The Leyton Gallery includes paintings, prints, ...
• Artists look outdoors
  These are two separate, concurrent exhibitions, as opposed to a duet of visual artists composed around a theme. And "Reading A Garden," Margaret ...
• Instantly recognizable
  The art of Conrad Furey is instantly recognizable: the Expressionistic curvature of the figures, the deliberately naÏve arrangements of colour ...
• Teacher 'gilds lily' for exhibit
  Krista van Nostrand brings two distinct passions to her artwork. One is her skill with watercolour and the other is her interest in the stories ...
• Artist captures essence of still life
  Still life paintings of fruit go back to ancient times, and they have always been a popular genre. They were once thought to be a way to kind of ...
• Feeling satisfied
  Among the bouquet of artworks presented in Red Ochre's annual group show dedicated to spring, there is an especially vivid watercolour, "The Wild ...
• Leyton Gallery's guests on display
  The seven visual artists in "Guests of the Gallery" are beguilingly taken with counterpositions of interior and exterior, appearance and ...
• Sisters put on a show
  "Teacups & Mink" is a duet of two artists - Bonnie Leyton, a painter and sculptor, and Leanne Averbach, a poet and performer. They are also ...
• Wander into the 'Forest'
  Some, it is said, can't see the forest for the trees. Visual artist David Kaarsemaker sees the forest and the trees. His work includes a series ...
• Group effort
  St. Michael's Printshop has its first group show up on the walls. Normally, the gallery off-season is occupied by work from the Don Wright ...
• McClellan grabs the light of night
  The houses and skies, streetlights and pavements of Brenda McClellan's "Night Lights of St. John's" present an alchemy of structure and replica, ...
• Unfinished sketches
  This year marks the 100th anniversary of visual artist Rae Perlin's birth. Born in St. John's on Sept 11, 1910, Perlin left home for New York to ...
• Poetry in motion
  "A horse is a fantastic thing to paint," visual artist Greg Bennett is quoted as saying in the "Dark Horse" catalogue. "The inherent sense of ...
• Visual arts Top 10
  #1 The shows: from a solo artist, Helen Gregory's "Unrequited Death" (The Rooms, Dec. 4 2009-May 16, 2010). Because it fulfilled all the promise ...
• Parker offers an art sampler
  A red shed sits, centre frame, balanced by planes of land, sea and sky. The brown of the earth is picked up by the shingles of the roof, while ...
• Finding that sense of place
  A sense of place can reside in a work of art in a variety of ways. A piece can be highly representational, even documentary, like a Corot ...
• A Quest for Mary
  Gerald Squires is an artist long fascinated with the mystical and spiritual. He has created a series devoted to St. Francis of Assisi and ...
• On The EDGE
  Eastern Edge Gallery is gearing up to celebrate its 25th birthday, and along with the commemorative exhibition (opening Oct. 31) and the gala ...
• Port of calling
  Harbours are the raison d'etre of maritime ports. They are fulcrums of trade. Boats dock in them, and communities cluster around them. And they ...
• Poetry on paper
  "I don't know whether you'd call these representational," visual artist George Horan said, interviewed at the Squires Gallery with 24 of his ...
• Life in the lens
  Ask photographer John Haney if he has a genre, and he laughs. The question is a legitimate one. His series of work have focused on New Brunswick ...
• A writer's prerogative
  Jonathan Butler's first novel, "Return of the Native" (Breakwater, 2007) was praised for its comic fusion of the themes of historical fiction (a ...
• Speaking Goughs Language
  Mike Gough and Brian LaSaga are at opposite ends of the artistic spectrum. LaSaga works from his environs and recreates them in a succulent ...
• Roy's Road
  "Newfoundland is movement." Jean Claude Roy's landscape paintings are full of energy, of dynamic brushwork, lively colours and vital defining ...
• Performances spellbinding
  Deborah Dunn's "Four Quartets" is inspired by T. S. Eliot's poetry, and is set against "Burnt Notion", "East Coker," "The Dry Salvages" and ...
• Dancers finally connect in 'The Space Between'
  The 19th Annual Festival of New Dance got off to a stunning start Tuesday night with its opening performance of "The Space Between." ...
• Five St. John's artists take a look at their...
  "Why not celebrate St. John's?" Christina Parker stands in the middle of her gallery, looking at the oil paintings and photographs, ink drawings ...
• '3 Painters' coming to Emma Butler gallery
  Painters often discuss their work is terms of marks and tones, but John McDonald tosses some different phrases into the mix, like dialogue, ...
• Afanassiev crosses borders in 'Landscapes'
  Iakov Afanassiev has two paintings in "Landscapes," the new show opening at The Leyton Gallery of Fine Art Saturday. These signal a new direction ...