Personas – a new array of artworks explore personality, psyche

November 2024

Persona can be defined as: the aspect of someone’s character that is presented to or perceived by others; a role or character adopted by an author, actor, etc or in a game; in Jungian psychology, the outer or assumed aspect of character, “persona and anima switch roles and merge in slow, smooth ways.” These facts and more can be viewed in a new group exhibition, full of cachet and verve.

Persona continues at the Leyton Gallery of Fine Art until November 9.

Images: Emma Jean and Margaret Find Some Seashells, by Kent Jones (watercolour and gouache); Breezy, by Iakov Afanasiev (oil on canvas), Reticence #4, by Virginia Mak (chromogenic print), courtesy the Leyton Gallery.

Visual Art

“Maybe a sense of peace … they are taken in that kind of mental state, they are acts of observation.”

– Ned Pratt to Anthony Germain, on being asked what emotion he hopes his work evokes in the viewer, CBC Radio’s On the Go, May 4, 2023 “In 2022 I began…

Non-Fiction Canada 150

Yanksgiving in Newfoundland

BY Emily Deming

“No one insists on the crudité platter every year because they love raw vegetables. We are insisting on our place at the table; on being recognized for what we believe we are within our family, within our group of friends, within our community.”

Non-Fiction Short

Joey the Carver

BY Renee Fancey

Joey sits in soft focus. Behind him, blue skies and bright murals paint a backdrop easily mistaken as exotic. Festival flags rally. Paving stones undulate drunkenly up the lane. Streetlamps, tagged out to the sun, sleep off their graveyard shifts. A canopy of shadows waves like a palm tree.