Theme: Visual Art
Personas – a new array of artworks explore personality, psyche
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…
“Pulling weeds, cutting plants, giving flowers”: Philippa Jones’ Growing Season extended
“Growing Season is an exploration of my transition to motherhood, a moment of extreme vulnerability but also strength and life-giving power. This period of change has redefined my identity and…
“I still chase light”: an interview with painter Grant Boland
How far in advance do you map out in your mind what you want to be painting? Do you go, I’ll do a series of portraits, or Ok I’ll do…
Summer exhibition in full bloom at the Leyton Gallery
What lies at the Water’s Edge? According to this group exhibition, all manner of gorgeous, evocative things, including, above, Tia Connolly‘s I’ll Go There Tonight in My Dreams (watercolour on mylar),…
Happy International Women’s Day!
The suffragette-inspired celebration dates back to 1909, although marking it on this date came about in 1917. IWD is a national holiday in many countries, and has generally picked up…
Leyton Gallery decks the walls for their annual Christmas Exhibition,
with gorgeous art, no ho-ho-holding back on the verve or the vibrancy, for ’tis the season for light and colour, and all things that bring joy. Opening tomorrow at The…
“I have found my new home in Newfoundland and my muse” – Ting Ting Chen shares her impressions
Can you tell us a little about yourself? I am a St John’s-based fine art photographer. I specialize in both fine art landscape photography and fine art portrait photography. My…
David Baltzer: “I feel art has to say something”
Can you tell us a little about yourself? I was born in Michigan, and moved when I was ten to California, southern California, and when I was 17 moved to…
Barbara Houston: Under the Same Sky
Born in Saskatchewan, Houston was influenced by Modernist Art and landscape painting as expression of people and place, community and belonging. Leaving the Prairies, she studied at Parson’s School of Design…
Michael Connolly: “My images are reactions to memories of particular places and experiences”
His new solo exhibition, Rise, opens at The Leyton Gallery tomorrow. In this series, Connolly explores the changing face of the landscape within Gros Morne National Park. “My places are interactive,…
“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…
Bill Rose: “You have to take chances. Keep pushing the boundaries of the painting. Of course this could end in utter failure.”
Can you tell us a little about yourself? Born and raised in Freshwater/Placentia; left home at 17 to go to university; at 20 I entered an art gallery for the…
“While I was painting, I could hear the sounds of the community, dogs barking, cars driving by, people calling out to me, crows cawing and the wind blowing through the coves.”
Clifford George lives and works in Whiteway, Trinity Bay. He has actively painted and exhibited since 1970. While primarily self-taught, he received a formal art education at the College of…
For the Love of Landscape: a new group exhibition at the Leyton Gallery
Twenty artists, thirty-three works in oil, acrylic, woodcut, pen and ink, and more. Seascapes and forest views, travelling fireweed and dancing birds. Continuing at The Leyton Gallery of Fine Art…
Nelson White: Tukien (Awaken)
Born and raised in the community of Epwikek, Ktaqmkuk (Flat Bay, NL), Nelson White is a member of the Flat Bat First Nation Band. He studied visual arts at the…