Theme: Visual Art
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…