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 until March 17.
(Images: Amy Holloway, Still, oil on canvas; Lori Deeley, The Mash, watercolour, ink and charcoal; Lori Deeley, Tidal, ink and watercolour, courtesy The Leyton Gallery)
In trawling through older issues of Newfoundland Quarterly, I’m particularly looking for writing about landscape and place, stories about technology, and things that make me laugh. So far, the most perfect triangulation of those three things is The First Automobile in Bonne Bay.
I usually come to new stories with either a first line or a first image in mind. With Hysteria, it was an image – almost a moment, really. A young mother, lounging on a wooden raft in a quiet pond with her child, suddenly is witness to a strange and unexplainable event. It’s a hot and lazy day, the woman is half-dozing. She looks up to see a second child, a strange little girl, has appeared out of nowhere.
When you walk through a cemetery in Newfoundland, you reach out your hand to brush through the tall grass or pick a partridgeberry that has grown plump, snuggled between the…