Trapped at home by the pandemic, Karen Kulyk missed her beloved Italy so much that she decided to travel there through paint. Physically, she was at her easel in her Dartmouth home; imaginatively, she was in Italy where she had spent close to 10 years hiking in the country’s northern and central areas in both spring and fall. Painting “brought me back to a kind of peace,” says the cheerful, […]
Standing in front of Janice Leonard’s landscapes and Mary Reardon’s still life paintings, on view at Secord Gallery to Nov. 22, I feel my shoulders drop and my breath regulate. In these turbulent, worrisome times, their exhibit, A Sense of Time, is a wonderfully relaxing show. These two artists, who are friends, have very different styles and genres but both create contemplative art about memory and time. The two give […]
There are two birthday party pictures in wildly different art shows this month: Brandt Eisner’s sad clown and balloon installation Best Wishes in My Name is Yours at The Chase Gallery in Halifax and Heather Sayeau’s hot, floral painting Happy Birthday in The Garden at the Lunenburg School of the Arts. Both shows have a lot of colour but their intentions couldn’t be further apart. My Name Is Yours, produced […]
Soil Body: Art Meets Science, co-curated by Doug Pope and Sue LeBlanc and a Robert Pope Foundation project, asks this question: “Is there a connection between human health and the environment?” The answer isn’t as simple as you might think in art by 11 Nova Scotian artists and one Japanese artist responding to this question in a wide range of expression, thought and media. Artists talk about the human body, […]
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