Sharing the View 2013

The numbers are in for this year's fund raiser for Feed Nova Scotia, and our total is more than 104 thousand dollars!

Judith Leidl received both her BFA and MFA from NSCAD University where she was awarded scholarships for both academic and artistic excellence. Since then, her art work has been featured in over eighty prominent group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Judith has also received numerous awards for her artwork.

Judith Leidl has taught printmaking at NSCAD and Nunavut Arctic College, Baffin Island. Judith has also worked for several years at the world renowned Uqqurmiut Centre for Arts and Crafts in Pangnirtung, Baffin Island as Artistic Advisor to the Pangnirtung Community Print Collection. She has also been a faculty member at Acadia University since 1998, teaching both drawing and painting. Judith Leidl's art work is included in many private and public collections nationally and internationally.

Thematically, my paintings range from still life, seascapes and landscapes to dreamscapes. Recently, I have been exploring figurative work. Also and to varying degrees, my interest and affinity for textile design is reflected in my art work. I am particularly drawn to textures and patterns with more intense, luminous and layered colours. My art work contains a representational component combined with a strong abstract element. I feel that this duality contributes to the unique substance, texture and dimension of the work.

Check out Judith's website here.

I'm a self-taught artist living and working in beautiful St. Margaret's Bay. I've lived in this area my whole life and have recently opened my studio gallery in Seabright, Nova Scotia.

Stepping away from the traditional way I've painted in the past, I'm presently taking a journey in collage. I want the viewer to see a place or moment in a fragmented and pieced together way. Some if my creations are quirky and fun, others moody and thoughtful.

What hasn't changed in my work is the urge to leave messages in my paintings. I'm an eclectic artist and prefer to work in series so I can transfer my ideas onto the next piece and watch it change shape and direction.
Here's a link to Andrea's blog.

I was born in Boston, graduated from the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. But I have lived in Nova Scotia longer than anywhere else, my grandfather was from Dartmouth, Barss cousins surround me, and my younger son was born in Cape Breton. So Nova Scotia is home, and I am not a total "come from away".

I majored in print-making, but after graduation,lacking a lithographic press, I started painting,and have continued ever since.
I paint in acrylic, oil, mixed media,and collage, drawing my subject matter largely from the natural surroundings that interest me...the magic of an emerging dragonfly, an amminoid fossil formed in rock, bathed in daylight for the first time in millions of years, the natural progression from beginning to end,from blossom to pear to core.

I am currently enjoying working on a show of humorous art, which will open November 7th at the Craig Gallery, Alderney Landing in Dartmouth.

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Ron grew up in Calgary Alberta and graduated with his doctorate in physics from UBC. He had a successful career as a scientist and research manager with the federal agency, Defence Research and Development Canada. Having worked in Victoria, B.C. and Dorset, England, Ron moved to Halifax with his wife Kim in 1998. They have a son, Bruce, who is now a young teen. Ron still enjoys skiing, playing ice hockey and soccer.
After his retirement Ron spent 4 years immersed in art studies and studios at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He realized a life-long dream in 2011 when he graduated with a BFA degree in painting. He is now enjoying the transition to the world of fine art. Through NSCAD he realized that artistic intention, meaningful communication, and contribution to society are the larger motivations for creating art.

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I am basically a self-taught artist who paints mainly in the mediums of acrylics and watercolours and my style would be classified as realism. I was born in Shelburne, N.S. and I have lived most of my life in this area. I now reside with my wife, April, in Middle Ohio, a small village about 20 km inland from the town of Shelburne. After teaching at Shelburne Regional high School for thirty years as mainly a jr. math and science teacher I decided to give up the chalkboard premanently so that I could put more time into my art. I began painting at about the age of eleven using oils after taking a few lessons from a sweet old lady in the New Minas area, but I later switched over to acrylics and several years beyond that I added watercolours to my palette. Although I have been painting for most of my life retirement has really given me the necessary time to focus more on my artwork with the lifelong endeavour of improving my skills.

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Anne Camozzi paints in her studio overlooking Antigonish Harbour on the northern shore of Nova Scotia. An early passion for the arts led to an Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University (Toronto, Canada) in 1976. After graduating, she worked briefly as a CBC TV & Radio news reporter, then moved to Nova Scotia where she earned a Masters in Adult Education at StFX. While raising two children, she worked as an environmental consultant and university senior administrator.

In 2003, illness forced Anne to slow her fast paced lifestyle and on the advice of her physiotherapist, she began drawing as a distraction from pain. She soon regained the love of art she had as a young woman, drawing her inspiration from Nature and the connections between the natural world and the human spirit. Her work has been used in hospitals, the new Antigonish library, websites, magazine covers and calendars and is in public collections in Nova Scotia. Private collectors enjoy her whimsical, vibrant images.

Here's a link to Anne's website

photo by Wally Hayes

Rose Adams has been painting professionally since receiving her BFA in 1982. Lately, her work uses collage, and plays with sharp representation dissolving into forms of abstraction. Her commercial painting is about gardens, natural history and birds, while in her non-commercial work, she investigates how we portray the brain and neuroscience. Rose teaches part time at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and lives in Dartmouth with her two children, Manuel and Flor Angie, and with a german shepherd and a parrot.
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I started painting when I was a small child and haven't stopped. I have no formal training. I am completely self taught. I have taught workshops for several years. In 2009 and 2010 I taught in France and last year Italy. I operated the David Lacey Gallery in Hall's Harbour from 1985 until last year. I sold the gallery and now paint either plein air or in my new studio overlooking the Bay of Fundy. My works are all over the planet. My works are in galleries in Florida, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Nova Scotia. I take part in Annapolis Royal's Paint the Town event faithfully and have been the top selling artist there for the past 14 years. I am fortunate make my entire living from my art. Painting has been kind to me and I am happy to join with the CBC to help put food on the tables of those less fortunate.
Here's a link to David's website.

Raven Davis is an Aboriginal woman whose lineage stems from the Saulteaux Ojibway Nation in Manitoba. Her heritage also includes and Scottish and Irish blood attributed from her father.
Raven is a mix media artist, traditional dancer and drummer. Recently her preferred visual art mediums have been gouache, soft body acrylic, photography and natural materials. She is a trained new media/graphic designer, which is often reflected in her work. Her inspiration has derived from traditional Aboriginal folk art, craft, wildlife, history and artifacts, topography, cultural studies and people.
Raven resides in Cape Breton Island and dedicates her time to being an artist. In her spare time she consults in both the art | design and cultural tourism industries.

Charlotte Wilson-Hammond is a visual artist living and working on Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore. For the past 30 years Charlotte has been an active advocate for the arts, provincially and nationally. She was a founding member of Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Eye Level Gallery and the Coalition For Arts and Culture. As well she has served on the Board of Governors of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Canadian Conference of the Arts and Canadian Artists Representation. She is currently the past chair of the Nova Scotia Talent Trust, and ex officio to the Board of Visual Arts Nova Scotia, as well as serving on the Board of the Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia.

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Frans was born in the Netherlands where he received his formal education. He first studied graphic design, followed by industrial printing techniques and management. It was the fine arts which captured his imagination in the end, allowing him to express himself without restriction.

His other interest was the ocean which led to employment with Fisheries and Oceans in Nova Scotia. This offered another opportunity to study various aspects of offshore sailing. Eventually he did sail his own home-built boat to the West Indies.
Frans has recently been elected to membership in the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour.

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Twila lives and works in Aylesford, where she grew up.
Inspired by the beauty and diversity of nature around her, Twila creates realistic paintings of natural subjects; birds, butterflies, flowers, landscapes and seascapes. Her paintings are created in watercolour, acrylic and ink. She has illustrated numerous books on natural history for children and adults. She has taught painting classes and workshops since 1987, both in her home studio, the local community and Acadia University.

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