Sharing the View 2013: June 2012 Archives

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.

See more of Taiya's work here