Rose Adams received her BA from Acadia University in 1979, her MA in Canadian Literature from Carleton University in 1981, her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1982, her MFA from the same institution in 1986, and her Masters in Adult Education from Dalhousie University in 1994. She has taught at Acadia University, Mount Saint Vincent University, the Tatamagouche Centre, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Rose has an extensive exhibition record in Canada, the United States, Poland, and New Zealand. In 2006 she was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Art. Her work can be found in the Canada Council Art Bank and the Nova Scotia Art Bank, as well as various institutional and private collections.

Jeanne Aisthorpe-Smith was born in England in 1945. After studying graphic design in the 1980's, she moved to the west coast of Canada to further her studies,and graduated from the Victoria College of Art in 1995. Since the late 1990's, Jeanne has focused her attention on landscapes, predominantly from her vicinity in Nova Scotia's beautiful Annapolis valley. Her paintings combine vibrant and often whimsical colour with traditional architecture found in rural settings, resulting in a unique and unexpected feeling of balance and harmony.

Dean Brousseau studied photography at NSCAD in the 1970s, and worked as a documentary and fine art photographer for the next ten years. He received much acclaim for his work, which was included in a nationally touring exhibition entitled The Canadians, which also travelled to Canada House in London, England. Since 1985, Dean has had a successful career as a cinematographer in film and video. Because of his need as an artist to express a more personal artistic vision, separate from his collaborations as a cinematographer, he has recently turned his eye back to the practice of still photography. Some of his recent work has been purchased by the Art Bank of Nova Scotia, and generated interest from private collectors as well.

Nick Burnett was born in Somerset, England, and immigrated to Canada in 1967. He holds degrees from the Yeovil School of Art, the Taunton College of Art, and the London College of Printing, all in England. Along with a highly acclaimed career in art direction in Canada, Nick has been painting for over thirty years, and his works are in collections across the globe. Now residing in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Nick’s works not only reflect his highly developed skill as a painter, but demonstrate a strong influence from the traditions of 20th Century Canadian landscape painting.

Susan Coolen is a fine art photographer based in Montréal, Québec. She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1955 and graduated with a Bachelor of Design from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1977. She moved to Montreal in 1991 to pursue a BFA in photography at Concordia University, followed by an MFA in photography at Columbia College, Chicago. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibits in Canada, the United States and Europe. These include the two-person exhibit 'Beyond Science' at Metrònom in Barcelona, Spain, 2004-05, 'Shifting Sites' with the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and the National Gallery of Canada's "On Tour" program 2000/2003, and the international event «Encontros con la image» in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 2000. As well she has had recent exhibits in Pittsburgh, Toronto, Vancouver, Kitchener, and Montreal.

Kim completed her BFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University in 1996 and her MFA from the University of Western Ontario in 1999. She is an interdisciplinary artist who resides in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia. Kim has worked in installation/performance/video/sound, with writing/drawing/painting as a thread throughout. More recently, Kim’s focus has turned more fully to painting. “I am interested in colour, working intuitively and moving further and further away from clear representation. The further I enter the shapes and forms, the freer I become from the rigidity of what we might expect to see or know in a picture like a figure or a building. That being said, I love flowers, the ocean, and gardening.”

Originally from Germany, Horst Deppe studied under Walter Kubbernuss. Since moving to Nova Scotia in the 1950's, he has taught and studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He has an impressive record of international exhibitions and is represented in numerous collections. Horst's watercolours reflect his fascination with the bogs and coastal regions of Nova Scotia, while his woodblocks reference a narrative expressive European tradition.

Philip Doucette is a native Nova Scotian, born in Halifax in 1961. He attended Dalhousie University, studying science, before pursuing a course of individual training in stained glass with the Atlantic glass artist community. Since 1987, his studio has provided expert design, fabrication and restoration services to a variety of individual and institutional clients. Philip is a Master Artisan of the Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council, and believes strongly in promoting the possibilities of glass design through teaching and mentoring in the community. Since 2000, his explorations in fused glass have added new direction and dimension to his work, allowing him a unique palate with which to reiterate his scientific education in a delicate synthesis of colour, form and light. Philip practices his vitreous alchemy in a studio located in a historic warehouse building in downtown Halifax.

Terry Havlis Drahos has had a diverse career in the visual arts for nearly 25 years, as an artist, educator, graphic designer, and gallery director. Her own art practice is strongly rooted in a passion for gestural figure drawing. In recent years, her work has adapted the spontaneity of figure drawing into non-representational compositions, rendered in oil and encaustic. In 2005,the gallery hosted a very well-received exhibition of this work, entitled Elemental Ratio, which was based upon the ancient Golden Rectangle, or Golden Ratio, thought to be the most aesthetically pleasing shape. Though this work was non-representational, the use of colour, light, and format are clearly influenced by the scenic landscape where she lives in the Annapolis Valley.

Randy Engelberg studied fine art and filmmaking in Montreal and New York before attending the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1986. Randy has had an innovative career in theatre, art and education. Since 1990, her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries across Canada. Her imaginative work is distinctive not only in its unique usage of materials, but for its broad range of references to design, literature and social commentary and its often striking usage of colour and form. Randy lives and creates art from her pink house and studio in Halifax.

Born in Washington, D.C. and educated at both Brown and Yale Universities in the United States, Leya Evelyn moved to Nova Scotia in the early 1980’s after having lived and worked for some time in New York City. Evelyn’s paintings show her passionate concern with pure forms, abstract shapes, and intense colours. The powerfully rich and deep colours that dominate her paintings and the loving, painterly application of those colours demonstrate the artist’s abiding interest in the techniques and effects of abstract painting.Leya is internationally recognized for her work.

Renée's first art instructor was her father, well-known painter Tom Forrestall. She holds a BFA and BA in Art Education from NSCAD, where she now is an instructor in anatomy and historical and critical studies. Her diverse and accomplished background encompasses traditional painting techniques, including a variety of methods used in mediaeval icon painting. Her work has been widely exhibited and collected in Canada and internationally. Renée's current body of work emerges from her long interest in video imagery. The paintings, which depict the frozen video images of the likes of Jane Eyre and Joan of Arc, simultaneously blend her classical abilities and interests with subjects made contemporary by their mainstream, technological source.

Tom Forrestall is one of Nova Scotia’s most illustrious painters. Born in 1936 in the Annapolis Valley, he developed an interest in painting at an early age. He subsequently studied art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and Mount Allison University. His principal media are egg tempera and watercolour. A travelling retrospective of his work - “Paintings, Drawings and Writings” - was organized by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 2008. It was accompanied by the publication of a large book written by Tom Smart, Executive Director of the McMichael Collection of Canadian Art. An internationally recognized artist, Tom Forrestall has been the recipient of many important commissions and awards, including the Order of Canada.

Greg Garand, a painter living in Prince Edward Island, is known for his oil paintings of the landscapes of his home province. He has recently expanded his vision to include locations in Nova Scotia. Greg is a graduate of the Sheridan College, Niagara College, and the Ontario College of Art and Design. He exhibits in Ontario, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. His works are known for their assertive use of brush stoke and for the intensity with which he interprets the distinctive red soil and rock of his island locale.

Bob Hainstock has worked in Atlantic and Western Canada as an artist for more than thirty years. He is a fulltime printmaker, painter, and arts instructor. Bob teaches at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and in many private workshops. His work is represented in galleries throughout Canada and the U.S. He is primarily concerned with landscape fictions and the potentials of texture and colour. He explores the contrasts and frictions between rural and urban cultures, and between natural and man-made environments. His studio techniques include a full range of painting, mixed media, collagraphs, woodblock, etchings, mono prints and experimental processes involving rust oxidation and hand-made papers from Fundy seaweed

Brad Hall – sculptor, blacksmith - is a graduate of the Sheridan School of Art, Brampton, Ontario. Brad works with a variety of metals and traditional blacksmithing techniques - forging, welding, banding and riveting. Occasionally, these metals are combined with stone and/or wood, allowing Brad to create a design that combines art and function. During his career he has worked in a variety of mediums, including photography, pottery, and weaving, as well as the restoration of heritage buildings. He has found the transition into creating with metal to be both exciting and challenging, and his work clearly reflects a strong affinity for these materials.

Paul Hannon was born in the Finger Lakes area of New York State. He has a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York at Oswego, where he majored in fine arts. Paul’s training focused on drawing, painting, and printmaking, with special emphasis on the areas of etching, screen printing, and lithography. Paul went to New York City where he studied painting with Elaine DeKooning and Jack Beal. Paul also studied watercolour media with Diana Kurtz at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Paul exhibited in California during the 1970s and taught graphics at Venture Gallery in San Diego. He has done edition printing for several artists. After immigrating to Canada in 1989, Paul renewed his interest in drawing and painting. He has since become well-known in the Maritimes and beyond for his original oil paintings, watercolours, and drawings. He is represented in numerous private and public collections and has been published in many periodicals and books.

Eve Hartling was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1966. In 1991, she began the fine arts program at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design where she studied under Gerald Ferguson and Garry Kennedy. After NSCAD, Eve’s last year of study was spent at Cooper Union School of Art in New York City. In the early 1990’s, Eve was a professional musician in the band Jale. The band had major releases and toured extensively in the United States, Europe, and Canada. While in the band, Eve worked on the graphic design of their album artwork and on art direction for music videos. She was nominated for a Juno award in 1997 for her album cover designs. After exhibiting in group shows in Halifax over a number of years, she had a very successful solo show in 2005. Her most recent paintings offer “a fragmented viewpoint of the subject matter (mainly plants and trees)……the view offered is broken or cut off – similar to ( the view) from a window.”

Cameron Graves Hayden studied art and art education at Princeton, McGill, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her paintings reflect a classical training in the representation of the body and a physical and aesthetic response to her relationship with the world around her. She is an award-winning painter who has exhibited extensively in Canada.

During a career that now spans more than 30 years, Halifax expressionist painter Susan Hubley has earned a fine reputation for her exuberant usage of colour, fluid sense of form, and distinctive compositions. As a young artist, Susan studied with many well-known Nova Scotian painters, including John Cook, Anthony Law, and Jane Shaw. Her floral and landscape subjects also reflect the influences of French masters Henri Matisse and Raoul Dufy, as well as great Canadian legend Tom Thomson. Influences aside, her paintings always demonstrate her own recognizable style, which is both spontaneous and confident. Her work has been widely collected in Canada, the United States, and abroad.

Chris Joyce has used a variety of art-making approaches since his graduation from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1989. He is known for his work as a printmaker, a furniture designer and maker, a graphic designer, a painter, and a mixed media artist. The diversity of his interests do not preclude excellence, as his work in each of these areas is found in collections world-wide. Over time, Chris’ interest has moved from the process-orientated forms of lithography, concrete and metal, into painting. He brings to painting his deep interest in the qualities of material. His current images explore both aerial landscapes, and explorations that emerge from his graphic design background. His ingenuity in the visual arts has been instrumental in the development of a successful high-end interior furnishings business.

Paul Maher recently left his native Australia to make his home in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches in the Foundation Division at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Paul is both educator and practitioner, and his new setting in Halifax has provided him with fresh subject matter for his urban landscape paintings. His images of the Halifax area are subtle, colourful, and stylistically distinctive.

Alexandra McCurdy is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia and has been a ceramic artist for 40 years. With a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a Masters Degree in 3D Design from the University of Wales, McCurdy is known for her finely detailed porcelain pieces featuring decoration derived from native Canadian quillwork, traditional North American quilts, and hooked rugs from the Maritime provinces of Canada. Recently she expanded her work to include ceramic panels with silk-screened images, and prints on paper. McCurdy’s ceramics are included in numerous public collections, including the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Italy, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Burlington Art Centre in Ontario, and the Art Bank of Nova Scotia. Reviews of her work and articles about her career have been included in ceramic-focused periodicals including Australia’s prestigious Ceramics: Art and Perception, American Ceramics and Ceramics Monthly from the U.S., and Canada’s Contact, Fusion, Arts Atlantic ,Ontario Craft and Visual Arts Nova Scotia .

Margot photographs and exhibits "found images" that sooth her spirit. Ranging from emotive renderings of landscape and architecture, to studies of colour and abstract form, her works invite the viewer to consider what is being seen and to experience the moment of engagement. Margot is an award-winning artist with works in institutional and corporate collections nationally, and private collections internationally. Her work has appeared in many publications and on book covers. She leads creativity/photography retreats. Margot enjoys writing - her essay on photography appeared in the book "Arts and Spirituality", published in 2007.

Tony Myers came to printmaking after a twenty-five year career in the not-for-profit sector. He is currently studying towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. As a printmaker, he creates small editions of handmade relief prints – both woodcuts and linocuts – some of which he also paints. Tony’s mature engagement with his medium produces narrative and representational works concerning contemporary political issues, folklore and personal experience.

John Neville was born in 1952 in Halls Harbour, Nova Scotia. While completing his B.F.A. at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, he studied at the Centre De Gravure Contemporaries, Geneva, Switzerland. John is both a printmaker and painter who has exhibited widely in the Maritime Provinces, the Eastern Seaboard, and Scotland. His work is in Public Collections in Canada, Scotland and Switzerland. As a result of his prominence in the Nova Scotian arts community, he is an Honourary Life Member of Visual Arts Nova Scotia. With his wife, Joyce Martin Neville, he runs a printmaking studio in Halls Harbour.

Helen Painter was born in Edmonton and as a young person lived in many parts of Canada. She developed a fascination with the sea during a childhood vacation trip to the Maritimes. In 1975, she moved to Nova Scotia to study marine biology at Acadia University. Thereafter her work as a professional biologist engaged her in intimate studies of seaweeds, invertebrates and fish. Her artistic career paralleled her scientific career until, eventually, her passion for painting dominated. She now has been a full-time artist for over a decade. Helen works with acrylics on canvas, or ink and watercolour on paper, to create colourful, amusingly narrative images that reflect her interest in marine life.

Susan was born in Halifax, and now lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. She received her B.F.A. from Mount Allison University, and subsequently studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, and at Byam Shaw School of Art in London, England. Susan is an award-winning printmaker and watercolourist, noted for her technical prowess and the beauty of her imagery. Her works often interpret her home, her garden and the countryside of her native province. Her art is in the collections of public galleries and corporations in Canada and Japan.

Brian Porter was born in Nova Scotia. He studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. He is an award-winning artist who has shown internationally. He has had numerous solo shows in the Atlantic Provinces and his work has frequently been exhibited throughout Canada. Brian is the subject of two documentaries, one by the National Film Board and one by CBC Television.

Sally Ravindra’s innovative stoneware and porcelain vessels are found in collections and exhibitions throughout Canada. A member of the Nova Scotia Potters’ Guild, Sally has practiced as a ceramist since 1980. Her work appeared in the 2005 book “Studio Ceramics in Canada” by Gail Crawford, and was found in the accompanying touring exhibition, “Seduced by Clay”, curated by Gail Crawford and Jonathan Smith. She was Artist in Residence at Gros Morne National Park in 2006. Sally creates beautiful and elegant sculptures and functional objects with glazed, smoke-fired, and carved surfaces.

Mary Reardon graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1993. Her paintings have been shown in numerous juried exhibitions in Canada and abroad. Mary's recent acrylics on paper explore the theme of memory through meticulously composed traditional still life arrangements. Of her work Mary reflects that "the sum of our memories is the essence of who we are as individuals, and yet the process of memory is invisible to us. I attempt, through my paintings, to describe how the process of remembering and forgetting looks." Mary Reardon lives and works in Halifax.

Asha Robertson is a young artist from Nova Scotia currently living in British Columbia. At fifteen years of age, her artistic commitment led to a four-year apprenticeship with professional sculptor Kathy Venter. She then studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Alberta College of Art and Design. She paints vigorously and experimentally using a variety of media. Asha says of her work, “[it] is primarily a contribution to landscape painting. I take a very sculptural approach to building each painting. This sculptural approach to my work allows it not to be restricted to one material - I enjoy exploring different components to portray the layered qualities of my work. I love painting what I see.”

After studying at Mount Allison University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Kath Kornelsen Rutherford set up an intaglio printshop in Musquodoboit Harbour in the early 1980's. From there she developed her distinctive mezzotint engravings. They are characterized by both the rich soft dark tones of the traditional mezzotint art form and an impish approach to everyday life in her subject matter. She has exhibited throughout North America, Europe and Japan. Kath is an award-winning artist; her works are in many corporate and public collections.

Robert Rutherford has spent the past twenty-five years developing his distinctive style of Maritime images. His silkscreens and paintings are characterized by "wonderful curved movement; powerful, animated lines; and dramatic skies."(Elissa Bernard) Rob studied at Trinity College School under David Blackwood, and at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts d’Avignon. He received scholarships from the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Ontario College of Art and Design where he studied printmaking with Frederick Hagen. Rob is also a filmmaker and has been the subject of a film about the silkscreen process.

Kay Stanfield is a respected Nova Scotian watercolourist, papermaker, and sculptor whose work has been exhibited throughout North America and in Europe. She studied art at both the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, and Mount Allison University; and she studied papermaking in the USA, Myanmar and Thailand. Her paintings and paper works are diverse, innovative, and always dynamic. Kay is also active as a curator, arts advocate and teacher. Her works can be found in many Nova Scotian public and corporate collections.

After formal study of photography and ceramics at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Jeremy Vaughan turned his hand to painting. Although largely self-taught, he has developed a strong and consistent style. His primary focus on flowers and plant life has more recently been augmented with landscape imagery. Jeremy’s main medium is acrylic or oil on canvas, but he also explores the possibilities that emerge through alternate usage of media, such as the combination of photography and painting. Jeremy’s artistic career is rapidly evolving and he has developed a loyal and strong following. In addition to many solo shows in the Atlantic region, Jeremy has also successfully exhibited at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition and elsewhere in Canada.

Ken Ward is a Manitoba-born visual artist, author, and arts educator. While living in Halifax for the past twenty-five years, he has been writing, teaching and making art. He holds two degrees from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, a Bachelor of Fine Arts 1981 and a Masters in Art Education 1992. His paintings, drawings, and mixed-media work have been exhibited in both private and public galleries across Canada, and can be found in many private collections. His whimsical style, which has won him praise as the author of two children’s books, is also evidenced in his colourful and exuberant paintings. His more recent work is noteworthy for its exploration of alternative usage of media.

Chris Webb’s passion for painting began in childhood when he studied with his artist grandmother. As a young man, Chris left a successful career as a motivational speaker to continue his art studies in Italy. Although still a young artist, Chris has established an impressive career. His works are exhibited in several major cities in North America. He teaches painting in Nova Scotia and is leading an artists’ excursion to Italy in the spring of ’09. Serene landscapes, often dotted with industrial architecture, dominate Chris’ work. His striking yet subtle oil paintings convey a monumental quality to the subjects he depicts.

Lorena Ziraldo was born in Italy and raised in Canada. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in painting at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Even while a student at NSCAD, her work demonstrated remarkable maturity and depth. Since her graduation in 2000, she has steadily increased her following with successful exhibitions in Halifax, Toronto, and Vancouver. Lorena’s paintings are rich with fluid and exquisite brushwork, and indulge in the possibilities of expression through use of colour, light, space, and composition. The narrative quality that emerges in many of her paintings is made all the more compelling by her insightful control of her medium.

View from a Moving Window...New Paintings by Chris Joyce, Where There's Smoke...New Works by Brad Hall, Sally Ravindra and Christopher Webb. Illuminated Landscapes..Kim Dawn & Paul Maher.