Bob Hainstock

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