Thursday's Art Gallery

It Takes Me Back

Welcome to Thursday's Art Gallery. The three pieces I've chosen for today are from three diverse and talented artists who have the power to transport the viewer into another time, place or mood with their art. Isn't that what good art should do?

This piece looks like a painting, but it isn't. It is a combination of a fabric-scape and sandbrushing. The fabric-scape depicts modern day Five Finger Rapids. The boat image is from a historical photograph (1898) of The White Horse and it is sand-brushed onto the
framing glass. The glass was then placed over the fabric-scape to create the ghost like image. It is like a whisper from the past, and I can imagine what it would have been like to be along the banks to see and hear this Queen of the Sternwheelers. The colours of the banks also remind me quite a bit of the rocky shore lines here along the Bay of Fundy. White Horse at Five Finger Rapids is available as a print from Matechuck of the Yukon, Canada.


Living in rural Nova Scotia, I have to sometimes travel quite far to get to work. A few years ago, I drove from the Annapolis Valley to the South Shore several times a week. My drive took me down a road that looked exactly like this. Viewing this painting puts me back in my car on a beautiful early summer day, driving down the twisting road with trees on either side, the sunshine streaming through the open windows, and the wind in my hair. This acrylic on canvas piece is titled Quiet Drive Home, and is available from Rita Vindedzis of Toronto, Ontario.


This stunning and moody woman reminds me so much of a childhood friend that it made me take a second look.
Everything from the colour of her hair to the "don't you dare" look, time warps me back to middle school. She was a very intense individual and the type of gal you definitely didn't want to double cross. My Love Has Eyes is an orignal, overpainted collage by Nina Scott-Stoddart of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.