Elaine Amyot
Elaine Amyot uses many different approaches in her art: collage, assemblages, oil pastel, gouache resist, spray paint and pochoirs. She collects articles, most often from nature, for use in boxes, creating works that are affirmations of serenity, recollection, enchantment. She is a founding member of Galerie Sans Nom and of Galerie 12, both at the Aberdeen Cultural Centre, and she is a member of the professional associations AAAPNB and CARFAC. She has given many workshops in mandala creation and has curated several shows featuring works done in these workshops. In 1990 she received the medal of the city of Moncton for exceptional services rendered to the community. Her life as an artist was shown on the program Trajectoire (SRC.RDI) in November, 1996. She was a participating artist in the television series Artiste dans l’âme/Soul Expression. In the year 2000 she co-curated an exhibition at the Galerie d’art de l’université de Moncton called Présence 27, consisting of installations by 27 women artists of the area.
Georgette Bourgeois
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My artistic approach is the result of a personal research that identifies me as a modern Acadian woman. L’ Acadie evokes in me a strong, clear, warm movement that represents our past, present and future. In my paintings, I try to integrate and capture the symbols of this Acadian movement by using metaphors. Light, always present in my canvases, reflects the force and vitality of this Acadian people.
I was raised in a family where my father, Thomas Bourgeois, was a professional photographer and my mother, Anna (Bourque) Bourgeois, was an artist and a pianist. Each had the soul of an artist. I developed at a very young age a love for art. Our family unit was an extended family that included my maternal grand parents, Zacharie Bourque and Odile (Bourque) Dupuis. My grand parents helped me understand the collective past of l’ Acadie.
I often wanted to explore photography as my father did; however, I did not like the technical side of the profession. I only liked the angles, the lighting and the magic of a photo developing in front of my eyes when I was in my father’s dark room. I preferred my mother’s oil paints and brushes. I now create with great love like a photographer, but I go much further than a photographer by creating works of a figurative nature with an abstract side to the finished paintings. My work can be super realist but my newer creations includes quite a few canvases superimposed one on top of each other to give the illusion of a photograph developing in front of your eyes going from out of focus to focussed or from realist to abstract.
Graduate of L’ Université de Moncton with a B.Ed, B.E.Ed with a major in Visual Arts
2005 Artiste in residence Pays de la Sagouine
One of five canadian artist (as well as an author and a story teller) chosen to create a work on the theme DÉPLACEMENT during a Symposium and Conference for the 400th anniversary of l’ Acadie, at l’ Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
2002-2004 Creator of the series of 25 paintings La chaleureuse brise acadienne for Le Pays de la Sagouine
1983-1991 Creator of 29 paintings in the series Village historique acadien
1967-2000 Visual Arts, Immersion and French teacher in the schools of New Brunswick
More than twenty solo exhibitions as well as many group exhibitions in France and in Canada
My work can be found in France, Africa and the United States and throughout Canada.
Herménégilde Chiasson
Georges Goguen
Joan Gregory
I paint for the sheer joy of the process. The end result is not my main concern. With a quiet mind I open myself to the subject or vision and allow the painting to emerge. Each painting is a special, unique creation of a special, unique moment. I find that humbling and very awesome.
Maurice Henri
Lars Larsen
Renowned artist and naturalist Lars Larsen died after a brief illness at the age of 65.
After training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Lars devoted over 40 years to observing and painting the Canadian wilderness, and its wildlife. He also worked on numerous collaborations with Ducks Unlimited, the Atlantic Salmon Federation, as well as with the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, the New Brunswick Wildlife Federation, and the New Brunswick Wildlife Trust Fund.
After a lifetime of work, Lars had established an international reputation. In 1992, with his wife Michelle Harvey, Lars Larsen established Studio on the Marsh, to showcase his work and promote local artists and artisans. Business continues at the Studio, where his original works are on display and prints are available.
Jeanne LeBlanc-Mullin
Hal Killam
Hal Killam grew up in Moncton, N.B. After graduating from Mount Allison University, he worked for a brief time with the Federal Department of Justice as a Classification Officer. Subsequently, he joined Imperial Life and remained with them until he opened the Money Concepts Franchise in Saint John in 1985 which continues today with his daughter Kim Killam Brown as President.
Photography became a serious hobby for Hal in 1985 and has been a continuous source of learning and excitement since that time. Over the intervening years, Hal has attended many conferences and workshops including Freeman Patterson’s course at Shampers Bluff. He is a member of the Canadian Association for Photographic Art and has had work accepted in their annual competition/exhibition.
Hal is a member of the Fundy Camera Club and Past-President of that group. He has exhibited in group shows and in a two person exhibit with his wife Carolyn, a painter. His work has received awards in the NB Tourism contests and is held in corporate and private collections across Canada.
Although specializing in Atlantic Canada and the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S., Hal’s travels have allowed him to create images across North America, the Caribbean, and parts of Europe. The enjoyment that he derives from the world around him is obvious from his photographs. It is his hope that exhibiting at the Saint John Arts Centre will allow him to share that enjoyment.
Jorgen Klausen
I have been visiting Grand Manan every year since 1969. Since then I have taken over ten thousand photographic images of the island, primarily in black-and-white. It's from this body of work - a ten-year project - that I have chosen the photographs which make up Shaped by the Sea. For this exhibition I picked the ones that I personally like the best, not the most commercial.
What I want to capture in these photographs is a vision of Grand Manan as it appeared at the end of the twentieth century. I have attempted to express the essence of the island which for me is always a magical place. The light is wonderful. It changes all the time; the fog rolls in and then a minute later it burns off. Things appear and disappear like magic. There's so much atmosphere. I go back to some of these locations time after time and the light is always different.
The symmetry of the fishing weirs is another thing that fascinates me. Weir fishing is unique to the Bay of Fundy and the weirs have a Zen simplicity - the impact of simple sticks in the water is amazing. While I get up early to explore the island's unique flora and fauna (there are wild orchids here that grow nowhere else) my favourite thing to photograph is rock.
The island has fantastic basalt rocks. They have wonderful shapes - sometimes they look like stairs, in other places they are worn into smooth shapes. Basalt rock is found in Grand Manan, and across the Bay of Fundy in Briar Island, only reappearing on the west coast of Ireland at the Devil's Causeway. These rock formations are absolutely majestic; when I am surrounded by these natural columns of rock, I'm looking at God's architecture and it is perfect.
Although the rock formations never fail to inspire me - as does the fog, the ever-changing light, the smokehouses and the fishing boats - I'm also interested in the activities of the islanders. The people are wonderful. I like to photograph people who have experienced the unique island life; so much character shows in their faces. These photographs form a vignette of what people looked like and the activities they were engaged in and I believe these images have true value as historic documents, a record of how Grand Mananers lived.
My photographic influences include Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Paul Caponigro, Paul Strand, Judith Dater and Imogen Cunningham and I work predominantly with a 35mm camera preferring it over larger format camera because of the versatility in its range of lenses. I'm a purist - I use only available light, even in my portraits. My camera is a 35mm Nikon F 4a with 24mm to 300mm Nikon lenses. The film is Kodak Tmax100 which I developed with Kodak Tmax and fixed with Ilford Universal. My enlarger is an Omega B22, cold light head, with an El-Nikkor 35mm lens. The paper I chose for this project is Agfa Multicontrast, classic, glossy and the prints were developed in Kodak Dektol with a stop bath of Kodak 28% acetic acid solution and Ilford Universal fixer. The toner is Selenium in Perma Wash (5 min) with a wash of one hour at 68 degrees F. in a Patterson Archival Print washer. After drying on air-fibreglass screens, the images are mounted with four-ply acid free 100% rag mat in Tempo metal frames with regular glass.
Reg Noël
Elizabeth Priess
Madeleine Raiche
Born in Ottawa of a family of six children, Madeleine has lived most of her life in New Brunswick. A Fine Arts graduate from l’Université de Moncton, she pursued her studies in Clothing Design, Floral Art and Hairstyling and Cosmetology.
Philosophy
These are my children. They are ambassadors of Joy and Hope that within every dark moment there is light and from it emanates colour and energy. Their arms reaching up with three fingered hands remind us that body, mind and soul need smiles and sunshine to trust that there is a silver lining to every cloud. As the guardian of these children, you are now part of a large family of people from Australia to Japan, Africa to Canada, who have recognized this inner Joy and vibrate it throughout the Universe touching the child in all of us. May they always keep you in the light.
Barbara Safran
Dave Skyrie
© Maurice Henri
© Maurice Henri
Born in St. Simon, New Brunswick in 1946, Herménégilde Chiasson has become one of the leading artists of modern Acadie. He holds several degrees, including a doctorate from the Sorbonne, a diploma from l'École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of New York. He has taught at the Université de Moncton and worked as a researcher, journalist and producer for Radio-Canada before trying his hand at film production in 1985.
As a writer, he published 10 books between 1972 and 2000, notably Mourir à Scoudouc, Vous, Existences, Climats, Conversations (Governor General’s Award for poetry, 1999) and Brunante. In the theatre, he is the author of some 30 plays, notably Atarelle et les Pakmaniens, Cap-Enragé, La Vie est un rêve, Aliénor, Laurie ou la vie de galerie and Pour une fois. He has also worked as scenic artist and graphic artist for many organizations and associations. As a filmmaker, he has produced approximately 15 films, notably Toutes les photos finissent par se ressembler, Le Grand Jack, Robichaud, Les Années Noires, Épopée (TV5 Award for Documentary at the Festival de Namur) and Photographies. As a visual artist, he has had more than twenty individual expositions and participated in a hundred other group expositions. His works can be found in many public and private collections.
Chiasson has received bursaries, prizes and awards for his involvement and his work within the community. He is a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, distinction given by the Government of France and the government of Québec granted him admission as member of l’Ordre des francophones d'Amérique. The Université de Moncton granted him an honorary doctorate in literature and the government of New Brunswick awarded him its Award for excellence in film. Also, the Prix France-Acadie was awarded to him twice. He was a member of the executive board of the Canada Council, president of the Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick and is president of the Aberdeen Cultural Centre. He was founding president of Éditions Perce-Neige and Productions du Phare-Est.
© Maurice Henri
When I build my works, I insist upon using pieces of junk, material I've found and material that is destined to end up as garbage. Through this reconnection with their unique forms, they become hieroglyphs, symbols of today.
Georges Goguen works in mixed media. His recent works are collages that he assembles from found objects, and paints using found materials to create patterns and images of human figures. A long time artist and promoter of the arts, as the graphic designer for CBC-Radio-Canada in Moncton, he established and administered the CBC Mini Arts Gallery, which has been renamed in his honour, the Georges Goguen Gallery. He has had exhibitions at the Moncton Gallery, the Town of Dieppe, and the Moncton Public Library, as well as a 40 year retrospective show at the Art Gallery of the Université de Moncton.
© Rachelle Richard-Leger
Every moment of every day we capture images with our eyes. Most of these fleeting moments filter through and are forever lost. Some linger a while longer, enhancing our lives.
I want to bring a moment of quiet reflection to the viewer, a pause in time, and a moment of peace, a bit of beauty. I love the earth and am deeply moved by the beauty and colours of nature.
Mainly, my work is about catching the mood and feel of every moment in creating the photograph. I believe that most interesting art occurs on its own around us. It doesn’t need alteration or enhancement. My assignment is to capture its natural beauty.
I was born in Moncton New Brunswick, Canada. I have also lived in, visited and photographed all the Atlantic Provinces, where each province inspires it’s own gold. I have explored each photographic mine with equal curiosity and enthusiasm.
I have devoted a large part of my life cataloguing those unique and unforgettable images. The result of this devotion for the beauty of our region archived for life.
I have been creating Stock, Commercial and Portrait photography professionally since 1988. I also host and produce “FOTO”; a photography television program featuring education segments and interviews with prominent photographers. Sharing my knowledge with others since 1992, my “Learning Photography Programs” are a very important part of my photographic vision.
© Maurice Henri
Title of work: Réflexion
Date and place:
I started working on this piece when I was in France, participating in a Franco-Acadian exchange trip, in September 2005, and I finished it in Canada in October 2005.
Artistic approach:
My source of inspiration for my art is nature. At first, I painted mostly figurative art but upon looking more closely at my subject matter, I realized that the interior dynamics of the natural world interested me the most.
My artistic approach is based on the idea that a complete view of the universe can be found in small fragments of reality.
My favourite subjects are a bit like Japanese gardens. They demonstrate that in life, as in art, we need to get “more of less”. It is quite easy to be a part of the action and the noise; it is much more difficult to find peace and contemplation.
© Maurice Henri
Originally from the Acadian Peninsula, I have lived in Moncton area since the age of 10. After working in many different service related industries, I abruptly realized that I had creative / artistic abilities that, up to that point, I was not using.
At 42 years of age and with much soul searching, I decided to reevaluate my career path. As a result, I am currently studying as a New Media /Graphic Designer and enjoying every minute of it. The web site you are currently viewing, is my first web page design, therefore, don't judge it too harshly. I promise, it will get much better (and bilingual) as I learn more about "this medium".
Parallel to this new career path, I am developing an artistic career as well. I use concrete and recycled copper as my medium of choice. Since I started (February 27, 2004), I have produced over 135 works.
This journey has certainly been an eye opener, one I have enjoyed wholeheartedly. My deepest hope is that you get as much pleasure in viewing my works as I do creating them.
© Maurice Henri
Born and raised in South Africa, love of the open bushveld was imprinted on me from birth. Drawn by the magnetic pull of the African veld, I would make regular visits to the great national game reserves. There, I would surrender to the ancient rhythms of Africa, close to the earth and vast sky, the indigenous savannah teeming with birds, insects and wildlife.
This is the crucible in which my creativity is forged. It is nature and wilderness photography, which most exhilarates me. This is my true home.
My goal is to communicate my inner response to nature and to the world around me: to capture a moment in time and bring something of its truth and potency forth to the image.
Sometimes I am drawn to found objects, denoting human presence, left abandoned in the landscape; the remains of a shelter, detritus from shipwreck, car-parts left to rust in the bush. I love to examine how these objects have been transformed by their intimate interaction with the elements: the grasses and plants that have grown around them, the wild creatures that have made a home within this living ecosystem. I love to peer closely at my subject, marvelling at its fabric and design, its colour and texture; close enough to see what is usually unseen, to know it more deeply, to penetrate its mystery.
My second great influence as a photographer has been art itself, especially the Western canon of art and architecture. My family's passion for the arts ensured early exposure. My first degree was in art history and since the age of 17, extensive opportunities to travel have allowed me to spend countless hours in the great museums of Europe and N. America. More than the formation of a personal aesthetic, my study of art history has shaped the very way I see the world.
I have been captivated by the resemblance of how I see to what has been communicated in the art of others. At times, I have deliberately sought to explore the extent to which the camera can extend my expressive vocabulary as inspired by a particular artist or school of art.
I paint with light, like painters with pigment, musicians with sound and poets with words, I work with the elements of photography to stir the senses, conjure a mood, elicit feelings and memories and stimulate the imagination.
In my abstract images, I explore aspects of my interior world as reflected in nature. The search for these moments of connection and resonance keeps me learning and experimenting.
© Maurice Henri
I have been very fortunate in that both of my parents were artists and I grew up visiting museums and art galleries. In 1973, we moved into a 150 year old farm house in Jolicure, New Brunswick. It is a picturesque area of rolling small hills, forests and marshlands that lie close to the Bay of Fundy.
That fall, I enrolled in the Fine Arts Programme at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick where I majored in printmaking and painting. In 1977, I graduated with a BFA with distinction and went on to the University of Toronto to take a BEd. In 1978, I had my first solo show at the Barbara Bustin Galleries in Saint John, New Brunswick.
Since then, I have had nine solo exhibitions and have participated in numerous group shows. In 1994, my husband Peter de Niverville and I started Barbara Safran Studios. Our internet site included the first on-line art lessons to appear on the World-Wide Web.
I've always admired the Impressionists and J.M.W. Turner, the 19th century English painter. I like the way they used colour and light to create natural, free landscapes. In my own work, I have been influenced by their techniques. In 1981, I spent a month at the National Gallery in Washington, DC, copying the works of several painters. And in 1982, I spent time in London studying Turner's watercolours at the Tate Museum. One of the things I learned was how to use a limited number of colours to create the effects I wanted.v
Since then, I have developed my own approach using acrylic paints on canvas and hardboard. Three themes have emerged in my work over the past few years:
Prince Edward Island is a favorite subject for me as the Island offers many spectacular views from its coastlines and secondary roads. It is also the vacation spot of choice for our family!
Shorebirds is a series I have been working on featuring the semi-palmated sandpipers which flock by the Bay of Fundy before migrating to South America. Other paintings are planned depicting swallows and herons.
Equine Art is a challenge I find fascinating. The grace and power of horses add another dimension to rural scenery.
I believe art is important because it can add so much enjoyment to one's life. In my paintings I've tried to create images that are not only pleasing for my audience, but have an emotional resonance.
© Maurice Henri
Dave Skyrie was born in 1948 and raised in Montreal where he graduated with a degree in Arts from Concordia University. A member of the AAAPNB (Association acadienne des artistesprofessionnel du Nouveau-Brunswick),the Shediac Artists Painters Society and the New Brunswick Writers Federation, Dave has published two small books of poetry as well as having his poems appear in various Canadian magazines. Dave trained as a photographer in Moncton, N.B. and enjoys photographing landscapes in both color and black and white. Dave started painting in 2000, after a one year stay in Brazil and works in watercolors, acrylic, charcoal and oil. Dave currently resides in Grand Barachois with his wife and son.
Associations
2001 to present ; Shediac Artist Painters Society
2000 to present ; New Brunswick Writers Federation
2004 to present ;AAAPNB (Association acadienne des artistes professionnel du Nouveau-Brunswick)
Galleries
2003 ; Permanent representation at Heron Bay Gallery and Studio, Shediac NB
Corporate & Public Collections:
City of Dieppe, Dieppe,N.B.
Publications
Several Cranes in the blue air, poetry. South West Ontario Poetry Publications, ISBN 0-919139-02-7
Los (poetry editor), Concordia University, Montreal, P.Q.
Fallen Hurricane/ Crunching Snow, with Robert Elkin, poetry (self published).
Reinventing the Winter: A Canadian Poet in Brazil, poetry. Self-published limited edition.