2022 Members Show “UnRestricted” at Truro Library
July 4 - August 31, 2022
This is an exhibition of the TAS Members of TAS in response to the theme ‘UnRestricted’ that is inspired by the opening up after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Christene Sandeson
Ideas of vulnerability and emergence inspire my acrylic paintings which often reflect landscape, watercourses, or social settings. My contribution to the Truro Art Society’s “Unrestricted” exhibition illustrates this vulnerability through an emerging springtime landscape (“Fields”) and a promise of future good times (“Cheers”). These two paintings appear to be blocks of colour-shapes interrupted with line. My biggest task in developing a painting is refining the image from a black and white arrangement into a single felt-feeling that becomes my subject. I think this represents a balance of how I see myself as an individual wanting to accept life’s uncertainty. I thank you, the viewer, for taking time to view these works, and I hope you will find meaning in some of them.
"Cheers" (2022), acrylic on plywood, 16 x16"
Donna Vigliucci
The end is nigh or should I say here! Reduction printmaking has a beginning and end, even if it is unplanned. The end is what I love most about printmaking, not because I do not like the beginning or the middle, but simply because I struggle to call a piece done – with lino reduction printmaking, the decision is the blocks. The complexity and uncertainty of the process along with the variety of styles keeps me bumping along the road of the printmaking world. Inspired by the countries I have lived, nature and people I have met, I carve my block, roll the ink and press until my block is no more.
Over the Rooftops - Lino Reduction Print - Print Size without mat or frame: 20cm x 15cm
Georgina Shaw
Surprise in Aulds Cove I came across this gem in Aulds Cove driving into the Tim's drive through . I was captured by the scenery with the Canso causeway in the distance, & took some pictures & painted it. I thoroughly enjoy painting & re-creating beauty in nature.
Surprise in Aulds Cove, Acrylic, 15 x 19 in.19. 19 in
Samantha Leeming
Samantha is a Nova Scotian artist, working from her at-home art studio, in her spare time. She is a graduate of the New York Institute of Photography and The Drawing Academy. Her inspiration is drawn from places and things that bring her joy and make her smile. Her works have predominantly been in charcoal and watercolour but recently digital art has been a focus. No matter where life has taken me, art has always been waiting at home to help heal my soul. I started my artistic journey working with graphite and charcoal. I believe that the foundation of value only drawings has allowed the world of colour to open to me in the most beautiful way. My first experience with watercolour had me inspired and eager to learn more. I’ve recently fallen in love with digital art, it has given me a new medium to create with, and has given me, creatively, unrestricted flight.
Unrestricted Flight: Soar
Rosalynd Coulter
Let me introduce myself – I grew up in Tatamagouche, NS until I left for school in 1986 and spent 30+ years in Ontario raising my family. I was often in the home of my grandparents in Nova Scotia, both of whom were very artistic and I grew to love art and creativity from them. I dabbled in lots of different art forms over the years but it has been in the last couple of years that I have found my love of painting in watercolor. This was my grandmother’s favorite medium and we spent many hours reviewing books and discussing new ideas and paintings we were working on. Unfortunately my grandmother passed in June of 2019 and did not get to see me truly embrace watercolor. I love painting animals but do landscapes, portraits and still life as well. I am fascinated by colour and how incredibly colourful nature is. I am currently a member of the Truro Art Society, The Fraser (Northumberland Arts Council) as well as VANS (Visual Arts Nova Scotia).
Town and Country, Watercolour & Gouache, 10"x8" matted and frame to 14"x11"
Sarah Sehl
“Reunion: Crystal Crescent” speaks quite literally to a time of relative un-restriction, where a trip to Crystal Crescent was the first outing I took with another person after the first lockdown lightened in Spring 2020. Despite the interruption to human life at that time, the crashing of the ocean waves continued on, as they always did, and still do. This piece originally displayed at Argyle Fine Art in Halifax, as part of their 2021 Get Outta Town show. My acrylic painting work often seeks to capture the detail of contentment in solitude and joy in quietly passing fragments of life, through domestic and natural imagery, amplifying the subject into bold colour examination. More of my work can be found on Instagram @sarahsehlart.
Reunion: Crystal Crescent, acrylic on canvas, 10x10"
Rebecca Hill
Artist bio
Merfriends, Acrylic, 12" x 16"