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Deanna Musgrave and Mimi Lucas 🌊

June 14 @ 5:00 pm 7:00 pm

Deanna Musgrave: Water Witness

The theme of celebrating and exploring water and weather has dominated the Saint John-based artist’s work for nearly 20 years. This new body of work uses a channelled language to give a voice to water, the sea, and the sky. When giving a voice to water, the artist highlights that water is a consciousness, thus bringing into question how we treat it and environmental concerns around it. This language is meant to be transpersonal so that it will connect with anyone and engage them with a unique message for each viewer.

Mimi Lucas: The weather was important.

In this series of artworks, the Saint John artist’s ultimate painting goals are to compose happy, yet serious and ambiguous work. This exhibition consists of small- and large-scale paintings that consider how our environment significantly controls our lives. With the current prevailing tendency toward extreme weather, our world has experienced diverse displays of excess rain and flooding, wildfires, hurricanes, and rising temperatures. Lucas’ paintings evoke rather than describe. They are presented in an abstracted landscape that is more a personal narrative than a perceived truth.

Free

Christine Koch: Meet the Artist 🎤

April 27 @ 10:00 am 12:00 pm

Newfoundland-based artist Christine Koch will be Artist in Residence at Sunbury Shores from April 13 – 27, 2024. Koch is a well-known and respected printmaker and painter and her residency will take place in the Print Studio.

Christine’s artistic practice over the past two decades has led her to travel throughout northern Canada and work with geologists in Nunatsiavut and Nunavut, with geographers on the glaciers of the Torngat Mountains (Nunatsiavut), with northern ecologists in the Yukon, and with oceanographers and marine biologists in the Labrador Sea, Baffin Bay, and the Northwest Passage.

The result of her expeditions is a collection of images based on the remote and dramatic landscapes she saw, while her artwork portrays the beauty and vulnerability of the environments she explored.

There will be a Meet the Artist with Christine on Saturday, April 27 from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm.

Free
139 Water Street
Saint Andrews, NB E5B 1A7 Canada
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Danica Olders and Christopher Griffin at Sunbury Shores

May 10 @ 5:00 pm 7:00 pm

Opening reception for Danica Olders: In my dream you were a dark black circle and Christopher Griffin: Old Souls on May 10 at Sunbury Shores.

A multidisciplinary artist interested in the space between people or the distance from a person to their connected walls/objects, Montreal artist Danica Olders reflects on the ownership that is felt of said spaces and the interactive energy possessed by them.

The Abstracted Landscape with Jay Isaac 🌳🔽

July 9 @ 9:00 am July 12 @ 4:30 pm

This 4-day acrylic painting and drawing workshop will focus on how an observed landscape can be abstracted through colour and form. Short field trips will guide participants to observe the landscape, make preliminary sketches in situ, and then develop paintings in the studio. This course is recommended for participants with experience working in acrylics or watercolours at an intermediate level or more. Upon registration, participants will receive a list of course materials. Note: This is a scent-free workshop.

A prolific artist, curator, and writer, Jay Isaac will share examples of his work, and the work of contemporary and modern artists to illustrate the use of landscape and its components as starting points for abstraction.

Details

Start:
July 9 @ 9:00 am
End:
July 12 @ 4:30 pm
Cost:
$1 – $675
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Website:
http://sunburyshores.org

Organizer

Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre
Email
info@sunburyshores.org

Opening Reception: Boissoneau and Choisy 👏

April 5 @ 5:00 pm 7:00 pm

Opening Reception, Friday, April 5, 5 – 7 pm

Lisa Marie Boissoneau: Borrowed Roots

This series of paintings draws upon family research, familial archives, and personal memory to create large format portraits that explore the many aspects of identity. The artist was born in Moncton to a single mother and adopted by a Catholic couple in Quebec.  The artist appropriates images, stories, links and sometimes even ancestors who become an important source of inspiration in her work. They connect her childhood to the present.

Rotchild Choisy: MASQU-ET-VISAGES : Comment naviguer dans ses relations 

Through his artistic practice, Moncton-based artist Rotchild Choisy explores his quest for identity and the social, economic, and political relationships people have with their environment. From his point of view, it’s impossible to understand and know another person without knowing oneself. In his work, he often uses expressive drawing; he also reinterprets Haitian and African symbolic figures to make a correlation between masks, emotions and the environment.

“The Great Kind Mystery” by Ella Morton and “The Adventure of Rivet Boy” by David Norris 🚲

March 8 @ 5:00 pm 7:00 pm

Join us at Sunbury Shores on Friday, March 8, 2024, from 5:00 – 7:00 pm for the double opening for “The Great Kind Mystery” by Ella Morton and “The Adventure of Rivet Boy” by David Norris.

Photographer, Ella Morton’s exhibition of photographs captures the transcendent, mysterious, and fragile qualities of landscapes in Newfoundland. Artist and musician David Norris’ animated musical film uses constructed scenes to evoke a sense of nostalgia for adults while accessible and enchanting for younger viewers.

World Premier of “The Adventures of Rivetboy” at 6pm!

Free

Fundy Film Festival 🌊

September 16, 2023 @ 2:00 pm 5:00 pm

The inaugural Fundy Film Festival, organized by Sunbury Shores, features The Art of Stewardship, three short docs created by teams of youth and seniors from Charlotte County. Working with New Brunswick film directors, Matt Brown, Lauchlan Ough, and Jeff Lively, the three teams wrote, filmed, and edited films based on global warming. The program will feature other short films that address global warming and environmental issues. This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program.

2023 Fundy Film Festival
Saturday, September 16, at 2:00 PM
W.C. O’Niell Arean Theatre in St Andrews NB
FREE – All ages welcome!

Free
Charlotte Bartlett and Yellow Blue, May 6, 7pm. Doors open at 6:45pm.

Charlotte Bartlett and Yellow Blue 💛💙

May 6, 2023 @ 7:00 pm 9:30 pm

May 6
7pm to 9.30pm

Charlotte Bartlett and Yellow Blue, May 6, 7pm. Doors open at 6:45pm.


Opening set with Charlotte Bartlett, and introducing yellow blue – the best band you’ve never heard of!
Also featuring a ‘Trash or Treasure’ lucky dip…for $5 a bag, you could grab a real bargain, or if it’s not your ‘treasure’, trade it in for someone else’s ‘trash’.

Bar, and charcuterie plates are available.

Doors open 6.45 at Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre, Water Street

$15 – $25
Colour, Colour, Colour with Maggie Rose

Colour, Colour, Colour with Maggie Rose 🌈

August 8, 2023 @ 9:30 am 4:30 pm

August 8-11, 2023, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Meet the artist: August 7, 5:00 pm -7:00 pm
$600; Early Bird $575 (Register before March 30, 2023)
Limited to 12 participants

Colour, Colour, Colour with Maggie Rose


This 4-day intensive workshop is an information blast on all aspects of colour and colour mixing as they relate to painting. No matter your medium of choice (oil, acrylic, gouache, water-colour, pastel…), this information is applicable to all. You will learn to mix colours swiftly and accurately; learn to achieve both dynamic and subtle colour in your work; learn to get more out of the colours you already have and to make smart choices when adding to your paint box. This class teaches you how to juggle all colour attributes – hue, value, temperature and chroma.

Most importantly, it explains how to alter only one aspect of a colour without altering other elements. You’ll learn how to reduce, maintain or heighten chroma and learn how to keep hues consistent while they are lightened or darkened through all modelling factors. You’ll learn why an understanding of colour temperature is critical to successful work.

We’ll explore a variety of palettes from the simplest to more complex. There will be many mixing demonstrations, application examples and time for the execution of small projects and exercises to ensure that you fully understand the information. This class is suitable for the beginner to the advanced painter.


Registration Deadline: July 29, 2023

$600
Place in Perspective: Hélène Blanchet, Alison Dean Cowitz, Kristi Farrier. The Art of Lorna McMaster: Stewarding a Seed Collection: Portraits in Wool

Place in Perspective and the Art of Lorna McMaster 🥂

April 15, 2023 @ 5:00 pm 7:00 pm

Exhibition Opening Reception at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre.

Place in Perspective: Hélène Blanchet, Alison Dean Cowitz, Kristi Farrier. The Art of Lorna McMaster: Stewarding a Seed Collection: Portraits in Wool


Friday, April 15 from 5 – 7 pm
Art and a cash bar — Everyone is welcome!

Place in Perspective:

Hélène Blanchet
Alison Dean Cowitz
Kristi Farrier.

The Art of Lorna McMaster
Stewarding a Seed Collection: Portraits in Wool