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More Than Just a Basket with Ralph Simpson 🧺
Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre St. AndrewsLearn the art of basket weaving with multi-award-winning fibre artist Ralph Simpson. Working from his forestry roots, Ralph has developed a highly personal style with a focus on natural vegetation textures and shapes. Join us to play with this exciting art form, bring some personally meaningful fibres to incorporate, and make a very personal vessel […]
Create a House Portrait with Architectural Artist Sophie McIlwaine 🏠
Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre St. AndrewsLearn the techniques required to create a beautiful, illustrated image of your house, or the home of a loved one. This is a one-day drawing course with architectural artist and heritage consultant, Sophie McIlwaine, a graduate of Cambridge University.
The Abstracted Landscape with Jay Isaac 🌳🔽
Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre St. AndrewsThis 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 […]
Deanna Musgrave and Mimi Lucas 🌊
Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre St. AndrewsDeanna 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 […]
Danica Olders and Christopher Griffin at Sunbury Shores
Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre St. AndrewsOpening 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 […]
Mend What You Cannot See with Artist Laura Roy 🧵
Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre St. AndrewsAn embroidery process workshop. ages 12+*$80 – $75 Early Bird registration until February 23Materials included. Working with Halifax-based textile artist and illustrator Laura Roy, participants will learn the artist’s process from idea to finished piece, beginning with designing a work, embroidery floss basics, colour theory, and material storage. Materials include an embroidery hoop, coloured floss, needles, […]
Opening Reception: Boissoneau and Choisy 👏
Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre St. AndrewsOpening 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 […]
Open Studio – Oil Painting with Carla Perkins 🎨
Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre St. AndrewsAn opportunity to engage with others in the shared space of the Main Studio (2nd floor) of Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre. Bring your own materials and artworks in progress and share ideas and skills. Artist Carla Perkins (painting in oil) will talk about her work and working methods.
“The Great Kind Mystery” by Ella Morton and “The Adventure of Rivet Boy” by David Norris 🚲
Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre St. AndrewsJoin 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 […]
Open Studio – Encausic with Barbara Majchrowski 🌊
Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre St. AndrewsAn opportunity to engage with others in the shared space of the Main Studio (2nd floor) of Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre. Bring your own materials and artworks in progress and share ideas and skills. Artist Barbara Majchrowski will talk about her work and demonstrate painting with encaustic.