Artisans Directory

Al Chaddock

Medium(s) used:

oil, acrylic, pastel, water-colour, egg-tempera

Born Halifax 1948 - Nova Scotia roots go  back to 1751,  mainly  English and French. Mostly self taught, ; attended public ...

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Al Chaddock

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Anne Marie Spears

Medium(s) used:

Oil / acrylic

Hello, my name is, Anne Marie Spears, an artist from Prospect, NS.  I am self taught.  I have been painting for many years mainly for my own ...

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Barbara McLean

Medium(s) used:

Oil, Acrylic, etc.

Certificate of Graphic Design, Sheridan College

BFA, NSCAD

I have been working as a professional artist for about ten years. ...

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Barbara McLean

Chester Art Centre

Medium(s) used:

multi mediums

The Chester Art Centre offers a varied and experiential range of classes and workshops for children and adults in a classic Chester cottage which ...

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Chester Art Centre

Dawn Harwood-Jones

Medium(s) used:

Oil, Vocals

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Dawn Harwood-Jones

Diana (Dolly) Hancock

Medium(s) used: Oil

Born in UK 1963. Trained as a trompe l'oeil, decorative painter before moving to Toronto in 1987. Made Chester, NS home in 2002 and paints, mostly oil on ...

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Diana (Dolly) Hancock

Donald Houston Curley

Medium(s) used:

oil on canvas

Donald Curley was a man of many accomplishments. In addition to being an artist he was a teacher, lecturer, writer and world traveler. He has been described ...

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Donald Houston Curley

Edward W. (Ted) Barrett

Medium(s) used:

Oil, Watercolour

Ted Barrett was born in London, England and emigrated to Canada in 1968. He lived in Ted Toronto for several years,cf1 then shortly after his marriage ...

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Edward W. (Ted) Barrett

Fine Art Paintings Conservation

Artist Name: Elizabeth Jablonski
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I am an art conservator/restorer, specializing in paintings and the care of entire art collections. I repair oil and acrylic paintings on canvas and board, as well as murals and other painted objects. I also provide archival display, storage and packing services for art collections.

I gained a sound understanding of the principles of art preservation by earning a masters degree in Art Conservation at Queen’s University, Kingston, ...

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Fine Art Paintings Conservation

Jim Cleveland

Medium(s) used:

Acrylic

Professional since 1970, sold about 500 painting from galleries in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Alberta, won best in Show awards Halcon Fantasy ...

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Jim Cleveland

Klaus Gehrig

Medium(s) used:

Oil, Acrylic, Watercolour, Ink

Discovering exhilaration and excitement in painting at the elementary-school age, Klaus Gehrig began selling larger oil paintings on a regular ...

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Klaus Gehrig

Lesley Tulloch

Medium(s) used:

Oil, Watercolours

Lesley studied drawing at Art School in England when she was young. Since coming to Nova Scotia in 1972 she has taken courses from NSCAD in photography ...

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Lesley Tulloch

Linda Roe

Medium(s) used: Acrylic, water soluable oils, pastel, encaustic and wool fibres (needle felted landscapes)

I am a self taught fine artist with an eclectic style. My artistic career began with theatre backdrops, gaining recognition with awards from the Central ...

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Linda Roe

Michael M. Heisler

Medium(s) used:

Oil, Charcoal

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Michael M. Heisler

Paula Booher

Medium(s) used:

acrylic and  water colour

I grew up in Concord, Mass. in a family heavily involved in architecture.  Consequently I attended over the years four different schools of ...

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Paulette Melanson

Artist Name: Paulette Melanson
Medium(s) used: Watercolour, acrylic, oil pastels, ink, mixed media

I am an experimental, explorative artist who paints in watercolour and acrylic. I especially enjoy using these mediums in conjunction with ink, oil ...

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Paulette Melanson

Penelope Uffindell

Medium(s) used:

Pencil, Coloured Pencil, Pastel, Watercolour, Oil, Acrylic

In my early 60's I began drawing and painting. Was surprised at the results, so  I bought art instruction books, which I found very helpful.  An ...

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Penelope Uffindell

Philippa Borgal

Medium(s) used:

watercolour, acrylic, felt markers, pen and ink, lino block prints

Born and mainly raised in England, Philippa immigrated to Canada in 1972.

Since that time she has travelled across the country (both for ...

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Philippa Borgal

Rae Smith PSC

Medium(s) used:

Pastels on Artist sandpaper.

Rae Smith PSC(Pastel Society of Canada) , VANS (Visual Arts Nova Scotia)
He has been a pastel artist for more than 50 years, and gets most of his ...

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Rae Smith PSC

Rosi Robinson Batik

Artist Name: Rosi Robinson
Medium(s) used:

Batik paintings on cotton fabric using dyes and wax.

Rosi is a batik artist, teacher, lecturer and author. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, she has been Head of Art for 25 years in a private school in Sussex, ...

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Sharon Boyd

Medium(s) used:

Oil, Watercolour, Acrylic

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Sharon Boyd

Shoreline Art Studio

Artist Name: Robyn Howell
Medium(s) used: oil on canvas, wire wrapped jewlery, photography

My name is Robyn Howell, I am a fine art artist with a BFA from NSCAD University, Halifax, NS, in interdisciplinary studies. I was born and raised in a small ...

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Shoreline Art Studio

Simon Copas

Medium(s) used:

Oil, Canvas, Pencil, Paper, Watercolour, Photography

Born in 1960 Siimon was raised in Chester.  He completed a BA at King's College in Halifax before going to Christie's in London to study the fine ...

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Simon Copas

Teresa Young

Medium(s) used:

Acrylic, watercolour, pen & ink, pencil (graphite), mixed media, glasspaint. All on canvas, watercolour papers, glass, and high quality illustration papers and boards. I also sometime paint on wooden objects like jewelry cases and boxes.

Artist Statement:
My style spans a range of surrealism and abstraction because emotions are more powerfully expressed with a central subject ...

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Teresa Young

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