WOOD:

David Wilkins
Class# 1,2,3 & 4

Wilkins lives and works in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his wife Alexis and dog Punkin. He starting turning in 2002 and quickly discovered a voracious appetite to learn allowing life’s surrounding to influence the style and forms turned. He engages each form from a fresh perspective looking to create attractive shapes with humor. Wilkins is also a member of the Nova Woodturners Guild, and has been on its board of directors since 2006. His nickname "woodturningcreature" was given when working in his basement shop all that can be heard is the grumblings, grunts, mutterings and occasional A-ha's!

 

 

CERAMICS:

Suzi Cameron BFA, BA
Class# 5 & 6

Cameron is an established stoneware potter and multi-media artist. During the winter, Suzi makes decorative tableware at Clayworks Pottery in Halifax and each summer, since 1986, Suzi has returned to her studio at the Lefurgey Cultural Centre in her hometown of Summerside, PEI. There she produces hand-painted pottery for sale on The Island. Cameron has received numerous scholarships and awards from TheBanff Centre for the Arts to study with Harry Davis, Walter Ostrom and Bruce Cochrane, from the NovaScotia College of Art and Design University to help complete a Bachelor of Fine Art, and this past year from the Nova Scotia Potters Guild for ongoing historic research. Her intermedia work has been included in international exhibitions and festivals.

 

Janet Doble, BFA
Class# 7 & 8

Doble has a BFA in ceramics from NSCAD University and has won numerous awards including Best Body of Work at Show of Hands, Nova Scotia Designer Craft Council summer festival 1998 and the Popular Choice Award presented by the Ottawa Guild of Potters, Fireworks 2003. After twenty-five years of working as a potter, she is still thrilled by the prospect of creating work that enhances the homes and lives of so many. Her production work consists mainly of thrown functional tableware glazed with a majolica glaze and decorated with bright festive colours and floral patterns inspired by European ceramics. She has also actively been involved in the Nova Scotia Potters Guild and the Visual Arts Nova Scotia organization. www.janetdoblepottery.com

 

Alexis Doiron BFA
Class# 9

Doiron has recently received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, majoring in ceramics.

Her work is playful and inspired by natural forms.

She strives to create decorative ornaments that appear to

have grown out of the ground and to blend with the surrounding organic environment.

She is not afraid to let her imagination run wild; from large-scale sculptural work to her most recent smaller-scale functional work, she approaches each piece with a creative energy characterized by her handling of clay and her distinctive mark making.

 

Mary Jane Lundy, BFA
Class# 10

Mary Jane has been a resident of East Dover, Nova Scotia since 1985, and graduated from NSCAD University in 2003 with a BFA in Ceramics. Growing up in small town St. George, New Brunswick, she spent much of her summers playing on the Bay of Fundy shores. Her grandmother worked at the sardine plant and her mother worked at the shrimp factory for several years. At 15, Mary Jane took on employment at the tuna factory, then the sardine factory, and later was employed by Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans at the Biological Station in St. Andrews, N.B. and Halifax, N.S. Her associations with the sea have greatly influenced her ceramic work.

 

Christine Waugh BFA
Class# 11

Waugh is a recent graduate of NSCAD University, an enthusiastic ceramic artist, and a long time resident of Nova Scotia. After having fallen in love with clay in second year university, her path of study was set.

While her main body of work consists of large sculptural

forms, Waugh has also harboured a keen interest in

the decoration of the ceramic surface.

While mixing rational and intuitive approaches to form and design, she brings imaginative drive and dogged determination to her creative work.

 

 

METAL:

Meghan Gillan BFA
Class# 12

Gillan is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; BFA with a major in Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing and a minor in Graphic Design. Her art practice focuses on the intriguing connection between jewellery and the products we use to beautify and enhance our appearances. By using uncommon materials such as make up, fake nails, fake eyelashes, and more, she has created a body of work that sparks curiosity and invites a light hearted, humorous approach to her subject and contemporary jewellery design. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and was featured in Lark Books’ 2008 publication of 500 Wedding Rings. Currently her work can be viewed and purchased at Moorings Gallery in Mahone Bay.

 

Anna Lindsay MacDonald BFA, MFA
Class# 13

Anna Lindsay MacDonald MFA DesOb, BFA Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing.
Having completed her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Designed
Objects (2009), Lindsay is an artist/designer currently focusing on developing new habits
and systems for living spaces. After graduating from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in 2004, Lindsay had been predominantly exploring wearable object. She completed three years at The Harbourfront Centre for the Arts (Toronto) in the craft studio residency program, during which time she was published in Metalsmith Magazine, Object Magazine (Australia) Canadian Art and Design Lines.

 

Joy Pennick BFA
Class# 14

Pennick began her career as an Art Conservator, working with artifacts from Museums, Art Galleries & Archaeological Collections (Diploma in Art Conservation 1979, SSFC). Her particular fascination with metal artifacts led her to Halifax to pursue a second degree in Jewellery Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. She established JOY PENNICK JEWELLERY & METALWORKS in 1991. Over the past 20 years, through participation in the Atlantic Craft Trade Shows, the Studio Rally, the Halifax Art Map and Nova Scotia Designer Craft Council Craft Markets, she has established a strong retail & wholesale business in Ontario & the Maritimes. Her work is available in Galleries and select Gift Shops across the region.

 

Merris Mosher BFA
Class# 15 & 16

Mosher is a graduate of NSCAD University with a BFA Majoring in Jewellery and Metalsmithing and is the owner of Point Of Departure Jewellery Designs. She has taken part in numerous residencies and has exhibited nationally and abroad. Inspired by the under appreciated surroundings of the everyday, Mosher reassesses the immediate environment by acknowledging the beauty in forms, textures and colours found in declining urban spaces and architecture. Regardless of the subject matter, (ship yards, crumbling architecture, graffiti walls) Mosher’s work continues to question the character of normative concepts of inanimate beauty and translates those concepts into unique wearable sculpture

 

 

TEXTILE:

Nancy Boyne
Class# 17

After taking a frame loom weaving and macramé course at MSVU in 1972, Boyne fell in love with, and was hooked on, weaving! Over the years, she has participated in numerous workshops and conferences and has worked with many with world renowned fiber artists. She now works full-time in her home studio producing table linens towels, rugs, blankets, shawls and scarves using mostly natural and exotic

fibres such as silk, alpaca, mohair, cotton, hemp, linen, organza, and musk ox. She has been a member of the

Atlantic Spinners and Hand Weavers for 33 years and is a juried member of the NSDCC. She is a traditional weaver who loves to see her work used and enjoyed.

 

Owen Brush BFA
Class# 18

Owen Brush graduated from NSCAD University with a Bachelors of Fine Art, specializing in interdisciplinary

practice and art history. He is now a practicing

weaver and focuses on the use of entirely local materials

and hand processing in order to make weavings that are a direct reflection of the place that they come from and

that Owen inhabits, turning the ordinary into something that is extraordinary

 

 

 

MIX MEDIA:

 

S. April BFA, BEd, MA
Class# 19, 20, 21

April moved from Montreal to Halifax to attend NSCAD in late 70’s. She graduated with a BFA and BA in Art Education.

April has been producing art in various forms, and teaching ever since. In the late 80’s, April completed a Masters of Education Degree from Mount Saint Vincent University.

Initially a weaver, April has been creating jewellery and photography for many years. A love of colour and light

has inspired all her work. Always enjoying new challenges

in art forms, bead weaving has become a more recent

passion, and presents another new way of playing with colour and light. She brings her enthusiasm to her students, and is inspired by them as well.

 

 

 

Bridget Turner BFA
Class# 22

Bridget was born in Calgary Alberta and moved to Nova Scotia at a young age with her family, where she found a love for her surroundings, the ocean and her mother’s garden. After completing high school she went on to pursue her two passions, music and art. Music at Briercrest Bible College in Saskatchewan and art at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing in December 2008. Her jewellery flows from ocean inspired materials from her love of surfing and stems from the study of exotic and local flowers brought to hair jewellery.

 

Rosemary Metz BA, MA
Class# 22 & 23

Though Metz began her artistic career as a painter, she has also experimented with printmaking, photography and mixed media. After finishing her B.A.(hons.) at St. Martins School of Art in London U.K., she then received a Post Graduate Diploma in Ceramics from Goldsmith College (University of London) and later went on to research for her M.A. in Art & Design. Metz has taught Art and Ceramics in England and Canada including teaching Ceramics in the Art Education Dept. at the University of Victoria, BC. She regards the development of her Ceramic work as a life-long project which is accompanied by a keen interest in reading the latest texts in the area of Criticism, Art and its cultural production.

 

 

GLASS:

Janelle Tyler
Class# 24 & 25

Tyler is an established Jeweller and Designer. In 2004 she discovered the two mediums she loves the most: Hot glass and Silver. Working under her own label of “GypsyRoad Glass, Silver & Stone” she has spent much of her time learning, experimenting, and honing her skills to combine her chosen mediums making beautiful works of art that one can wear and enjoy. Tyler has a passion for teaching, and is always excited to share her knowledge and discuss techniques, whether traditional, ‘cutting edge’, or a nearly ‘lost art’ just waiting re-discovery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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