Macromareal Prelude – a performance at First Beach
St. Clairs in residence: Artist talks & Workshops
Main & Station is very pleased to have artists Bruce St. Clair and Lori St. Clair in residence.
This week Bruce and Lori will each be offering an artist talk and a workshop:
- Monday JULY 31, 6:30pm ~ Artist Talk with Bruce St. Clair
- Monday JULY 31, 7:30pm ~ Artist Talk with Lori St. Clair
- Tuesday AUGUST 1 from 10:30am to 4:30pm : Doodle Your Way to Tangling with Lori St. Clair. More info… https://hmsnonesuch.com/doodle-your-way-to-tangling/
- Wednesday & Thursday AUGUST 2 & 3 from 6:30pm to 9pm : Painting Realism in Watercolour with Bruce St. Clair. More info… https://hmsnonesuch.com/painting-realism-in-watercolour/
Winner of NAOPA’s 2016 People’s Choice Award, the Wellington Church Award, for his painting Three Gables, Bruce St. Clair has 50 years of painting experience and has been teaching teaching drawing and painting for 35 years.
Bruce studied at the Ontario College of Art and has gained national and international attention as one of Canada’s foremost realist painters. To learn more about Bruce St. Clair and what he is doing and where, please visit his website http://www.theegallerystclair.ca
Three Gables
Bruce St. Clair
Lori St. Clair comes from a Graphic Design background with a photography major and started her journey into the arts on a professional level. She has exhibited her work throughout Ontario, including the Parliament in Ottawa, and has won awards for her photographs, for illustration, and for her paper pulp sculpture.
Her passion is teaching anyone and speaking to everyone about the power of creativity in our lives and the need for it in our world today. Lori enjoys the enchantment that surrounds the arts created through our partnership with imagination. She has taken her passion for the arts, and also for collaborative pieces that build co-operative teamwork and interdependency, into schools and art programs in the community to cultivate a hospitable, nurturing environment that encourages exploration, experimentation and growth.
To learn more about Lori St. Clair and what she is doing and where, please visit her FaceBook page L.V. St.Clair
Plein Air Drawing Excursion with Sara McKarney
A 2-HOUR Plein Air Drawing Excursion
WHEN: Saturday 29 July from 11am-1pm
WHAT: En plein air is a French phrase meaning “open air”, which has been used over history to describe the act of painting outdoors focusing on the actual visual conditions seen at the time. Artist-in-Residence Sara McKarney will lead this plein air drawing excursion / workshop, which will focus on different drawing methods such as blind contour and gesture drawings to capture the landscape and movement of the waves on the coast.
WHERE: Main & Station will be used as a meeting point, all teaching will be done outside. To meet at Main & Station, 168 Main Street, Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, B0M 1S0
INSTRUCTOR: Sara McKarney Sara McKarney received her BFA in Studio Art from the University of Lethbridge, Alberta and her Fine Arts Diploma from Grant MacEwan College. She has exhibited drawing-based work internationally, and has participated in artist residency programs at The Banff Centre in Alberta and through the White Rabbit Open Air residency program in Lower Economy, Nova Scotia. She has taught a range of workshops in a variety of institutions across Alberta.
To learn more about Nonesuch Artist in Residence Sara McKarney, and what she is doing, please visit her website www.saramckarney.com
For more info about this workshop…https://hmsnonesuch.com/plein-air-drawing-workshop/