The Summer Show
July 5th to August 30th, 2025
All works for sale. Please email inquiries to info@artcan.com or call (902)582-7071
Landscape Study, Looking at Grand-Pré
oil on canvas
6″ x 8″
$250
Dyke Land
oil on canvas
12″ x 9″
$400
Cliff Face
oil on canvas
NFS
Ron Hayes
Oh Canada
oil on canvas
16″ x 20″
$2000
Ron Hayes
Biography
Ron Hayes graduated from the Central Technical School Art Program in Toronto in 1976. He also taught casting in the Sculpture Department for evening and summer school classes. After graduation he continued to paint and exhibit while working as a graphic artist for Advertising Agencies in Toronto. His dream of leaving Toronto to pursue a career in painting became a reality in 1996 when he moved to Nova Scotia. The beauty of the Annapolis Valley has become a major influence on his work.
Golden Mammoth
Oil in linen on wood
12 x 12
$500
Rounded Mammoth
Oil in linen on wood
12 x 12
$500
Mammoth Rising Tide
Oil in linen on wood
12.5 x 12
$500
Mammoth Plein Air 2
Oil in linen on wood
14 x 18
$700
Theresa MacKnight
Biography
Theresa MacKnight is a lifelong visual artist and educator living in St. Andrews, N.B.
She is an alumnus of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and works with oil paint as a primary medium both in her studio and directly from her subject in nature.
MacKnight exhibits her work regularly in public and private galleries and has completed several residences including a summer creative residency at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, N.B. She teaches and contributes to her arts community and enjoys creative exchange and collaborations.
Artist Statement
Theresa Macknights works mainly in series. The works she has contributed to this show are preliminary experiments which will become part of a new series called “Mammoth”, inspired by boulders and rock formations in the Bay of Fundy. They will become part of an exploration of the physicality of these rockweed covered “beasts” and the implications of time and tides on the shorelines where they, and we, live.
Busty Boy 1
Ceramic with pencil crayon
13″ x 8″ x 5″
$550
Busty Boy 1
Ceramic with pencil crayon
13″ x 8″ x 5″
$550
Trevor Novak
Biography
Trevor Novak is a visual artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He grew up in Toronto, Ontario and received an Advanced Diploma in Ceramics from Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario (2015) and a BFA in Ceramics from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia (2017).
His art practice is focused on sculptural and digital creations that reflect the real and imagined worlds he lives in. This blending of realities exists both as context for his work and in the material languages he engages in. At the centre of his practice is a desire to make people laugh, and through light hearted imagery introduce the viewer to deeper, more uncomfortable subject matter.
The Fluency of the Ocean
oil on birch
42″ x 54″
$5000
Plumbing the Depths
oil on birch
42″ x 54″
$5000
The Wind Stirred the Sky and the Sea Came to a Beautiful Boil
oil on birch
24″ x 30″
$3000
Eva McCauley
Biography
Eva McCauley is a painter/printmaker, living in Bear River, Nova Scotia, her house built into a cliff overlooking a tidal river, in proximity to the ocean. The experience of living near the ocean had a profound impact on her work. Her work has become increasingly concerned with the impact of climate change, particularly in respect to the oceans.
She is known for vibrant, colourful paintings that seamlessly merge abstraction with figuration. Her paintings are enigmatic and evocative psychological takes on the traditional landscape genre.
Her work is included in collections such as the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ernst & Young Canadian Print Collection, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, the UNB Art Centre Permanent Collection and the Nova Scotia Art Bank.
Six More Miles to the Graveyard
NFS
Everywhere You Turn
8″ x 9″ x 5″
$600
Trashcan Lives
9″ x 12″ x 6″
$850
Bryson Chisholm
Biography
Bryson Chisholm is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in the Annapolis Valley, NS. He attended NSCAD University (BFA 2014) where he worked predominantly in photo and video work. He is the recipient of two Arts Nova Scotia Creation Grants and has contributed several pieces to the Nova Scotia Art Bank. In the past several years he has reconnected with painting and has also found relative interest in building miniatures. Although significantly different in his approach, his artistic practices have gravitated towards similar themes and have acted as a way to preserve and curate the importance of time and place for the artist. He has always been drawn towards deteriorating structures and unsightly pockets among his surroundings, observing how neglected spaces become personalized with shortcuts, forts, graffiti monikers and makeshift benches. He plays off the tension that exists at these locations, a strange back and forth relationship between what is being added and taken away.
Figure Behind Glass
oil on canvas with spruce frame
7″ x 5″
$250
Park Eyes
oil on canvas with spruce frame
7″ x 5″
$220
Still Life With Cube TV
oil on canvas with spruce frame
9″ x 9″
$300
Sun Bather
oil on birch panel
7″ x 7″
$250
Figure Turning
oil on birch panel
8″ x 12″
$250
Window Treatments
oil on canvas with spruce frame
7″ x 7″
$250
Figure Turning 2
oil on canvas
24″ x 20″
$670
Lucy Koshan
Biography
Lucy Koshan is a painter and drawer based in Canning, NS. She holds a BFA from Mount Allison University and a Foundation Year Certificate from the Yukon School of Visual Arts. Lucy’s work is in the collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery as well as private collections across Canada.
Artist Statement
These are some recent smaller paintings. Lately I have been playing with depicting figures in landscapes in interrupted or complex ways. These works use surface textures as well as depictions of objects (curtains, paintings-within-paintings) to alter or truncate figures’ appearances. I’m trying to make figurative works that read less like portraits, more like stills in a narrative sequence.
Pan and Syrinx
Bronze
12″ x 6″ x 5″
$1200
Pan and Syrinx
Bronze
$1200
Mirabai
White clay and transparent glass
17.5″ x 10 ” x 4″
$1500
Nistal Prem de Boer
