The three winners of the second round of the signed Nelson Surette prints were:
Garry Knigtt, Mona Barrows and Bill Barton. All were contacted and were most excited to have won. Like. WOW!, I never won anything before.
Funny how these days you have to affirm “no this is not a scam, you actually did win.”
On October 3rd we had an exceptional day. We had a group ofstudents from Drumlin Heights visit The Gallery in the morning for a visit to the Nelson Surette exhibit and art experience and in the afternoon we had a group of elderly from The Meadows to visit the art exhibit and enjoy stories and jokes by Lauren d’Entremont. Thanks to Daecy d’Eon for her leadership and to Dan Earle and Jude Fulton for their support.
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During September and October the Friends have and will be sponsoring school visits by students from French and English schools to the Nelson Surette exhibit at The Gallery in Yarmouth. The students had an art experience with a docent exploring paintings in the gallery and also did an original art work based on the exhibit.
Here is an example of art based on the Nelson Surette use of Acadian dories used in his paintings.
We are pleased to announce that the raffle prize for the $100 Nelson Surette signed and authenticated print was won by Anne Skipton of Tomball, Texas. She was here for the Acadian Congress and graced us by purchasing a raffle ticket. Congratulations Anne.
August 25th saw the gathering of 17 eager participants in a workshop based on Nelson Surette. They first met in The Gallery to look at the art under the guidance of Darcy d’eon and gain insight into its historic setting by art historian Candace Clements. From there they progressed to the Community Room where Dan Earle and Darcy d’Eon guided and encouraged their painting. The unique portion was that there were no brushes used as many of Nelson Surettes paintings were done using his fingers. Also, like Nelson Surette, it was suggested the artists paint from their head about things with which they were familiar.
A few sample images below. There were many more.
In two ceremonies the 2024 recipients of the Carl Doty arts scholarships were awarded to this year’s recipients.
Joshua Jongyoon Park
Student at Shelburne Regional High School.
Joshua became interested in art at a very early age and by the age of 13 was sharing his work on Instagram (bagjongyoon144).
He has used a variety of art media, including graphite, acrylic, oil, and watercolour and enjoys challenging himself to a high degree of detail.
He is a member of the Shelburne County Arts Council, has been commissioned on three different works of art, has exhibited at two local art venues in Yarmouth and Shelburne and was honoured to be considered for the Nova Scotia Minister’s Awards for Creative Excellence in the Arts.
He is currently a BDES (Hons) Graphic Design student at OCAD University registered full-time for the fall of 2024.
“Art will be my path in life and I’m looking forward to post secondary education in the Arts.” Joshua
Mia (Gyoung min) Koo
Student at Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School
Since childhood, Mia had a passion for art. At first, she focused solely on fine art but
for the past three years has ventured into graphic design and has been exploring
new visual experiences and honing her skills through typography, posters,
printmaking and motion graphics.
Currently she is experimenting with various art genres such as sculpture, 3D art,
acrylic and oil painting.
She is currently registered at The Sheridan College Institute of Technology and
Advanced Learning and will commence the Honours Bachelor of Craft and Design
program in September.
“I am excited to continue my journey of art exploration and growth as I pursue my
passion for both traditional art and graphic design.” Mia
In August 2024 the Friends of The Gallery were able to reopen the gallery space in Yarmouth for a once in a lifetime showing of the work of Nelson Surette. Over the course of the showing we had over 1000 visitors at events and general daily attendance. These are images from the openings.
