… CREATIVITY is a part of our nature … I would like to thank the Sheila Hugh MacKay Foundation as recipient of the 2011 Strathbutler Award. To the Board of Directors, I would like to extend my sincere appreciation for the work you have done & continue to do in carrying out the foundation’s support[…]
Freeman Patterson lives at Shampers’ Bluff, New Brunswick, near his home where he attended one-room schools in Grey’s Mills and Long Reach and then high school at MacDonald Consolidated in Kingston. In 1959, he graduated from Acadia University with a BA, Honours Philosophy–his thesis, “The Form of the Good in Plato’s Republic”. The thesis for[…]
2006 Strathbutler recipient Brigitte Clavette partners with talented metalsmiths Kristianne Le Breton and Kristyn Cooper in a three day salon style jewellery collecting event at Gallery 78.
Gerard Collins. 2001 Strathbutler Recipient creates public mural for Saint John school A classroom at Hazen-White/St. Francis School has been transformed into a literacy retreat, thanks to the help of local professional artist Gerard Collins who, out of the kindness of his heart, has transfigured an obsolete blackboard into a tranquil scene he sees just[…]
2011 Strathbutler recipient Herzl Kashetsky book signing The Peter Buckland Gallery is pleased to host Herzl Kashetsky and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in promoting their new book Glitter and Gloom: The Sketchbooks of Herzl Kashetsky. This book offers a rare opportunity to view a Canadian artist through the intimacy of his sketchbooks. The book will[…]
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Five Strathbutler Artists participate in “Stimulare – the Whispering Game” Like the Pied Piper, Freeman Patterson has lead 18 New Brunswick artists on a creative journey that has resulted in an exhibition to be opened at Saint John Arts Centre on Friday, October 28th. Strathbutler recipients, Brigitte Clavette, Suzanne Hill, Kathy Hooper, and Peter Powning[…]
Our sculpting sister: a chisel in one hand, a cross in the other Published Saturday October 1st, 2011 in the Telegraph-Journal’s Salon Teacher, nun and internationally exhibited contemporary sculptor, Sainte-Marie-de-Kent’s Marie Hélène Allain has carved a career for herself like few others and is now being lauded by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery as one of[…]