A trip to Portland with stops at Bodoin College and the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine. A main feature was a retrospective of Richard Estes painting.
Portland Museum of Art
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Stephen Paints a Picture
An exhibition which included a portrait of Virgil Hammock and a number of my more important paintings. It’s origin lay in a project of Virgil’s and mine which centred on a 20 part text of the conversation between us while working on a Virgil’s portrait, and which was available as an ebook.
Docent Talk
An interesting day followed in which we spoke to the docents on the nature of the works in the exhibition at the Beaverbrook. The range of topics covered the birth of creative inspiration to technical issues.
Popup at the Beaverbrook
A show curated by Virgil Hammock of my work at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton. It is built around a portrait project we undertook over the past summer and involved the development of an ebook of our conversations on art during the sittings.
Saint John from a different perspective
Some insights into my radiation treatments for cancer post-surgery.
Thanksgiving with Tom
Spending time with an artist who had been a big inspiration early on in setting my own course in the arts.
Halifax October 1
My summer projects finished in September. My next voyage then began, an all-consuming experience beginning with surgery for cancer.
Timeline September 2013
In September I packed my studio for an extended leave. I had been diagnosed with a stage 4 cancer and was on my way to Halifax.
What is correspondence?
Thoughts on correspondence with a colleague about what being an artist is about.
Newfoundland Suite at the Yellow Box, Fredericton
A group of oil sketches from a series made in 2012 in southwestern Newfoundland. Curated by William Forrestall with text by Virgil Hammock.