2010 Working Group Painters

Norma McDonell

Enfield, NS

Phone:  (902) 883-8312

normamc@eastlink.ca
 

Norma has been painting for six years but in her heart she feels she has been painting her whole life.

Her painting experience began with a ten-week watercolor course but after taking a ten-week acrylic course with Ron Decker (who studied under Robert Bateman), she realized that acrylics offered more appeal.  The defining moment however came when she took workshops from Bev Hubley and Linda Powell, both working in oils.

Norma loved the vibrancy of oils and the way the paint responded to her every brushstroke. Currently she is studying under Sandra MacDonald, a wonderfully talented artist.  Her dearest artist friend Doris Horne continues to be a great inspiration.  Norma has also attended oil and acrylic workshops with Christopher Gorey, Guenter Burr and Ken Spearing to name just a few.

Norma has won prize ribbons for her acrylic and oil paintings at the Halifax County exhibition, 2006 to 2009. She also received “Best in Show”  2006. She is a member of the Gallery Near and Far's Working Group and also exhibits in Gallery 215 in Selma, Hants County.  In 2009 Norma won a first and second placing in the spring East Hants Fine Art Show.  Norma’s paintings are in collections from Bermuda and the Middle East to Texas.
 

The Country Studio

Sandra MacDonald

85 MacPhee Road,

Shubenacadie, NS

Phone: (902) 758-1998

sandra@sandramacdonald.com

Sandra MacDonald lives in Rhines Creek, just outside Shubenacadie in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her fine art background began with college courses, but her style developed through years of personal study, research and teaching. Sandra teaches at her home studio "The Country Studio" and also travel teaches. She has taught at major painting conventions in the US and Canada.

Susanne's Weavery

Weaving, Water Colours

Susanne A. MacLachlan

2769 Highway 202

East Gore, B2S 3C7

Phone: (902) 632-2850

Susan's style of watercolours focuses on natural themes of flowers, sea and sand and other peaceful subjects.  "The solitude of nature often felt but not put into words makes me search for the universal spirit that challenges deeper underlying currents of every day living."