Resident Artists

The Centre is host to a growing community of artists that work in individual and shared studios.

Information coming soon.

Laurel has been creating art for most of her life with time out to pursue other work, interests and to raise a family. After high school in Halifax, she completed two years of full-time study at the NSCA. She earned a B.A. from Glendon College, York University, as a mature student. Oils, acrylics and watercolour are her media and she also works with charcoal, pen and ink and other drawing media. In her shared studio space she is currently experimenting with mixed media and recently contributed three pieces to a group show at the Black Duck Gallery in Lunenburg. The Mahone Bay Printmaking Group, which meets at the Centre on Tuesdays, is a new and exciting venture for her and another avenue to explore. Laurel is one of four local artists who show and sell their work at the Quartet Gallery in Lunenburg.
View some of Laurel's work

I am a conceptual, visual artist and my enterprise consists of installation art using multimedia techniques. The creative images and words describe visually DNA and social codes between generations. This concept seems to bring to my work a universal theme. The use of French poetry from Tristan Tzara underlines the surrealistic imagery.

Je suis une artiste plasticien avec une enterprise d'installation multimedia.. Les images et les mots montre visuellement le ADN et les codes entre les generations. Ce concept donne un theme universale aux oeuvres. J'emploie la poésie de Tristan Tzara, un surréaliste circa 1930.

Education
BFA (Fine Art) Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

Winston Leonard Seaton, born in Toronto Ontario in 1940 moved to the Maritimes with his family in 1953. From 1959 to 1961 he studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art, furthered his art education at The Vancouver School of Art from 1961 to 1963 graduating with Dip. in Graphic Design. He Returned to Nova Scotia to work at CJCB-TV in Sydney. Seeking more education, he departed for London England in 1965 to do Post Graduate work at the London College of Printing. After college he worked in the Design Industry in London for a short time and returned to Canada and taught one semester in painting at NSCA. He moved to Montreal in 1968 and worked for Penthouse Studios for three years and returned to Halifax, NS in 1971 where he ran his own printing and graphic design business for several years. During this time he became a founding member of the Harmony Lake Group (HLG) of painters. The 1980’s and 1990’s were spent in Vancouver working in the graphic design industry and while in Vancouver, he continued to paint and hold several one man shows of this work. May 2000 Winston and his wife retired to NS. He established his own gallery where he featured the work of the Harmony Lake Group of painters until 2007. In 2008, he and his wife downsized and moved to Mahone Bay where he continues to paint in his studio at The Mahone Bay Community Centre and a new phase in his work has begun.

Originally a textile artist, Sally graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1971. After a 15 year career as a weaver, tapestry maker and teacher as well as co-owner of a loom company, Sally shifted to a career as a museum and gallery educator which kept her busy for 20 more years. Finally she has returned to her artistic roots, and now works as a painter and sculptor from her little studio in Mahone Bay Centre. Her paintings reflect her "weaver's" fascination with line and texture. The human body has been a focus for much of her work. She is also captivated by geological surfaces and subterranean landscapes, having been influenced hugely by six months of living in Australia.

View some of Sally's work

Sally coordinates the Access Art workshops at the Centre.