Press
Release
February 2000
Exhibit
Lyghtesome
Gallery
Antigonish
N.S.
Lyghtesome
Gallery, 166 Main St., Antigonish is featuring the work of two
printmakers during the month of February: Cecil Day from Nova
Scotia and Ronald Milton from Ontario. The exhibit runs from
February 2 - 29.
Cecil Day works
out of her studio in Port Maitland, N.S. near Yarmouth. Day studied
at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., Indiana Univ., Bloomington,
Indiana andWashington Univ., in St. Louis, Missouri where she
received an MFA in painting. Her printmaking experience has led her
to be an artist-in-residence at the Windsor Printmaker's Forum in
Windsor, Ontario in 1990, at St. Michael's Printshop in St. John's,
Newfoundland in 1993 and more recently at Cite Internationale des
Arts in Paris in 1995. St. Francis Xavier Univ. Art Gallery featured
her work in collaboration with Mary Dryburgh in 1995 in a show
entitled "Dark Forest" and Day presented a workshop on viscosity
etching in conjunction with that exhibit. Her prints being featured
this month are recent etchings along with selections of older work,
including part of her Paris parks series. This past fall Cecil Day
spent a month in Gros Morne National Park on the west coast of
Newfoundland through the park's artist-in-residence program and
recently was featured in an article in the Winter 1999 issue of
Visual Arts News, the magazine of the provincial Visual Arts Nova
Scotia organization.
Artist, teacher
and lecturer Ronald Milton exhibits in galleries across Ontario and
the Maritimes and teaches etching at the H.B. Beal Secondary School
in London, Ontario. He received his BFA from Mount Allison Univ. in
1983 and went on to obtain his B.Ed. from the Univ. of Western
Ontario. Milton began participating in Lyghtesome's annual summer
printmaker show in 1996 and is represented in this exhibit by a
series of small intaglio prints, both monoprints and editioned
etchings.
