PRESS RELEASE
22nd Annual Printmakers Exhibit
August 9 – September 25, 2004
Lyghtesome Gallery
Antigonish, N.S.

From August 9 to September 25, Lyghtesome Gallery, 166 Main St., is featuring an exhibit of printmakers associated with the gallery who work in a wide range of mediums, including etching, linocut, lithograph, monoprint, chine colle, serigraph, woodblock and wood-engraving. This group exhibit has been organized annually in August and September for the past twenty-two years to provide a glimpse at printmaking and to give regular gallery artists an opportunity to feature new work or their "best of the year" selections.
This year's show includes recent work by Antigonish printmakers Sara Avmaat, Kate Brown Georgallas, Trina Davenport, Ruth Greenlaw, Adam MacDonald, Vicki Maclean, Cindy MacPherson, Gillian McCulloch, William Rogers, Odile Tetu, and Anna Syperek. Regular gallery artists from other parts of Nova Scotia contributing prints include Dartmouth artist Susan Paterson, Kath Kornelsen Rutherford and Robert Rutherford of Musquodoboit Harbour. And also being featured are color viscosity prints from Cecil Day’s Gros Morne Series, first exhibited last April at Lyghtesome and recently reviewed by Tila Kellman in Nova Scotia's Visual Arts News, recent monoprints by Ron Milton of London, Ontario and William Rogers of Antigonish, wood-engravings by Gerard Brender a Brandis of Stratford, Ontario, etchings and chine colle by Avril Bull of Baltimore, Ontario and etchings by Marlene Campbell of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
There are three well-established professional printmakers who are new to the gallery, making a substantial contribution to the variety of work in the 2004 Printmakers Show. Teacher and graphic designer Heather Aston is a master printmaker from Vancouver, B.C. whose fruit and flower monotypes utilize both chine colle and drypoint etching. Judith Leidl, from Wolfville, N.S. is an accomplished artist, printmaker, art educator and consultant, whose arctic landscape relief prints were produced while serving as "Visiting Artist" at the Pangnirtung Print Shop in Pangnirtung, Nunavut in the summer of 2003. Ed Porter, of Lunenburg, N.S. was honored last October at the Bi-Annual Exhibition of the Nova Scotia Printmakers Association held at St. Francis Xavier University Gallery, for his outstanding commitment to printmaking and visual arts education in Canada and the U.S. Ed Porter, who has served as President and Past President of the NSPA and just retired from teaching at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax after 30 years, has contributed four etchings, each with a nautical theme, inspired by a life-long love of sailing.
And one last special contribution to the show comes from a recent graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design who was born and raised outside of Goose Bay, Labrador. Navarana Igloliorte spent a month last spring on a trek through the Labrador wilderness lead by a native elder, a woman who works to keep the young people in touch with the old ways. Navarana produced one woodcut inspired by this journey, a small edition of four prints, in which both landscape and the wisdom of experience are carved into a portrait of the elder named Pien.
The Annual Printmaker’s Show will be followed in October by a solo show of work by Julia Redgrave of Antigonish.