Press Release
SUSAN PATERSON
Solo Show of Recent Etchings and Watercolours
October 2 – 29, 2006
Lyghtesome Gallery
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
A One-woman show of recent etchings and watercolors by Dartmouth artist,
Susan K. Paterson, is the October feature exhibit at Lyghtesome Gallery,
166 Main St., Antigonish, The show opens on Thursday, October 5 with a public
reception and the artist in attendance from 4 – 6pm at Lyghtesome.
Susan Paterson first joined the roster of Lyghtesome printmakers over twenty
years ago and went on to have her first solo show in the fall of 1985 and
then again in 1991 and 2000. Originally scheduled for 2004, this fourth solo
show features a collection of recent etchings and twelve watercolours that
the artist has been gradually accumulating for exhibition. With the demands
of a young family and a successful artistic career in full swing, Paterson
has learned to pace her commitments. The recent acquisition of her own printing
press means she is now able to work exclusively out of her own home studio,
located on Hawthorne St. in Dartmouth, just a fifteen minute walk from the
Harbour Ferry terminal.
Susan Paterson’s work is well-known throughout the Maritime region
for its technical excellence and sensitive capture of the beauty of rural
and seaside landscape: surf and sand, trees and wooded streams, farm land
and animals. She is also known for her floral stilllife paintings and “Victorian
style” interiors, often set in the intimate warmth of her own home.
Over the years she has done many etchings and watercolours of Sherbrooke
Village and surrounding area, where her mother‘s family has their roots
and Susan spent much of her childhood. With warm, true colors, Susan presents
an elegant, reflective realism, inviting because it is familiar and rendered
with a quiet confidence that penetrates the subtleties of weather, mood and
well-being.
Born in Halifax in 1958, Susan Paterson first studied art under Ted Pulford
and David Silverberg at Mt. Allison University, Sackville, N.B. where she
graduated with a BFA in 1980. She pursued further study in painting and drawing
at Sunbury Shores, St. Andrews, N.B. and the Byam School of Art, London,
England, and then went on to learn lithography and etching at the Nova Scotia
School of Art and Design in Halifax. After living several years in Toronto,
Susan Paterson moved back to the Maritimes and established her home and studio
in Dartmouth. Since 1979, her work has appeared regularly in public and private
galleries in Alberta, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and been commissioned
by organizations such as the Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, N.S. the
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Sherbrooke Village, and the Dartmouth Heritage
Museum, Dartmouth, N.S. Her work can be found in numerous private and corporate
collections including Husky Oil, the Bank of Detroit, Citibank, Nova Scotia
Art Bank, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bell Canada, Employment & Immigration
Canada, Atlantic Lottery Corporation, TD Bank, Bergengren Credit Union, Olympia
and York Developments, Magna International, K.K. Sakai Co. of Tokyo, Mitsu
Taiyo Kobe Bank, and Mercantile and General Reinsurance Group.
Over the last few years, Susan has been an active member in the Atlantic
chapter of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour. She has volunteered
extensively with the Art Committee at Hawthorn School in Dartmouth where
her sons Conor, l0, and Kyle, 7, attend school, She has taught watercolour
and printmaking to the students and arranged for other artists to come to
teach in the classroom, as well as organizing a show of the children’s
art and the production of a 16 month calendar of their work. All this as
well as having a successful show in 2005 at Fog Forest Gallery in Sackville,
N.B. and participating in “A Perseverance of Printmakers” at
the Secord Gallery in Halifax this fall.
The Susan Paterson show runs from October 2 – 29, 2006. It can also
be viewed on-line as a virtual exhibit at www.lyghtesome.ns.ca. It will be
followed in November by the Annual Printmaker Exhibit featuring new work
by gallery printmakers and the introduction of work by two new potters in
the Antigonish area from the Pink Flamingo Studio, located at Jimtown, Antigonish
County.
Please join us at our openning reception Thursday, October 5 with
the artist in attendance
from 4 – 6pm at Lyghtesome 166 Main St. Antigonish