Lyghtesome Gallery presents the Christmas Art Show

FESTIVE CHRISTMAS ART SHOW - Annual Group Show Featuring New and Recent Work by Gallery Artists
December 2, 2009 - January 31, 2010

Seasonal OPEN HOUSE on Saturday afternoon, December 12th, 1 - 5pm
Join us for cider, door prizes, and tax free shopping!

Just in time for Christmas Gifting. New Revised Format. Easily mailed from Coast to Coast. Striking new images never before reproduced. If you have always wanted a Linda Johns painting, here is your opportunity to enter into the mystery of this exceptional visionary artist. 2010 will be a year you can share with your friends and loved ones. Stock is limited so order and/or reserve your copy now or better yet stop by Lyghtesome Gallery today and see all the other wonderful one of a kind gifts produced by our talented community of Nova Scotian artists.
To order your calendar today email lyghtesome@eastlink.ca or call 863-8122, toll free 1-800-303-6546
Be prepared to give your visa or master card details and the mailing address for shipping. Special Offer with this announcement $8.00 mailing fee anywhere in Canada and $15.00 to the US. Offer good until Dec. 15, 2007 only.
Quantity Offer 3 calendars for $85.00 mailing additional $15.00 for single bundle or sent directly to your individual gift list for $8.00 each
Rush mailings after Dec. 15th for Christmas are not available

Very, Very Special ... all copies handbound, numbered and signed by Author/Artist Linda Johns $55.00@Forty-one whalebone carvings pictured and loads of photographs to illustrate the "Odyssey"
Seventy-Six bi-folded pages, handbound in traditional Japanese design
with your very own whalebone and cord page marker.
Excerpt from the forward of "Whalebone Odyssey"

“In recent years, whalebone has become a familiar part of my art shows. Often it is combined with shed caribou, moose or deer antler; fossils, shells, wood, stone, iron or fired clay. Though I strive for depth of meaning with each effort, the question most often asked is, "Where do you get your whalebones?"
Several have been welcome gifts, three have been purchased in flea markets, but the majority have come from Newfoundland. Come with us now to 'The Rock' and experience some of the wild, bone-gathering adventures that lie behind the finished carvings.”
Over the last thirty years, artist, author and naturalist Linda Johns has expressed her unique wisdom through paintings, drawings, linocuts, sculpture in wood, whale bone, and clay, as well as seven published books. Her inspirations flow from the wild places, creatures and feathered friends that encircle her life in rural Nova Scotia. As a professional artist, Johns is primarily self-taught, pursuing her personal exploration in art history and analysis, mythology, symbolism and metaphys

Lyghtesome Gallery
166 Main Street
Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2B7

web: www.lyghtesome.ns.ca
email: lyghtesome@eastlink.ca
Gallery: 902-863-5804 Home/workshop: 902-863-8122
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