Kentville

Beautiful Decay: Barns of Nova Scotia

Tuesday September 11 2012 (All day) -
Wednesday October 3 2012 (All day)

Hours Monday to friday 7am to 5pm - Saturday 8am to 4pm - Closed on Sunday
 
Patrick Bezanson has been working in art for many years, though primarily in the field of graphic novels. He has been creating and collaborating on comic serials and enjoys the freedom simple lines can have in bringing forth story and image.

In the past two years he has found a passion in old, distinguished and sometimes well-worn architecture. This has included homes, churches, and in his recent series, barns. Though a departure from the medium of the graphic novel, the principles of bringing simple lines together to capture a feeling, or sense of occurrence, is the same.

The inspiration for creating this series of barns came from both a love of capturing elegant details of worn structures with simple black lines, and a nostalgic fondness these barns bring to someone born in Nova Scotia. There are many interesting barns dotting the landscape of this province, and those chosen to be part of this series had great appeal in structural layout and also surroundings. Pen and ink has been the preferred format in the majority of Patrick's artwork, and the Nova Scotia barns series have been completed with 102 and 107 Hunts quill pens and India Ink, with the exception of Brookville Farm created with a Micron Pigment Pen.

Bio: Patrick has worked mainly in comics for the last 10 years, self-publishing primarily, along with several collaborations. Most recently he has worked as an artist on the series Red Plains featured on the Top Shelf website and soon to be in print edition. From 2000 to 2009 he has been prolific in charcoal portraiture, as well as murals throughout Saint John, NB. He resides in Kentville, NS with his wife, Anita and two sons, Oliver and Eli.

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