artist Archives - Halifax Guardian

“A Day in the Life” with: Visual Artist Lee Leonard

May 27, 2026 Lauren Kannwischer

I have been an oil painter for 60 years, although I occasionally work in acrylics and watercolours. Over the years, I have experimented with portraits, still-lives, and landscapes while moving gradually toward abstract impressionism. In […]

“A Day in the Life” with: Visual Artist Teresa Young

May 20, 2026 Lauren Kannwischer

Teresa Young has been painting for many years. She started selling portraits in high school to help out with finances. She then processed to surreals. In the early years, she used a lot of green […]

“A Day in the Life” with: Visual Artist Anna Horsnell

May 13, 2026 Lauren Kannwischer

Born in Nova Scotia, Anna Horsnell has been painting for 50 years. Over that time, independent studies have allowed her to benefit from a variety of teachers and influences, and her work has evolved from […]

“A Day in the Life” with: Visual Artist Miya Turnbull

May 6, 2026 Lauren Kannwischer

Miya Turnbull grew up driving tractors on a family farm near Onoway, Alberta. From a young age, if you asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, the answer was “Artist” every single […]

“A Day in the Life” with: Visual Artist Sean Benton

April 29, 2026 Lauren Kannwischer

Sean Benton is wholeheartedly committed to his painting practice, and particularly his growing series of portraiture. Sean has a great sensitivity to colour transitions and value, giving his portraits a vitality that is striking. He […]

“A Day in the Life” with: Filmmaker and Writer Olivia Johnson

April 22, 2026 Alexis Bain

Olivia Johnson is a multidisciplinary artist from Calgary, currently based in Nova Scotia -the province where I first met her. The memory of that encounter is one of the clearest I have of meeting someone […]

“A Day in the Life” with: Performing Artist Sara Coffin

April 15, 2026 Emilea Semancik

Sara Coffin (she/her) is an award-winning dance artist, choreographer, educator, and Co-Artistic Director of Mocean Dance, whose work weaves together interdisciplinary collaboration, improvisation, and the study of human movement to explore vulnerability, resilience, and connection […]

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