 Here is a place where the lines between art and invention are considerably blurred. Where creativity and ingenuity is virtually the same thing. And where artful people have lived artful lives for centuries. In the name of inspiration and survival, they’ve created, crafted, invented, and expressed.
Art. Sometimes, it hangs on a wall in a downtown gallery or a provincial museum. Evocative prints and paintings that depict the beauty of the land and the sea that surrounds. From artists like Christopher Pratt, Mary Pratt, Reginald Shepard, Helen Parsons Shephard, and David Blackwood.
Or perhaps it sits in a shop window chock full of pottery, carvings, and stained glass. A combination of modern and traditional styles represented in a myriad of form. Influenced on a sliding but ever present scale by the rugged coastline, ancient land formations, and the great North Atlantic.
Other times, it hangs on a clothesline in the backyard. Painstakingly made to be both functional and beautiful. A perfect complement to the whimsical, ingeniously-crafted folk art in the front yard. Or the skillfully-made skiff or punt that floats in the harbour. Art that functions as a means and a way of life.
And how could you possibly live any other way out here? On the very edge of everything. Where old and modern worlds collide. Where inspiration born of the natural environment comes in spades. And where the art of living to create, and vice versa, is simply the way of life. |
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