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SYDNEY, NOVA SCOTIA
Carolyn M. Burns born, raised, and living on Cape Breton Island in the city of Sydney.
A multi media artist, Carolyn enjoys watercolour, pastel, pencil, pottery, fibre, and pretty much anything else she can manipulate to act either as a tool or material with which to create her work.

SYDNEY, NOVA SCOTIA
Barbara Chiasson is a Multi Media, Tattoo Artist and owner, operator of ‘Barb’s House of Art, Fine Art & Tattoo Studio’, located on Coxheath Rd.
Her mediums consist of, Oils; Watercolors; Acrylics; Pastels; Charcoals and Airbrushing, Pencil Crayons and Inks, creating an array of, Portraits, Signs, Landscapes, Seascapes, Murals and Tattoos.

SYDNEY, NOVA SCOTIA
Susan Covey is a creative and design artist, published writer, poet, composer and business professional. She learned to draw at the kitchen table that was pressed into service as a drafting board because her mother made ends meet creating murals and signs on the kitchen table.  Susan studied art history in college and later [...]

INGONISH, NOVA SCOTIA

INVERNESS, NOVA SCOTIA

SYDNEY, NOVA SCOTIA
For the past few years, Amy has been teaching art to elementary students north of Cape Smokey.  Amy loves sharing her enthusiasm for art and dabbles in most mediums.
When doing artwork outside, I enjoy pen and ink with watercolor washes.

GLACE BAY, NOVA SCOTIA
Susan MacDonald has been teaching art all of her adult life. As an elementary art instructor, she has brought the joy of artistic “‘product and process” to thousands of children. A lifetime spent teaching and practicing art has shaped Susan’s keen sense of personal style. Currently she works as a fine artist [...]

INVERNESS, NOVA SCOTIA
For three decades, Terry MacDonald has created many portraits, historical murals and interpretive displays utilizing realism, impressionism and classical styles. His work can be seen in numerous museums throughout Atlantic Canada and in private collections throughout Canada.

BOISDALE, NOVA SCOTIA
Patricia MacNeil is a bi-coastal artist, with small studios on both Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia and Vancouver Island, British Columbia.  She was born outside Canada, has lived in 6 provinces and 1 territory during her family association with, and later, her own 28 year career in the Canadian Armed Forces.

LOUISBOURG, NOVA SCOTIA

INVERNESS, NOVA SCOTIA
My childhood environment still informs the work I do as a painter. Most dear to me was the semi-wild area around small northern towns like Beardmore, Longlac, and Nipigon. Comfortable in the boreal forest, I still feel my father’s wry smile and hear him describe me as a ‘real bush Indian.’
Virginia McCoy was born [...]

SYDNEY, NOVA SCOTIA
Nancy McLean grew up in Sydney and is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Upon graduation she had a most rewarding career teaching Visual Art to all grade levels throughout the Cape Breton Victoria Regional School Board as well as summer sessions at CBU.

SYDNEY FORKS, NOVA SCOTIA

We would like to extend a special thank you to all the people, businesses, organizations, and groups who helped. Without their support, the Under The Arch Plein Air Event would not be possible.

SYDNEY, NOVA SCOTIA
Beverley Niven is a native Cape Bretoner and lives in Sydney Nova Scotia.  She attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cape Breton University.  She has been photographing Cape Breton and surrounding areas for the past 7 years. From the simple beauty of [...]

A huge thank you goes out to the many photographers who so graciously made their photographs available for the Under The Arch Plein Air Event web site. All images aree used with the direct permission of the artist and all rights are retained by the artist.

SYDNEY, NOVA SCOTIA
Billie Yvette Rogers is a musician, writer, dancer, and dabbles in visual art as a hobby. Working predominately in acrylic and/or pastels, her pieces are often exaggerated and loose.
I try to capture what I see, not to reproduce it verbatim necessarily, but to convey the sense of it. Extremely fond of both [...]

SYDNEY, NOVA SCOTIA
Steven Rolls has been drawing and painting for most of his life, always hearing praise and encouragement from family and close friends. But he contributes what he does now to his wife and her family.
To hear the same praise from an outside party really pushes you to move forward and keep up the [...]

INVERNESS, NOVA SCOTIA