Canadian Folk Art and Outsider Art
Gerard Guillemette. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. Active 1999 – .
Gerard Guillemette makes painted carvings of a variety of subjects. He works with Basswood and signs his work.
Ref: Adrien Levasseur. Website: http://www.artpopulaire.com
Jack Mahaney. Sculptor. Wood Carver. Carbonear, Newfoundland. Active 3rd quarter 20th c.
Jack Mahaney was a maker of whirigigs.
Harold Cromwell. Painter. Folk Artist. Weymouth, Nova Scotia. Active 1980’s on.
Harold Cromwell’s medium was primarily pencil, ink and paper. He made pictures of Nova Scotia life on the land and sea and was an accomplish artist. At one time he was represented by a Gallery in New York city.
To quote a Nova Scotia curator:
“Cromwell …………. would have been a Canadian folk art icon had the public seen the scope of his work, especially the larger pieces that were quite significantly different than his smaller works,” says David Woods, an associate curator of Black Nova Scotian art at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.”
“Cromwell’s major drawings documented his life and time, and it was their social significance that elevates them beyond the simpler if more colourful works of Maud Lewis, another Digby County artist”.
An example:
Harold Cromwell. Berry picking.
Ref: Nova Scotia Folk Art Festival Society, A Joyous Vision – Contemporary Folk Art in Nova Scotia (1995).
Ref: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Folk Art of Nova Scotia (1976).
Paul McFadden. Painter Sculptor. Woodcarver. Shediac, New Brunswick. Active 1990 – .
Paul McFadden is a painter and sculptor. He makes painted applied relief carvings of New Brunswick life and buildings. His work is full of colour and energy and above all humour. McFadden has been shown in a number of galleries across Canada and is in many private collections.
His mother is the painter Beatrice McFadden.
Beatrice McFadden. Painter. Shediac Bridge, New Brunswick. Active 1990’s – .
Beatrice McFadden is a naive artist. She was born and raised on a farm in New Brunswick and her childhood memories are what she paints. Beatrice McFadden often paints children – children playing and growing up on the farm. And playing hockey. And picking blueberries. And sliding. A big influence on her work has been her son the painter and sculptor Paul McFadden. (See separate article.)
A painting of life on the farm by Beatrice McFadden:
Beatrice McFadden. On the Farm.
