Randall Smith. Sculptor. Wood carver.  Ingomar, Nova Scotia. Active mid-20th century.

Randall Smith made weather vanes and  naive painted carvings of fish and models of boats. He is cited in ‘From the Heart. 1983) and his work is collected by The Museum of Civilization.

A Link to his work. At The Museum of Canadian History:

http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/tresors/treasure/135eng.shtml

Ref: The Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies. From The Heart: Folk Art in Canada. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto. 1983.

Ref: Marie Elwood. Folk Art of Nova Scotia. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Halifax. 1976.

Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).

Mark Robichaud. Sculptor. Painter. Wood carver. Belliveau Cove, Nova Scotia. Active since the 1980’s.

Mark Robichaud’s work has always seemed to set the bar in the minds of his contemporaries. He turns tradition on it’s head and somehow re-creates it. He works in primary ‘as found’ colors, as well as materials, and he is always playing  with them, and through them, the viewer. He is unpredictable to say the least. His work has been collected on three continents. He lives and works near Belliveau Cove on Nova Scotia’s French shore.

Some Examples of his work:

Some Penguins (from a series) and Swans (another series). Both about 2 1/2 inches long and very delicately carved in the flat-plane method:

Each of the Penguins were made of six separate pieces of Pine. Except for the sitting one.

 

 

 

One of the twelve original Jesters (1990’s):

 

Another. From the last series of Jesters:

 

Painted Nails. An earlier piece. (1990’s):

A display of Robichaud Fish at a show:

 

Ted Evans. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Painter. Amherst, Nova Scotia. Active since the 1990’s. (And long before that).

Ted Evans is one of the better known Canadian folk artists. He works with ‘as found’ materials when it feels right (if you leave something lying around it is likely to end up in one of his works) and he will mix media with skill and insight. His pallet is Maritime primary colors and there is always more in his art than we see at first look. Both his paintings and his carvings are full of motion and energy.

Many of his paintings and carvings are influenced by his early career in music. (See his Talking Heads sculpture below.)

Works by Ted Evans are in many collections in Europe, North America and Asia.

 

One of his earlier sculptures, ‘The Cat Burgler’:

A more contemporary work. ‘The Catch’:

 

Here is another image from Ted Evans. Working with as found materials; a collage of parts that I call “Talking Heads”:

 

Robert Lavender. Sculptor.  Aylesford, Nova Scotia. Active third quarter 20th century. A sculptor of just about every native bird of the Maritime provinces, Mr. Lavender’s birds are quite beautiful.

Robert Lavender’s work:

 

Sam Amiro. Sculptor. Pubnico, Nova Scotia. Active 20th century – .

Carver of birds, fish, and people in daily life; with a lot of humour. Uses ‘as found’ materials often, particularly driftwood, and his pallet is full of colors.

One of Sam Amiro’s people C. 1990:

 

A carving of a seagull with it’s catch by Sam Amiro: