Ken Charlton. Sculptor. Nova Scotia. Active last half of the 20th century.

Percy Bezanson. Sculptor. Brickton, Nova Scotia. Active mid 20th century. Wood carver of farm horses and oxen. Beautifully colored and in harness.

 Ref: An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art. Blake McKendry, Kingston, Ontario. 1999.

Clayton Devine. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Sculptor. Painter. Active mid 20th century.

Clayton Devine worked with mixed media often with ‘as found’ materials. He made naive paintings of local subjects and landscapes. He also made  carvings of people, birds and oxen. Mr. Devine stopped producing works in the late 1970’s.

Ref: Canadian Antiques and Art Review. 1980 and 1981.

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

Ref: Kobayashi/Bird, A Compendium of Canadian Folk Artists (1985).

Ref: Anne Sutherland and Zalman Amit. The Sutherland/Amit Collection. Smith Falls, Ont. 1994.

David Stephens. Painter. Sculptor. Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

David Stephens is a multi-talented artist; often breaking new ground in the disciplines that he is drawn to. One of the founders of the Nova Scotia Folk Art Festival, Mr. Stephens is widely admired and  collected. A “Folk-Pop Pioneer”; David Stephens’ work is seminal and much sought after. He is a sculptor and a painter and works often with ‘as found’ materials and objects; from cars to seashells and marbles.

A link to the web site of David Stephens with images of his work:

http://davidpstephens.tripod.com/directory.html

Percy Shupe. Sculptor. Decoy carver. Western Shore, Nova Scotia. Active mid-20th century.