2018 - Moving Forward

The First Space Gallery opening for "All Roads Lead to Here" on September 8 was a wonderful event with many people in attendance and my family were there to support me.

Even though I don't work near the gallery space in the Library I heard that there was a lot of interest in the exhibit.  One day I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Terence Fletcher, a geologist from Scotland who had been looking at the paintings and sought me out to talk about them.  He had done an extensive report on the geology of the Cape St. Mary's peninsula in 2006 and had a photo of the barite vein of the Cross Point Cove painting in his report (Geological Survey of Newfoundland & Labrador Report 06-02).  He told me that the correct name of the cove was Deadman's Cove but back in 1868, according to Howley's writings it was Cross Point Cove.  It changed over somewhere in time, such as it is with Newfoundland toponyms.

I also saw the image below in his report and he sent me a coloured shot of this example of the Random Formation.

North of East Head, St. Mary's Bay

I want to get to this place for obvious reasons!  I will be making a field trip to the Cape St. Mary's area next summer and anticipate getting to this.structure.  Dr. Fletcher gave me directions. 

Because of the exhibition I was invited to display my work at the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum Conference held at the Delta, November 1 - 3.

It was my first conference gig so I was pretty excited.  I had some product to sell, a few smaller paintings and I talked up Howley to many geologists and industry people.  My display booth was right next to the Geological Association of Canada's booth so it was a great combination!

I made a three panel display board and used magnetic paint, an easy way to display posters and even hung some small paintings using 3M Command Strips.

On November 29th the Queen Elizabeth II Library hosted a talk about various aspects in the career of James P. Howley which featured me talking about my research and artwork; Map Librarian, Dan Duda spoke about Howley's 1907 geology map of Newfoundland; History Professor, Jeff Webb, spoke about Howley's research and Don Pelley, a hunting and fishing outfitter from Central Newfoundland spoke about Howley's relationship with Mi'kmaq guides and told many stories of his own experiences guiding hunters in the Newfoundland interior.

The event was very well attended and it was my first public artist talk.

On December 10th I exhibited at the Grounds Cafe Mini Market out at Murray's Garden Centre, they have a nice open airy space and only a dozen or so vendors so it wasn't too overwhelming.  A lot of traffic came through that day and I made some product sales.

My next body of artwork will involve my journeys to the Precambrian rocks on the Avalon Peninsula.  I have started the research and have many Survey reports to lead me down the road to the ancient rocks that are all around us.

I'm looking forward to the Spring, so the journey continues.