Art by Ron Hayes
Ron Hayes is a Nova Scotia artist. His latest landscape paintings are large, textured canvases of the Annapolis valley where he now lives.
With long beaches forever being covered and revealed in an endless tidal cycle he worked to bring this powerful metaphor in his painting. What seemed most natural was to literally build the surface of the canvas with the materials collected from the ground. The sand, stones, shells and sticks are embedded in the art and serve as both objects to be discovered and textures on which paint covers and reveals various forms.
