Eva McCauley Paintings and Irish Music, Aug

You are warmly invited to attend the opening reception of ‘Ruptured Landscapes’, a solo painting exhibition by Bear River artist Eva McCauley, on Saturday, August 3, from 12 to 3 p.m. in the Chapel Gallery at ARTSPLACE Gallery in Annapolis Royal.

Eva McCauley, Fractured Sky, Ruptured World, 2024, Oil/mixed media on birch
panel, 60” X 96” Diptych

Come enjoy live acoustic traditional Irish music on fiddles, flutes, mandolins and pipes in the main gallery from 1 to 3 p.m. Light refreshments served.
Opening concurrently in the Mym Gallery is Marianne Brown’s exhibition ‘Amulet”.
Come meet the artists and enjoy the art and music! Hope to see you there.

All the best,
Eva

Ruptured Landscapes: Elegy for a Fragile World
Exhibition dates: August 1 – 24, 2024
Opening reception: Saturday, August 3, 12 – 3pm
Live traditional Celtic music session: August 3, 1 – 3 pm

ARTSPLACE Gallery

396 St. George Street, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.

Eva McCauley Scotian Skies #7 (Magenta) 2024 Oil/mixed media on birch panel 6″ X 6″

‘Ruptured Landscapes’ is a solo exhibition of oil paintings by Nova Scotian artist Eva McCauley, exploring the relationship between people and our fragile environment, a world threatened by systematic disintegration and devastation. Her paintings explore and speak to climate change, particularly on oceans and shorelines: the sea level is rising, waters are warming, storms are intensifying, lives and communities are at risk. Conjured partly from memory, partly from photographs, the figures in the paintings uneasily inhabit places that are explored in the past and present, with a focus on their relationship to bodies of water.
The theme of this new body of work, ‘Ruptured Landscapes’ is particularly relevant right now, because of the acute seriousness of the climate crisis.
McCauley is exploring this theme–our relationship to our endangered environment– in a way that is searching and honest, yet not without hope, discovering and contributing new insights and realizations to the present urgent discourse.

This body of work was funded by an Arts Nova Scotia Creation Grant, for which the artist is
most grateful.

Eva McCauley The Fluency of the Ocean 2023 Oil on birch panel 42″ X 54″

About the artist:
Eva McCauley is a visual artist who lives in L’sitkuk/Bear River, Nova Scotia, within the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people.
She is known for highly charged, colourful paintings that seamlessly merge abstraction with figuration. Her paintings are enigmatic and evocative psychological takes on the traditional landscape genre.
She is both a painter and printmaker, known for her atmospheric, expressive paintings of sky, water and shifting landscapes that incorporate human figures, exploring the passage of time and the transient and ephemeral nature of the spiritual and physical world. As a figurative artist she is fascinated with the human condition, and the fragility of our existence.
As a landscape painter, McCauley is increasingly concerned with climate change, particularly its effect on ocean environments. She blends these concerns with her exploration of recollection and mutability.
Her work explores the process of recollection and how we process memories. Her focus is not on the recreation of a specific image or moment, but the creation of something informed by the act of remembering — an act which renders past experiences as ephemeral, and constantly in flux, resulting in works which perpetually shift, their images lyrical, ghost-like, and ethereal.
She was recently awarded an Arts Nova Scotia “Creation” Grant to fund her painting project ‘Ruptured Landscapes’. She will be showing this series of paintings in a solo exhibition at the Saint John Art Centre in May/June 2026 in Saint John, N.B.
Her work can be found in many private and public collections such as the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Workers Art & Heritage Centre (Hamilton ON), the Ernst & Young Canadian Print Collection, the UNB Art Centre Permanent Collection (Fredericton, NB) and the Nova Scotia Art Bank Collection.