“Back Street, Advocate Harbour”
2019
Christopher Gorey
“Back Street, Advocate Harbour” by Christopher Gorey
Watercolour on paper, 36 cm x 53 cm
Limited editioned prints available for sale.
“Capturing the way light envelops objects has always fascinated me. Whether it is the warm light filtering over a landscape in the late afternoon or the somber cool light of a rainy day, my subject matter will always be the light.”
About the Artist
Christopher Gorey is a well-known Nova Scotia watercolour and oil painter. His work, mainly traditional, depicts the beautiful light and landscape of Northern Cape Breton as well as other locales. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Canada and is the designer of the 1981 and 1987 Canadian commemorative Silver Dollars. He currently resides in Ingonish, Cape Breton with his wife Lynn. The Goreys have two children and two grand children.
His work has won awards at La Societé canadienne de l’aquarelle, the Watercolor Art Society of Houston and the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolor. Mr. Gorey’s paintings can be found in the collections of Anne Murray, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Seneca College and Acadia University Art Galleries.
He is also a signature member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour (CSPWC) as well as La Societe canadienne de l'aquarelle (SCA). He currently exhibits at The AGNS Teichert Art Sales and Rental Gallery, Halifax, NS, Colouratura Gallery, Indian Brook, NS, Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design, Sydney, NS, and Victoria County Creates, Baddeck, NS .