Paintings

The spiritual strength of nature is celebrated through fictional landscape. Time & Place is a continuing series of oil on canvas work that combines the contradiction and conflicts of nature with the textures and colors of season. Simple shapes of nature become symbols of worship within natural

cathedrals.  The Horizons series looks up towards distant valley walls, long, thin borders between known and unknown. Place & Pattern looks down and out over a 20-mile valley floor that has been returned to a natural state -- sans roads, buildings or human presence. Mask & Disguise, a series about unknown character hidden behind our job titles or social status.

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Rust prints are unique to the studio of Bob Hainstock, not found anywhere else in the printmaking world. Rust / oxidation is a strong metaphor for industrialized society with its highest impact on rural environments and culture. Rust is the ultimate fate of most man-made materials. Fifteen years of  

 experimentation and development have produced rust prints of unusual character and strength as well as good archival print standards. Some series feature rust printmaking in combination with other techniques such as woodblock, etching, drawing or mono printing.    

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An ongoing series of fictional landscapes where contradictions of scale, distance and perspective exist comfortably within the same image frame -- a constantly changing world located on the valley floor more than 600 feet below the

artist's studio location. The distinct textures and patterns of rust prints are used as an under painting for all work in this continuing series -- pieces of landscape puzzle and their conflicts of connection and barrier, friction and community, spirituality and domestication of nature.  

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New Work & Special Projects

A diverse sampling of new work, as well as the artist's print techniques and studio experimentation, including; hand made printing papers from Fundy seaweed, life-size equine sculptures made from pieces of driftwood and

 other abandoned materials; environmental art that echoes local climate change; carborundum and collagraphs prints; concrete and acrylic paintings; glue gun drawings; mono prints; woodblock prints; or, historic reference to early Acadian dyke lands of south west Nova Scotia.

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New Books From the Artist The artist has recently published a book that illustrates his selected landscape work of the past two decades in oil, prints, concrete and mixed media. The book discusses the future of landscape art, as well as the impact of studio location on his work. The entire book can be viewed and purchased online at:   www.Blurb.com                       or by contacting the artist.

The artist has also written and illustrated a best-selling book on rural architectural heritage entitled, "Barns of Western Canada: An Illustrated Century". Copies are available from Fifth House Publishing in Edmonton, Alberta, or from the artist. Also available from the artist are copies of the new book, "Land & Sea: Landscape Artists of Nova Scotia" published and available from Nimbus Publishing in Halifax, NS..

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