June 13, 2026: The South Shore Shunpike
Come and enjoy a day of visiting beautiful Blue Rocks and Stonehurst on Nova Scotia’s South Shore! Vanessa is excited to be one of the artists featured in this year’s event. You can find her and her notecards, original prints, and chapbooks at the St Barnabas church hall in Blue Rocks, and you can visit other artist’s tables and open studios nearby.
The Wild Talk chapbook is ready for summer!
Vanessa & Katherine are excited at all the enthusiasm and interest and have undertaken another printing — same content inside but with a summery cover. They are available at Blockshop Books, Jenny Jib, LaHave River Books, Good Dog Books, Atlantic News, The Book Shed, Tulipwood, and of course by contacting Vanessa directly.
The Wild Talk chapbook is here!
Wild Talk launched at Vanessa’s printmaking exhibition in December 2025, along with a showing of the original prints, and has been so popular that a second printing has been run!
You can look for books locally at Blockshop Books, The Book Shed, Atlantic News, Tulipwood, and Good Dog Books, or contact Vanessa directly.
Torn Edges: A Celebration of the Printmaker’s Art Exhibition & Sale
Vanessa was one of fourteen artists of the Mahone Bay Printmakers featured in an exhibition and sale in December 2025 at the Lunenburg Art Gallery. The exhibition showcased the many different types of printmaking that are happening on Nova Scotia’s South Shore: linocut, etching, mezzotint, drypoint, monotype, gyotaku, and polymer photogravure. Visitors were impressed with the diverse works and happy to meet the printmakers and learn more about the various types of printmaking.
Jampolis Cottage Residency — September 2025
Vanessa is grateful to have been one of two artists chosen by the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia for the inaugural postcard micro-residency at their beautiful Jampolis Cottage on the Bay of Fundy. She created two new linocuts inspired by the place which the Writer’s Federation has made into postcards & notecards.
You can learn more about the Writer’s Federation and/or purchase notecards here:
Brier Island Artist Residency — June 2025
Vanessa attended her first artist residency — 2 weeks on beautiful Brier Island at the Hammer and Sky Artist Residency. Her studio space was a restored 1850 church with a large press. She was able to create two new big works — both 2 feet by 2 feet — as well as some smaller pieces. You can learn more about the residency and the amazing folks behind it here:
Spring Art Show
Vanessa’s print My Grandmother’s Snowdrops will be featured in Regeneratio, a community art show and sale to celebrate spring, at the Chester Art Centre from April 9-18, 2025. More details here:
March 2025: Lungwort lichen, 4x4” linocut
New in 2025: prints in print!
Vanessa is collaborating with writer & botanist Katherine Barrett on Wild Talk, a new column in The Lunenburg Barnacle. Each month, Katherine ‘interviews’ a local plant while Vanessa captures their portrait. You can learn more about The Barnacle and Wild Talk here:
Art Show & Sale 2024
Vanessa’s original linocuts — new works and old favourites — will be part of an upcoming show Places I Have Felt at Home at the Lunenburg Art Gallery, November 22-24. There will be paintings and fibre arts by local artists Liz Hammond and Erika Nicholson. Come on by and say hi and tell us where you feel at home!
Print & plant sale at Chicory Blue — June 11, 2023
Vanessa’s notecards can be found at the lovely Chicory Blue General Store in Blockhouse, Nova Scotia year-round. But on June 11th, 2023 she will be there with her original prints. One stop for brunch, plant sale, and original linocuts!
Chicory 4x6” hand-coloured linocut
New in 2023!
Vanessa has joined the Mahone Bay Printmakers. She has been creating some larger prints using the studio’s printing press. Her original linocuts are for sale at both the Lunenburg Art Gallery and at Jenny Jib in Lunenburg.
The Middle of the Meadow 9x12” hand-coloured linocut
Fall 2022 Show & Sale
Vanessa’s original linocuts and notecards will be on display and for sale soon! If you find yourself in Lunenburg Nov 24-27 please stop by the Lunenburg Art Gallery. There will also be photographic works by James Gray and Anne Macleod Weeks, and linocuts and paintings by Jane Holbrook.
Lunenburg Art Festival 2022
Summer is here! Vanessa’s work will be on display at the Lunenburg Arts Fest July 16th & 17th, 2022. Sales help support the Lunenburg Art Gallery. More information at:
https://www.lunenburgartgallery.com/laf
Japanese Irises 9x12” reduction linocut
Artists for Ukraine
In March 2022 Vanessa’s linocut Sunflowers was offered to Artists for Ukraine — an art sale for the people of Ukraine. $7500 was raised by this collective and was donated to the Red Cross to support the needs of people who have been affected by the conflict.
Sunflowers 4x6” hand-coloured linocut
The Wild Things Are was a wild success!
The Wild Things Are was a wild success! Thank you to all who braved two snowstorms and the pandemic to come to our show. Stay tuned — there are rumours of another one in 2022.