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You're invited to ArtCan Gallery's opening reception!"Annapolis Valley, Small Works" by Lisa Tondino
April 5th to 26th, 2025.
Artist Statement
Lisa Tondino’s architectural practice and painting career share in the study and investigation of place in the landscape, and in this they inform each other.
About the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, her latest painting series features small works that capture scenes succinctly. Lisa quickly experiments with making marks, working with subtle colour, and using markers, pencil and oil paint on wood boards. The paintings combine plein air and painting from memory.
The geographic and cultural relationship of our towns and villages to the mountains, meadows and water is significant to Lisa’s identity. Because of the general lack of support for heritage and insufficient care and attention to past methods of settlement, she fears that as a society we are losing much of our cultural identity.
In painting, Lisa studies the immense power of nature, extended skies and cloud formations and large expanses of land and water. A continuous landscape of mountains and water with traditional churches, cemeteries, barns, farms and boats. Her careful study of these traditional methods of building, craft and agriculture suggest a sustainable way forward.
As in Lisa’s architectural practice, her paintings begin with an in-depth study through drawing, painting, photography and model building. Only through acquiring a deep understanding of a place does each piece emerge.
Artist Bio
Lisa Tondino is a practicing architect and painter in Canning, Nova Scotia. She graduated from the Technical University of Nova Scotia in 1993 and has worked in Canada and the United States in architecture.
She is the daughter of Gentile Tondino RCA (September 3, 1923 – August 29, 2001), a Canadian educator and artist who lived in Montreal, Quebec.
Lisa is the principal of a small firm, houdinidesign ARCHITECTS, which focuses on residential and community-based projects. The firm has won over six awards and has been profiled in numerous publications since being founded in 2009.
She has taught drawing at Dalhousie University’s School of Architecture and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
9850 Main St. Canning, 9850 Main St, Canning, NS B0P, Canada,Canning, Nova Scotia, Wolfville
