May is when most of the tourism sites re-open here on the Maritime.
Visit and shop locally at sites where our art, prints, photography, art-printed products, and hand-made nautical crafts are available to buy.
a.) Maritime Crafts & More, Shediac, NB. (Full booth of art items & crafts)
342 Main St., Shediac, NB (Mall Centre-Ville), 506-229-3088.
May 1, new stock, new prints, new art, new display wall, new print rack!! Come see!!
(Vendor 93, 4"x4" booth for art, prints, and nautical crafts).
b.) Shediac Craft Shop, Red Building at Shediac Park. (Latest art prints, cards, & postcards)
233 Main St., Shediac, NB (Tourism park by the red lobster status, at the Red Building).
(Vendor 93, art prints shelf.) New setup as of May 1. Come check out the new prints!
c.) The Homerus Boutique, Main St., Shediac, NB. (Tourism building at Shediac Park).
(Acadian digital art printed items, lobster line wreaths, Maritime Christmas in July items).
In the main tourism building of the Rotary park, by the big red lobster statue park.
Stock on site.
d.) Seaside Grazing Restaurant, Main St, Shediac, NB. (Multiple original art for sale)
310 Main St., Shediac, New Brunswick. Acrylic art displayed are for sale.
New art coming as well!
e.) Steamers Bed & Breakfast, Front St, Gagetown, NB. (Original art is permanently placed.
Variety of art-printed cards on site are for sale). 74 Front St., Gagetown, NB.
f.) Cape Enrage Gallery, Waterside, NB. (Art cards, photo cards and nautical crafts for sale)
At the gallery, on site next to the lighthouse. Bay of Fundy shoreline. Stock on site.
g.) Janet's Bakery & Crafts, Made With Love, 206 Pine Glen Rd., Riverview, NB.
Spin-rack with art-printed cards, prints, calendars, postcards, framables, nautical crafts including lobster line wreaths, monkeys' fist knot keychains, art & digital art buttons, & more!
New holiday and hallmark type themed greeting cards are launched at this site on a regular bases. Workshops for 'Canvas Mosaics' also offered once a month at this location.
**In process:
New location for art-prints placement at an Air B&B located in Shediac, NB on Main Street, in process and should be completed by the end of May. Stay tuned for updates and photos.
MAY EVENTS:
a.) Riverview Lions' Club, Coverdale Rd, Riverview. Vendor table downstairs at event hosted by Curt's General Market Place. First Saturday in May.
b.) Workshop: Canvas Mosaics, art-making.
Held at Janet's Bakery & Crafts, Made With Love, Pine Glen Rd., Riverview, NB.
1pm - 4pm. $50 per ticket. See link on our home page to sign up.
NEW ART OR PRINT PRODUCTS:
a.) "Legacy of Life ~ Robert LeBlanc" (Family Birds), Site: Pointe Du Chene wharf & lighthouse at the end of season, at sunset.
(Available in art cards, framable prints with mats, card framables, canvas prints, and a special limited edition printing series of 40 prints in 5"X7" range size to fit with 8"x10" framing mats. Limited edition print series are numbered and signed and noted as first edition series prints in that size.
Note: Larger limited edition series prints in 16"x20" size to come, later this summer. There are family edition prints for this painting and separate public edition prints.
Note: The flying birds in this painting represent the artist's Uncle Bob, his children and step child, their moms, and his 14 grandkids, all flying into the sunset at the site where Bob used to swim as a child, and where his memorial family gathering was requested (by Bob).
Family edition card prints have a special indication and write-up on the back, and are marked for family. Public prints have a more general write-up on the back of printed flat cards. Orders for prints have also been delivered to people coast to coast on this one. Canvas prints, folding art cards, art mugs, frameable flat cards, and large framing prints are now being enjoyed in BC, Ontario, and New Brunswick.
b.) Mothers' Day cards. (10 year Anniversary reprinting of the acrylic painting "M.O.M. - Magic of Making".) This art was in a series of "Coastal Crafters" that was included in the December 2015 Art Exhibit at the Moncton Public Library, featuring art by Sharon Bourque.
This re-printing of art is featured on new Mothers' Day cards, now available at
Janet's Bakery & Crafts (Made with love), on Pine Glen Rd, in Riverview, NB.
c.) Baby Time cards! New printed paintings of a 'sailor boy' and 'sea turtle girl' in designed cards for baby showers. Now available at Janet's Bakery & Crafts (Made with love), on Pine Glen Rd, in Riverview, NB.
d.) New canvas art prints!! New suppliers for canvas print copies have been scouted out and the top artist's picks of paintings are being printed on canvas series prints in 2024.
The first series of canvas prints with black sides and scripted side words will arrive by the end of May. (Estimate May 28). The first canvas print of "Legacy of Life ~ Robert LeBlanc (Family Birds)" with white sides, is on site at Maritime Crafts & More, at Main St, Shediac, NB, for the Vendor 93 Booth, as of May 1 open date for the Shop.
NEW ART IN PROCESS IN MAY (prints coming soon):
a.) Canvas Mosaic ~ Pointe Du Chene lighthouse, with glow in the dark back circle and windows. The design was sketched, outlined, stenciled, and transferred to canvas for paintin and cutting up into canvas shapes to glue to another canvas to complete the art piece in 'canvas mosaic' style. Final embellishing painting includes faux-marble texturizing.
(Note: Intention to have printed as Fathers' Day cards when done).
(Other note: similar design outlines printed for canvas workshops stencil collection use.)
b.) 8" x 8" canvas painting of Pointe Du Chene lighthouse with glow-in-the-dark sunset.
(In the dark the lighthouse appears in silhouette and the windows and background sky glow.) (Note: Intention to have placed at Seaside Grazing Restaurant, for sale).
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