“[Expecting twins,] a period I thought would be marked by the world still busily turning around me, while I slowed down, stepped off the treadmill, and took refuge at home, hopeful and waiting, now looks like most people’s realities. We all wait now.”
Read More The Unquieted Quarantine Mind and BodyThe spring 2018 issue of Maisonneuve magazine includes my story called “Letters from Pop.” In this reported feature, I explore a legacy of low adult literacy in my home province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL). There, people traditionally learned their skills on the land and the sea more so than in the formal classroom. For […]
Read More IF POP COULD READ THIS NOW: LITERACY LESSONS FOR NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADORDr. Jeff A. Webb is a professor in the Department of History at Memorial University and author of Observing the Outports: Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980. I interviewed Dr. Webb for the January 2018 issue of Downhome Magazine (see “Abandoned Architecture As Art: Newfoundland Resettlement In Photographs”). This is our full edited interview. Q. What were […]
Read More Relocating Newfoundland OutportsMy latest landscape painting took me to the Hamlet of Pangnirtung | ᕼᐋᒻᒪᓚᒃᑯᓐᓄ ᐸᖕᓂᕐᑑᒥ (in Inuktitut). Pangnirtung is located on Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada, some 300km northeast of Iqaluit, the territory’s capital. I’ve never set foot there. The photo inspiration for this piece was taken by a friend and colleague who travelled throughout Canada’s youngest territory […]
Read More Pangnirtung, Nunavut: A Painted Landscape Scene in the Canadian ArcticI picked up my paintbrush a few years ago and just went for it. With my acrylic paints in hand and a collection of gallery-wrapped canvases, I began to paint. The results were not what I was anticipating. I seemingly could not achieve the images I had in my head. But there were a couple of […]
Read More Painting Landscapes: Creating what I see
Jenn Thornhill Verma 