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Event in Room: Chapel Gallery
This new body of work by Nova Scotia artist Charlotte Wilson-Hammond began with an accident.
Nearly two years ago, Wilson-Hammond tripped while dusting her sunroom, broke her hip, and spent almost three weeks in hospital and rehabilitation.
From a bed beside a window, she began photographing her plastic water glass—at night, in daylight, as the hours passed and meaning gathered. That humble object became the seed of this series.
Working from photographs printed at very low colour saturation on Hahnemühle digital paper, Wilson-Hammond applied coloured pencil by hand, building layers of tone and warmth back into images she had deliberately drained. As the series developed, she introduced other glasses, half full, holding flowers—images she describes simply as joyful.
“The time in hospital was something of a creative epiphany for me,” Wilson-Hammond says. “I am not sure why, except that perhaps it was a mechanism to keep me sane, and it was quite extraordinary.” At 84, she is candid about what drives the work: an acute awareness of body and mind changing, of navigating life’s uncertainties, and of holding onto the conviction that the glass will remain half full.
Charlotte’s work asks serious questions through images of quiet beauty. That combination, rigour and warmth together, gives form to something we don’t always have words for.
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"Glass ½ Full" opening reception Saturday, August 1, from 12 to 2 p.m. Light refreshments will be served, all are welcome.
Exhibition continues through September 5, 2026.
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About the Artist:
Charlotte Wilson-Hammond has spent four decades as one of Nova Scotia’s most committed arts advocates, with major exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Craig Gallery, and ARTSPLACE Gallery itself. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts in 2006. Her previous series "On the Verge" and "In/Visible" established her as an artist who meets large subjects with formal precision -- the latter was a Lieutenant Governor’s Masterworks Award finalist.
~ www.charlottewilsonhammond.net
[email protected]
902.532.7069
Event in Room: Chapel Gallery
This new body of work by Nova Scotia artist Charlotte Wilson-Hammond began with an accident.
Nearly two years ago, Wilson-Hammond tripped while dusting her sunroom, broke her hip, and spent almost three weeks in hospital and rehabilitation.
From a bed beside a window, she began photographing her plastic water glass—at night, in daylight, as the hours passed and meaning gathered. That humble object became the seed of this series.
Working from photographs printed at very low colour saturation on Hahnemühle digital paper, Wilson-Hammond applied coloured pencil by hand, building layers of tone and warmth back into images she had deliberately drained. As the series developed, she introduced other glasses, half full, holding flowers—images she describes simply as joyful.
“The time in hospital was something of a creative epiphany for me,” Wilson-Hammond says. “I am not sure why, except that perhaps it was a mechanism to keep me sane, and it was quite extraordinary.” At 84, she is candid about what drives the work: an acute awareness of body and mind changing, of navigating life’s uncertainties, and of holding onto the conviction that the glass will remain half full.
Charlotte’s work asks serious questions through images of quiet beauty. That combination, rigour and warmth together, gives form to something we don’t always have words for.
______________
"Glass ½ Full" opening reception Saturday, August 1, from 12 to 2 p.m. Light refreshments will be served, all are welcome.
Exhibition continues through September 5, 2026.
______________
About the Artist:
Charlotte Wilson-Hammond has spent four decades as one of Nova Scotia’s most committed arts advocates, with major exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Craig Gallery, and ARTSPLACE Gallery itself. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts in 2006. Her previous series "On the Verge" and "In/Visible" established her as an artist who meets large subjects with formal precision -- the latter was a Lieutenant Governor’s Masterworks Award finalist.
~ www.charlottewilsonhammond.net
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