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The Shore Line Gallery at South Shore Regional Hospital features multimedia works by “local to Nova Scotia” artists. One stop shopping, while supporting local.

The Shore Line Galleries are a fundraising arm of the South Shore Regional Hospital Auxiliary.

10/07/2026

What an incredible afternoon celebrating the grand opening of the brand-new Emergency Department at South Shore Regional Hospital in Bridgewater!

I was proud to attend alongside Alison Reynolds, past SSRHA president and current The Daisy convenor, as we marked this major milestone for our community.

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston was on hand to help open the new space, which will deliver better, more modern emergency care for patients and families across the South Shore.

We’re especially proud that the South Shore Regional Hospital Auxiliary (SSRHA) contributed $1,000,000 toward the campaign that helped make this redevelopment possible. Our commitment doesn’t end there as we continue to provide ongoing support whenever the hospital identifies new needs.

Even more exciting news: the new dialysis unit is expected to open in about a week, with the endoscopy unit following shortly after.

Congratulations to everyone who worked so hard to bring this day to life. The new ED is a huge win for our region!

09/18/2026

Glass works at the Shore Line Gallery this month.

It is a treat to find sea glass when you are out walking along the beach. A small piece of coloured glass, worn smooth by the action of the waves.

Several artists take the beauty and romance of sea glass and turn it into pictures. Instead of the waves though, they probably use a rock tumbler to produce the frosted fragments in their artwork.

Lynn M. Slack, Carol Kift and Mary Wagner use these sea glass look-alikes to create their pictures.

In “Purple Day” Kift uses frosted clear glass to mimic the flowerheads of St Anne’s Lace. The pedicels and stalks are drawn in black ink against a pale lavender background.

Slack’s method is slightly different. The glass pieces are fused together to form the shapes and colours in her work. She also uses “found” objects in her art like the sand dollar in “Susan’s Sandpipers”, which doubles as the sun. The sand is fragments of black, brown and orange glass, the sea a painted wavy blue line.

Wagner uses both glass pieces and other objects in her work. In “The Real Bosses” pieces of brown glass are arranged to look like a dog and cat. They sit beside a picnic table made up of three sticks. A barbecue (?) on the table has a plume of smoke coming out of it. It is a piece of dried seaweed.

These artists have several works in the show. They are on the small side, but they share more than just size. They are whimsical and witty. It is hard not to smile at these clever creations that use the simplest means to tell a story.

Janet Thompson is another artist in the show who uses glass. Her approach is quite different, more painterly. Thompson uses bands of coloured glass melted and then woven into a gridlike structure, almost like cloth. The bands are thick and bumpy, making it three dimensional. If there is a story it comes from her titles and your imagination. The work pictured here is “Sea Glass”. The blues, greens and white capture the colours of the ocean. The weaving in and out of the glass bands mirrors the restlessness of the sea.

09/08/2026

A painting of a pair of shoes on the doorstep. Left there
because they are wet, perhaps. There is an area of brown paint
to one side of the shoes that might indicate water. It could be
shadow as well, although it looks larger than the shoes would
cast. There is a small swipe of dark brown paint near the
midsole that looks more like an actual shadow, and
something like a highlight in the brown area, which could be a
reflection on water. So, wet boots that have been left to dry.

The title of this painting by 𝐉𝐨𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐨𝐧 is “𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒔”. It is easy to
understand her decision to paint them. They have character,
maybe a favourite pair of footwear because they
look well worn. Great for tramping around the woods looking at
the birds and other wildlife Morton likes to paint. They appear
to be made of leather or suede. The fastening for them is
difficult to make out, not laces but some kind of tabs or buckles.
Also, they do not look like shoes, more like boots, the kind you
wear for hiking.

There is a curious object in the right-hand foreground. The
upper part looks like glass. It is transparent, and the top is
circular like the rim of a glass. Halfway down though, Morton
has painted some thin white lines that bend at the bottom like
they are made of metal or wire. They do not seem to be part of
the “glass”, but appear as hazy reflections in it.

In the background is the lower section of a metal door and
shingles painted in pale greys. The glass panel in the door is a
dark grey rectangle, preventing a view of the interior. The
shoes have been left on the deck, taken off before the wearer
went inside. The browns and ochre of the deck and shoes
contrast with the cool colours of the door and shingles.

Although the shoes take up only a small portion of the work, off
centre in the lower third of the painting, nevertheless they are
the focus of the work. Humble footwear in a starring role.
This is a small painting, only 6 1⁄2 in by 4 3⁄4 ins (16.5 cm by 12
cm), but there's a lot going on in it.

09/03/2026

The last few nights have been floodlit by a bright full moon,
the kind of moon featured in two works at the Shore Line
Gallery’s latest show.

One is by Teddy Sologuk called “Moonlight Ripples”. In it
the moon shines out of a dark sky onto the ocean, catching
the tops of waves. There is a feeling of turbulence and
motion.

The second painting is quieter. It is by Michael Hatcher and
is called “Moonlight Reflections”. The moon is mirrored
perfectly on calm water by the shore. The entire scene is
bathed in the moon’s subdued light.

In Sologuk’s work, our viewpoint is from the shore looking
out to the sea. There is only the sky, the moon and the
restless waves.

Hatcher takes the opposite view, looking from the water
towards the shore. Snow glows softly on the rocks by the
shore. Woodlands crowd the shore, dark then fading to
blue grey where the trees meet the sky. The moonlight
shines onto a still landscape.

Hatcher’s painting is hung near the beginning of the display.
Sologuk’s is one of the last at the end of the hallway. There
are lots of artworks between them. Next week, a look at
some of them.

08/25/2026

The Shore Line Gallery-South Shore Regional Hospital this week-note location!

Gary Selig has new works on display at the Bridgewater and
Area Family Health Clinic. He’s a local artist inspired by the natural world around him, in particular landscape and water scenes.

Two of the paintings at the clinic include water, “High Noon on the LaHave” and “Ubiquitous Shoreline, Nova Scotia”.

“High Noon on the LaHave” captures a fleeting moment on the
river. In it, the sun is reflected in the narrow gap between the bank and some nearby iceflows. It will not be long before the reflection disappears as the sun moves overhead.

The title of the second water painting “Ubiquitous Shoreline,
Nova Scotia”, says it all. This is a painting of the kind of shoreline you can see anywhere in the province.

The comforting familiarity of the rocks, water and a distant wooded
shoreline painted in muted colours, makes the scene feel eternal.

Selig has three other paintings in this show. A painting of a young woman’s face, a Mexican streetscene, and a still-life
reminiscent of vanitas paintings that deal with themes of death.
It is called “Bleak Mid Winter”, and shows a vase of dried
leaves, pieces of an antler and part of an animal skin. Dark
colours and the subject matter make this an introspective
painting for the viewer.

Gary Selig’s work will remain at the clinic until mid October.
The clinic is located at 32 Glen Allen Drive in Bridgewater.

08/10/2026

New artwork at the Shore Line Gallery to browse as you walk the main hallway at the South Shore Regional Hospital.

In keeping with our hot weather and drought-like conditions, Charlene Morton's "Sun dried orchard" features fruit trees in a sun-baked landscape.

Clouds pepper the blue sky above. An art photograph which could double as a watercolour, the colours in this work have a similar transparency.

Eric Amoah has exhibited his photographs at the Shore Line Gallery before. His latest is "Golden Hour", a large work showing a wave rolling gently onto the beach.

The sun is setting over a calm sea. "Golden Hour" is a metal print, a process that fuses an image onto a specially treated metal plate. It gives a luminous, high definition effect which is well suited to this work.

High definition is a characteristic of Greg Van De Moortele's painting style, which also features intense colours. Both can be seen in his "St Martin's and Middle LaHave".

In this work, the sky is a florid pink which is reflected in the river below. St Martins in the centre of the painting is surrounded by this amazing colour.

Ivan Carey is another artist inspired by the landscape of the South Shore. He has several paintings in the show, including one called "Stonehurst, Comforts of Home".

It shows a fish shack on an inlet with lobster traps and a blue dory on the ground in front of the building. The details appear precisely rendered but you see them because of the clear, pellucid light that Carey has captured in this painting.

A solitary figure wandering on a misty coastline is the subject of Lezlie Morgan's "Beachcomber". Morgan is a skillful watercolourist able to suggest a quiet ocean with white space and a few hints of waves.

Her beachcomber leaves a trail of reflections on the wet sand. The muted colours and fine brushwork give a sense of peace and coolness.

These artworks are on display now at the Shore Line Gallery. Next week, more artists worth a visit to the Shore Line Gallery.

07/29/2026

A few extra special items in The Daisy today!

First we have a selection of vintage horse brass, $5 each!! Will not last long!

Second are two gorgeous hand carved soap stone pieces. One is a bird signed on the bottom!

Last but not least is a miniature wooden cuckoo clock priced at $50. Selling this as is but they retail $175+!

07/22/2026

Today at The Daisy! More new items going out today for our Christmas in July special!

Check out this pristine vintage snowman blow mold for $75! And the adorable vintage Talking Christmas Tree complete with box for only $35!

As always, these items sell fast and there are no holds so get down fast if you see something you like.

07/05/2026

At the Shore Line Gallery this month, an assortment of styles and approaches to art, highlighting the creativity to be found on the South Shore.

It is probably safe to say that Charles Weiss likes fishing, or
perhaps, fish. He has four works featuring individual fish
species. Like “Largemouth Bass” shown here, they are wood carvings painted to resemble the actual fish.

Paul Newton and Charlene Morton are fine art photographers, transforming a scene captured by a camera into something else. Morton’s is a moody blue shot of a
boat that seems abandoned on the shore. It is called “The Ottawa in Blue Rocks”.

Paul Newton has several works in
this show, including “Brown’s Branch Brook”. Golden light pulls the viewer out onto the river into the distant haze.

Ivan Carey is a regular exhibitor at Shore Line. “Forever Blomidon” is one of his latest acrylics. It shows the cape in the distance, with the ocean, farmland and trees forming
horizontal layers pierced by the vertical of a church spire. The air feels fresh and clear.

Lezlie Morgan uses watercolours for her paintings, and often she features people in them. “Monday Morning” harks back to the days when Mondays were wash days. A
woman is hanging out washing to dry. Transparent washes of colour capture the sheets blowing in the breeze, and the pines in the background.

Madeleine DeWolfe’s “Moonscapes” is an abstract. Softly coloured acrylics look almost smudged onto the picture surface. Circular shapes suggest the different phases of the moon. Gentle and luminous, the painting has a feeling of peace.

This is a description of just some of the works on exhibit at the Shore Line Gallery this month. There are other photographers, painters and sculptural works to see as well.

It is well worth checking out the complete show at the South Shore Regional Hospital.

07/03/2026

At The Daisy, a time machine from an earlier era. A wind up phonograph, complete with spare needles and many old 78's, is for sale.

It comes in a beautiful wooden cabinet and is in full working condition, which means you turn a handle to get it up to speed.

This one of a kind antique is $125.

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