Bob Hainstock

Bob Hainstock has worked in Atlantic Canada and Western Canada as an artist and journalist for more than three decades. He is a full time print maker and painter and part time art instructor at Acadia University, Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, and various workshops throughout the Atlantic region. His work frequently explores the increasing contrasts and frictions between a shrinking rural culture and the swelling urban cultures, and between natural and man-made environments. His studio and home are located almost 600 feet above Atlantic Canada's beautiful Annapolis Valley; giving a unique perspective to economic and social patterns that form important elements within his visual and written work.

Bob Hainstock is an award-winning author and illustrator of a best-selling book on Western Canada's rural architectural heritage. He spent more than two decades in daily and provincial newspapers writing about rural politics,economics and culture. His current studio practices include a full range of painting and printmaking techniques, as well as mixed media and sculpture from natural materials, and several experimental processes, including collagraph prints from rusting metal and hand made papers from nearby Fundy seaweed. He is represented in galleries across Canada, and in various national and international collections.