NS Halifax, Canada 🇨🇦 - A Must-Visit Art Gallery for Art Lovers 🎨😍

I went to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and got to see the works of Maud Lewis, a Canadian folk artist, in the first-floor exhibition hall. I'd watched her biopic a long time ago, and never thought I'd get to live in this province and see her works in person one day. 🎬😲 Maud Lewis was born in 1903 in Ohio, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada, and passed away in 1970 in Marshalltown. She is one of Canada's most famous and beloved folk artists. 👩‍🎨💖 During her childhood, Maud contracted polio, which severely deformed her arms and hands. After her parents died when she still needed care, she moved to Digby to live with her aunt. Despite a difficult childhood, Maud maintained an optimistic attitude, a love for life, and showed a resilient personality. 👧😔 At the age of eighteen, Maud married Everett Lewis. The couple lived in poverty, in a tiny shack that was only 10×12 feet. Soon after their marriage, Maud started selling fish with Everett and also sold her hand-painted Christmas cards for 25 cents each. As these cards gained popularity, she began painting on more diverse surfaces like wooden boards and cookie tins. Eventually, their shack was almost entirely covered with her paintings. Everett was very supportive of Maud's painting career and bought her her first set of oil paints. 🐟🎨💰 Maud's paintings are usually small in size. She would first sketch out the outlines and then squeeze colors directly from the paint tubes, never mixing them. Between 1945 and 1950, tourists started coming to buy her works. Initially, they were sold for just 2 to 3 dollars, but the prices gradually rose to 7 dollars and then 10 dollars. 🖌️💸 Despite suffering from illness and poverty throughout her life, Maud persisted in creating art, using her unique, childlike style to document the rural scenery of Nova Scotia. Today, her works are highly regarded, and her shack has been perfectly preserved and displayed at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, becoming an important symbol of Canadian folk art. 🏡🎉 #Canada #Halifax #LifeinCanada 🍁😎