Art Displays

Curious about local art? We are too!

When it comes to the arts, Nova Scotia is spoiled for talent, and we're pleased to feature local art in many of our Library spaces.

From The Sunroom at Central Library to art displayed in our branches, we want to give local artists space to connect with our community and share their vision.

Current exhibits

The Sunroom at Central Library

On display December 21, 2025 to January 31, 2026

Extractions by Gerard McNeil

This series of images presents the viewer with a kind of visual dialogue between real geographies and virtual landscapes. Each landscape image has been created through a process of digitally extracting and editing elements from existing urban landscape images.

These constructed landscapes are occupied by no persons, but are open to everyone. Therein lies the challenge for the viewer of how to enter and maneuver over and through these seemingly inaccessible places.

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Alderney Gate Public Library

Information on next display coming soon.

Cole Harbour Public Library

On display January through March 2026

Art by Susan Lord Ferguson

A child and snowman. Snowy scene.

Susan, an Islander born and raised in a small rural potato farming community, had a passion for painting at an early age. She has learned to paint under the influence of various watercolour artists in PEI and NS, and with the NS College of Art and Design. Susan’s been a member of the Bluenose Decorative Artists and is with the Dartmouth Visual Arts Society.

Susan finds beauty and inspiration everywhere. Her paintings are loosely tied to the magnificent colours and textures found all around the maritime provinces – at our beaches, across our shorelines, in the flowers and fields and the people and animals who live here.

Susan seeks the peaceful side of life, lives at the seashore in the summer and strives to keep this the focus, along with her love of the Maritimes, for her authentic and relaxing artwork.

J.D. Shatford Memorial Public Library

Information on next display coming soon.

Keshen Goodman Public Library

Information on next display coming soon.

Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library

Information on next display coming soon.

Sackville Public Library

Information on next display coming soon.

Tantallon Public Library

On display January 2026

Photography by Les Humphrey

Photograph of snowy, tree covered road.

Photography has been a constant, lifelong involvement and hobby for Les, as well as a professional aid throughout his 60-year career in architecture and urban planning. As a teenager, Les used a makeshift, black-and-white darkroom at home, with an old inherited enlarger, developing his own film and prints for years before transitioning to the digital world. Located for many decades in Western Canada and now retired and living in Nova Scotia, photography has been an ever-present companion, helping to illustrate and share his personal views of life and the world around him.

Les’s compositions range from portraits to expansive landscapes, to long distant views, invariably dominated by a fascination and homage to the ever-changing effects of natural light, the sky and environment around us. Through his appreciation of photography, he enables memories to be re-experienced and become indelibly imprinted with the details and impressions of moments in time.