This website showcases some of Justine Kerr's work.
Justine Kerr is a Scottish artist living and working in Nova Scotia, Canada. She works in stone and mixed media drawings and paintings . She studied Fine Art at the University of Dundee, specializing in sculpture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, completing her degree in 1998 with two children in tow. Justine chose to attend NSCAD in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on an exchange programme in 1994 where she stayed and blossomed for two semesters. This experience was to have a profound impact on the young artist as it was where she met her first husband and also where she first carved Italian marble. Justine was in utopia and found her true calling in life as a stone carver and painter.
She loves the contrast of making paintings with hard stone carving. She finds that they create an equilibrium: painting is less intense, faster, more immediate and lighter while, in contrast, working the stone has a more meditative quality; it is slower, much more physically demanding and therefore more intense.
The Nova Scotia Art Bank purchased her art work for its collection in 2006, 2008 and 2009 (see News).
Justine Kerr is a Scottish artist living and working in Nova Scotia, Canada. She works in stone and mixed media drawings and paintings . She studied Fine Art at the University of Dundee, specializing in sculpture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, completing her degree in 1998 with two children in tow. Justine chose to attend NSCAD in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on an exchange programme in 1994 where she stayed and blossomed for two semesters. This experience was to have a profound impact on the young artist as it was where she met her first husband and also where she first carved Italian marble. Justine was in utopia and found her true calling in life as a stone carver and painter.
She loves the contrast of making paintings with hard stone carving. She finds that they create an equilibrium: painting is less intense, faster, more immediate and lighter while, in contrast, working the stone has a more meditative quality; it is slower, much more physically demanding and therefore more intense.
The Nova Scotia Art Bank purchased her art work for its collection in 2006, 2008 and 2009 (see News).
