Afterwords: Reputation

She also, I have come to realize, belongs in an important tradition in these Eastern Canadian parts. It is what I have elsewhere called the visionary tradition.

It includes work by artists like David Blackwood, Bernice Purdy, Geoff Butler, Graham Metson, Brian Porter, Taiya Barss, Arlene 'Dozay' Christmas, Terra Nova, James Shirley, Renée Forrestal, and older ones like Miller Brittain and Rockwell Kent during his Newfoundland stay.

It, too, like Colville’s work, has not been dependent on the art bureaucracy for its survival, or on a clatter of art-discourse for its appreciation.