
installation shot of "Woodlands" at Gallery Page and Strange Visual Viewpoints: Tooke invites viewers to Woodlands show the Chronicle Herald, Arts and Life, September 18, 2013 - 5:41pm BY ELISSA BARNARD ARTS REPORTER I have been to Hemlock Ravine, but I have never seen it the way Halifax artist Susan Tooke does. Her woods teem in colour and line in a cheerful and exciting new show, Woodlands, at Gallery Page and Strange at 1869 Granville St. in Halifax until Sept. 27. The side of each wood panel is painted in the acrylic colour — red, or teal, or royal blue or green — that will dominate the background of each image. With eye-popping colour, outlines and a visceral energy in her lines and abstracted forms, Tooke continues to create an exalted experience of the land that she first introduced in her show, Transformation, two years ...