Patsy MacKinnon Fine Art

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All illustrations are created using professional quality paints ( watercolour,gouache or acrylic) on archival watercolour paper.

October 2019- "1,000 Words Exhibition- Teichert Gallery,Halifax,NS

2018,2016-CANSCAIP National Illustration Exhibition-Canadian School of Contemporary Art,Toronto.

Summer 2018-CANSCAIP National Illustration Exhibition-Richmond Hill Heritage Centre, Richmond Hill, Ontario

November 2018-Canscaip "Packaging Your Imagination" National Conference, Toronto.

2 of my illustrations from "The King Of Keji" (Nimbus Publ.) selected for all three exhibitions..

"Nova Scotia's 150 Books Of Influence" (2017) has listed two children's books with my illustrations "Evangeline" and "King Of Keji".

Original illustrations are available for sale,please inquire as to availability:

Books containing my illustrations are available online at: nimbus.ca or Amazon

Also available at - Chapters/Indigo Bookstores

-The Cape Breton Curiousity Shop, Charlotte Street,Sydney

Cover illustration

"The King Of Keji"

Author Jan L Coates

Illustration Patsy MacKinnon

Nimbus Publishing 2015

*The Canadian Children's Book Centre listed "The King Of Keji"as one of the best picturebooks of 2015

"Evangeline"

"Evangeline"

Author Helene Boudreau

Illustration Patsy MacKinnon

Nimbus Publishing 2013

"Evangeline"

"Evangeline" preliminary scetch

"Evangeline"

"Evangeline"preliminary scetch

      'A Day With You In Paradise' *
       Written by Lennie Gallant
      Illustrated by Patsy MacKinnon
        Nimbus Publishing 2011

*2012-Atlantic Book Award nominee for the Lillian Sheppard Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration

"The Voyage Of Wood Duck"*

author Maxine Trottier

illustration Patsy MacKinnon

Cape Breton University Press 1995

* National nominee for the 1996 Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon Medal For Illustration.

The voyage Of Wood Duck

"The Voyage Of Wood Duck" 1995

"Heartsong" 1997

Heartsong

"Heartsong"

Author Maxine Trottier

Illustration Patsy MacKinnon

Cape Breton University Press 1997

"Heartsong" 1997

Cover Illustration

Cover illustration

Cover illustration

Nominations

2012-Atlantic Book Award nominee for the Lillian Sheppard Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration- "A Day With You In Paradise" Nimbus Publishing.

1996-National nominee for the Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon Illustration Medal-"The Voyage Of Wood Duck" UCCB Press

Published Illustration work

The King Of Keji written by Jan L Coates

Nimbus Publishing 2015

Evangeline written by Helene Boudreau

Nimbus Publishing 2013

Trapper Boy written by Hugh MacDonald

Cape Breton University Press 2012 (cover art)

A Day With You In Paradise written by Lennie Gallant
Nimbus Publishing,Halifax 2011

Follow The Path,the MacCallum House written by Jim St.Clair
Cape Breton University Press 1999 (spot illustrations)

McCurdy and the Silver Dart written by Les Harding
Cape Breton University Press,1998 and 2014 (cover art)

Heartsong written by Maxine Trottier
Cape Breton University Press,1997

The Voyage Of Wood Duck written by Maxine Trottier
Cape Breton University Press,1995

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