Wayne is the receipient of the 2006 Nova Scotia Portia White Award for excellence, innovation, and expression in the arts.
Wayne Boucher studied at the Banff Centre, Alberta, and at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1975. The following year he moved to Graywood, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia where he continues his painting practice at his studio in Parker’s Cove.
Boucher’s solo professional exhibition record spans the past three past decades. A major exhibition "Radiance and Counterpoint" curated by Peter Dykhuis was at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Gallery 1 to October 22, 2006 and at the Western Branch of the AGNS in Yarmouth from October 29 to January 5 2007.
The recipient of numerous grants from provincial and federal agencies including a Canada Council Established Artist Grant in 2001, other key professional successes include winning the 2004 juried competition to execute the mural entitled Réveil for the new Interpretation Centre at Grand-Pré National National Historic Site that marks the 18th Century Acadian Deportation.
Boucher became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy in 2002. Other active memberships include the Canadian Artists Representation, Visual Arts Nova Scotia and Arms Length Funding for the Arts. Boucher is a founding member and past chair of the Annapolis Region Community Arts Council and presently on the Exhibitions Committee of the artist-run centre ARTsPLACE as well as the Adisory/Selection Committee, Artist in Residence Program, Memory Clinic, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, in Halifax.
your use of light appears to have been produced with such delicacy, it's as if one just blew the paint into a new place of being and living. This work speaks clearly of a progenitor, of a bloodline. Thanks for sharing your inner world.....
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