Boarpoint Art

Two new Acrylic paintings the oval is 18x24 tha seascape is 18x48 both on a wooden panel

Depicts a little area on a neighbour’s garden that was a favourite place for kids to skate and play hockey

This is an oil painting 18x24 inches . It represents what it might have looked with small work boats and schooners moored and tied up in the harbour of Heart's Delight about 60 years ago.

This is a 18x24 oil painting of and old shed in Heart's Delight- Islington , Trinity Bay.

In days gone by there were sawmills like this in almost every small town in newfoundland. these are oil paintings , 16x20 inches . one represents a mill that used to be on the Main brook in Heart's Delight . the other one no. 2 may have been a mill belong to a Vey family on the river In Long Beach , Trinity Bay.

Edwin Bishop is a snowshoe maker, boat builder, painter, author and retired teacher from Heart’s Delight-Islington. What started as a skill needed to repair his... own snowshoes has become a pastime he really enjoys. Presented in partnership with The Rooms, folklorist Dale Jarvis interviews Edwin about the process of making traditional wooden snowshoes, steaming and bending the wood by hand and tying intricate knots. Recorded via Zoom for The Rooms, December 3, 2020.