David McKay: An Artist’s Perspective

80 pages, full colour, 8.5 x 8.5 in.

ISBN 978-1-927054-55-0 C$35.00 2023

One of New Brunswick’s best-loved painters, David McKay, RCA, SCA, grew up on the north side of the Wolastoq-St John River, in Barker’s Point, now part of Fredericton, and spent summers in rural Prince William. A self-taught artist, he finds inspiration in the land and its people and how memory reshapes our experience of the places we live. In a career spanning over half a century, his work has been included in over one hundred exhibitions in Canada and abroad and can be found in many permanent collections throughout the country.

David McKay: An Artist’s Perspective features a selection of McKay’s works in egg tempera, watercolour, and pencil, a foreword by Governor General’s and Giller Award-winning author and member of the Senate of Canada, David Adams Richards, CM, ONB, and an essay by veteran art curator Peter Buckland. It also includes an extended interview with the artist by St. Thomas University fine art students. 

“David McKay has lived here all his life, and for fifty years has been creating paintings about this region he knows so well. We find in his work a steadfast sense of place. His paintings speak of the abiding relationship that can exist between a people and the land. His knowledge of this place and its stories gift us with paintings that are both particular and universal.” –Peter Buckland