People everywhere are finding new ways to adjust to confinement during the age of COVID-19.
Lunenburg artist Sharon Cranston,who owns Cranston Gallery with her husband Guy,a folk art sculptor, usually paints beautiful Nova Scotian landscapes but decided that the current times called for something a little different.
“Since we’ve been confined here I’ve been working in my studio but I felt like I really wanted to start a new project that involved other people. That’s how I came up with the idea of doing sketches of people in the area doing what they’re doing to get through this confinement,” she said.
She started asking people to send her pictures to work from-whether they were a nurse working on the front lines or someone simply playing video games on their couch-to see how they were coping. She began posting the finished sketches to Facebook and Instagram in hopes it would reach a lot of people and help to lift spirits.
To her delight the project has taken off and she can see in all of the responses she has been getting that there is a community connect.
“It is a feel good thing and people look forward to seeing who the next sketch will be of,” she said.
At the end of all this she hopes to put all the sketches together in a commemorative book of this time so people can remember both the good and the bad under the working title of Lunenburg Confined: COVID-19.
“Although this is a bad time I do think that some good will come of it,” she said.
Cranston will post a new sketch every morning. They can be seen on Facebook on the Sharon Fox Cranston Artist page or Cranston Gallery page.
