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Artist Spotlight – Jarrett Cranston

“I needed something to fill that void. I needed something to do.” When Jarrett Cranston was medically released from the military in 2020 due to...

Veteran perfects the art of portraiture in remembrance

Soldiers and veterans come to life through impressionist portraits in a home studio of one Bedford, N.S. artist. Retired warrant officer Gilles Boudreault says art...
Steel Spirit Artist Spotlight: Paul Seguna

Steel Spirit Artist Spotlight: Paul Seguna

After a forty-two-year military career and countless homes across the globe, Paul Seguna has always carried a notebook to draw in. Seeing Paul’s artwork is...

Visual arts help soldier with invisible injury

Master Corporal Bridget Cucksey remembers facing Cluster Suicide Headaches for the first time during a 2010 deployment to Afghanistan. “I woke up in the middle...

A life grounded in the RCAF

In the early 1950s, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan helped to establish a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) pilot training program to meet...

Orange

Nighttime. It was chaos: an organized chaos of hay trucks, tractors pulling carts, jalopies. Any motorized vehicle would suffice. They were staged and staggered...

Veteran, artist blurs the lines between art and reality 

When people see Cpl (Retired) Mary Fielder’s art, they can’t tell if it’s a photograph or painting. The former army medic’s goal is to...

Steel Spirit Gallery Artist Spotlight: Master Corporal Aydyn Neifer

By Peter Mallett, Lookout writer Sketchbook, pencils, eraser, even chalk and pens are some of the first things Master...

Army Materials Tech embarks on artistic journey

MCpl Ryan Mountenay, 38, has found a way to combine his creativity with his military trade skillset. He’s a...

The Steel Spirit Gallery Goes Virtual: featuring Elena Vlassova

The annual Steel Spirit Gallery, founded by Barbara Brown in 2017, showcases the unique artwork of Military, Police, Firefighters, Paramedics, Hospital Practitioners...