Joy Laking

Laking was born in 1950 in Owen Sound, Ontario, to an artistic family. Her mother was a professional painter, and her father crafted marionettes and toy trains. As a child, Laking frequently accompanied her mother on trips to the Georgian Bay to paint the scenery of the area. While enjoying these trips, she initially felt inadequate due to the difference in quality between her artwork and her mother's.{{sfnmp|Robert Pope Foundation|2011|1p=26}} Laking attended secondary school at Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute until graduating in 1969, predicting in a Grade 8 writing assignment that she would be making a living as an artist within ten years.{{sfnmp|The Sun Times|1996a|The Sun Times|1996b}} She graduated from the University of Guelph with a Bachelor of Arts in 1972, marrying the same year, and subsequently moving to Nova Scotia with her husband.{{sfnmp|Robert Pope Foundation|2011|1pp=29–30|Visual Arts Nova Scotia|2014}} Around the time she graduated, her mother died of breast cancer, which would have a profound impact on her artistic career as her mother inspired her to become an artist.{{sfnmp|Robert Pope Foundation|2011|1pp=25–26|PNI Atlantic News|2014a}}

Between 1980 and 1985, Laking and her husband had three children: Kelsey, Danica, and Yolande.{{sfnmp|Robert Pope Foundation|2011|1p=30}}

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Following her move to Nova Scotia in 1972, Laking settled in Bass River and began her art career.{{sfnmp|Robert Pope Foundation|2011|1p=30}} In the early 1980s, she illustrated two children's books: The Brook and the Woodcutter and The Man Who Couldn't Stop Sneezing. While she enjoyed the illustration work, she considered the payment to be inadequate, and had to seek other opportunities. She subsequently released a set of calendars featuring her paintings.{{sfnmp|Robert Pope Foundation|2011|1p=33}} Laking went on to hold her first solo exhibition titled Flowers of Nova Scotia at the Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery in 1982 and she began to earn a national reputation.{{sfnmp|The Sun Times|1986|The Griffin|2015}} In 1984, her work was chosen to be featured on the cover of the MTT provincial phone book,{{sfnmp|PNI Atlantic News|2016a}} and 50 of her watercolour paintings were put on display at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ontario.{{sfnmp|The Hamilton Spectator|1984}} In 1985, Laking held her first New Brunswick solo exhibition at the Owens Art Gallery at Mount Allison University.{{sfnmp|The Times-Transcript|1985}} In the late 1980s, Laking and her husband built the Joy Laking Gallery at their Portapique home to display her work,{{sfnmp|Robert Pope Foundation|2011|1pp=34}} opening the gallery in 1988.{{sfnmp|The Sun Times|1988}} Her paintings have also been sold at private galleries in Halifax and Hamilton, Ontario. Between 1982 and 1992, Laking participated in six group exhibitions and held nine solo exhibitions,{{sfnmp|Robert Pope Foundation|2011|1pp=34–37}} including a 40-piece watercolour exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 1989, followed by a regional tour until May 1990.{{sfnmp|The Sun Times|1989|Joy Laking CV|2024}} A collection of her paintings featuring summer and winter scenes was displayed at the Royal Botanical Gardens in 1990.{{sfnmp|The Hamilton Spectator|1990}}

In 2006, a painting of a pink grapefruit by Laking was chosen to be featured on a postage stamp, as part of a campaign to raise funds for the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.{{sfnmp|The Gazette|2006}} In 2007, after overcoming a serious health issue and inspired by travelling, Laking underwent what she referred to as an "explosion of creativity", branching out into other mediums such as photography, rug hooking, and wool dyeing. Laking held a dual exhibition with Laurie Gunn in Truro in January 2007 consisting entirely of photography.{{sfnmp|Robert Pope Foundation|2011|1p=40}}

In 2013, Laking was the community artist at the White Rabbit Arts Festival in Upper Economy and celebrated 25 years of annual open houses in autumn at the Joy Laking Gallery.{{sfnmp|Truro Daily News|2013a}} In 2016, Laking was named artist-in-residence at the Port Bickerton Lighthouse.{{sfnmp|PNI Atlantic News|2016b}} In 2017, Laking travelled throughout Europe and was given the opportunity to paint in the gardens of Claude Monet.{{sfnmp|CTV News|2017}} In 2021, Laking's work was featured in two exhibitions at the Fraser Art Gallery in Tatamagouche.{{sfnmp|PNI Atlantic News|2021}}

In April 2020, Laking was deeply affected by the 2020 Nova Scotia attacks, a mass shooting that began close to her home in Portapique. The attacks claimed the lives of 22 people, including three of her friends. The impact of the shootings would affect Laking's career for some time, with her telling Global News in 2021: "After the tragedy, I couldn't see beauty anywhere. (I couldn't paint.) I didn't want to go out in the woods and sit". The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these stressors. She later began spending five hours per day in her studio as a method of coping.{{sfnmp|Global News|2021}} On 2 April 2022, nearly two years following the attacks, Laking published a poem on her Facebook page titled Our Portaupique,{{efn|CTV News reports the title of the poem as Our Portpique. The text of the Facebook post refers to the poem as Our Portaupique.{{sfnmp|CTV News|2022|Joy Laking: Our Portaupique|2022}}}} further reflecting on the changes to the community in the wake of the attacks.{{sfnmp|CTV News|2022|Joy Laking: Our Portaupique|2022}}

Laking's work is characterized by representational realism, with a focus on plein air paintings which capture the landscapes of Nova Scotia, particularly in the Bay of Fundy region. She is self-taught in watercolour painting, and is primarily known as a watercolourist; she also uses oils and acrylics. Laking's style is influenced by her travels to countries such as India, Ghana, Italy, and Portugal, informing her distinctive portrayals of Nova Scotian scenes.{{sfnmp|Splash Magazines|2022|Visual Arts Nova Scotia|2014}} She names Emily Carr as inspiration for her work.{{sfnmp|PNI Atlantic News|2014a}}

Invisible Prisons, a play by Laking, premiered on 8 March 2013 at the Marigold Cultural Centre in Truro. The play originated from a project in which Laking interviewed 35 victims of domestic abuse, creating 14 monologues. The monologues were well-received at a Women's Motivational Luncheon and Laking created the play as a method of further sharing the project. On 17 January 2013, Laking made a presentation to the Colchester County Municipal Council requesting financial support in the production of the play. Council voted unanimously to grant her request.{{sfnmp|Council Committee|2013}} The premiere of Invisible Prisons was produced by Lenore Zann with a cast from the Truro Theatre Society, with Bryden MacDonald revising the script and directing the cast.{{sfnmp|The Shoreline Journal|2013|Truro Daily News|2013b}} The play has also been performed by the Amherst Comedy Troupe Theatre Group in Amherst in 2014{{sfnmp|PNI Atlantic News|2014b}} and the Osler Society Medicine in Theatre Group at the Zucker School of Medicine in 2020.{{sfnmp|Zucker School of Medicine|2020}}

In 2019, Laking published her first children's fiction book, Colours in Winter. The book was written and illustrated by Laking over 35 years prior to publishing. After sending a copy of the book to Pottersfield Press, a Nova Scotia-based publisher, they agreed to publish it following some alterations to the original work. The 36-page book follows a young girl who expresses disappointment in the lack of colour in the wintertime, wishing for other seasons to come. Colourful snowflakes begin to fall, at first to the delight of the girl, before she begins to feel there is now an overabundance of colour. When the snowflakes return to normal, the girl begins to notice the various colours in nature around her, such as rose hips, birds, and evergreens.{{sfnmp|PNI Atlantic News|2019}}

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In 2020, Laking published The Painted Province, a book featuring 200 of her paintings from 40 locations in Nova Scotia. In an interview with Fran Zell of Splash Magazines, Laking explained her intentions with the book, stating: "I didn't want it to be a coffee table book, so I made it so it would fit in a glove compartment and included GPS coordinates for each location. I thought, if families kept it in their glove compartment, they could say to their kids, 'Joy painted here. Let's go see the spot.{{' "}}{{sfnmp|Splash Magazines|2022}} The book was received positively by Lana Shupe of The Miramichi Reader,{{sfnmp|The Miramichi Reader|2020}} and Elissa Barnard of Billie.{{sfnmp|Billie|2020}}

• {{cite book |last=Laking |first=Joy |year=2019 |title=Colours in Winter |publisher=Pottersfield Press |isbn=978-1-9882-8694-5 |oclc=1099800876 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book |last=Laking |first=Joy |year=2020 |title=The Painted Province |publisher=Pottersfield Press |isbn=978-1-9897-2525-2 |oclc=1159035105 |ref=none}}

Laking was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012, receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cobequid Arts Council the same year.{{sfnmp|Splash Magazines|2022|Visual Arts Nova Scotia|2014}}

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• {{cite web |date=14 January 2024 |title=Joy Laking – January Featured Artist |url=https://visualarts.ns.ca/joy-laking-january-featured-artist/ |publisher=Visual Arts Nova Scotia |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250118044152/https://visualarts.ns.ca/joy-laking-january-featured-artist/ |archive-date=18 January 2025 |access-date=1 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|Visual Arts Nova Scotia|2014}}}}

• {{cite web |date=15 November 2024 |title=Laking, Joy |url=https://pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_av-artist_detail_adv.app?rID=22921 |publisher=National Gallery of Canada |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250420122539/https://pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_av-artist_detail_adv.app?rID=22921 |archive-date=20 April 2025 |access-date=20 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|National Gallery of Canada|2024}}}}

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• {{cite web | last=Laking | first=Joy | title=Our Portaupique | date=2 April 2022 | url=https://www.facebook.com/100003787664222/posts/2523098391159725/?d=n | access-date=18 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|Joy Laking: Our Portaupique2022}} |via=Facebook}}

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• {{cite news |last=Mahoney |first=Jeff |date=19 November 1990 |title=Joy paints for season |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-hamilton-spectator-joy-paints-for-se/173273558/ |location=Hamilton, ON |work=The Hamilton Spectator |access-date=18 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|The Hamilton Spectator|1990}} |via=Newspapers.com}}

• {{cite news |last=Henry |first=Bill |date=17 May 1996 |title=Drawn to success: Acclaimed artist shows work for OSCVI reunion |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sun-times-drawn-to-success/173273604/ |location=Owen Sound, ON |work=The Sun Times |access-date=19 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|The Sun Times|1996a}} |via=Newspapers.com}}

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• {{cite news |last=Schwartz |first=Susan |date=8 January 2006 |title=Sisters do their part to stamp out breast cancer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-sisters-do-their-part-to-sta/173273691/ |location=Montreal, QC |work=The Gazette |access-date=19 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|The Gazette|2006}} |via=Newspapers.com}}

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• {{cite news |date=19 October 2013 |title=Portapique artist celebrating 25 years of autumn open houses |url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/truro-news/20131019/281633892971361 |location=Truro, NS |work=Truro Daily News |access-date=19 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|Truro Daily News|2013a}}}}

• {{cite news |last=Tetanish |first=Raissa |date=2 March 2013 |title=Play brings domestic violence to light |url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/truro-news/20130302/282144993765158 |location=Truro, NS |work=Truro Daily News |access-date=19 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|Truro Daily News|2013b}}}}

• {{cite news |last=Harrington |first=Linda |date=February 2013 |title="Invisible Prisons" will Bring Powerful Message To Stage |url=https://www.theshorelinejournal.com/feb133.pdf |location=Bass River, NS |work=The Shoreline Journal |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250419222238/https://www.theshorelinejournal.com/feb133.pdf |archive-date=19 April 2025 |access-date=19 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|The Shoreline Journal|2013}}}}

• {{cite news |date=4 August 2014 |title=Making the time to create art: Joy Laking learned much from her mother in life and death |url=https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/making-the-time-to-create-art-152764 |work=PNI Atlantic News |publisher=Postmedia Network |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250401185621/https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/making-the-time-to-create-art-152764 |archive-date=1 April 2025 |access-date=1 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|PNI Atlantic News|2014a}}}}

• {{cite news |last=Cole |first=Darrell |date=12 May 2014 |title=Invisible Prisons at Breakfast at Brittney's |url=https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/invisible-prisons-at-breakfast-at-brittneys-29598 |work=PNI Atlantic News |publisher=Postmedia Network |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250419225915/https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/invisible-prisons-at-breakfast-at-brittneys-29598 |archive-date=19 April 2025 |access-date=19 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|PNI Atlantic News|2014b}}}}

• {{cite journal |last= |first= |date=December 2015 |title=Artist Joy Laking |url=https://htnsarchived.ca/pdf_Griffin/2015/Griffin-Vol40.4-Dec.2015.pdf |journal=The Griffin |publisher=Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia |volume=40 |issue=4 |page=3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240121015601/http://htnsarchived.ca/pdf_Griffin/2015/Griffin-Vol40.4-Dec.2015.pdf |archive-date=21 January 2024 |access-date=19 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|The Griffin|2015}}}}

• {{cite news |date=15 November 2016 |title=About Art: Making the time |url=https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/about-art-making-the-time-153158 |work=PNI Atlantic News |publisher=Postmedia Network |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250401185929/https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/about-art-making-the-time-153158 |archive-date=1 April 2025 |access-date=1 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|PNI Atlantic News|2016a}}}}

• {{cite news |last=Tetanish |first=Raissa |date=11 October 2016 |title=Artist opening doors of gallery for annual exhibit |url=https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/artist-opening-doors-of-gallery-for-annual-exhibit-151832 |work=PNI Atlantic News |publisher=Postmedia Network |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250419033946/https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/artist-opening-doors-of-gallery-for-annual-exhibit-151832 |archive-date=19 April 2025 |access-date=19 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|PNI Atlantic News|2016b}}}}

• {{cite news |date=2 May 2017 |title=Nova Scotia artist paints in famous French garden |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/article/nova-scotia-artist-paints-in-famous-french-garden/ |work=CTV News |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250401180036/https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/article/nova-scotia-artist-paints-in-famous-french-garden/ |archive-date=1 April 2025 |access-date=1 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|CTV News|2017}}}}

• {{cite news |last=Curwin |first=Lynn |date=29 November 2019 |title=Portapique artist's first children's book is an adventure in colour |url=https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/portapique-artists-first-childrens-book-is-an-adventure-in-colour-382397 |work=PNI Atlantic News |publisher=Postmedia Network |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250419023353/https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/portapique-artists-first-childrens-book-is-an-adventure-in-colour-382397 |archive-date=19 April 2025 |access-date=19 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|PNI Atlantic News|2019}}}}

• {{cite news |last=Shupe |first=Lana |date=5 November 2020 |title=The Painted Province by Joy Laking |url=https://miramichireader.ca/2020/11/the-painted-province-by-joy-laking/ |work=The Miramichi Reader |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250419030537/https://miramichireader.ca/2020/11/the-painted-province-by-joy-laking/ |archive-date=19 April 2025 |access-date=19 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|The Miramichi Reader|2020}}}}

• {{cite news |last=Barnard |first=Elissa |date=17 December 2020 |title=The Painted Province: Joy Snihur Wyatt Laking on Seeing Beauty |url=https://billiemag.ca/the-painted-province-joy-snihur-wyatt-laking-on-seeing-beauty/ |work=Billie |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241111165617/https://billiemag.ca/the-painted-province-joy-snihur-wyatt-laking-on-seeing-beauty/ |archive-date=11 November 2024 |access-date=19 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|Billie|2020}}}}

• {{cite web |date=2020 |title=Invisible Prisons |url=https://medicine.hofstra.edu/pdf/humanities/invisible-prisons.pdf |location=New York, USA |publisher=Zucker School of Medicine |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250419230604/https://medicine.hofstra.edu/pdf/humanities/invisible-prisons.pdf |archive-date=19 April 2025 |access-date=19 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|Zucker School of Medicine|2020}}}}

• {{cite news |date=28 June 2021 |title=Joy Laking's work featured in two exhibits at Fraser Art Gallery in Tatamagouche |url=https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/joy-lakings-work-featured-in-two-exhibits-at-fraser-art-gallery-in-tatamagouche-100605284 |work=PNI Atlantic News |publisher=Postmedia Network |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250401175548/https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/joy-lakings-work-featured-in-two-exhibits-at-fraser-art-gallery-in-tatamagouche-100605284 |archive-date=1 April 2025 |access-date=1 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|PNI Atlantic News|2021}}}}

• {{cite news |last=Al-Hakim |first=Aya |date=13 April 2021 |title=A Nova Scotia painter on how she's creating a canvas to cope after the mass shooting |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/7746724/artist-healing-nova-scotia-mass-shooting/ |work=Global News |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226184201/https://globalnews.ca/news/7746724/artist-healing-nova-scotia-mass-shooting/ |archive-date=26 February 2024 |access-date=1 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|Global News|2021}}}}

• {{cite news |last=Frisko |first=Bruce |date=18 April 2022 |title='We can't just stop seeing the beauty': Portapique artist finds comfort, solace in natural surroundings |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/article/we-cant-just-stop-seeing-the-beauty-portapique-artist-finds-comfort-solace-in-natural-surroundings/ |work=CTV News |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250401175852/https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/article/we-cant-just-stop-seeing-the-beauty-portapique-artist-finds-comfort-solace-in-natural-surroundings/ |archive-date=1 April 2025 |access-date=1 April 2025 |ref={{sfnref|CTV News|2022}}}}

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