David Blackwood’s depictions of the life, landscape, and people of Newfoundland have produced a body of work which holds a special place in the Canadian imagination. His hauntingly beautiful images have come to represent to many of us the essence of Newfoundland’s landscape and traditional culture.

Part personal biography, part cultural document, part mythic narrative, his work forms an ongoing chronicle of the distinctive stories, both epic and personal, which have shaped his life and the life of his native province. A Compelling Narrative focuses on Blackwood’s printmaking work over the past number of decades; the detailed copperplate etching process that has defined his work and given life to his art.