Sharon Nowlan makes these beautifully simple pebble arrangements from rocks collected along the beaches of Pictou, Nova Scotia.

Sharon has been designing and producing her unique style of art for over 13 years. One day she watched her three year old son search the beach for pebbles all afternoon. After finding one he liked, he would saunter back to me and put it securely in my pocket.

“He had chosen them all so carefully, I felt compelled to make something special with them. I made two pictures that day, and since then I have made many more, but with each one I try to maintain a feeling of something special.”

Sharon studied Fine Arts and Environmental studies at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. It’s the combination of these two passions that have led her to create ecological paintings.

Sharon Nowlan looks for shapes or colors. Sometimes she lets the medium determine her mood, but she never works the raw material to conform to her needs.

Sharon Nowlan looks for shapes or colors. Sometimes she lets the medium determine her mood, but she never works the raw material to conform to her needs.