Wharves and Breakwaters of Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia

Janet Arnett is the former campus manager of adult education at Ontario’s Georgian College. She is the author of Antiques and Collectibles: Starting Small, The Grange at Knock, and 673 Ways to Save Money.

Petite presents 50 black-and-white sketches, with brief captions, to
illustrate that zone where land meets water at the Yarmouth tip of Nova
Scotia.

Stylistically, the drawings blend the representational with the
impressionistic. The subjects are almost exclusively architectural, yet
the strength usually associated with this is absent. Rather, the
structures come across as weathered to the point of decay. Rickety and
fragile, they appear ready to collapse on the page into a pile of
smudges and broken lines. The mood is often one of despair and
bleakness. Or abandonment.

Petite has achieved some local success with her encaustic paintings and
pen-and-ink drawings. Her familiarity with her subject matter is a
definite strength, and this slim book will be valued as a step in her
development as an artist.