Steven Rhude - Paintings/Drawings

The cod fishery is indisputably a shadow of what it was. Most of the areas shut down in 1992 remain closed, with Atlantic cod still considered a threatened species. The landed value of cod in the province was just fifteen million last year. CBC News, Newfoundland & Labrador, July, 2010   Towards Clarenville, (Dories on a Road), o/c, 30" x 48", Steven Rhude, Emma Butler Gallery   Clarenville, 2003 Fish workers burn Canadian flag in Nfld. protest  Last Updated Mon Apr 28 19:08:34 2003 ST. JOHN'S--  Angry fish workers burned a Canadian flag on Monday as rallies were held at federal Fisheries Department offices in at least two centres in Newfoundland and Labrador. INDEPTH:   The codless sea The protest, organized by the Fish, Food and Allied Workers, brought about 75 people to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans offices at Clarenville, where they took down the Canadian flag and burned it. They sent the Newfoundland and Labrador flag up ...

"Food is the most important acquisition in life and is man's primary instinct." I.E. Allison,   Trawler Cookery ,  H.E. McCann, Kingston Upon Hull, Nautical College    Breadline, oil on panel, 20"x 24", Steven Rhude, Gallery 78 "It is believed the term 'Breadline' entered the popular lexicon in the 1880's. It was during those years that a noteworthy bakery in New York's Greenwich Village, Fleichmann Model Viennese Bakery, instituted a policy of distributing unsold baked goods to the poor at the end of their business day. Wikipedia  Over Christmas a friend an I were discussing an upcoming food show of paintings I wished to be involved in at Gallery 78 in Fredericton, NB. His Father was a cook on a Trawler, and so over some wine and shrimp we talked about food and what it was like to feed the crew and the related responsibilities. As the discussion evolved I started to think about food inspired paintings and art. Bread came to...