Maud Lewis THE Heart ON THE Door is the first full-length biography of Maud Lewis (1901-1970), the famous Nova Scotia folk artist. "La Gang" won the Vancouver Reel 2 Real Film Festival in 2015..
His novel and script "The Outlaw League" was recently produced in Montrea as the feature film "La Gang des Hors la Loi" and has appeared at festivals around the world.
His song cycle "The Noel Cantata" was recently produced in Norway.
His play "The Poor Farm" was the first in Nova Scotia to engage actors of Mi\'kMaq, White, Black and Acadian heritage.
Lance the elder has written a dozen books, plays and films, including with Bob Brooks, the book and film "The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis." His original play "Maud Lewis World Without Shadows" has enjoyed many community and professional productions, including a CBC Radio national broadcast, a Neptune Theatre award-winning production and a Blythe Festival production.
Their daughter Shirley is a nurse in Alberta, and their son Lance the younger is a wildlife biologist in Madagascar.
They have been married for 48 years.
He lives in Halifax with his wife, the former Martha Spencer of Saskatoon.
Lance Woolaver, Digby County, Nova Scotia, 2016 About the Author: Lance Woolaver was born in Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1948.
As with many, however, who came to visit with Maud in her crooked little house, these famous would never know the strange secrets of this difficult life.
Her pictures cheered them up.
Stanfield, the actor Judy Dench - would come to admire Maud\'s pictures.
They belong to each other." "Many of the famous of our time - the actor Peter Falk, Premier Robert L.
All must be taken together.
It is the story of a man who made a woman pay for his own frailties.
It is a story of murder and a lockbox treasure.
This is a story of broken families, of lonely lives, of a lost love and abandonment.
It is the story of the worth of art in the struggle against pain.
It is a story of murder, poverty and treasure.
It is the story of a child\'s wish to be accepted as a human being.
Excerpts: "This is a story written in heartbreak.
Catherine\'s father, Emery Allen, the love of Maud\'s life, abandoned Maud to the scandal of small-town life and to her increasing disabilities and loneliness.
Catherine\'s attempts to contact and be accepted by her mother, Maud Lewis, are documented.
This biography concludes that Maud Lewis, born Maud Catherine Dowley in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 1901, gave birth to a daughter, Catherine Dowley, in 1928, and traces the life of Maud\'s daughter until her passing.
This book also gives a detailed account of the life of Everett Lewis and his incarceration as a child in the Digby County Poor Farm.
Her husband would be murdered for his lockbox of savings taken from the sales of Maud\'s pictures, on New Year\'s Day of 1979.
Throughout her marriage to the illiterate Poor Farm watchman, Everett Lewis, she suffered from poverty and loneliness, yet triumphed over all with her brilliant, colourful and happy paintings.
Despite this deepening and painful affliction she completed and sold thousands of bright pictures and Christmas cards from her little one-room house in Marshalltown, Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
It includes detailed accounts of her disabilities, including a childhood battle with the juvenile rheumatoid arthritis which twisted her hands and joints.
Maud Lewis THE Heart ON THE Door is the first full-length biography of Maud Lewis (1901-1970), the famous Nova Scotia folk artist
