The Inverness County Centre for the Arts is pleased to present a new exhibition by internationally recognized artist Hermine Ford, featuring a body of work inspired by more than five decades of living and creating in Cape Breton.

Ford, who divides her time between New York City and Dunvegan, has spent over fifty years returning to Cape Breton. Created in her Cape Breton studio overlooking Margaree Island, the works in this exhibition explore the relationship between observation, memory, and abstraction through a deceptively simple subject: beach pebbles gathered during walks along the shoreline below her home.

What began as informal sketching exercises evolved into a central focus of Ford's artistic practice. She discovered that the pebbles' distinctive oval forms echoed the silhouette of Margaree Island, visible each day from her studio window. Rather than depicting the stones as recognizable objects, Ford transforms them into open-ended forms that invite viewers to bring their own interpretations to the work.