Norton's Cove Cards: The History Collection

This collection of images speak of the past, and the present, here in Newfoundland:  museum artefacts, treasured family pieces, and nostalgia.

Each Norton's Cove Mini-Print is an original work of art hand-made in Newfoundland at Norton's Cove Studio.

Janet Davis draws and carves images onto linoleum, then rolls archival ink onto that lino-cut printing matrix.  She transfers the ink to cotton fibre paper on an etching press, creating a unique and embossed print every time the process is repeated.  The process does not use any computerized nor electrified equipment.

• 'antique white' cotton fibre paper
• original lino-cut relief print
• open edition
• signed by the artist
• matted to fit a standard 5x7" frame
• Available in a variety of ink colours, including rainbow rolls and solids

By Lamplight

After my first couple of years in business, I was doing so poorly financially that the electric company cut the power to my building.  I needed to update my business plan, which included making a new product line that I could sell to other shops- Norton’s Cove Cards.  I made the first 5 Norton’s Cove Card designs by lamplight in my studio!  That's why the #justacard campaign speaks to me so loudly!

This particular lamp came from my Aunt Geraldine & Uncle Donald's house in Newtown.  It reminds me of the Buddy Wasisname & the Other Fellas' song By the Glow of the Kerosene Light, and both the brutality and the romance of an era before  electricity came to outport Newfoundland.

Caribou

Drawn from a pin worn by soldiers of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, this updated caribou image is in honour of the 100th anniversary of the first World War.

Lest we forget.

Jug & Basin

A great companion piece with Lamplight!  Makes me think of Nan & Granda's house in Newtown.  Each bedroom had a washstand with a basin and jug to bring warm water for washing.  Even in the 1980s, Nan & Granda chose not to update the house with a toilet or bathtub like everyone else.  Most people my age didn't experience chamber pots and outhouses!

Mixed Tape

If you're as old as me, you may have a few cassette tapes like this still hanging around, reminiscent of days spent taping favourite songs off the radio, getting the timing just right so that the radio announcer's voice doesn't become a part of your mixed tape!  I've left the label area blank so that you can write in your own favourite band names to personalize your Mixed Tape card.

I designed this card after watching a season finale of Son of Critch- a show we enjoy that is made at home in Newfoundland.

Telephone

Designed after taking a workshop with The Phone Lady, this piece harkens back to a ime when phones were still a new phenomenon, and the phone lines were not private- there are excellent stories about hearing other people on the line while talking to someone on the Wesleyville exchange.  Ask a boomer generation local about it as a conversation starter!

Trilobite

Designed especially for the Manuels River Community, you can book a fossil site hike and see them up close in person!

Typewriter

This image is based on an artefact in the museum collection of The REACH, donated by Brookfield Hospital (now known offically as the Dr. Y. K. Jeon Kittiwake Health Centre).  A great retro companion piece to the Telephone image.

Viking Bow

This image was designed after a visit to L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site on Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula, the oldest known European settlement in North America.