Sentinels & Boats

Lining the Nova Scotia coast, massive granite boulders group in heroic attempts to counter the force of nature – the seawalls of anonymous fisher & folk stretching back to an era when backhoes were horses and backs were sore.

In the theme of Born of This Place, Tim Forbes in collaboration with GZArtCo, has created SENTINELS & BOATS – a commissioned collection of organic photo-based portraits for installation at the guest elevator lobbies and suite entrances of MUIR, the 109-room hotel designed by celebrated architects MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple with interiors by Studio Munge – Nova Scotia’s first 5-star hotel.

Affiliated with Marriott International’s Autograph Collection, MUIR, (Gaelic for “sea”) stands as the cornerstone of QUEEN’S MARQUE, the new $200 million mixed-use Armour Group development on the Halifax waterfront.

Boats

Captured in the working fishing village of Blue Rocks a stone’s throw from the studio, the life-line dinghies, dories and row boats are casually moored where they were last needed, some worn out, others hauled up to home wharf for needed patch and paint or flipped on the rocks to dry their wet hulls.