In 1894, a painter from St. John’s was exhibiting her work in Paris. Margaret Campbell Macpherson built an international career — and somehow became a nearly forgotten Newfoundland story.

In the early 20th century John Vincent, a young artist from Newfoundland, caught the attention of art critics on both sides of the Atlantic and soon became famous as ‘the fisherman who painted the pope’.

John B. Garland, Newfoundland’s first speaker of the legislature, had an interesting hobby — making blood collages.