Former fisherman finds peace in pencil art. The walls of the Scot Lewis pencil gallery are filled with boats, lighthouses and lobster pots — all scenes familiar to the former crab fisherman.

View Augustin ROUART (1907-1997) The little fisherman, study sheet recto-verso Black pencil and white chalk highlights on half-tone paper. (Small tears at top). 48 x 31 cm Signature stamp lower left.

It's like a sewing machine, he says, marking his paper with small, almost invisible marks. The walls of his studio are filled with unmistakable symbols of rural Newfoundland: There's a fishing stage, ...