April Mackey: The Grand Tour

The Grand Tour
April Cooke-Mackey
Aug 21 - Sept 9 2026
Opening Reception: Aug 21, 5-7pm

The Grand Tour is a celebratory collection of inanimate objects that reside in everyday life. Painted in oils and drawn in ink are momentary captures of objects that are usually overlooked and taken for granted. The exhibition is a grand tour inviting you to meet the “familiar”, find your own relationship with it and what may arise such as feelings of nostalgia, humour, or indifference.

April works primarily in paint, dabbling wildly in subject matter that includes still-life, figurative and most recently landscapes. This show is an exciting reemergence: her love of “home-scape” and still life reborn since moving back home to Salt Spring Island five years ago.

Artherapy: Ghosts In The Session

arTherapy — ghosts in the session
Wardroper, Wilding, Wiefelspuett
July 31 - August 19 2026
Opening Reception: July 31, 5-7pm

Ethan Wilding and Shannon Wardroper:

A participatory art installation inviting reflection through embodied experience. We explore how each of us trade pieces of ourselves for the daily conveniences of new technology.

Michael Wall: Recent Photography

Michael Wall – Recent Photography
July 10th – July 29th 2026
Opening Reception: July 10, 5-7pm

Michael Wall pursues several streams of photographic exploration and expression; among them are street, landscape and studio photography.

This exhibition consists of work carried out during 2026. It revolves around his interest in examining details of our surroundings which we rarely notice. If we observe, with an artist’s eye, the small details of our everyday lives - particularly those integral to the natural world, such as the dried skin of a garlic bulb - we will find a wealth of visually intriguing material.

Michael turns these details into surprisingly stimulating and dramatic images.

Tossed & Found: 8th Annual Art Show

ossed & Found 8
Recycled Materials Group Art Show
June 19- July 8
Opening Reception: June 19, 5 - 7pm

Shirley Command:
Due to its continuous and symmetrical shape, 8 is a universal symbol of infinity, immortality and limitless possibilities.

In the bible 8 represents “new beginning” as it symbolizes resurrection and a new order.

I am very excited to announce the 8th instalment of Tossed & Found, a show I dreamt up in 2015. The shows have been incredibly successful, with many visitors, collectors and positive critiques. The artists are what make the show, using found materials in unique and creative ways to create works of art. 

Hildebrandt: One Year. One Hundred Paintings.

One Year. One Hundred Paintings.
Matthew Hildebrandt
May 29- June 17
Opening Reception: May 29, 5 - 7pm

Matthew Hildebrandt:

I wasn't trying to paint a hundred paintings in a year. It just happened that way.

Truthfully, I just really, really, really like painting and making art. There is really nothing else that I would rather spend my time and energy on.

When I begin a new piece, I often think to myself, “Let's make the most kick-ass beautiful art the whole damn world has ever seen!” For me, in that creative moment, it is. The letting go into this great stream of creativity, the outpouring of love and heart. The endless combinations of colour and form. The infinite space on an empty canvas. All the little deaths and births and hiccups and stumblings and overcomings and joys. This is the most beautiful thing, and I love it.

So last year, I painted 100 paintings. I painted anything that came to mind. I painted people, landscapes, animals, old buildings, erotic dreams, nude figures, renditions of old historic photos of cool-looking people, memories, and a bunch of modern portraits of some of the many beautiful people in my life.

There was a great freedom in painting like this. I felt like I could paint anything and everything; there was nothing out of bounds, nothing I could not do or try. There is so much joy in this. Just letting myself wander and try, without any thought of what the end goal might be.

Like swimming in the ocean with infinite lung capacity.

I painted 100 paintings in the past year, not because I was trying to. I just really love to paint.

Gary Kaye: Observation

Garry Kaye
OBSERVATION
-Paintings-

May 8 - May 27
Reception: May 8, 5-7pm

All of my images are of places within sight of my house. They reflect my aesthetic response to nature. I am interested in creating depth through colour and texture. My work usually focuses on the unruly aspects of nature that we often overlook. I am drawn to subjects shaped by the human hand, one step removed from the dense woods: the fences I have built, the fruit trees I have planted and the ponds I have dug.

Monuments (I'm Here) : A contemporary art-jewelry exhibition

Monuments
Dina González Mascaró
March 27- April 15, 2026
Opening Reception: March 27, 5-7pm

Join us to welcome Dina at Salt Spring Gallery for a much anticipated exhibition of her unique work. 

Dina was born in Argentina where she received her Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture Major) at Universidad Nacional de La Plata and taught Sculpture and Metalwork. In 2000, she won Argentina’s National Art Prize, the Premio Antorchas, and was awarded a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

In the fall of 2001, Dina came to Vancouver as an artist in residence for one year at the Western Front artist-run-center. Since that time, González Mascaró made Vancouver her home. In 2004, she opened her studio and gallery on Main Street, JewellerBau, which she had for 9 years. 

From 2020 to 2023 she built her studio on Salt Spring Island, where she now lives and works. Dina González Mascaró is known for her small-scale wearable sculpture art jewelry and as a multimedia artist. 

Cheryl Painter

Cheryl Painter
Exploring The Elements Of Nature

Fire, Water, Air & Earth
April 17 - May 6
Reception: April 17, 5-7pm


Cheryl Painter was born and raised in the beautiful Cowichan Valley. From an early age and perhaps due to artistic genes, a career as an artist always seemed to be in the cards for Cheryl. Her post secondary schooling included an introduction to Fine Arts at the University of Victoria followed by a year at the Victoria College of Art. She moved to North Vancouver to attend Capilano University, culminating with a diploma in Graphic design. After a successful career in that field, Cheryl left the graphic design field to focus on raising a family. During that endeavour, she found windows of time to resume what would ultimately be her career calling - painting. Living on the North Shore began to wear thin and so in 2013, she and her family heeded the call to return to their roots on Vancouver Island, specifically in the Cowichan Valley. Here, amidst the area’s pristine beauty, she is constantly inspired by her surroundings.

Cheryl’s most recent works are an exploration of the basic elements. Fire: a series of campfire paintings, full of warmth and West Coast camping memories. Water: works featuring both salt and fresh water, the quintessential West Coast. Air: Cheryl’s brushwork brings alive mist, clouds and windswept fields. Earth: numerous local landscapes.