Small Works

Small Works
By the Members of Salt Spring Gallery
Nov 29 - Dec 21, 2024
Opening Reception Friday Dec 6, 5- 8pm

Throughout each year, the members of Salt Spring Gallery co-create and maintain a vibrant environment where new works are regularly featured by members and guest artists. The gallery is a valued gathering place where the local community and island visitors can always look forward to finding inspiration and meaningful artwork that enhances the quality of life.

In the spirit of the season upon us, and with holidays around the corner, the gallery will host a collection of small works by the members. This will be the final show before the gallery’s annual winter hibernation. 

Small works often invite the viewer to draw nearer, making this exhibit a perfect way to step into an intimate and reflective time of year in the Northwest.

A special reception will be held in participation with the downtown Ganges Winter Wander.

Diana Dean, Then and Now

Diana Dean, Then and Now
Diana Dean
Sept 6 - Sept 25
Opening Reception: Friday Sept 6, 5-7pm

We are excited to present a show of Diana Dean’s artwork at our gallery for the second year in a row.  What an honour!

Diana Dean, RCA, has been exhibiting in Canada since 1976 in both public and commercial galleries.  Her work is held in private and corporate collections across North America and the U.K..

“Diana Dean, Then and Now” showcases a lineage of Dean’s paintings from earlier works to the many she has created in 2024.  We bear witness to the breathtaking thematic and stylistic development of the artist’s vision and craft, with each stage resonating as deeply today as it did in yesteryear.  There is a sense of the eternal, where landscape, portraiture, and allegory are intertwined in a rainbow of love and reverence.  

“We are part of the landscape,” Dean recently said.  “After 50 years of work, I see that painting is becoming an expression of love.  In my painting, I am interested in connection between geometry in nature, in physics and light and the wish to project with paint, the human quality that is present in all of us.”

Three Seconds: Recent Contemporary Fiber Work by Shannon Wardroper

Three Seconds, recent contemporary fiber work
Shannon Wardroper
August 16 - Sept 4

Shannon Wardroper:
"The earth has been in existence for 3.5 billion years. 3 Seconds represents human habitation if compared to a 24 hour day cradled within our mere 300,000 years of existence. In this short time we have left an indelible mark on a verdant, layered and fascinating natural world, our home. I recall as a child swimming endlessly underwater and watching the current carry a swaying smorgasbord of imagery past my field of vision. This complexity is what inspires my textile work and keeps the eye travelling through layers of screenprinting, wax resist dying, hand and digital embroidery, appliqué and piecework. 

Currently, the Attention Economy has ensured that our attention shifts away from the gift nature offers towards all things artificial, online, and virtual. 

We are endlessly elsewhere. 

3 Seconds thus also represents the average attention span when scrolling, clicking and tapping on social media, online news and video.