Please join us for afternoon tea with Diana Dean (currently exhibiting at the gallery until May 24th, 3pm) on May 17 2023, from 1:30 - 3:30 pm. This is a casual event where we can sit and chat with the artist in the serene presence of of her life’s work. We also have books of Diana’s sculpture and painting available.
Diana Dean Showcase
Showcase Opening: Friday May 5th, 5-7. Show is on till May 24th 3pm
''With sumptuous, painterly grace, Dean presents to us a world of wonderful possibilities, a fascinating timeless reality in which simple existence becomes the mysterious art form it is meant to be''. - Driftwood magazine contributor, Vaughn Fulford.
Diana has been a painter icon on Salt Spring and her painterly vision has unfolded on the West Coast since 1982.
Salt Spring gallery is honoured to host a showcase of Dean's work in 2023.
Tossed & Found
Opening April 14th 5-7pm. Show runs till May 3rd, 3pm
Our favorite annual recycled material exhibit is up soon! Salt Spring Gallery is pleased to welcome you all again within the west coast weather filled ambiance of tossed elements ressucitated into surprising shapes and imaginative worlds.
10 by 10, Come Celebrate These Women's 10th Exhibit!
The Point - Beautiful and thought-provoking - Sculpture by Janus
We look forward to welcoming you back March 1, with a new, refreshed interior, a new member and a new show starting March 2!
End of Season Show and News
We are excited to share with you a dynamic collection of works-in-progress ("WIPs") by gallery members. Come see what goes into the artist's creative and technical thought processes as they search out new directions in their practice, and refine well-trodden routes. Cheryl Long's fluid shapes (don't touch, they're still wet!) morph from representational to abstract and back again in her developing landscapes. Nathalie St-Amant's fantastical Freaks of Nature dance through sketches and colours and abstracts. Olga Szkabarnicki's monumental dance-inspired figures take shape on giant rolls of newsprint, in various iterations of charcoal, inks, and gesso.
It's like a mini studio tour.
This "in progress" show - ever changing - is on until December 17, our last day of the season before we take our annual winter break until March 1.
The gallery is filled with works in a variety of sizes and price points, perfect for the giving season. Included are miniatures and large scale oil paintings by Naomi Grindlay, as well as a sparkling selection of one-of-a-kind wearable woven beaded pieces by Carol Newmeyer.
Until December 17, all financial contributions received in our Donations box will be collected and donated to our local Food Bank.
Don't forget to check out (and vote for!) our special Christmas-themed window display: kids of all ages love it!
Hope to see you before we head off into a wintry retreat of contemplation and artistic rejuvenation.
Gallery open Wed - Sat, 11-4pm.
Gallery closed December 18/22 - Feb 28/23
I SEE YOU PAUL CROUCH
WHO IS PAUL CROUCH?
I never met Paul Crouch.
He was in full-time care, his life altered by Parkinson’s disease and dementia when his wife Karen and I became friends.
In her years of grief after his death, Karen did not talk a lot about Paul, so I know few details of the man himself. I am told he was a rather quiet and gentle soul. Loved cats and kayaking and old cars. He had a long career as an award winning commercial photographer in Toronto and he and Karen spent summers driving around the Maritimes buying Folk Art. He restored vintage Jaguars and he collected all manner of interesting objects and antiques.
Oh, and he drew.
And painted.
And carved and fabricated and doodled and sketched and never stopped creating until the day he died.
Our society wants us to sum up a life with a list of places lived, jobs and titles earned. But I got to know Paul through his art, so that is how I invite you to know him too. Might I suggest it may be a richer and more intimate view into his person…
When Karen died rather suddenly earlier this year, I learned she had left me all of Paul’s work. To honour my dear friend and to celebrate Paul’s exceptional creative mind I approached the Salt Spring Gallery about holding a show.
There are large paintings from an Abstract Expressionist phase painted between 1959 and 1962.
A collection of colourful wood sculptures made on Salt Spring and shown in Toronto at Prime Gallery in the mid-80’s.
A series of Lithographs of curious figures and an uncountable number of fantastical drawings… Rendered in pen and ink, oil pastel, pencil, anything he could make a mark with. Paul’s imagination and creative output was remarkable and he did it not for fame or fortune but it seems because it was who he was.
I invite you to come see Paul Crouch with me.
You will be amazed.
Nadine Buckinger
Paul Russell Crouch
April 6, 1932 - December 31, 2016
Karen Anne Gray
July 15,1951 - March 16, 2022
