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.

Remnants: The 13th Annual Show of the She Said Art Collective

Remnants
13th Annual She Said Show
March 6- 25, 2026
Opening Reception: March 6, 5-7pm

This is the 13th year that a group of women have come together to create an art show inspired by various subjects, quotes, poetry, and music. Each artist creates her own response to the theme utilizing materials that she chooses to work with. Some of the artists have participated since the very beginning while others have joined at different times. 

This year the women of She Said were inspired by the words of Jack Ravi, a collage and assemblage artist who lives in Scotland:

”The title "Remnants” carries a dual meaning... it refers not only to the materials used but also to the people whose stories are being told.  The old ephemera, found objects, and photographs gets excavated by such a word as someone's life and story. Remnants is an ode to the art of preservation,  both of memories and materials and a testament to the ever evolving nature of art and visual storytelling." 

The theme of this exhibit leaves each artist open to so many possibilities.   We hope that you will come see the show and enjoy the remnants the She Said collective has brought back to life.

Fluff and Fold

Fluff and Fold
Jim Erikson
Nov 28- Dec 20, 2025
Opening Reception: Nov 28, 5-7pm

Jim Erikson:

I was born and raised in a tiny farming community in northern Minnesota, 12 miles from the Manitoba border, midway between the Lake of the Woods and the North Dakota state line. Locals lived on small, subsistence farms scattered along the graveled section lines. Grandparents brought jars of fresh, hand-separated thick cream and wild raspberry jam. An idyllic life of long summers, cold winters, freedom to wander, and build tree houses and forts. 

I left home in 1968 after graduating from high school with a new suit and a suitcase, graduation gifts from my parents. I tried college but left after a couple of years and wandered around the country with no real objectives in mind. I finally landed a scholarship to study drama at the Banff School of Arts in 1972, and from that experience, immigrated to Canada in April of 1974, which culminated in a very successful career in the burgeoning film business in Vancouver.

Wherever I’ve lived, I gravitated to Art communities, which is probably one of the reasons I decided to retire to Salt Spring Island.

This collection is the accumulation of 25 years of playing with string and needles.  It has been creative, challenging, time-consuming, lots of fun… and very rewarding.

Impressions 10

mpressions 10
Salt Spring Island Printmakers
Nov 7-26, 2025
Opening Reception: Nov 7, 5 to 7pm

Salt Spring Island Printmakers:

Salt Spring Island Printmakers began printmaking as a small group of Painters Guild members in 2013. While learning and creating over a few years, we gained a few more interested members, created many interesting prints, and thought: “What do we do with all of the prints we have made?”  In 2016 we decided to have our First Impressions show at Salt Spring Island Public Library. It was a great success!

From humble beginnings we have grown to become a society with over 50 members and a fully equipped, professional printmaking studio in the SIMS building in Ganges, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.

Continuing the tradition and being proud to have reached our tenth year of Impressions shows, what better way to celebrate than to have a theme centred on the number 10.

We invite you to come see our members’ prints showcasing the variety of printmaking techniques and ideas that make up our printmaking world.

Salon des Refusés

Le Salon des Refusés 2025
Sept 26 - Oct 15
Opening Reception: Friday Sept 26, 5-7pm

In 1863, artwork rejected by jury of the French Academy of Fine Arts in Paris was showcased in the first Salon des Refusés. This groundbreaking event introduced the public to the emerging avant-garde in painting, and created a new line of thinking about what deserved to be seen, and not seen, in the public sphere. Notable works by Eduard Manet, James Whistler, and Gustave Courbet were included in the exhibition. “Salon des Refusés” is now used to denote any art exhibition devoted to the display of works rejected by a juried art show. Although much has changed in the art world since the 19th century, the norms according to which artists are selected for exhibits are still largely defined by curators and juries.

In celebration of local artists, and in the grand tradition established by the 1863 Salon rejecting the juried process, Salt Spring Gallery of Fine Art, in collaboration with SSNAP, is proud to present works by Southern Gulf Island artists whose works were not included in the finalist groups of SSNAP in a completely un-juried show.