CROSSROADS- Paul Robert bryans & Lorence Bryans

We are excited to welcome back this father-son duo.

July 2- July 21, 2021

Both father and son, Paul and Lorence Bryans depict the rich colours and motion in Nature in unique inspiring ways.

Complexity comes together with brilliance and ease in Lorence’s digital designs, bringing the viewer into clarity with a sharp energy transfer. His close up photographs are taken from nature and then edited using a digital application to create his signature kaleidoscopic effects.

Paul’s masterful paintings are about a place of calmness and beauty, peace, contemplation, excitement and movement.  The viewer is drawn into familiar comforting places and wild spaces with light and warmth.  Paul’s work describes a place for sublime repose, to take solace, to feel free and to be.

So many of us have had a heightened sense of connection with Nature during this difficult year. At the Crossroads both individually and collectively,  may we all be inspired with a heightened sense of Earth stewardship going forward!

www.bryansfineart.com

 

Taking Flight- Salt Spring Print Makers

June 17- June 30, 2021

Taking Flight features 11 Salt Spring print artists showing new, original works inspired by Patrick bird creations. The birds, made from found objects and feathers, and prints made using a wide variety of techniques, will fly together at the Salt Spring Gallery from June 18- 30.

Two Tides- Paintings by Natalie St Amant

Romantic Plein Air and Abstracts

May 28-June 16, 2021

Artist Statement

In 1988, after receiving my College degree in Visual Fine Arts, I left the academic art world and chose to experience the rich underground art scene of the the street life in Montreal. I soon was on the search for an environment that would encourage artistic lifestyle in a nature setting. My quest took me to Tofino, in Clayoquot Sound. I lived in an abandoned draft dodger's cabin, deep in the old-growth forest, possessed by the spirit of Emily Carr, who wrote, "There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness. ‘’ This same spirit incubated my work’s mysticism and the desire to sense and interpret its reality.
It was while immersed in the natural vistas of Clayoquot that my inner landscape began to unfold. Nature was my school.

In 1995 I flew to Hawaii, where my Plein Air work matured and also where my ‘’innerscapes’’ emerged.
But Hawaii was not home. 10 years ago I returned to Quebec, partly to nurse my aging parents and partly because i was ready to become visible in the cultural landscapes of Quebec and Canada. Now, back to reclaim my Heart where i left her on the West Coast, i have settled on Salt Spring Island to share the incalculable bounty of romantic mysticism i feel for the land here.

While Plein Air painting is, to me, akin to a reverent pilgrim through cathedrals , my abstract expressionism/surrealism takes me on a profound venture where the landscapes coalesce with the innerscapes of my psyche.

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SHINE - Winter Solstice Show

As the grey tints and gales of November settle upon us, we look for the brightness within.

Please join Gallery members and invited guest artists in a celebration of art and light, in SHINE, our Winter Solstice Show, November 13 - December 23, 2020.

In the spirit of the season, 15% of artist sales will be donated to a local charity.

COVID-19 protocols in place as we join together in kindness to keep each other safe.

Below is a sampling of some of what you may find in the show, including a mix of paintings in oil, mixed media, and acrylics in a variety of sizes; textile pieces; limited edition prints; stained glass; ceramics; jewelry; giclees; and much more. Pl…

Below is a sampling of some of what you may find in the show, including a mix of paintings in oil, mixed media, and acrylics in a variety of sizes; textile pieces; limited edition prints; stained glass; ceramics; jewelry; giclees; and much more. Please check in regularly for updated images from the show.