Join us with the Dee Brown Trio on Friday October 9th, 5pm – 7pm! Covering Blues, Rn’B, Country, Pop, and just a little bit of Rap, the Dee Brown Trio emerged on the coast music scene last year. With Boyd Norman on bass and vocals, Peter Hill on guitar and vocals, and Dee Brown on guitar, drums, and vocals, the Dee Brown Trio presents unique interpretations of past and present favourites. The concert supports the GPAG Building Repair Project. Seats are limited; get your tickets now online at www.gpag.ca/dee-brown-trio.
Boyd Norman is a phenomenal musician and actor, whose musical projects include Georgia Fats. A retired English teacher and playwright, Peter Hill is a stellar guitar player and slide guitar player. Dee Brown is a Gibsons based painter, writer, and musician known for her bluesy vocals and percussive guitar style.
Curious about how to use cold wax medium with oil paint? Join us on Tues. Oct. 6th, 10AM – 4PM, with exhibiting artist Kathy McKnight! There is a limit of 12 participants, so register now to save your seat!
Kathy’s style is abstract impressionism using oil mixed with cold wax medium for the unique effects it creates. She develops her paintings intuitively, with multiple layers utilizing the translucency of the oil & wax mixture. This style of painting brings complexity and depth to the work with visual and physical textures that she finds reminiscent of the natural world. In this one-day hands-on class Kathy will demonstrate the tools, and various techniques including solvent reduction and glazing, while you work along throughout the day in stages using the same materials and tools. You’ll leave the day with your own painting and an understanding of why cold wax medium is popular with so many artists. Painters of all levels, from beginners to advanced welcome! Find more information and register online via EventBrite.
Curious about how to use cold wax medium with oil paint? Join us on Tues. Oct. 13th, 10AM – 4PM, with exhibiting artist Sandy Kay! If you missed our last workshop with Sandy Kay, here’s another chance to experience this amazing way to paint with minimum commitment and maximum fun. There is a limit of 12 participants, so register now to save your seat!
Sandy’s paintings are informed by her emotional response to the natural world of forest and sea. She strives to create a feeling rather than a picture, to evoke a deeper emotional response in the viewer. In this one-day hands-on class artist Sandy Kay will demonstrate using the tools, how to blend, mix and layer the paints using cold wax medium, and why it’s a most intriguing, joyful (and easy) way to paint! Sandy will demonstrate in stages while you try this method throughout the day using the same materials and tools. You will leave with your own original fall-themed painting and confidence creating your artwork. This workshop will introduce her latest techniques in tools, glazing, solvent reduction, lifework, and working in a limited palette, and is for painters of all levels, from beginners to advanced. Find more information and register online via EventBrite.
to Oct 25th. In fragments of memories, curiosities and dreams, Nadina Tandy’s new work “Monopoly” invites us to travel into new worlds. Worlds made of mythologies and maps, and specimens and memories, gathered joyfully together on paper and sculpture. Collage becomes storytelling – disorienting stories, humorous ones, strange collections – wunderkammer – a glimpse into wonder. An exhibition on display in Joe’s Lounge from September 18th – October 25th, 2026.
Vancouver-born Nadina Tandy (1962) has extensive experience in varied aspects of art and culture, since 1988. She earned a Fine Arts diploma from Langara College (Vancouver) and studied drawing and painting at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Vancouver). She also completed photography certificate studies at Concordia University (Montreal). Tandy has a broad exhibition history and her works are part of private and public collections throughout North America and Europe. Her work has been featured in print and on television and radio and she has also produced artwork for several book covers. She has produced and hosted cable TV shows and various info spots for CBC Television. She lives and works on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.
Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, September 26th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Join us for free live music from 1pm – 3pm on Sunday Sept. 27th, Oct. 4th, and Oct. 18th!
Presented as part of our Woodland Rhythms exhibition by Sandy Kay and Kathy McKnight. In their exhibition Sandy Kay and Kathy McKnight weave a rich tapestry of perception, where the boundary between visual art, musical expression, and natural landscape dissolves into a singular, evocative experience. Free to attend and all are welcome, no registration required.
Join us for a free Artist Talk on Saturday, October 3rd, 2pm – 3pm with Sandy Kay and Kathy McKnight. All are welcome!
Sharing a profound connection to the coastal forests, Sandy Kay and Kathy McKnight are abstract impressionist painters working primarily in oil and cold wax. Their complementary approaches unite in a celebration of the coastal woodland, blending their unique personal visions with a shared artistic language. Sandy Kay and Kathy McKnight are both Sunshine Coast artists working primarily in oil and cold wax. Together they weave a rich tapestry of perception, where the boundary between visual art, musical expression, and natural landscape dissolves into a singular, evocative experience.
Join us for a one-night only event in collaboration with Holy Crow Arts Society. Squamish Nation playwright Justin Neal explores the tradition of canoeing in Keepers of the Salish Sea. The play is about finding that path we all seek, a search for meaning in life, to discover answers to existential questions. A probing, searching, hilarious tale infusing Coast Salish traditions — inspired by a phenomenal cultural practice thousands of years old, nearly erased by colonization — with the pressing environmental and social issues of our day. The stage reading is directed by Quelemia Sparrow.
September 24th to Oct 18th. Inviting the viewer to slow down and breathe deeply, feel the movement of light, and hear the lyricism and rhythmic flow of the paintings on display, Woodland Rhythms creates a sensory echo of the woodlands where perception blurs and transforms. Sharing a profound connection to the coastal forests, Sandy Kay and Kathy McKnight are abstract impressionist painters working primarily in oil and cold wax. Their complementary approaches unite in a celebration of the coastal woodland, blending their unique personal visions with a shared artistic language. Extending beyond the canvas this exhibition offers a variety of immersive events, from an opening reception featuring live music that will echo the paintings’ inherent musicality to workshops, artist talks, a concert series, and a sound bath. Find more information about these events online at www.gpag.ca.
We are bringing back Art Talks, a series of discussions that centre on issues and ideas connected to contemporary art in the 21st century. Offered online, they are an opportunity to learn, share and discuss wide ranging topics that intersect with making art at this moment in time. Threading theory, practice and art, these discussions will provide a chance to delve into ideas, unpack understandings, and challenge assumptions. In this first session, we will look at artists and practices that consider a changing climate with a particular focus on our warming oceans.
When the Tla’amin Nation asks its neighbouring city to reconsider its name, a community confronts history, identity, and the meaning of reconciliation in everyday life.
Tuesdays from 10-1 from Sept to May with late Dec break. We draw under natural light in the gallery. Our models reflect a range of age and gender. We welcome budding artists and experts alike, no experience necessary, no competition, no pressure, just concentration and direct observation of the undraped human body. Easels, drawing boards and chairs are provided. Artists draw with pencils, charcoals, watercolours, pastels, inks, watercolours, digital drawing…
Fee $20 cash paid at each session.
We start at 10 am sharp. Please arrive at 15-30 minutes early to set up. We start with quick 1-minute gestures, then a 5, 10, 15, 20 and 20 minute poses. Bring lunch or snack as we have a half hour break 11:30-noon then we have 2 final 30 minute poses. Many hands help put equipment away.
Join us for a relaxing evening of guitar and coffee. Local musician Bradley Wells will be playing a selection of pieces, mostly in a nuevo flamenco style and some reimagined classics!
Tickets are $20 at the door or $25 on eventbrite
10 early bird ticket sets are available – 2 for $40
A special visit from Vancouver-based visual artist Tiko Kerr, who will speak about his attempts to describe the psychological landscape of our extraordinary contemporary moment through his creative practice. This will also be an opportunity for a group discussion on the value and importance that creative voices have for our community. Seats are limited, with entrance by donation to support GPAG’s Building Repair Project. Register online at www.gpag.ca/reconstructions!
Embodying a delicate dance between innovation, intuition, and the transformative power of creation, Tiko Kerr’s work invites the viewer to engage within their own subjective experiences. Tiko is a Vancouver-based artist who has been developing his artistic process since the early 1980s.
Plein Air Workshop at Art & Words Festival.
Keep it Simple and Loose – Urban / travel sketching for beginners plus with Paddy Meade
Enjoy a 2 hour plein air sketching in the core of lower Gibsons. Pencil, markers, crayons, watercolour – bring what you have. Paint in sketchbook or on paper. Instructor will supply boards to use on lap, table, curb etc. Easel not required.
Focus is on the basic tips for urban sketching and opportunity to learn how to select subject, basic composition, and fun opportunity to create. Keep it simple and loose.
Saturday, Aug. 22, 10:30 – 12:30
Gibsons Public Art Gallery, $25
Register by email at sunshinecoastwritersandeditors@gmail.com
Jan DeGrass, Author, interviews Artist and Author teams from the Art & Words Festival, including:
Tracy Hall & Janice Rafael
Karen Taylor & Lianne Kirilenko
Rizz Fischer & Bruce Edwards
Leslie MacFarlane & Karis Gauthier
Richard Feehan & Roger Handling
Pammila Ruth & Lorena Ruth
Kathaleen Quinn & Matt Thomson
Rachel Amina & Denise Olson
Doris Good & Ellen Heale
Atma Frans & Michael Healey
Combining bold, simple shapes with organic textures, Figueira pushes the abstraction of the subject while maintaining a sense of scene that is both familiar and challenging to the viewer, conveying the joy and passion found in coastal landscapes. Mountains and rock formations that move across millenia, trees shaped by decades of growth, and the split second flicker of light on fast flowing water are expressed in his works. Playing with positive and negative space, Figueira explores the energy and movement in landscapes across miniscule and massive timescales.
Join us for an Artist Demo on Thursday, August 27th, 2pm – 4pm and for the Opening Reception on Saturday, August 29th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
to Sept 27th. In The Impossibility of Beauty, Mindy Hemstalk gathers driftwood, broken ceramic fragments, and unaltered natural materials from the traditional, unceded, and ancestral territories of the shíshálh Nation, assembling them into shrine‑like forms that honour the wild intelligence of the land. These works emerge from an intense personal journey of rupture and rebirth, shaped by the realization that the dominant cultural definitions of beauty rooted in colonial and patriarchal paradoxes are impossible by design; demanding women be sovereign yet caged, expressive yet silent, sensual yet contained.
An exhibition on display in Joe’s Lounge. Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, August 29th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
