Join us for the Opening Receptions of two new exhibitions by Jess Hart and Jan Jensen on Saturday, Nov. 30th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Illustrating the interesting pathways of employment of a working artist, Jess Hart’s Places I’ve Worked features unique contemporary and abstract artwork depicting coastal and urban scenes in a dynamic style. Jan Jensen’s Rivers of Connection/Pools of Separation explores the state of the human spirit on earth, entwined in community, yet searching for singularity, through both painting and sculpture. Can’t make the Opening Reception on the 30th? Both artists will also be delivering an Artist Talk on Dec. 7th, 2pm – 3pm.
Join us for an Artist Talk with exhibiting artists Jess Hart and Jan Jensen on Saturday, Dec. 7th, 2pm – 3pm. All are welcome!
Illustrating the interesting pathways of employment of a working artist, Jess Hart’s exhibition Places I’ve Worked features unique contemporary and abstract artwork depicting coastal and urban scenes in a dynamic style. Jan Jensen’s exhibition Rivers of Connection/Pools of Separation explores the state of the human spirit on earth, entwined in community, yet searching for singularity, through both painting and sculpture. Join us to hear more about these two exhibitions from the artists themselves. All are welcome!
Join us for an Artist Talk and Demo with Mehran Modarres-Sadeghi during her exhibition Safar (A Journey) on Saturday, Nov 9th, 2PM – 3PM. Safar (A Journey), in the Main Gallery until November 24th, explores Iranian identity in a globalized world through four separate but linked series of work. Mehran Modarres-Sadeghi is an Iranian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, BC. Her current practice mainly engages with drawing and textile sculpture, although she has worked in various media such as photography, painting, and installation.
to Nov 24th. Mehran Modarres-Sadeghi’s exhibition Safar (A Journey) in the Main Gallery explores Iranian identity in a globalized world through four separate but linked series of work featuring drawings and sculptures. Modarres-Sadeghi’s works are autoethnographic, reflecting her lived experiences in Iran and Canada. Through her work she investigates the socio-cultural implications of hybridity as they relate to interethnic exchange and the globalizing process of travel and translation.
Join us for the opening reception of this exhibition on Saturday, Nov. 2nd, 2pm – 4pm; and for an artist talk with Mehran on Saturday, Nov. 9th, 2pm – 3pm. All are welcome to both events!
to Nov 24th. A series of digital paintings by Susan Harman in the Eve Smart Gallery that visually express the movement of transitional change using symbols and icons of the West Coast. Inspiration for the exhibition came at a point in time when Harman was surfacing from troubled waters, transitioning from a period of grief and learning how to navigate more freely in the world with sorrow as a new companion. Susan Harman is a photographer, writer, and painter living on the Sunshine Coast. Her style is a mix of abstraction and realism painted with a digital brush and her intention is to make art that has meaning, to write a visual story that might intertwine with the stories of others.
Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, Nov. 2nd, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Join us for the Opening Receptions of two different exhibitions by Mehran Modarres-Sadeghi in the Main Gallery and Susan Harman in the Eve Smart Gallery. on Saturday, Nov. 2nd, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Mehran Modarres-Sadeghi is an Iranian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, BC who explores Iranian identity in a globalized world through four separate but linked series of work featuring drawings and sculptures. Susan Harman is a photographer, writer, and painter living on the Sunshine Coast who uses digital painting and symbols of the West Coast to express her transition from a period of grief to learning how to navigate more freely in the world with sorrow as a new companion.
Our newest exhibition in Joe’s Lounge Catching the Light features mixed media collage pieces by Ellen Heale and wet felting by Hazel Maxwell. Heale’s mixed media pieces, using primarily paper, collage elements, and paint, are layered to showcase design and texture. Maxwell’s wet felting process combines wool roving, silk, beads and other fibres to produce vibrant dimensional art. Reminiscent of a forest walk, or a hike along coastal paths, the art featured in their exhibition Catching the Light will take you on a delightful journey.
This exhibition is on display until October 27th. Both artists will be in attendance to meet and answer any questions you might have about their work during the upcoming Art Crawl, October 18 – 20.
Happy Hour 3:30-5
Mocktails and cocktails Enjoy custom drinks prepared with SCOOCO white and dark balsamic vinegars.
Appetizers (some are created with SCOOCO Virgin olive oils and balsamic reductions)
Artists participating at venue 133
Pauline Lawson
Arts and Crafts
Ingeborg Hardman
Photographer ~ Visual Artist
Plan on joining us for~
Speaking Silks 530pm
Video collaboration
Silks ~ Pauline Lawson, Video ~ Ingeborg Hardman, reading ~ Dale Wilson, Composer ~ Christopher Bernetchez
Poet + Bard 6-730
Jena Eros & Nick Walkey
Musicians ~ Songwriters
Poet and Bard are a romantic and poetic pairing with varied guitar and vocal stylings.
Featuring: Mieke Bray, Claudia Medina, Laura Piersol, Nadina Tandy, Kamala Todd, Clare Wilkening and others.
As a closing of the 2024 Sechelt Arts Festival, this exhibition brings together works by artists living on the Sunshine Coast that shares their stories of (and with) the Salish Sea.
Please join us to celebrate the opening of Nurturing Growth with Nell Burns.
Nurturing Growth is pod and cocoon inspired artwork that celebrates the intricate and fascinating structures that nature creates to protect and nourish life within them. From the hard shells of seed pods, acorns, and pine cones to the soft and silky cocoons of insects, these structures are not only functional, but also beautiful and inspirational.
“I essentially draw and paint with thread, using the needle as my pencil, and the fabric as my canvas. My artwork has always had sculptural elements, using fabrics and stabilizers to create 3D art. Currently I employ techniques to sculpt using only stitched thread.”
Join us for the Opening Reception of David Martinello’s exhibition Conversing Gestures on Saturday, Sept. 28th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Featuring abstract wood sculptures and prints combined with gestural markings, David Martinello’s exhibition in the Main Gallery highlights the beauty of wood, its intrinsic characteristics, and its role as a connective node to the environment. David Martinello is an artist from Mill Bay, Vancouver Island, who works with a variety of different techniques and mediums. Working with a multi-disciplinary approach along with conventional manipulations of wood Martinello discerns insights into the essence of the material. He explores its intrinsic properties, highlighting aspects of the medium that are often taken for granted or overlooked.
Entry to this event is by donation and it is open to all, no preregistration required. Join us for this fun, hands on workshop with exhibiting artist David Martinello!
Inspired by the prints in his exhibition Conversing Gestures, participants will make rubbings of a woodblock with raised grain, which will be the foundation for a gestural response. The exercise will be framed with an assessment of the cedar, to discuss its importance to Indigenous peoples and ask participants to consider the legacy of the wood by describing the path taken for the woodblock to be in their hands. We’ll engage with the nature of wood to create art and connections to the landscape.
to Sept 22nd. An impressive collection of painted and drawn portraits by Maurice Spira spanning more than 40 years, many of which will be exhibited to the public for the first time. Spira conducts his portrait sessions live with no camera mediation used, and his hope with this particular exhibition is that it will inspire young artists to draw directly from life. His considerable archive of portraits often depicts local people in our community, some now deceased, but most very much alive. Spira goes one step further than replication of what the eye sees and undertakes an expressive examination of each subject. His portraits represent a balance between this expressive examination, reality, and truth.
Join us for the opening reception Saturday, Aug. 31st, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Join us on Saturday, August 31st, 2pm – 4pm to meet the artist Maurice Spira at the opening reception of his exhibition M. Spira Portraits. All are welcome to join us to learn more about this exhibition!
This exhibition features an impressive collection of painted and drawn portraits by Maurice Spira spanning more than 40 years, many featuring local members of the community exhibited to the public for the first time. Born in Kent, England, Spira came to Montreal in 1966, where he describes the psychoactive enriched counter-cultural milieu as having transformed him utterly. After painting in Mexico in the mid-seventies he moved to Vancouver and then to the Sunshine Coast in the early 1980’s. More than thirty years later he continues to paint and print in his Roberts Creek Studio.
Join us for the opening reception of North By Northwest by Jeff Wilson on Saturday, August 3rd, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome to attend!
Illustrating narratives around the history and life cycles of the North coast of BC, Jeff Wilson’s exhibition is inspired by his time spent immersed in the landscapes of BC’s coast observing the particular and unique history and effects of boom and bust economics. Originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, Jeff Wilson trained as a structural geologist and worked in mineral exploration before settling in Vancouver. Working as a full-time artist since 2013, Wilson has exhibited his work in solo exhibitions throughout BC, Alberta, and Washington State, and in group exhibitions in BC, Washington State, and Italy.
Join us for the Opening Reception of Watershed by Suzan Marczak on Saturday, August 3rd, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome to attend!
Marczak’s exhibition Watershed explores the primal landscapes of high mountain passes and headwaters, illustrating the awe inspiring yet fragile nature of these water towers and emphasizing the need to protect and preserve them. Suzan Marczak has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Lower Mainland and in Quebec. Marczak holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University and a Diploma in Studio Art from Capilano College. She is an avid hiker based in Vancouver who is creatively guided by the changing seasons, the light, the amazing forms and shapes, and the cycles of life in the backcountry.
Join us for happy hour at GPAG to watch six local artists at work! Artists will create from 4pm – 6pm while guests mingle, watch and learn. At the end of the session one lucky name will be drawn and the winning guest will choose their favourite Luck of the Draw piece to take home! All other works will be available for sale until the end of the Present Tense Members’ Exhibition (July 28th). Tickets are $5 for members and $10 for non-members (available at the door). Free snacks; cash bar. You must be in attendance to win the door prize (approximately 6:15pm).
Artists: Denise Allen, Bruce Edwards, Tam Harrington, Sandy Kay, Jude Pelletier, Vanessa Tomada
