Time to get your Present Tense submissions ready! Drop off is June 19 – 22, 11AM – 4PM. The exhibition is on display June 26 – July 20.
Present Tense is an annual exhibition featuring the creative work of GPAG members. We are also partnering with the CCA’s Purple Banner Studio Program to highlight artists with studios available for visiting during the exhibition. We accept one artwork from every artist in any medium and style, as long as it adheres to our max. size restriction of 16″ x 20″. Find more info, guidelines, and entry forms online or in person at GPAG.
Interested in showing more of your work at GPAG? Members are also invited to submit up to six Tiny Artworks to our Members’ Tiny Exhibition on display in Joe’s Lounge during Present Tense.
Bring a still life alive with textures and colour. Learn how to abstract and loosen up, creating an expression of the still life. Join us with exhibiting artist Marney-Rose Edge, have fun, and get a little messy! Find more information and register online. Space is limited, book your seat now!
Marney-Rose Edge is a Vancouver based artist who works primarily in watercolours, charcoal, and oils. Her exhibition The Quiet of the Nest is Where Dreams Come True will be on display at GPAG in the Main Gallery May 1st – 25th.
The landscape becomes more painterly and impressionistic through abstraction. Do you want to simplify the complexity of the landscape but don’t know where to start? Join us with exhibiting artist Marney-Rose Edge, have fun, and get a little messy! Find more information and register online. Space is limited, book your seat now!
Marney-Rose Edge is a Vancouver based artist who works primarily in watercolours, charcoal, and oils. Her exhibition The Quiet of the Nest is Where Dreams Come True will be on display at GPAG in the Main Gallery May 1st – 25th.
To May 25th. In this exhibition the concept of the nest serves as both a metaphor and a motif representing a protected space where dreams in their earliest and most fragile forms are given room to grow. Full of movement and textures, using a collection of inorganic and organic tools, soft areas and crisp lines create a contrast within the paintings in which birds appear from the marks as if they have painted themselves into the narrative. Edge’s work explores the quiet sanctuaries we build, physical, emotional and spiritual, encouraging transformation. In the stillness of a protected space, imagination can take flight.
Join us for an Opening Reception with Marney-Rose Edge on Saturday, May 3rd, 2pm – 4pm; and for two upcoming workshops on working in oils and cold wax, on May 7th or on May 21st.
To May 25th. Curiosity, a craving for dopamine, and a love for storytelling come together to throw a party, turn up the volume on imagination, and not look back. Acrylic paintings, a tapestry, and miniature pieces feature animals as archetypes, tiny surprises, and stories you can see and feel. An explosion of colour, texture, and tangled ideas straight from Pelletier’s wonderfully overactive brain, this exhibit is built to add to the neurodivergent conversation displayed during Mental Health Awareness Month and is all about the beauty of feeling a lot. It’s about how colours and textures can change our moods, how small things can hold big meaning, and how even chaos can be cozy when you learn to dance with it.
Join us for an Artist Talk with exhibiting artist Dorothy Doherty on Sunday, April 27th, 2pm – 3pm. All are welcome!
Straddling the line between realism and abstraction, Dorothy Doherty’s work examines a number of issues, particularly relating to urban decay, the beauty of the world around us, the rapid extinction of life forms on this planet, and the effect that humans have on the environment around us. Doherty is a mixed media Vancouver based artist who specializes in working with clay and paint.
Join us for a two day watercolour & ink workshop with Bruce Edwards on April 22nd & 23rd, 1:30pm – 4pm each day. An exploration of colour and design, these workshops will employ watercolour and ink pen to develop strong images, suitable for journal entries, card design and framable art. Cost: $110. Max 15 participants. Find more information and register online via EventBrite.
Can’t make it on the 22nd & 23rd? We will be hosting another workshop with Bruce Edwards on May 13th & 14th.
Join us for a two day watercolour & ink workshop with Bruce Edwards on May 13th & 14th, 1:30pm – 4pm each day. An exploration of colour and design, these workshops will employ watercolour and ink pen to develop strong images, suitable for journal entries, card design and framable art. Cost: $110. Max 15 participants. Find more information and register online via EventBrite.
To Apr 27th. Fine, detailed, colourful linework sensually evolves into expansive landscapes which subtly engage with the beholder and their preconceptions. Pulp products are reversed into tree, sky, and seascapes. Using colourful pencil and felt pen on found and canvassed industrial packaging paper, Man Made Cloud is an ongoing series first begun in 2021. The materiality of the work and the process behind each piece shine through the finesse of the linework. The negative spaces of brown carton papers are elevated to show growth as dense and vivid as the trees which make up the paper may have once been. An exhibition in the Main Gallery, Apr 3rd – 27th.
Join us on Sat. April 5th 2pm – 4pm for the Opening Reception; and on Sat. April 12th 2pm – 3pm for an Artist Talk.
to May 3rd. This exhibition offers a glimpse into the natural beauty around us. From the little Salal plant growing from the roots of an ancient red cedar to the shoreline after a winter storm, our natural world is precious and must be cherished. Kathryn O’Brien documents this beauty while evoking a feeling of preciousness, stewardship, and conservation. O’Brien lives in Gibsons on the Sunshine Coast, BC. An exhibition in Joe’s Lounge, on display April 3rd – 27th.
to April 27th. Discarded coloured and textured papers are embedded within layers of paint obscuring their surfaces. Making incisions into the surface, Dorothy Doherty lifts and peels sections of the paint, revealing the layers beneath and creating a result that is often entirely unplanned and random in every way. Straddling the line between realism and abstraction, Doherty’s work examines a number of issues, particularly relating to urban decay, the beauty of the world around us, the rapid extinction of life forms on this planet, and the effect that humans have on the environment around us. This exhibition is on display in the Main Gallery Apr 3rd – 27th.
Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, April 5th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Join us for an Opening Reception on Saturday, April 5th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Discarded coloured and textured papers are embedded within layers of paint obscuring their surfaces. Making incisions into the surface, Dorothy Doherty lifts and peels sections of the paint, revealing the layers beneath and creating a result that is often entirely unplanned and random in every way. Straddling the line between realism and abstraction, Doherty’s work examines a number of issues, particularly relating to urban decay, the beauty of the world around us, the rapid extinction of life forms on this planet, and the effect that humans have on the environment around us. This exhibition is on display in the Main Gallery Apr 3rd – 27th.
Tuesdays Apr 15 – July 22nd. Pre planned classes in my Home Studio starting ( NO CLASS May 20th) 10:00am-2:00pm. $65 single or pre-book 4@$200 Room for 8 students.
Tables and chairs, water containers, reference photos, paper towel, boards and a hair dryer available – bring your own paint, paper and brushes.(any other supplies you may need).
I will demo and instruct going to each individual to check in, the last hour you work on your own or ask for help. You may bring your own subject to work on and receive guidance. Beginner with some experience and intermediate level
Join us for a painting and mixed media workshop on April 8th 2pm – 4:30pm with instructor Rose Clarke (www.roseclarke.ca), artist and art therapist, who will guide you into a deep and fertile inner world where images, colours, shapes and symbols are encouraged to come out as a vivid living picture-story. You will develop a visual language unique to yourself beyond artistic conventions and roles, to create art that is meaningful and expressive.
This workshop is open to people with all levels of experience. The maximum number of participants is 10. All materials are provided. Find more information and register online via EventBrite.
Looking for something fun to do during Spring Break? During our Shout Out exhibition (March 13th – 30th), GPAG will be open every day 11am – 4pm. Parents and guardians, bring your young artists down anytime to see the exhibition and to enjoy our creation station!
We will be providing all you need to do four fun crafts: collage, weaving, origami, and rock painting; as well as a drawing station. Try out a new craft, and then bring your masterpiece home or trade it with others through our artwork exchange board. This is a free drop in activity station for all ages that will be open anytime throughout the exhibition. Young children must be accompanied by an adult.
to Mar 30. Beginning from the understanding that life is full of complexity, Rose Clarke aims for her works to ignite a creative spark and curiosity within the viewer. Each collage painting in this exhibition is a Storyboard, a tale told in a multitude of ways from a multitude of perspectives. Some can be described literally, some are poetic and suggestive, and others resist interpretation and must be allowed to just be. Clarke practices intuitive image-making, allowing her visual language to emerge from a realm that gets covered over in the business of daily living.
Interested in this exhibition or the processes behind Clarke’s work? Keep an eye out for an upcoming workshop with Rose Clarke at GPAG in April.
SPRING 2025 Workshop
Thursdays MARCH 6 to APRIL 24
Book a single session…or sign up for more
THURSDAYS: OPEN STUDIO (4hr) sessions. 10am-2pm 4 students MAX.
Location: my gallery/studio in Gibsons
558 Woodland Ave Gibsons
Table/chair, easel, water containers, rags provided. I will do a quick initial demo – based on a weekly theme. Students will work on their current project. BYO any medium but Oil thanks.
This is a hands-on painting session for intermediate to advanced students, who have some painting experience and their own materials.
SINGLE session $80.00 CAN
PRE-PAID x4 Sessions $280.00 CAN
go to the website to choose your date/dates on the calendar and register
The deadline to submit your proposal is 4PM on March 31st, 2025. We are currently accepting proposals to exhibit at GPAG in 2026 in the Main Gallery and Eve Smart Gallery! We accept submissions from both emerging and established artists working in all mediums and styles.
Before applying, please read our Exhibition Policy and Submission Guidelines carefully. Apply using our new online form (recommended) or via Google Drive or USB thumb drive. Find more information, submission guidelines, and application forms on our website at www.gpag.ca/submissions. Please note: we do not accept submissions via email.
