William Perehudoff and Dorothy Knowles at Winchester Galleries

Ronald Markham at Winchester galleries on Oak Bay

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Ronald Markham: Best of Both Worlds

October 10 - 28, 2017

2260 Oak Bay ave.

Winchester Galleries, ‘Five’. May 2-27th. by Philip Willey.

Vicky Christou was born in Melbourne, Australia and immigrated to Canada in 1969. She is a graduate of the Emily Carr College of Art and Design. Her work exists somewhere between painting and sculpture. She is inspired, she says, ‘by the simultaneous happenings of visual and personal metaphorical dialogues.’

Multiple layers of impasto are protected by a woven textile grid to produce striking 3 dimensional images of light and shade.

Jeremy Mangan was born in Seattle and has spent most of his life in the Pacific Northwest. He studied at PLU in Tacoma also in Munich, Germany and New York. There is something of Rene Magritte in Mangan’s paintings. He uses a realist technique to paint recognizable objects in an unusual context thereby creating improbable landscapes and events.

“My current work explores phenomena: the unusual,
exceptional moments just on the edge of plausibility,
and occasionally beyond.” Jeremy Mangan

He has shown frequently in Tacoma and Seattle and now Victorians have a chance to see his work.

Sean Mills, a graduate of Emily Carr University, based in Vancouver, explores light and transparency using paint and plexiglass. He sees paint as both occupying and containing space. The way his works play with light and shadow makes them appear less substantial than they actually are.

Neil McClelland is from Gatineau, Quebec now living in Victoria where he teaches sessionally at UVic and Vancouver Island School of Art. Of all the artists in this show perhaps McClelland comes closest to having a political agenda. His current interest is the perfectibility of society and his striking, albeit somewhat ominous, paintings capture the current societal unease. 

See:

http://exhibit-v.blogspot.ca/2017/02/neil-mcclelland-at-deluge-contemporary.html

In a lighter vein is Carollyne Yardley who is best known in Victoria for her squirrels, cheeky little critters that appear in her paintings in various disguises. Squirrels and masks have led to her current preoccupation, therianthropy (the ancient belief of shapeshifting, and animal ancestors), and theriocephaly (animal-headed humanoid forms such as the ancient Egyptian gods Ra, Sobek, and Anubis). She has also been collaborating with Rande Ola K’alapa.  Rande is part of a new generation of indigenous artists who are open to cross-cultural experimentation. Their show ‘Shapeshifting’ is ongoing at the Fazakas Gallery in Vancouver.

Carollyne is in Venice but her fan club showed up.

It was a lavish opening and very well attended. This is not strictly speaking a group show. There’s no unifying theme and the five artists don’t have a lot in common. That’s not the point. They are all serious, committed and in for the long haul. Their work is finely crafted and Winchester sees a bright future for them. Hence the sub-title FIVE: TO COLLECT. Winchester Galleries are to be congratulated for their forward thinking.

Sandra Meigs - En Trance - at Winchester galleries

Joe Fafard at Winchester galleries

Joe Coffey / Joe Fafard at Winchester Galleries

Joe Coffey: Symbiosis

 

Joe Fafard: Creatures Great and Small

 Dec. 1 to 23, 2016- Winchester Galleries - Oak Bay Ave. 

opening Dec. 1, 2016 @ 5:30 pm

Robert Murray at Winchester Galleries - 2016

Mary Fox at Winchester Galleries - 2016

Harry Stanbridge - The Attic Series - at Winchester Galleries

Brad Pasutti at Winchester Galleries - 2016

Brad Pasutti show: The Intertwining at Winchester Galleries

The anatomy lesson 

June 7 - 25, 2016

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 11
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Artist will be in attendance

Winchester Galleries

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Barbara Edwards show: Road Trip: A Paper Trail at Winchester Gallery

The Game, watercolour, 7 "

Road Trip: A Paper Trail
June 7 -25, 2016

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 11
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Artist will be in attendance

Winchester Galleries 

Abstracta Delecta - The Quebec Painters at Winchester Gallery

Duncan Regehr - Everlast - at Winchester Gallery

Duncan Regehr - Everlast - at Winchester Gallery

Winchester Galleries is pleased to present new work by Duncan Regehr.

My work of the last 40 years has been focused primarily on creating figurative art through series devoted to specific themes. My paintings, drawings and sculpture have explored the human condition, myth, history, psychology, science and philosophy. I have not engaged another genre since the abstract Geoscapes and Henge paintings – works made in California during the early 1980s.
While I continue to develop different figurative series, the ‘Scapes’ of EVERLAST, offer a departure from those works.

The images were derived more from a state of mind than they were from specific physical locations or subject matter. Not unlike previous figurative compositions, these oil and mixed media paintings retain visceral and resolved expression of the emotions and psychological awareness that fostered their creation. Through vistas which capture moments in time, they invoke memories of joy, love, sorrow, comfort, longing...vivid recollections of beginnings, endings, stories, poetry, music, myth and history.

 Opening Reception: Saturday, January 16, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Duncan Regehr will be in attendance.
Brent Jarvis, piano; Rob Johnson, bass

David Blackwood - A Major Exhibition and the Winter exhibition 2015 at W...

Tony Onley at Winchester Gallery in Oak Bay

 

Toni Onley left a small trove of handpicked watercolours, oils and acrylics to his son James, who has recently decided to release a selection of this private reserve. "We are honoured to have been entrusted with the exhibition and sale of these special paintings," said Winchester Galleries President Gunter Heinrich.

Included in the exhibition will be over thirty watercolours from locations near and far, including Harrison Lake, Lake Okanagan, the Inside Passage, Boundary Bay, Pitt Lake, Okanagan Ranch, Emma Lake, Point au Baril, and Georgian Bay; as well as Big Sur in California, Malibu Pier, Eleuthera in the Bahamas, the Gulf of Arabia, the Roman Forum, Manghold Head in the Isle of Man; and Greece, Italy and France.

Also on exhibit will be several oils and acrylics that have never been seen and it  runs until July 22, 2015.

Winchester Galleries Oak Bay
2260 Oak Bay Avenue
250-595-2777

 

Terry Fenton and Liz Charsley-Jory at Winchester Gallery in Oak Bay

 Contemplating Nature

"My work reflects a desire to escape the hectic urban pace of life and to make time for contemplation of the natural world. My compositions of rural and urban wilderness, uninhabited by intrusive figures, offer the viewer a quiet space to muse and enjoy.Referencing 19th century romantic painters, with undercurrents of the sublime, they entice the viewer in, offering detachment from the mundane world and suspension from the passage of time." 

Liz Charsley-Jory

 

Sea and Sky

 "I paint prairie landscapes and west coast seascapes for the most part. This exhibition concentrates mostly on the latter. All of my paintings are about light and atmosphere, skies above and earth or water below. On the coast the sea responds to and echoes the sky and makes the wind uniquely visible.

"I don’t have a “style’ in the usual sense. Each subject, picture size, and surface calls for a different approach. Some paintings are rough and “painterly”, others are smooth and “linear”; some come together quickly, others take months or years to complete. I call myself a “post-abstract” landscape painter because I’ve learned so much from the many abstract artists I’ve known."

Terry Fenton

Opening reception for both artists: Sat. June 6, 2015 @ 1pm 

Andy Wooldridge and Haren Vakil at Winchester Gallery on Oak Bay

 

Andy Wooldridge

Haren Vakil

Winchester Galleries Oak Bay
 

Andy Wooldridge: Repeat Motifs
 

 Haren Vakil: Works on Paper
October 30 - November 26, 2014
 

Opening Reception with both artists in attendance:
Saturday, November 1, 1:00 - 5:00 pm. 

Elizabeth Ely; harpist, Brooke Maxwell: Pianist

Private Collection: Exhibition and Sale at Winchester Gallery

 

PRIVATE COLLECTION: EXHIBITION & SALE

May 6 to 31, 2014 

We have been entrusted with the sale of this impressive private collection of contemporary and historical European, British, American and Canadian art and sculpture.

This diverse collection of rare and never-before-seen artwork  comprises many styles, eras and genres.

Discover paintings, graphics and sculpture by Georges Braque, Jules R. Herve, Aristide Maillol, Pablo Picasso, Fried Pal, Erwin Eichinger, Percy Lancaster, Mary Mason, Thomas Hart Benton, Jim Dine, Antoine Bittar, Pegi Nichol MacLoed, Dorothy Knowles, Rudy Kehkla, Michael Lonechild, Joseph Plaskett and many others.

Winchester Galleries has been given direction from the owner to find a new home for all of these works.

We invite you to view this lovely exhibition and take advantage of the opportunity to acquire a gem or two for your own collection.

 WINCHESTER GALLERIES OAK BAY

2260 Oak Bay Avenue
250-595-2777