Bill Bartlett at Xchanges Gallery and Studios

I have just come from Xchanges Gallery and Studios where I do most of my figurative sketching. I spent the morning assisting Bill Bartlett, gallery coordinator with his show that opens this Friday, November 23, 7Pm. This is some show like nothing I have seen in a long time, figurative works, a whimsical female gang of characters, dozens of them strewn across the gallery walls expressing great joy in just being women. And so well done in graphite, ink and watercolour. I've known Bill for over 40 years and it is so good to see him a master of his work. And he is. He is now up there with the likes of Gustaf Klimt and Egon Schiele. Today it was a privilege working with him. The show is a pop up show that only lasts for 3 days. his 2 studios will be open where you can wander through his interesting life. So go to the gallery behind the Dairy Queen on Douglas and Bay Streets and see this man's great work.

 

Rick Thomas

Leah McInnis at Xchanges Gallery and Studios

“The Frog in the Desert at Twilight”
Leah McInnis 

 An exhibition of visual art that considers the multifarious potentials of being slippery in the magical year of 2018

Exhibition runs through Sunday, April 22nd, 2018

Sat. and Sun. only  12 to 4 pm 

Regan Rasmussen at arc.hive Artist Run Centre

Marjorie Allen at Errant ArtSpace

Abstract Artist Marjorie Allen showcases work from her series:
Apollo and Dionysus
April 6th to 15th 2018. 
Curated by Bill Porteous.

Ronald Markham at Winchester galleries on Oak Bay

tree target

Ronald Markham: Best of Both Worlds

October 10 - 28, 2017

2260 Oak Bay ave.

Faculty Exhibition at Slide Room gallery

Kemi Craig at the Fifty Fifty Arts Collective

Robert Youds at Winchester Galleries on Fort Street

Robert Youds : City Cut Flowers 

September 14 to 30, 2017 

Opening Reception:  Sept. 14, 2017 - 7pm 

Winchester Galleries

665 Fort St.

Karel Doruyter at Madrona Gallery - 2017

We are busy getting ready for Karel Doruyter's solo show, opening this Saturday from 1-4pm. You are invited to come down to meet Karel and see this stunning exhibition, including the largest painting he has ever made, at 15' long.

In this latest collection, Doruyter continues to refine his textured landscapes while also looking inward, creating a collection of complex and engaging pieces.

Opening reception Saturday September 16, 1-4pm
Artist in Attendance.

Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane @ Open Space

It starts in the wild lands of the West Coast Trail, where Holyoak and Shane will spend 10 days hiking to collect impressions, visual documentation, and to provoke their imaginations for a vast and immersive drawing that will cover the walls at Open Space.

During July and August, Open Space will transform into a space of flux and metamorphosis, mapping the tension between what is abundant and what is endangered, what is real and what is imagined, what is untempered contrasted with the effects of human  interruption. Animals, their habitats, and plant life will all be met with fantasty, and live in a newly imagined space.

You will lose yourself in the immensity of the drawn experience at Open Space. As artist Shane explains: "This shared world is one at the borderlands of wilderness and civilization, the real and the imaginary, deep time and the present".

Open Space will be open during the installation process. Summer hours are 12:00pm to 5:00pm, Tuesday-Saturday. Stop by to meet the artists and chat with them during their lunch breaks, from 1:00pm-2:00pm, Tuesday-Saturday.

Artists talk: Sat. Aug. 12, 2017 @ 2pm

Kerry Vaughn Erickson at arc.hive artist run centre

Associate Showcase exhibition at Coast Collective gallery

The Resilience of the People exhibition

The District of Oak Bay in partnership with the Songhees Nation and The Robert Bateman Centre present: 

 

 

 

In 1916 an English visitor by the name of Alice Lisle spent a year in Oak Bay staying with friends at the Oak Bay Boat House.  During her visit she took photographs of Songhees village sites on Discovery and Chatham Islands and of First Nation entrepreneurs and residents around the harbour of Victoria. 

 

In 2016, the Songhees Nation and Robert Bateman Centre worked together to incorporate these rare photographs in an exhibit called Resilience of the People: A Visual History of the Traditional Territory of the Lekwungen/Songhees People. This exciting exhibit is now on display at the Oak Bay Municipal Hall, August 1 to 31^st, 2017.

 

The exhibit covers a visual history of what is now Greater Victoria, the Songhees First Nation’s traditional territory. Visitors will discover the complexities of the lands around them, and witness how the Songhees’ resilient relationship to the conditions of their ancestral lands has changed, including how their relationship has developed up to the present day.

 

The exhibit is open from August 1 to August 31, 2017 at the Oak Bay Municipal Hall, Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm. 

The exhibit will also be open during the Oak Bay Night Market on Wednesday, August 9^th 4-8pm and on Saturday, August 19^th 10am-4pm to celebrate Oak Bay’s Arts & Culture Week.  

Free admission.

Luke Ramsey at Madrona Gallery 2017

Floating in ocean streams, bathing in colour and water. Clouds, isolated pour. Islands, hills and orcas dissected to show inspection, to vibration, to the mineral core. A beating heart at the centre of the Earth below, the sun high above. The heat inside living things, the heart centred in us.  Pen to paper to draw from the inside, a continuous line in time exploring characters in play and motion. A tidy mess. Pushing paint to define the line in shape, to experiment, to contemplate. To get out, to get down, to give in and not give up.

Luke Ramsey

Out in it

June 8 - 22 2017

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 8th, 7 - 9 PM

Canada 150 Art Exhibit - Victoria, B.C.

Margo Cooper at Gage Art Gallery Arts Collective 2017

Diane Adolph at the Langham Court Theatre

Polished 2.0 by Kate Carson and Mich Winkel at the Community Arts Council

PJ Kelly and Roy Green at Polychrome Fine Art

The 18th Look Show