Elizabeth Bastien Exhibit

ArtSpring - Lobby 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

Works from the series My Momma was a Settler by Elizabeth Bastien are exhibited this month in the ArtSpring lobby. Employing First Nations and European textile techniques and conventions, the works are a ‘mash-up’ that explore the implications of holding membership in more than one culture.

Broken Light: Exhibit by Megan Manning

ArtSpring - Lobby 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

As meditations in colour and shape, the drawings exhibited by artist Megan Manning came out of the doodles of a restless mind. Light is broken into intricate coloured patterns that sometimes suggests a subject. The photographs in the exhibit are of dancers behind a sculpture, Myriad - by UK artist Katharine Dowson, made up of 4,000 […]

Desert Dreams: Patricia Brown Exhibit

ArtSpring - Lobby 100 Jackson Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

This month's lobby art exhibit is Dessert Dreams, paintings by Patricia Brown that celebrate cycles and passages. In this show, Brown displays three new series: “Taos Pueblo”, “Doorways of India” and “Antelope Canyon”.  These pieces are all egg tempera paintings, some on paper and some on gessoed fabric on board.  All represent transition since central to […]