Mezzanine & 2nd Floor Wall Galleries
Island Living – Paintings by Karen Guilbault
January 17 – February 23. 2024
About the Artwork:
Karen Guilbault is a prolific artist with a variety of painting styles and techniques. She enjoys adding mixed media to her acrylic paintings, including pen and ink, figure drawings, hand-painted papers, and hand-carved block prints.
Her themes always involve nature, often animals and birds. In Victoria, she lives on the Gorge Inlet, and often paints coastal landscapes including arbutus, clouds, and waves.
About the Artist:
Karen Guilbault was born in Victoria and has recently returned there to live, after many years in the Kootenays. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Victoria.
She is represented in Victoria at the Gage Gallery, an artist’s collective at 19 Bastion Square, Victoria.
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Window Gallery
Sculpture by Tanya Bub
January 23 – February 23. 2024
About the Artwork:
Her pieces borrow energy from the elements out of which they are comprised, be it the life force in a piece of driftwood whose history and struggles are tangible in its tortuous twists and curves, the text and images from magazine clippings incorporated into her sculptural collages, or recycled plastics that speak of a history or consumption. While addressing serious issues like our interconnectedness with the environment, her work is whimsical, warm, humorous and highly relatable, evoking joy and even laughter, even in people who are not necessarily moved by conventional artwork.
Her themes always involve nature, often animals and birds. In Victoria, she lives on the Gorge Inlet, and often paints coastal landscapes including arbutus, clouds, and waves.
About the Artist:
Tanya Bub is an eco-artist who creates sculptures of animals and people from found wood and recycled materials. A signature feature of her work is making inanimate objects appear to be so alive that is it almost impossible to resist the feeling that there is a living being present.
She is represented in Victoria at the Gage Gallery, an artist’s collective at 19 Bastion Square, Victoria.
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Accessibility: Accessible washrooms, Wheelchair access, and disabled parking stalls.
For inquiries related to exhibitions, please contact Shantael Sleight at shantael.sleight@saanich.ca 778-584-3756.