Jean McEwen

March 18 - April 12, 2023

Snap Shots: Pages from the Past

March 18 - April 12, 2023

Easter Group Show 2023

April 15 - May 10, 2023

About the Gallery

We proudly represent a variety of painters, sculptors, and printmakers whose work presents exceptional quality and value. Many of our artists are well-known, some are mid-career and others are notable up-and-comers. This interesting mix of talents ensures an exciting and wide-ranging selection of art in terms of both style and price.

Nothing beats the emotional reaction of seeing a piece of art that moves you. We are here to listen to your needs and finding the right piece of art that will do this.

From young couples decorating their first home to executives charged with building a corporate art collection, visitors to our gallery often look to us for advice and information. We look to develop long-term relationships with our clients for this reason.


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Jean McEwen & Snap Shots Exhibitions open this Saturday, March 18 from 2-5 pm. please join us!More...

These two exhibitions celebrate the works of Jean McEwen, Ted Godwin, Kenneth Lochhead, and Harold Town, and their contribution to the art world. It showcases the boldness and innovation that these artists possessed and the courage to challenge the status quo. It is a testament to the power of art to shape and change our world and to the power of the individual to make a difference.

February 11 - March 1, 2023More...

Red: The colour of Love - a group Exhibition.

This exhibition is a playful concept on RED. With so many wonderful artists working and using the colour, it seemed appropriate to highlight and feature the various ways it is used in art to compliment the up-coming Valentine’s season. Works by various of our gallery artists, include; David Alexander, Simon Andrew, David Newkirk, Steve Mennie, Harold Town, Robert Lemay, Phil Darrah, Bruce Head, Diana Zasadny, and more.

Milne - Woven Exhibition 2022: November 19 - December 7, 2022Reception: Saturday, November 19 from 2-5PM: artist in attendanceMore...

Drawing on her love of textiles, Milne chose to call the exhibition Woven likening it to a length of woolen tweed, a seemingly simple warp and weft construction which, upon closer scrutiny, proves to be an increasingly complex and seductive read. Such is the case here. In these paintings, what might appear as a singular colour from a distance, reveals itself to be overlapping colours, tones, lines and shapes. The juxtaposition of the unexpected. A surface may be transparent in some areas yet richly built up in others. In Milne’s work the close up and distant views are presented simultaneously, resulting in landscapes that are both intimate in the form of a garden and majestic such as the glacier at Lake Louise.

Several paintings are centred on the exuberance of blossoms, their ephemeral beauty, and their eventual demise. Each flower is a vehicle of change, of what we experience and observe in our own lives. Certain passages are descriptive while others are abstract. Lustre is surrounded by tension and interference. Through the microcosm of a single bloom or an isolated tree, one sees into a larger unsettling world. Beauty is explored in the tradition of Vanitas painting, there is an awareness of the fleetingness of existence.

“Through editing and amplification of details, I am looking at the experience of wonder. I have long been aware of our fragile relationship to the land, pondering ideas of stewardship and vulnerability. In these works, we are ever reminded of temporality - of presence and absence - nature as we encounter it and as we remember it.” - Milne


Upcoming Exhibitions

abstraction, abstract expressionism, Montreal, watercolor, black, wash, flag, Canada, gold, yellow

Jean McEwen

March 18 - April 12, 2023

Opening Reception: March 18: 2-5PM; on-line catalog available HERE For the first time ever in Calgary, we will be hosting the exclusive exhibition of s...

Mixed media, abstraction, green, blue, expression

Snap Shots: Pages from th...

March 18 - April 12, 2023

Opening Reception: March 18: 2-5PM In conjunction with the McEwen exhibition, we will have works on paper by Ted Godwin, Kenneth Lochhead, and Harold ...

oil, landscape, water, ocean, stark, abstraction, Ontario, United Kingdom, bold, chunky, sherbet, pink

Easter Group Show 2023

April 15 - May 10, 2023

Opening Reception: April 15: 2-5PM This group exhibition is focusing on the anticipation of all things that our beautiful countryside has to offers, b...


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March 18 – April 12, 2023: Jean McEwen

Opening Reception: March 18: 2-5PM - ONLINE catalog available HERE

For the first time ever in Calgary, we will be hosting the exclusive exhibition of select works by Jean McEwen. Celebrating the centennial of his birth, Jean McEwen is a renowned Canadian (Quebec) artist whom created works that were ground-breaking in the art scene during the action expression movement of the 50’s-60’s and beyond.

His works were always created with a deeply thought-out idea in mind. They demand an emotional response from whomever come upon them. He is known for his innovation and contribution to art. His works are exhibited in the MoMA, The National Gallery of Canada, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, to name a few. McEwen always insisted that his works were focused and based by the sensation that one gets from art, not based on criteria or theories of art. This exhibition holds true to this sentiment, and is a unique, once-in-a-lifetime exhibition to hit Calgary which shouldn’t be missed.

February 11-March 1, 2023 : Red: The Colour of Love - a group Exhibition.

With works by various gallery artists, including; David Alexander, Simon Andrew, David Newkirk, Steve Mennie, Harold Town, Diana Zasadny, and more.

March 18 – April 12, 2023: Jean McEwen

A special and exclusive exhibition of select works from the renowned Quebec artist, illustrating his innovation and contribution to art.

March 18 – April 12, 2023: Snap Shots: Pages from the Past

In conjunction with the McEwen exhibition, we will have works on paper by Ted Godwin, Kenneth Lochhead, and Harold Town. Snap back in time with some historic modern works of artists from the Regina Five and Painters Eleven. These artists along with McEwen were the avant garde of the 50s and 60s, making huge moves in Canadian art.

April 15 – May 10, 2023: Easter Group Show 2023

This group exhibition is focusing on the anticipation of all things that our beautiful countryside has to offers, both in outdoors and that which inspires the creative mind. Works included by; Robin Smith-Peck, David Alexander, Simon Andrew, Bob Kebic, Dorothy Knowles, Brent Laycock, and more.

May 13 – 31, 2023: Lemay & Oomen

Celebrating mom with flowers! These two artists come together each with their own approach and perspective on flowers.

​November 19 - December 7, 2022 For exhibition e-Catalog; CLICK HERE

Opening reception: November 19; 2-5pm; Artist in attendance

Drawing on her love of textiles, Milne chose to call the exhibition Woven likening it to a length of woolen tweed, a seemingly simple warp and weft construction which, upon closer scrutiny, proves to be an increasingly complex and seductive read.

Head & Mayhew exhibition e-catalog available HERE

Opening Reception: October 1, 2022 from 2-5pm.

Galleries West Magazine has featured on their website today an article on Phil Darrah: “Abstract painting offering a window into Contemplation” by Richard White. The article focuses on the works currently in our two-person exhibition, Works within a Continuum”. Robin Smith-Peck is the other half of this two-person show. The exhibition is on now and until April 20, 2022. It is a frabulous article giving an insight into what Darrah’s works offer.

you can visit the Galleries West article HERE