Price Range: $670 – $18,000
Barbara Milne
, RCA
Barbara Milne was born in Windsor, Ontario. She studied fine art at York University, Toronto. She taught as a seasonal instructor at the Alberta College of Art (now the Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts)) from 1998-2012.
Milne’s paintings are rich in symbols and metaphors. Shape, colour, and textures combine and resonate to describe a parallel experience of place. Memory plays a complex role in Milne’s paintings. It not only involves the physical reconstruction of the artist’s experience of a place: but also embodies a recollection of previous paintings, histories, and styles. While Milne’s landscapes derive from real settings, the artist transcends the particularities of place, producing images that are richly layered, evoking a sense of wonder.
Available Works
Light and Shade V
Light & Shade – Garden
Woven – Garden, 2022
Nocturne – Boarder, 2020-22
Light and Shade – Pine
Light & Shade – Mid Summer
Woven – Pool, 2022
Woven – Bow River
Light & Shade III
Light and Shade – Hydrangea
Light & Shade III
Ambient Light – Skoki
Blue Poppies, 2020
Tract III, 2015-2022
Cameo V
Cameo IV
Ambient light – Cameo
Ambient light – Cameo II
Flux II
Woven – Pond
Catalogs
Milne – Woven Exhition e-Catalog 2022
November 19-December 7, 2022
Opening reception: November 19; 2-5pm; Artist in attendance
Woven, an exhibition of oil paintings by Barbara Milne, will open November 19th 2022 at Calgary’s Wallace Galleries. At its heart is a selection of works completed over the past three years. For this exhibition, the artist has drawn inspiration from her observation of the natural world, her knowledge of historical art, and from her extensive collection of textiles, photography, collage, and earlier pieces in her studio. Past work speaks to new work in an ongoing conversation – netting a full range of expression.
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.
International Women’s Day Exhibition 2026
Opening reception: Saturday, March 14 from 2-5pm.
Our International Women’s Day Exhibition is up! Despite a water line break, we are now back to normal and have this incredible exhibition up!
This exhibition will highlight works by our women artist by including; Nancy Boyd, Isla Burns, Camrose Ducote, Jennifer Hornyak, Joice M Hall, Dorothy Knowles, Elza Mayhew, Amy Modahl, Elzbieta Krawecka, Hilda Oomen, Linda Nardelli, Robin Smith-Peck, and Diana Zasadny.
As 2026 mission for International Women’s Day (IWD) is #GiveToGain, any sales from this exhibition will have a percentage going towards Safe Haven. Safe Haven Foundation of Canada was born from one couple’s personal mission to develop a program dedicated to keeping homeless, and at-risk teenage girls safe, off the streets, and in school.
International Women’s Day (IWD) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Significant activity is witnessed worldwide as groups come together to celebrate women’s achievements or rally for women’s equality.
As women in art have been overshadowed by their counter parts for so many years, the intent to highlight and applaud all our women artists from our roster by exhibiting them as a strong united group in one fabulous exhibition. Women of all genera of art will be on display and representing art from across Canada. This exhibition will celebrate the diversity and strength of art done by women in Canada.
Historically women have been overshadowed in the arts by their counter-parts for so many years. It is just until recent years that we see women starting to flourish in the artists. Great artists such as Mary Pratt, Helen Frankenthaler, Georgia O’Keefe, and Emily Carr have paved the way for today’s women in the arts. This show is to exemplify the strong and = innovative art that women artists of today are creating.