Brent Laycock entered into a juried open water show at the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC) and was awarded the Gery Puley Award.

Jennifer Dickson was always a classy lady. Meticulous and fastidious in life and her artwork. Exhibited internationally and the only Canadian in 1976 to be elected to the Royal Academy of Arts.

Her CV is nothing but impressive and yet she was humble and always gracious. We will fondly remember her.

Toogood was an instructor at AUArts and touched many lives. We were honoured to host in 2024 an exhibition with her, and came to understand how what a mark she has made. May her light & energy live on in her art.

This past week, the art world has lost another great art legend, Isla Burns.  She was a trail blazer in abstract steel sculpting in Canada. Isla had always a passion for sculpting. She first came to Canada with her mother from the United Kingdom in 1970, where she first studied at the Alberta College of Art (now the Alberta University of the Arts) in 1975.

It is with great sadness that we are to share with you that Dorothy Knowles passed away peacefully with her family on Tuesday morning, May 16, 2023, at the age of 96. She will be fondly remembered and missed.A regal and classy woman, Knowles was an artist that stayed true to herself and her calling in landscape painting.

Two artists in the B.C.Interior, Amy Modahl and Robin Hodgson, have won this year’s Tanabe Prize.They each receive $15,000. Modahl, who teaches at the Vernon campus of Okanagan College, has had solo exhibitions at the Kamloops Art Gallery and the Kelowna Art Gallery. Emerging artist Robin Hodgson, of Kamloops, a quadriplegic since the age of 19, has partial movement in his arms, allowing him to paint with the assistance of adaptive tools.

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.

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.

​Nancy Boyd was recently interviewed by Galleries West Magazine’s Mark Mushet about her works for her exhibition entitled “Bardo Songs”. To watch the Video please click HERE..

Jennifer Dickson works available on-line catalog is now available for viewing. CLICK HERE to see the catalog. This catalog shows the extensive works we have available at the gallery of Jennifer Dickson’s works.Most of these works are no longer available anywhere else.

“Forever Flowers Blooming at Wallace Galleries” Laura Robinson did a nice little write-up in Next magazine of our current exhibition with Robert Lemay.The show continues through to May 26, 2021 – so hope you can come and enjoy the show. You can find the article in Next Magazine HERE.

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. In celebration of International Women’s Day, we are centering this exhibition on our fabulous roster of women artists, including: Nancy Boyd, Isla Burns, Camrose Ducote, Jennifer Hornyak, Joice M Hall, Dorothy Knowles, Elza Mayhew, Amy Modahl, Hilda Oomen, Linda Nardelli, Robin Smith-Peck, Laurie Steen, and Diana Zasadny ecatalog available HERE.

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 14,2020 from 2-5pm The homeland of southern Alberta is where Laycock was born, raised and spent most of his life.There are always new places to discover and familiar places that need to be examined with a fresh outlook & rediscovered.

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 24 from 2-5pm This exhibition has Simon Andrew focusing on the patterns in nature but also reflecting these outer patterns within a painting.He is not only focusing on the structure and observed components of the environment but how that interplay is expressed within the seeming randomness of form in a piece of art.

Artworks enter the Outdoor Art Collection through new commissions or donations of already existing artworks.The last project to enter the collection through donation was Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Bird’s Native Hosts (1991/2007) in 2007.This year, the University Art Committee was pleased to accept the donation of Stela I and Stela II (1963) by Elza Mayhew. Completed in 1963, this pair of abstract, cast aluminum sculptures are excellent examples of Mayhew’s production at a crucial moment in Canadian art history, as well as in her practice.