About the Gallery
We proudly represent a variety of Canadian 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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Mark your calendars for two incredible exhibitions opening Thursday, October 19 from 6pm-8pm!More...
Jennifer Hornyak’s exhibition “Merging” was chosen in order to highlight how her work has transitioned over the last few years, from a more defined image to a more abstract vision. Shown are oil paintings on canvas or board intermixed with works on paper to further emphasize the transitional nature of the two styles.
Kenneth Lochhead’s exhibition “Light and Shadows” emphasizes the artist interest and ability to reimagine a landscape through the lens of the spaces between and reflection, and how the ever changing aspects of light can create a new image with every moment in time.
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 23, 2023 with artist in attendance from 2-5PM.More...
This exhibition of new works by Simon Andrew: “Traversing Terrain” is also exploring the vast expanse of colour in painting and finding new avenues to express the landscape. His bold and expressive brushstrokes allow the viewer to be immersed into a new land and discover new terrain not only the physical landscape but also the hypothetical terrain of the artist’s mind and the paint itself.
Simon Andrew was born in Portsmouth, spent his formative years in Penwith, Cornwall, studied science at Queen’s University, Canada and fine art at Newcastle University where he received his MFA.
Simon was awarded first prize (Northern Region) for his work in The Laing National Landscape Competition, London. His work was also selected for The Hunting Group Contemporary Art Competition. He has received arts council grants and is represented in major corporate collections, including Glaxo Wellcome, Hewlett Packard, Canadian Business Development Bank and Fidelity Investments.
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.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Opening Reception: May 4, 2024: 2-5pm; Preview: May 2 & 3This exhibition focuses on the diversity and beauty that Knowles was able to capture o...
News & Announcements
It is with great sadness that we are to announce the loss of a beautiful soul, friend, and one of our artist, Laurie Steen. A talented artist, Laurie will always be remember as a vivacious person and passionate artist.
We want to extend our deepest condolences to Laurie’s family and friends. Laurie was a lovely person and will be greatly missed.
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.
In 1948, Knowles had enrolled in an art class that would turn out to be the turning point in her life, and her dedication and passion in art. It was here that she met instructor, and long-time friend Reta Cowley. With a new found fire lit within, she continued to explore art and soon left her aspirations to be a lab technician to pursue painting.
Flash forward to the 1960s, Dorothy Knowles attended workshops at the Emma Lake Art Camp led by the American art critic Clement Greenberg (1962), artist Kenneth Noland (1963), Jules Olitski (1964), Lawrence Alloway (1965), and Michael Steiner (1969). All of these workshops had varying degrees of influence on her work, changing her style from a heavy impasto favoured by Greenberg to a more fluid technique preferred by Noland. Most importantly, she discovered the joy of working directly from nature. Thus, weather permitted, she worked out of doors, at times producing finished paintings, at times sketches and photographs which she used in the studio.
She has accomplished so much during her comprehensive career, receiving; The Order Of Canada (Member), The Saskatchewan Order of Merit, and membership in the Royal Canadian Academy.
She was always humble and a wealth of knowledge. Her contribution to the arts and landscape painting in Canada will be forever remembered and recognized by all. Her fabulous connection to nature and ability to capture her surroundings; undeniable. Her mark-making and style distinct and indisputably her own.
She will be fondly remembered and greatly missed. We wish the family much condolences; our hearts go out to you in this time of grief.
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. Last year, he had an exhibition at the Kamloops Art Gallery.
The winners were selected by a panel of curators connected to British Columbia galleries and museums. Selection is based on exceptional creativity coupled with a promise of future achievements. Names of the selectors are confidential.
There is no application process for either curators or artists. The prize is open to painters in British Columbia and is administered by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
Takao Tanabe, born in Prince Rupert, B.C., in 1926, lives on Vancouver Island. His paintings reflect his interest in abstraction and the landscape. -from GALLERIES WEST
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.
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