Strange Delights!

A picture paints a thousand words. Strange and Beautiful art show at Tay River Gallery until November 21st.

Reception for Strange & Beautiful this Saturday!

Do remember to mark Saturday the 17th of October on your calendar with Tay River Gallery as one of your fun filled weekend destinations. The opening reception for the spectacular fall group show "Strange & Beautiful" will be held between 2 and 4 p.m. Many of the artists of the show will be in attendance. Strange & Beautiful, the last show of 2009 at Tay River Gallery offers the viewer a unusual mix of " the eccentric, unfamiliar, peculiar, fantastic, mystifying, perplexing, and arresting" while "sublimely entrancing and beautiful" in this wonderful exhibition of art.

Take advantage of our TAX savings day on Saturday October 17th. We offer this savings day only once yearly with 10% of the tax paid by the gallery. Don't miss it! .

Sobey Art Award Winner to be Announced later this week

The winner of the 2009 Sobey Art Award will be announced during a gala event at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia on October 15, 2009. Competing for the 2009 prize are Graeme Patterson, representing the Atlantic region, David Almejd for Québec, Shary Boyle for Ontario and, representing the Prairies and The North and the West Coast and Yukon respectively, Marcel Dzama and Luanne Martineau. The winner of the award receives $50000 and the 4 runners-up $5000 each. The members of the 2009 Curatorial Panel developed this shortlist from a longlist of 25 of the country’s best artists, five from each of five regions in Canada. For more info on the Sobey art award, check the website www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca or www.sobeyartaward.ca
Who is your favorite for the grand prize? Care to share your pick with us? Let us know! We welcome your comments

"Strange & Beautiful" Art Exhibit at Tay River Gallery

"Strange & Beautiful" opens today at Tay River Gallery. The fall art show features an unusual mix of intriguing works by 9 talented area artists. Alanna Baird, Dawn Code, Hennie Marsh, John Graham, John Hiscock, Renate Hulley, Deborah Saulnier, Monika Seidenbusch and Katrin Smith are the presenting artists.

The reception for Strange & Beautiful will be held on Saturday October 17, from 2 - 4 p.m. at 28 Wilson St. W. in Perth. Join us for this event and meet the artists!

The show will run from October 6 - November 21, 2009. Six weeks of viewing opportunity for this spectacular show!

For further information call Lisa Brown at 613-264-5449.
(Click on Flyer image to see enlarged view).

September Highlights

Until October 3rd, we have on display some wonderful figurative work in oil, watercolour and bronze.
We are pleased to introduce striking figurative paintings in oil by Jay Li, Kanata area artist. Jay Li was born in 1962 in Guangzhou, in southern China. He completed his B.F.A at the Guangzhou Fine Arts Academy and then taught at the Fine Arts College of Canton, China for five years. Jay Li continued his studies first in Melbourne, Australia and then Europe developing his technique in oil painting. He has been living in Canada since 1998. Jay Li uses symmetry as well as warm and cool colours to create his compositions. He uses variations of the same themes to obtain new perspectives and pictorial space. He says of his philosophy, the painting is an impenetrable surface that seeks to establish balance between objects, space, colours and surface.


Shirley Mancino shows a selection of eight of her latest figurative watercolours painted in India in early 2009. Interesting studies of people engaged in activities captured during her travels are created using the beautiful local Indian paper. Shirley Mancino is a well known Westport/Perth area artist who travels to paint and paints to travel.

See Holly Atkinson's exquisite bronze sculptures on exhibition which include a mix of figures including an adorable big eyed lemur, a dragon, bird and a penguin, and frogs in a pond scene. Holly is a Toronto area sculptor who spends time at her Sharbot Lake cottage in summer.

Submissions To Strange and Beautiful

I would like to thank all the artists who responded to our Call for Artist Submissions for our upcoming fall show "Strange and Beautiful". We received 35 submissions and it was difficult for jurors this time around to select a short list. I also would like to thank the volunteer jurors who spent many hours reviewing the electronic submissions. We will be in touch with all the artists who submitted this week.
The Strange and Beautiful show will run from October 6th to November 21st. More about the show in our newsletter (blog) to come. Stay tuned.

Gallery News - Gallery to be closed September 1 - 11, 2009

Tay River Gallery will be closed from September 1 to September 11, 2009. We are taking a short vacation after a busy summer - escaping to the beautiful Georgian Bay area. We also have some minor renovations to the flooring to complete at the gallery during this period.

The gallery will reopen on Saturday September 12th, 2009. Highlights this month will include new watercolours by Shirley Mancino, completed on her trip to India this past winter; figurative works in oil by Jay Zhi Jian Li, Kanata artist and bronze sculptures by Holly Atkinson. There is also an ongoing exhibit of over 100 works by other gallery artists.