News Update at Tay River Gallery

Only two weeks left to catch the art show, Passions of the Heart. It's definitely worth a visit! The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 12 - 5 during March.

Welcome back Shirley!
Shirley Mancino has just returned from her 3 1/2 month trip to Thailand and Myanmar. Shirley's work will be featured in a solo show in June. We can't wait to see her dramatic new inspirations.

We welcome Mary Schofield, Perth area artist formerly of Montreal to the gallery this month. A group of Mary's oil paintings of flower arrangements are currently on exhibit. These works are exemplary of her unique style of palette knife rendered, texturized works using a bold colour palette.

Our spring art show Blooms opens April 1st and features the floral paintings by four dynamic artists: Leah Dockrill, Bill Keast, Andrew Neil Olscher and Gilda Pontbriand. The Reception for Blooms will be held mid-show, on Saturday April 28th from 2 - 4 p.m during the Festival of the Maples in Perth. The show runs until May 3oth.

Leah Dockrill, Toronto area artist, is an elected member of both the Society of Canadian Artists (since 2000) and the Ontario based Colour and Form Society (2007). She has participated in many juried, group and invitational exhibitions since 1997 and a solo show in 1998. Leah 's acrylic florals presented in this show are realistic renderings demonstrating her technical brilliance and the poignant physical beauty of her subject matter.

Bill Keast, Belleville area artist and former art teacher exhibited rural landscapes in acrylics in the winter exhibit, Snow Defines at Tay River Gallery. In Blooms Bill brings an exciting mix of florals, up close and personal in his unique style using the "cloisonné technique" of outlining forms. The artist finds his inspiration for these works in his own backyard garden paradise.

Andrew Neil Olscher, Lakefield area professional artist brings his version of blooms in bold thickly textured acrylic paintings of vivid flowers in mass. His free flowing style of impressionistic floral images provide a dynamic presentation of colour and texture. Over the past fourteen years his work has been exhibited in a variety of group shows and purchased by private and corporate collectors and galleries locally and internationally.

Gilda Pontbriand, Ottawa area artist studied art in Mexico, Canada and France and has had over 75 solo and group shows in Canada, Japan, Korea, Mexico and the United States. She has won twelve national and international awards for her work in oil, acrylics and mixed media. Gilda's soulful images " travel between the mundane and a magical world without making the illusion of reality its main objective".

Spring is in the air and the blossoms at Tay River Gallery beckon.