Artist News - Ottawa Watercolour Society Exhibition

Recently the Ottawa Watercolour Society held it’s 61st juried exhibition and John Hiscock is pleased to announce he won the Wallacks Award for “Best In Show”. The winning painting achieves a fine balance of technical difficulty and creative expression. The subject is the old mill in Balaclava which is a few kilometres off highway 132 west of Renfrew. Congratulations John!

Rural Horizons: Introducing acrylic paintings by Mike Smith

In the front room this month we have a focus wall with new work by Mike Smith of Cobourg Ontario. The featured selection of acrylic paintings by Mike Smith depict familiar elements in the rural landscape where the sky and horizon feature prominently. Architectural pieces, such as the lighthouse featured this month are rendered in high realism with technical precision.

Mike Smith was born in South Africa and has lived in Canada since the late 80’s. He has been involved in art for most of his life - working as an art director and creative director for advertising agencies in Toronto and South Africa until 2003 when he decided to paint full time. Since moving to rural Ontario outside Cobourg, the inspiration for his paintings has been the beautiful countryside of Eastern Ontario. Smith has participated in numerous shows, including The Art Gallery of Northumberland, the Fine Art Festivals in Merrickville and Westport, and Cobourg. In addition he is represented by several Ontario galleries. View more artwork by Mike Smith on his artist page on our website. Welcome to Tay River Gallery Mike!

Parking at Tay River Gallery

Tay River Gallery has a spacious parking lot to the rear of the building where visitors to the gallery are welcome to park. During major road reconstruction on Wilson St West, beginning next week, there will be no on-street parking and traffic on Wilson St. will be reduced to one lane, southbound from Hwy 7. to the downtown core. Northbound traffic will use Drummond St. Please check the website for business hours during the construction period or call the gallery as the gallery will be open on a reduced schedule - varying during spring, summer and fall of 2010. Currently the gallery is open Friday and Saturday from 12 - 5 p.m. and Monday - Thursday by appointment only.

Sorry for any inconvenience to customers arising from road construction, but the gallery will continue to carry new work throughout the year from the important Canadian artists we represent.

Martha Markowsky Retrospective this Month in Lachine Quebec Mar 12 - April 11, 2010

Exhibition by
MARTHA MARKOWSKY
titled
THE RETROSPECTIVE
25-years of Painting
March 12 to April 11th, 2010
VERNISSAGE: SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 2010 from 12 to 5 pm
GUY DESCARY CULTURAL CENTRE, L'ENTREPOT
2501 Boul.St. Joseph, Lachine, Quebec
for additional information, please call 613 294 2402
The exhibition will run every Friday from 5 to 9 pm,
Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 pm

March 12 to April 11th.

Tay River Gallery is Expanding

The buzz is that Tay River Gallery is expanding. The back 14 ft room on the main floor will be reopened in April- as we had this room closed off during winter months. Gallery will be displaying a diverse selection of exciting new work in April.

We will be introducing new work by Mike Smith of Cobourg and Maureen Sheridan of Kingston in April. More about this exciting news in an upcoming post.

Buzz about a second gallery location in the works.... read about this soon as well!
Very very busy these days so many apologies for the brevity of posts.
From a very tired gallery owner. yours truly, LB

March Focus Wall : East Coast Scenes

As always a picture paints a thousand words... our March highlight on view. Debbie Milling's new oil paintings of seascapes.

East Coast Scenes: New work by Debbie Milling

Spring is in the air! This mild weather is so inspiring. Usually it is this time of the year, when I have grown sufficiently impatient and annoyed with winter that my thoughts turn to the sea... Dreaming of summer days spent in the Maritimes or Maine by the seaside - the ocean beckons. Our artist spotlight this month or focus wall features five exciting new oil paintings by Debbie Milling - providing you with a journey to the sea with Milling's unique interpretation of the Cabot Trail, and Newfoundland coastal scenes. You can almost smell the salty air!


Debbie Milling's latest paintings capture the east coast region. Milling paints views of remote Canadian landscapes captured in her travels on horseback and by boat. Her studio overlooks the Rideau River near Ottawa. Milling has participated in several group and solo shows in Ontario and her works have been gaining recognition and can be found in public and private collections across Canada.