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.