Madrona Gallery x Oak Bay Beach Hotel

Ongoing

Madrona Gallery is excited to announce its partnership with Victoria's award winning Oak Bay Beach Hotel to showcase a selection of contemporary and historic fine art.

Guests and clients alike are encouraged to visit the hotel and enjoy this newest installation, which can be found in the Grand Lobby, The Snug, The Dining Room, and throughout the mezzanine level.

The most recent exhibition was installed April 2025, with installations rotating quarterly.

The current exhibition includes work by gallery artists Hashim Hannoon, Rick Bond, Corrinne Wolcoski, Karel Doruyter, Lesley Finlayson, Terry Fenton, Collin Elder, April Ponsford, and Tim Schumm.

CORRINNE WOLCOSKI

Corrinne Wolcoski is a nationally recognized artist based in Vancouver.

Her latest collection focuses on many trips by water and land along the coastline of Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands and Desolation Sound. She has an endless fascination with the beauty and drama of the sky and how it interacts with our landscape.

Wolcoski graduated from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2003 and is heavily involved in the Vancouver arts community. She is a member of the Eastside Culture Crawl and was Vice President of the Emily Carr University Alumni, as well as Chair for the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Gallery Committee.

RICK BOND

Rick Bond is an established western Canadian artist. He was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and grew up in the Gulf Islands off the B.C. coast. He currently lives and paints full time near Vernon, B.C.

Rick started his painting career in 1980. He took his training through the Emily Carr Outreach program, Okanagan University College, Pearson College Summer School, Federation of Canadian Artists and other professional artists' workshops.  He originally worked with oil, then watercolour and now works primarily with acrylic on canvas. His genres, urban and rural landscape and musicians, are created with a loose vibrant style and could be considered contemporary impressionism.

In 1999, Rick achieved AFCA Signature Status with the Federation of Canadian Artists.

HASHIM HANNOON

B. 1957. Basrah, Iraq.

A respected artist in the middle east, this Iraqi born artist immigrated to Canada in 2009, currently living in Vancouver. Hashim Hannoon graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts-Baghdad in 1979. He received his Bachelor of Sculpture from the College of Fine Arts-Baghdad in 1999 and is a Member of Iraqi Artistic Forming Assembly and the Babylon Assembly of French Arts.

Hannoon's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the Middle East. Since coming to Canada the themes of life and energy of the city have dominated his work.

LESLEY FINLAYSON

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Lesley Finlayson is an award winning contemporary artist currently based in Victoria, British Columbia. She recived her BFA from the Glasgow School of Art before moving to Canada in 1987 to persue her MFA at the University of Calgary. Following her studies, Finlayson taught in the Fine Arts Department at Langara College in British Columbia. Her own works have been exhibited in Canada and the United Kingdom and are included in private collections.

KAREL DORUYTER

B. 1942. Rotterdam, Holland

Between 1961 and 1968, Doruyter attended the University of British Columbia. He worked in marine design for a number of years which allowed him to explore the BC coast which influenced his subject matter and style. Doruyter currently lives on Vancouver Island, BC.

"Through my travels I have always been drawn to isolated places. In the past these were physical geographical parts of the world I have experienced. Now I find myself going inward, areas of spiritual and emotional isolation that I find disturbing and fascinating. I find recording the former on board or canvas much easier than the latter, but that only adds to the attraction.".

TERRY FENTON

B. 1940. Regina, Saskatchewan

Terry Fenton has been exploring landscape painting of the Prairies and West Coast for over 30 years. Having been an advocate and member of the Modernist movement, Fenton's landscapes use non-conventional design choices to push the tradition of landscape painting.

He is the former director of the Edmonton Art Gallery (from 1972-1987), the A.C. Leighton Foundation, Calgary (1987-1993) and the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon (1993-1997). In addition to numerous private and corporate collections in Canada the US and England, his work is represented in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, the Edmonton Art Gallery, and the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina.

TIM SCHUMM

Schumm has developed a keen eye for composition and light through a commitment to travelling to remote locations around the world to paint. He has produced an extensive series of paintings from the northern wilderness of Canada to Antarctica. As an experienced mountaineer and guide, he immerses himself in remote locations for extended periods to build up his understanding of the subjects he paints. He started his career in Alberta and now calls Vancouver Island home. Tim Schumm is an internationally celebrated artist who has exhibited for over three decades.

COLLIN ELDER

Collin Elder was born in Banff, AB and is currently based in Victoria, BC. Collin began oil painting while pursuing a career in ecological restoration, which, along with a degree in biology, has focused his art on how we relate to landscape and wilderness. Visiting the locales of British Columbia's west coast, capturing and assembling those moments in landscapes has inspired Collin Elder to create works encompassing time and capturing the experience of viewing.

APRIL PONSFORD

April Ponsford draws inspiration from the wild landscape of that region, and Vancouver Island as a whole. Her process combines the formality and technique of painting with intuition and artistic observance of the unique landscapes that surround her.

Her work has been acquired by public and private collections in Canada, USA, South America, Europe and Japan.