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August 22 - September 05
Opening Reception: August 22, 1-3 PM
Lesley Finlayson’s work captures scenes of coastal BC landscape with a light touch and gestural energy, highlighting the ephemeral beauty of seasonal growth and changing light. This new exhibition of paintings and drawings highlights her ability to translate the deft mark-making of her pastel studies into richly atmospheric acrylics. Her work is featured in public and private collections throughout Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.
September 12 - 25
Opening Reception: September 12, 1-3 PM
Austro-Canadian painter Ernestine Tahedl has been exhibiting in Canada and abroad for over 50 years. Her vibrant abstract canvases draw the viewer into an immersive experience of colour, texture and light. Named for pieces of classical music she listens to while painting, her works are a paradoxical balance of painterly freedom and underlying rhythmic structure.
Megan Dietrich is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver.
In Dietrich’s paintings, expressive compositions are woven together through context and instinct to create gestural arrangements that exist between the honest and the surreal. Through studies in colour and story, Dietrich employs an abstracted lens to free herself from the noise of exactitude. The goal is to ultimately give the viewer a space on which to impress their own narratives while delivering nods to a collective through line.
“I feel like I’m always investigating emotional tangibility, whether I like it or not. And that’s where my work tends to find itself. I obsessively avoid visual stasis, but I try to find peace in ambiguity.”
Dietrich’s work can be found in collections internationally as well as multimedia collaborations.
Inspired by the Group of Seven, Victoria based artist Shawn O'Keefe depicts the Canadian landscape by focusing on essential forms, using big brush strokes and bold colours. O'Keefe studied graphic design at Vancouver Island University and has been involved in numerous collaborations, including designing for Phillips Brewery in Victoria, B.C.
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Madrona Gallery respectfully acknowledges the Lekwungen peoples, on whose traditional lands the gallery stands.
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Victoria, BC V8W 1J4
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