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 December 2025, with installations rotating quarterly.

The current exhibition includes work by artists Joe Coffey, Robert Amos, Ningiukulu Teevee, Takao Tanabe, Gordon Smith, Nathan Birch, Sean Yelland, Rick Bond, Hashim Hannoon, and Lesley Finlayson.

JOE COFFEY

Victoria, B.C.

Joe Coffey works in oils, graphite, and mixed media. Born in Caledon East, Ontario, his early years were spent on the family farm. Drawing inspiration from history, pop culture, news, music, and his surroundings, Joe portrays a sculpted expressiveness while fixing his subjects in a state of tension that can be static, dynamic, or a combination of the two. Joe’s background in theatre also lends itself to his work, where a sense of drama and striking compositions evoke strong visceral reactions from viewers.

ROBERT AMOS

Robert Amos is the official biographer of painter E.J. Hughes, a leading art historian, and was the arts columnist for the Times Colonist for three decades. Amos’ work can be found in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the University of Victoria, and many others.

NINGIUKULU TEEVEE

Ningiukulu Teevee is a leading voice in the rise of a new generation of Inuit artists. Her work is equally informed by experiences of previous generations and modern life in Nunavut. She has a deep understanding of Inuit mythology and stories that she shares in her drawings through a contemporary lens. Her first print was released in 2004, and since then she has gained international attention for her work. She was the recipient of the 2023 Kenojuak Ashoona Memorial Award, and her work has been the subject of numerous group and solo exhibitions across Canada and the United States.

TAKAO TANABE

Tanabe has helped shape the cultural landscape of Canadian Art. His paintings are held in important public collections around the globe. He is a recipient of the Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia, a member of the Royal Canadian Academy and the recipient of numerous awards including the Governor General’s Award in Visual Arts and the the Audain Prize: two leading arts awards in the country. His philanthropy has changed the lives of many artists through the establishment of the Takao Tanabe Award. Tanabe is truly a Canadian arts icon.

GORDON SMITH

Artist and Educator Gordon Smith is one of the most influential voices in contemporary art on Canada's west coast. Originally from England, Smith moved to Winnipeg in 1934. He studied at Winnipeg School of Art under Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (1937 - 40), Vancouver School of Art (1944) under Jack Shadbolt and B.C. Binning and the California School of Fine Art (1951). His first major solo show was at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1944. Since that time he has exhibited his work around the globe. His paintings are found in major public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Museum of Modern Art (NY), The Smithsonian (DC), Victoria and Albert Museum(UK) among others.

NATHAN BIRCH

Nathan Birch was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1978. In 2000, Birch earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Alberta College of Art and Design. Birch's work has been exhibited across Canada and is held in both public and corporate collections across North America including; Canada Council for the Arts; Colart Collection, Montreal; Alberta Foundation for the Arts; Scotia Bank; TD Bank and Effort Trust, Toronto.

SEAN YELLAND

Sean Yelland is a Toronto based painter who seeks to capture the picturesque in everyday urban settings, finding the beautiful and mysterious in the mundane. His work plays with a sense of voyeurism and intrigue bordering on the uncanny. By confronting the viewer with scenes that should be full of action but are shown in a state of stillness, Yelland is removing the comfort of the expected, and questioning our relationship to our environment.

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.

HASHIM HANNOON

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.