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 August 2025, with installations rotating quarterly.

The current exhibition includes work by artists Brent Lynch, Duncan Regehr, Colin Graham, Max Maynard, Carollyne Yardley, Ernestine Tahedl, April Ponsford, Halin de Repentigny, Joe Coffey, and Meghan Hildebrand.

Halin de repentigny’s “view of ogilvie range” in the lounge

DUNCAN REGEHR

Duncan Regher was born in Alberta and grew up in Victoria, BC. Regehr has been exhibiting his work internationally since the mid 1970s. He is also a successful writer and actor. Regehr studied at Camosun College in Victoria, BC. In 2008, Regehr was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree by the University of Victoria.

His works are in public and private collections worldwide, namely in the USA, China and Great Britain.

CAROLLYNE YARDLEY

Carollyne Yardley is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher based in Victoria, BC. She earned her MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she was awarded the Governor General Academic Gold Medal, and holds a BA in Art History from the University of Victoria. Her research-creation practice is deeply influenced by a longstanding relationship with native and introduced urban animals whose territory includes her home. Most recently, she was awarded the Rosemary Fox Conservation Achievement Award by Sierra Club BC.

HALIN DE REPENTIGNY

Halin de Repentigny is an acclaimed artist with paintings held in national and international collections. Halin first made his name when he moved to Dawson City, Yukon. He became well known for his depictions of life in Canada’s Klondike, interpreting the beauty and majesty of the remote northern wilderness and capturing it on canvas. His love of landscape, colour and light is now manifested in his winter home in Patagonia, Argentina, while the Klondike summers continue to inspire his work.

MAX MAYNARD

Maynard was born in India in 1903 and immigrated to Canada in 1912. He was an early and prominent member of the B.C. Arts community. He exhibited in 1928 with the Islands Arts and Crafts Society and had work exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum in 1930. In 1936 he was awarded the Beatrice Stone Award for his painting, Cowichan Lake Landscape. In the 1940’s he was a director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. There was no market to make a living selling paintings which led Maynard to teaching. He spent the majority of his career as an English professor at the University of New Hampshire. From the 1950s to 1970s he produced much less. After his retirement, Maynard devoted the rest of his life to painting. Maynard’s career came full circle when he returned to Victoria after his retirement, and from the late 1970s until his death in 1982, Maynard saw a great period of productivity in his work. He was back in the place that inspired his work to begin with, now with a lifetime of experience. The later works hold true to the 1930s paintings but bring broader influences to their style. Instead of pushing the acceptance of modernist ideas as he was in the 1930s he is able to distill the many changes in the global art world, expressing this region in a distinct manner that combines his post impressionist roots with abstraction.

COLIN GRAHAM

Colin Graham came to painting later in life. His paintings are the product of years of experience working at a high level in the arts. Just like the artists of the Limners group of which he was a member, Graham was immersed in the conversations and ideas that pushed modern art forward in the postwar years. He contributed through his role as Director of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria by programming exhibitions and building the collection that fostered this modernist community. His work is elegantly simple. His idea is that life (particularly in Victoria) is beautiful. His paintings are joyful expressions of his experience in the city. They show community, such as people gathering at the beach, or gossiping on a bench. They capture the energetic dance of boats in the harbor and the simplicity of country life. His talent is seen in the way he avoids making these paintings too sentimental. He achieves this by using his understanding of technique to paint in a minimal and efficient manner that distils forms to basic shapes. Additionally he uses a subtle and balanced palette that brings an elegance to his joyous compositions.

ERNESTINE TAHEDL

Ernestine Tahedl was born and educated in Austria and received a Master's Degree in graphic art from the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts. Following graduation in 1961, she collaborated with her father, Professor Heinrich Tahedl, in the design and execution of stained glass commissions until she immigrated to Canada in 1963. Her work is represented in public, corporate and private collections and galleries in Canada, United States, France, Switzerland, Austria, and Japan.

MEGHAN HILDEBRAND

Rooted in landscape and colour exploration, Meghan Hildebrand’s paintings explode beyond representation and dive into dream worlds, creating captivating open-ended narratives for the viewer to explore. This imaginary terrain is a playground for painterly abstraction, and Meghan strives for fresh innovation with each body of work.

Now residing in the Powell River, Meghan arrived on the Sunshine Coast of BC by way of Whitehorse, Halifax, and Nelson. Meghan has been painting and exhibiting since 1997, including a retrospective survey at the Yukon Arts Centre in 2012. Her work has been acquired by public collections and belongs to private collections internationally.

JOE COFFEY

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.

BRENT LYNCH

Lynch is recognized as one of Canada's most notable designers and illustrators. He has worked on a broad range of projects, and been commissioned for numerous corporate and government collections, including the Royal Bank of Canada, IBM Canada, Nissan Japan, the 1988 Calgary Olympics, Nike International, the Smithsonian Museum, Tourism California, and many others.

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.