Arts & Culture Activities

New abstract 

Abstract acrylic on canvas inspired by family, friends, and feelings.

FACES 

A collection of interesting faces from Life, Social Media, and Elsewhere.

The Forest of Faces 

Explore a mystical forest through vivid acrylic paintings with gold lines, connecting the beauty of nature and the human spirit

Out of the Blue: Toning with Tannins

Out of the Blue: Toning with Tannins is an experimental solar printing series that expands the cyanotype process beyond its traditional blue palette. Using spices, foraged plants, and repurposed kitchen scraps, the work investigates the potential of tannins to transform cyanotypes into a range of unexpected colours.

Tá mé 

Tá mé — I am (as Gaeilge)

Inis Córthaidh (Enniscorthy), Coilleach Eanach (Cullyhanna), Doire (Derry)

Lios Tuathail (Listowel), Corcaigh (Cork), Trá Lí (Tralee)

These are all places I can trace my lineage to, on my mom’s side (mostly County Kerry) and my dad’s side (mostly County Wexford), through both of my grandpas.

Irish ancestry is more than DNA.

It’s piecing together who you were told you were, reading about 800+ years of British colonization, realizing what was minimized, and uncovering both sad and hilarious truths. It’s digging up what was buried in an attempt to assimilate, like walking backwards to find your keys… for 150 years.

It’s more than food, music, or photographs. It’s learning Gaeilge on Duolingo and then teaching your kids even though you’re only one lesson ahead of them. It’s signing your children up for Irish dance, only for them to tell you that they want to be figure skaters, and you can’t really afford both. It’s your mom showing up to a family dinner with two pounds of mashed turnips 15 years ago, and your cousins never letting her live it down. It’s finding community online where you don’t have to explain the subtext of how being raised Catholic sucked, but it probably made you funnier.

It’s trying to find the patterns, clinging to shreds of culture preserved through art and stories that survived centuries of colonization, only to have so much of that culture abandoned in the harbours of New York and Montreal as Irish immigrants gained privileges on Turtle Island and farmland on Treaty 6 territory. The grotesque transformation from oppressed to oppressor dismantled any meaningful sense of identity and left a void. And it’s realizing that rebuilding a culture that isn’t rooted in white supremacy costs us convenience, relationships, and comfort.

These are the experiences that realities that inform my paintings and digital art (NO A.I.)

I Feel It In My Bones

I Feel It In My Bones is a series of eight ink illustrations that explore human anatomy and its connection to language and Mother Earth.

Bedrooms 

A dreamy examination of the places we are most vulnerable, each of the bedrooms depicted here belongs to a person I know.

The Colours of Inclusion 

Two Saskatchewan artists with disabilities, united by family and shared love for creating, combine their pieces to promote a message of calmness, appreciation, and inclusion.

Art Through the Time: The Artisans of Myrgan Wood 

We are dedicated to researching and re-creating the lives and artifacts of the middle ages through textiles, metal work, wood work, calligraphy, painting and more.

Canada Through My Eyes 

My exhibit explores diverse provinces, landscapes, and lived experiences, capturing the people, places and moments that shape what Canada means to me.

Violet bears

A welcome new addition to our family.

Prairie Singers: Birds of the Saskatchewan Prairies 

Saskatchewan birds drawn in graphite and chalk pastel from trails and grasslands where the artist grew up, forming a nostalgic record of place and season.

Easel on the Eyes

Cheryl Moen from Easel on the Eyes Studio will be showcasing her acrylic landscape artwork. Cheryl collaborates with clients to immortalize memories on canvas.

Ukrainian Mythology 

Audra Balion investigates and reimagines the robust but elusive history of Ukrainian mythology in a collection of paintings and drawings.