Rocky Mountain Picture Show

We're very pleased to invite you to the Rocky Mountain Picture Show: Canadian Alpine Landscapes. You'll see a carefully chosen group of artists including William Garnet Hazard, Marmaduke Matthews and Ken Faulks, as well as two exquisite and mysterious unsigned watercolours, possibly by CPR artist and RCA founder Lucius O'Brien. And as always, interesting selections from our house collection are on display.

Rocky Mountain will be showing until July 11th. You can visit us Monday through Saturday from 9 am to 2 pm, and from 3:30 pm to 7 pm.

A New Max Bates Piece

Price Upon Request

Going Places Closing Reception

Hosting the Going Places show was an absolute pleasure. We were honoured to show Ken's fine work, and look forward to watching where he will go next. We showed our enthusiasm with an evening reception on May 9th.

We're holding over the fabulous Ken Faulks show until May 17th...more wonderful work is available to view and purchase...hours are Tues-Sat 10:30-5:00.

Going Places

GOING PLACES
an exhibition and sale
of exceptional landscape paintings by
KEN FAULKS

May 1 – 10th 2009
10:30-5:00 Daily
10:30-9:00 Thurs and Fri

Faulks’ has captured the always mutable aspects of the hills, fields, skies and beaches of our region by creating paintings filled with spontaneity and brio, lush brushstrokes and a bold sense of colour and light. He is an accomplished artist who delivers confidence, skill and joy in equal measures, and, we believe, an important artist poised to achieve wider recognition and success both in Victoria and on the larger stage.

We are most pleased to offer you an opportunity to discover recent work by this fine Victoria artist.

You are invited to attend the Artists reception for this event:
May 7th 7:00 – 9:00

MERCURIO GALLERY 602 Courtney Street, Victoria , 388-5158

Coming Soon...

Ken Faulks, "Victoria Sunrise 5", oil on canvas, 40"X48"



Ken Faulks, "Cattle Point", oil on board, 12"X16"

The work of Ken Faulks will be featured in our next show beginning on May 1st. Look forward to more of Ken's plein air landscapes as well as some of his abstract pieces.

"Victoria Sunrise 5" is also part of our current show, Surreal Estate, so you can read a little bit about Ken below.

Bios of Surreal Estate Artists

Herbert Siebner, "The Survivor", oil, casein, wax on board

Surreal Estate is here, and so is further information about the artists we're showing. It's a large, interesting and varied group, and these are just a few.

James Gordaneer
Painter (1933-)
Jim Gordaneer was born in Ontario. He lived in Kitchener and taught at the Doon School of Fine Arts. In 1975 he and his wife moved to Victoria, where he became the foremost teacher of oil painting. He still often paints plein air in his neighbourhood, working in a loose yet sophisticated impressionistic style. Jim has been painting for five decades.

Dorothy Field
Printmaker, Textile Artist
Dorothy Field has an MA in Design from UC Berkeley. She has studied paper arts in Japan and Nepal, apprenticed in a paper mill in Korea, worked at a papermaking collective in India and taught at Columbia College, Chicago Centre for Book & Paper, and Rhode Island School of Design.

Jack Wise
Painter (1928-1996)
Wise came to Canada from the US in 1963 and tried homesteading in interior BC. This and his time studying in India led him to the spiritual, archetypal art he is known for. He has made a significant contribution to the “Pacific Northwest School” tradition of art.

Chin-Shek Lam
Painter (1918-1990)
Lam was born in China and immigrated to Canada in 1970. He had a distinguished career that included founding the Institute of Oriental Art in China and Hong Kong. His work is rooted in Chinese calligraphy but Western elements were incorporated after meeting such artists as Picasso and Miro.

Ken Faulks
Painter, Graphic Designer (1964-)
Ken Faulks has worked as an artist since 1984. Originally he worked only en plein air and still produces many pieces this way, although he moves gracefully between traditional and digital mediums. Ken produced the two abstract murals outside Mercurio. He lives in Victoria, where he was born.

Jack Shadbolt
Painter (1909-1998)
Shadbolt established himself in the 1930’s in Vancouver and taught at the Vancouver School of art from 1938 to 1966. He and his wife Doris founded the Vancouver Institute for the Visual Arts in 1988. He has received honourary degrees from SFU, UBC and Uvic. He received the Order of Canada in 1972.

Surreal Estate Opening!

Please join us this week for our brand new show, Surreal Estate. We'll be featuring West Coast artists who share a taste for abstraction mixed with examination of the natural world. Many of the pieces will come from our house collection, so Surreal Estate promises to be an eclectic and lively show.

A little update...

...about the Street Where We Live Show. Because of the interest and enthusiasm about the show, we're going to extend it at least over the weekend until March 23rd, so you'll have a few more days to check it out.

On The Street Where We Live Opening

The artists: Jim Gordaneer, Robert Amos and Linny D. Vine

Thanks to everyone who came to the opening of our current show, On The Street Where We Live. It was a wonderful evening with a lively group of people!

The show continues until March 21st (or possibly a little longer...) with works from Robert Amos, Jim Gordaneer and Linny D. Vine. The pieces are warm and vibrant and really illuminate our space, so come by for a visit!

Spring is here...

Linny D. Vine, "Mount Doug Market" (plein air), acrylic on canvas, 10x8


... and with it comes sunshine and walks through our neighbourhood - so keep an eye out for our next show, "On The Street Where We Live: The urban landscape of Victoria" featuring Linny D. Vine, Robert Amos and Jim Gordaneer. More info coming soon.

The Limners show has aroused great interest and enthusiasm, and we will be holding it over through the rest of the month.
A reception was held Thursday the 22nd at which Limners members Colin Graham (and wife Sylvia), Walter Dexter, Pat Martin Bates, Alex Lavdovsky and Carole Sabiston were present, as well as Robin and Sylvia Skelton's daughter Alison. Also among the many others attending were Phyllis Serota, who created a painting of the event for the event, Robert Amos, who documented the occasion on the spot with his ready brush, and artists Godfrey Stephens and Laird Campbell, who regaled us with a touch of the sparkling Limners spirit of old...
thanks to all! Here are a couple of pictures, with more to come.


Kym and Phyllis Serota with her Limners 2009 piece


Colin Graham and Kym

Maxwell Bates: more work by this artist...
"Woman and Still Life": lithograph 6 of 25 1966 32"X26"
"African Head": lithograph 2 of 14
Untitled drawing (couple) graphite and conte crayon 29"X24.5"
"Autumn Wilderness" drip painting 40"X 28"
"Cock and Hens": lithograph (Artist's Proof)1955
Untitled monoprint 1970 20"X30"
Untitled lithograph (couple) 13"X10"

Thanks to all involved for the enthusiasm surrounding the current show. The Limners retrospective has drawn interest beyond our expectations.

Ongoing sales and trades amongst the inventory have made it rather impossible to present a comprehensive catalogue during the event. Please allow us to tempt your curiosity with the following list instead:

The Limners Group – a sample of work available as of Jan 10th/09

THE VETERAN
by Max Bates
O/d 24" x 20"
Produced in 1961, there was a very limited run of this intriguing image; this print is number 4 of the 16. It is framed simply and modestly priced at $1100.


SIX FIGURES
By Richard Ciccimarra
O/d 13" X 15"
A classic example of this artist's work; it was likely produced in 1965. Pat Bovey featured a version of the piece in her book “The Limners - A passion for Art” (1996, Sono Nis Press). The work is newly framed featuring perfect proportioning and highest-grade protective glass. This rare find is $3700.


BAD GIRL PLATES
By Walter Dexter
Diameter: 11.5"
Apparently Walter is still having fun. We are being offered an opportunity to share the joy…there are two plates with similar images. Each is $310.


JD READING
By Myfanwy Pavelic
7600.00

Limners Opening

As you know, our Limners show is now on. Thanks to everyone who came out for our opening on New Years Day, it was lovely. The show continues until January 22nd, so please stop by anytime before then. As pieces are bought, they come off the walls and new work goes up, so the show is changing nearly everyday.

Elza Mayhew, "Celebrant" (front) and "Amulet" (back)

Anne Mayhew, Kym and Carole Sabiston

Champagne and chocolates -- everyone had a good time.