More ..

beautiful Wren pieces here at the gallery!

Letting..

Go!

That's the title of this free-fall aqua painting by Phyllis, complete with horizontal string lines and beautiful blue gradation.

This is a versatile work that could also be displayed horizontally for a different look!

Letting Go
P. Serota

The..

original mango painting! Much softer than the experimental one seen below, yet still bold.

Image: "Large Mangoes", Phyllis Serota

Some..

more groovy fruit!

Here's a peak at another fab Serota piece. In this she's experimenting with texture, colour and shape, and the result is still life with a twist.

Composition and colour use, superb as always.

Nice job, Phyllis!

"Small Mangoes" by P. Serota

Phyllis..

Serota is a fabulous Victoria-based artist. Currently writing her memoirs, Serota is deserving of a wider audience for her work. Using flat-plane perspective, bright colours and soft brushwork, she creates modernist paintings with matters of subject like still-life imagery and scenarios from her personal life. Her work is in the vein of pros like Matisse, Chagall and Picasso, but never without her own special twist.

We were lucky enough to take a recent fruitful trip to Phyllis's abode, where we acquired some stellar pieces. Shown here is a wide and luxurious acrylic on canvas that boasts a mix of hard and velvet-like textures. It would be fabulous featured in a dining or living room of any design genre.

Image: P. Serota, "Plums"
Foreground: Ceramics by Wayne Ngan

We're in..

this season's issue of Boulevard magazine! Writer Alicia Gordaneer - daughter of admired Victoria painter Jim Gordaneer - has written a great article on the ins and outs of purchasing art as gifts and the do's and don'ts of starting an art collection.

Check it out online at http://www.victoriaboulevard.com/

The time..

to hesitate is through! Our graphic designer Andy Graffiti has many talents. Among them is a penchant for producing funky and innovative clocks, like the one shown here. Mercurio will be featuring these neat functional sculpture throughout the Christmas season.

Tick tock!

Mutual appreciation..

Here's Miles Lowry's favourite Ken Faulks work currently in the gallery. This piece works very well at distance, where you get action happening in the water. One of Ken's best, and most challenging, yet.

Rocks & Surf, Sunset Point
12 x 16"

Brand..

new winter jewellery from Stuart Duncan is starting to trickle into the shop. Stuart is amazing at creating one of a kind intricate pieces, wearable all year round.

Great for gifts and more to come!

Notable..

quotables!

Here's a lovely little quote from an article by Brian Grison on our recent exhibition in the latest issue of Galleries West:

"This little exhibition at Mercurio Gallery offers collectors, curators, connoisseurs and students of painting and art history an intimate insight into modernist practice among the few serious artists residing in Victoria a generation or so after Emily Carr's important and still controversial contributions to visual culture in this city."

Thanks Brian!

To see the article online, visit
http://www.gallerieswest.ca/Departments/ExhibitionReviews/6-108172.html

Photo: Untitled, Margaret Peterson