Yvonne Vanens Munro presents a new series of paintings focusing on the
altering of our environment due to climate change, human interference, and manipulation.

As a painter of Canadian landscapes Munro sees changes in her surroundings and expresses the connection, anxiety, beauty, and sometimes concearn she experiences in the changing environment.

Based in Crescent Valley, Munro travels around the West Kootenay region to both capture and be inspired by the local landscapes.

Galleries open Thursdays through Sundays 1-4pm.

Laura Adams

The Arctic: a delicate balance of strength and fragility

Professional mountain guide, international explorer and landscape artist Laura Adams has spent the past few years exploring the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Greenland. Her paintings capture the unique light and dramatic moods of the Arctic.

Each works tells a story of the Arctic, and of the unprecedented rate of change that is impacting this strong and fragile environment.  The rapid loss of ice and frozen landscapes is accelerating both local and global warming, causing rapid changes in marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and impacting the Earth’s interdependent atmospheric and oceanic processes.

Laura’s powerful paintings convey the message that these are not only local issues, they are critical global problems with humbling consequences. How we respond is for each and every one of us to answer.

Gallery Open Thursdays through Sundays 1-4pm. Exhibit runs May 24 to Aug 4, 2019

Shifting Ground

A multimedia exhibition of five Columbia Basin artists invited to conceptualize their perspectives and feelings on climate change. They include Pat Forsyth, Kevin Kratz, Richard Reeves, Maggie Tchir, and Peter Velisek.

Through their chosen mediums each artist expresses their concerns, reflecting them through watercolour, metal sculpture, animation, textiles, mixed media, and oil painting.

Whether visceral or cerebral they all speak to the very apparent and imminent environmental disruptions we now all experience. The intent of this exhibition is to spark a climate conversation and create a movement towards action on climate change.

Gallery Open Thursdays through Sundays 1-4pm. Exhibit runs May 24 to Aug 4, 2019