Author: Gail Sibley

Road trip to Seattle and the Bellevue Art Museum (BAM)

As you know, it’s been a crazy couple of months with two shows – ‘Emergence’ and ‘Caught Red Handed’ – coming back to back. As a break, my friend Andrea suggested a trip to the Bellevue Art Museum to see Kathy Venter’s show ‘Life’ before it ended. Sounded like a great rejuvenating idea!   I’ve

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Life drawing – what a joy!

After all the craziness of getting work ready for my shows (‘Emergence’ at Gallery 8, Salt Spring Island and ‘Caught Red Handed’ at Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria), I was over on Salt Spring Island for a short visit with my Mum and Dad. Mum reminded me that it was Monday – life drawing day. Egads.

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Figure in a Square #2

  With all the preparations for the “Emergence” show at Gallery 8 on Salt Spring Island (it’s on until 10th June so still plenty of time to see it!) and now the final countdown to the “Caught Red Handed” opening this Saturday at the Martin Batchelor Gallery in Victoria, I haven’t written a post for

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The Resurrection of Christ Depicted in Paintings

Happy Easter Monday!!!   I thought about doing a blog all about paintings of rabbits and eggs. Well, not really. As it’s Easter, what I did do was collect a few beautiful paintings of the resurrection of Christ. Let’s have a look at how each artist represented the scene.   So let’s get started.  

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Signs Of Spring – a few paintings of Springtime

  As promised in my last blog, here’s one sharing a few paintings with Springtime as their theme. I googled ‘paintings of Springtime’ and came up with a few surprises. I then dug around to get the facts (size, date, location etc i.e. more than just an artist’s name and title of the painting) and

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