Exciting News for Sooke

Popped into South Shore Gallery in Sooke yesterday and had a great chat with Jessie Taylor Dodd, the new owner. Great News! The place looks fantastic with some terrific pieces on exhibition. Hand made jewelery, paintings, sculpture, fabric work and more. Beautiful craftsman ship, all visually stunning. 15 of the Artists besides myself will be on display at the Sooke Fine Art Show at the end of July . If you're living in Sooke or headed out our way stop into South Shore Gallery. Afterwards head out to the Shirley Delicious Cafe for a great lunch & coffee, Phillip & Sheena are great hosts. Two more Positives Places in one trip, and well worth the drive.

I will soon be displaying my recent work at South Shore Gallery. Jesse is a wonderful artist as well. Originally, a painter she has been working on Fabric/Textile Arts during the past years. Her work is stunning and in 2012, her piece 'Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen' was chosen Best Fibre at the Sooke Fine Art Show. I look forward to exhibiting at South Shore Gallery.

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The Maple Puzzle Painting

The concept behind these pieces is to create an interaction between viewer and image. The canvases can be re-arranged in multiple ways. Depending on the viewer the image can reflect the mood of the individual. Best exemplified in the TT Pine painting puzzle, the mood is represented through abstraction of the image. The Maple Puzzle is more a study of visual observation and a bit of a mind bender.

Toronto Visit

I recently visited Toronto and got the chance to see where my first tryptich was installed. Bill Norgate, the owner of the piece is planning to change the wall colour and raise the paintings up a bit higher. This will lessen the blocking of the paintings by the equipment in his showroom. The wall colour change will bring some more warmth into the showroom space by picking up a colour from the tryptich. I really enjoyed meeting with Bill and having a chance to provide a little input in the hanging of this piece. Thanks again to my brother Norm for arranging the meeting and the tremendous hospitality shown by Norm, Helen, their daughter Linda, and Clive and my sister Linda. Cheers to all our friends new and old!

Marriage - Rust & Steel - January 19, 2015

Some of you may have been wondering where I have been. I have been battling 'The Black Dog' of depression for almost two years. By November of 2013, I had to stop painting. It has been a long hard battle but I am finally emerging from the shadow of 'The Black Dog'. I would like to thank my family and friends for their continued support over the past two years. I would also like to dedicate this painting to Merete, our friends and Montana who passed away on November 23, 2014. I hope you like it. 'Marriage Rust & Steel' Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 18" x 24"

Paintings by John Grey-Noble

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