We see our role as an important platform to show the best and highest quality artworks by living Canadian Artists, to provide showing opportunities for emerging artists, to share appreciation and build awareness of our unique coastal and maritime environments through art, and most importantly to enrich people’s lives. Since its establishment in 1986, Peninsula Gallery has prospered into one of Canada's most acclaimed art galleries, presenting high quality artworks of artists both local and of national renown.
Peninsula Gallery is situated in the beautiful seaside town of Sidney, just 30 minutes away from Victoria, British Columbia. “I am just a shadow of a shadow of a shadowĪ copy of a copy of a." Enter To View The Show Now! Back to the easel I went, with renewed resolve and my headphones on with extra loud music (for bravery). A song I'd never heard before came on, also randomly, with shockingly suitable lyrics: The point was not to slavishly COPY, but to deeply study, as a way to find and share of myself.
While searching for reference images online, I stumbled across the website for a factory that creates thousands of replicas of famous artworks, and started to wonder if my whole idea for this show was crazy.īut I sat down with an art book (which usually helps) and opened it, randomly, to a page showing John Singer Sargent's copy of a Velazquez painting (one that I had seen and loved in Madrid). I was reminded that artists before me (my heroes, in fact) had studied THEIR heroes! Self-doubt is a running theme for all artists, I'm sure. Here is what she wrote about the portfolio:
This Saturday, we will put on another new portfolio created by Mel that was inspired by the masters she admires. Two years ago she put together a fresh portfolio of female and male nudes which expanded our gallery’s vision. Mel Williamson is very passionate about classic art, she cried when viewing a painting by John Singer Sargent at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Art Encounter: "Echoes" - Mel Williamson Solo June 3 - June 23, 2023
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