Art Gallery
Grizzli Art Gallery
Visit our world-renowned Grizzli Art Gallery, which exhibits the works of contemporary Canadian artists in all mediums in its welcoming gallery space.
All art is displayed throughout our 20,000 sq. ft. tasting room, wine lounge, and retail shop.
We invite you to peruse the art while enjoying a glass of wine. Bring memories from the Okanagan with you. Every piece of artwork is available for purchase and ready to take home.
Open daily during regular tasting room hours. Admission is free.
Community-inspired
Passion for Art
Winemaking throughout generations has transformed from an age-old tradition to a form of art, where talent and innovation come together to create something exquisite.
At Grizzli Winery we hold a unique approach to our love for the arts. Through our dedication to supporting our local community and charities, The Grizzli Art Gallery was born.
Our Grizzli Art Gallery promotes creativity and emotional intelligence and allows us to support the local art community.
Current Exhibition
Winter Exhibition: Oct 1st 2024 - January 26th 2025
Grizzli Winery Winter Exhibition
'Expressive Storytelling'
It's time to explore this winter's newest Grizzli Gallery Exhibition! On Oct 1st, we welcome 'Expressive Storytelling,' featuring three BC artists who joined forces to showcase their artwork—welcoming Melissa Dinwoodie, Alana Evans, and Brandy Wyatt.
'Expressive storytelling' is an exhilarating art collection designed to invoke genuine emotions, make us analyze the image, and dive deep within ourselves to understand the potential vision and message from the artist's heart and soul imprinted on the canvas.
This exhibition will run from October 1st, 2024, to January 26th, 2025. It is located inside our wine lounge and tasting room, Canada's largest tasting room. The venue is open daily to the public and has seasonal hours.
MELISSA DINWOODIE
https://www.melissadinwoodie.com
Melissa Dinwoodie is a visual artist living in the Okanagan Valley. Since graduating with her BFA from UBCO in 2001, she has practiced her art for over twenty years in cities such as Calgary, Toronto, and Vancouver.
She specializes in acrylic and mixed-media painting and illustration. Melissa loves creating layers and depth with colour and texture, which is her abstract ‘play’. Focusing on figurative and portrait art, she is fascinated with the connection between the viewer and the subject matter. She believes that art can be the communication between people that ignites conversations, relationships, education, and growth.
Her newest work plays with geometric patterns juxtaposed with loosely painted figures.
ALANA EVANS
Alana Evans graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a BFA in Visual Arts. Her passion for art and creative expression started as a child growing up in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. She currently resides in Langley, BC.
Inspired by her nostalgia for the BC terrain and its environment, Alana is moved to capture the lakes, mountains, flora and ever-changing skies. She is interested in depth and texture, and with the layers of oil medium work, the canvas becomes as rich and complex as she is. Alana fits into the fauvism style that utilizes colour for an emotional connection and response to her expressive painterly brushwork. Her paintings can be described as warm with dark and moody undertones, inviting the viewer to explore the dream-like quality of her memories in the landscape she grew up in.
As an oil painter, Alana prefers to paint on birch panels primed with transparent gesso. The transparent gesso allows the warm wood tone to show through the transparent layers of paint and gives the surface a 'paper-like' feeling. Building up the painting from layers of colours gives the piece dimension, and then adding oil bar paint adds textural interest.
Alana’s work has been shown in gallery shows throughout BC and is held in private collections in Canada and the United States.
BRANDY WYATT
Brandy Barry-Wyatt was born and raised under Northern Alberta's big skies and resides in Mountainous, BC. Her current work involves a distinctive style of Contemporary Western Wildlife and domestic Animal Subjects. Her creativity is ignited by her passion for the great outdoors and the beautiful wildlife that flourishes just a short distance away. Living in the Interior of British Columbia, Canada, one of the most stunning wilderness refuges in the world that sometimes offers opportunities to get up close and personal with rare and majestic animals. The energy that these animals exude is both captivating and alluring.
‘I seek to emanate that elusive beauty in my colour-infused paintings of these amazing creatures and the personalities they exude.’ Brandy’s paintings undeniably radiate adventure and dynamism, much like her outlook on life, as she seeks to exemplify the brilliance of our animal planet through her artwork. Brandy is a self-taught contemporary artist with a fair roster of art classes early in life, eventually studying 2D and 3D animation in College. She has been practising since age nine and started with a love of drawing horses. Many of her younger years were spent travelling with music and Arts Festivals, and she could be found doing temporary tattoos and selling small pieces of art. Before taking up animal subjects, her work was mostly about human figures.
Brandy puts a significant amount of energy into every painting so that it will not only be perfect in your home now but will also be an investment that will continue to rise. “It’s exciting to me every time I sell a painting because it means I can spread my mission to live outside the lines, to cherish every valuable second of life, and most importantly, to Surround Yourself with the people and places you love in bold colour!”