''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.

Art Launch:

We invite you to the Grizzli Gallery on November 9, 2024, from 4:00 to 6:00 for the official launch of our winter installment. This art launch will offer some lucky participants the chance to take home complimentary artworks from this exhibition that night!

Attend the event! You will receive a raffle ballot upon entry, and the winners will be chosen at 5:00 pm.

This particular night also features a performance by local pianist Patricia Dalgleish. She will serenade us throughout the event.  Grab yourself a glass of wine or festival cocktails, stroll the gallery, and snack on the complementary light bite charcuterie graze board. It is a night filled with live music, art, wine and snacks.   

This is your time to meet the artist and learn about the inspiration behind their masterpieces.  

Admission to the Art Launch is free, but you must RSVP here or by phone at 250-769-6789, as space is limited. 

Timeline:

4:00 pm- Doors open, live music

4:30 pm- Intro & speeches

4:45- Live music and social

5:00 pm Raffle winners announced

6:00 pm- Event ends

Meet the artist:

MELISSA DINWOODIE

Melissa Dinwoodie is a visual artist living in the Okanagan Valley. Since graduating with her BFA from UBCO in 2001, she has practiced 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

www.bwyattart.com

funny moose original art, vivid horses wildlife art,pet portraits,animal art, wild , farm art, country modern, home decor, animals, dog portraits, horse portraits, equine art , wildlife art, Canadian wildlife art, animal artist, bear paintings, big bear paintings, hare, chalet style

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!”

Live musical performance:

Tricia Dalgleish was born and raised in British Columbia and made her home in Kelowna, BC. She began playing piano at age five and has been deeply involved in music. Tricia has performed professionally on the piano and with various ensembles for over 25 years. She is proficient and competent in multiple styles, from jazz to Latin and classical to pop. Her musical interests have taken her worldwide, where she has performed as a pianist for over ten years in a nine-piece orchestra on Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Tricia performs and sings in various musical groups in Kelowna and teaches music independently.

We look forward to welcoming you!