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December 2025

First Saturday’s Open Studio

Saturday, December 6  |  12 to 5 pm (Last one until May 2026!)

148 Centennial Parkway (beside the boat ramp), Tsawwassen BC
(Parking is available in the driveway)

For those that missed my show at Visual Space Gallery I’ll have a selection of my favourite pieces up on display and will be working on a few small garden pieces that will be in their Winter Art and Craft Show. Its a great opportunity to see my process in action.

Please drop by and say hi. Boundary Bay is a lovely community with a lot to offer. Consider making a day of it if you’re coming from the city. We have an amazing ocean side park with a lovely beach, washrooms and fantastic storm watching all just a short walk from my studio.

There are three of us in Tsawwassen who participate in First Saturdays which means a mini art tour is possible. Please check out the First Saturday website to find out more: www.firstsaturday.ca

November 2025

For the Love of Art
Harris Barn, Ladner

November 1 & 2
10 am to 4 pm both days

It doesn’t get more local than this for me so I’m very happy to announce that back for a fourth year in a row at the “For the Love of Art” at Ladner’s Historic Harris Barn. It’s a fantastic show with a great selection of local artists & artisans, live music and lots of good things to eat as well! Its well worth a visit, come by and say hi. >> find out more

 

September 2025

Ladner Business Association’s
Art & Wine Stroll

Thursday Septmeber 25th From 4 to 8 pm
Ladner Village

I’m very excited to announce that I’m participating for a second year in the Ladner Village Art and Wine Stroll! This casual adult only experience takes you through various participating businesses located in the historic Ladner Village. Each business has a featured artist showcasing their work or talent while offering wine/beer tasting and appetizers. Your ticket includes a wine glass and wrist band. I’ve been partnered with Ladner Village Physiotherapy at 105-4841 Delta Street. Get your ticket today and drop by to say hi! >>Purchase your ticket

Delta Studio Stomp

Saturday, September 27th and Sunday, September 28th
from 10am to 4pm
148 Centennial Parkway (beside the boat ramp), Tsawwassen BC

Delta’s annual studio tour,  the Delta Studio Stomp, has expanded to Ladner and Tsawwassen! Grab a map and come check it out. I’m number 11 on the tour map in Tsawwassen, just a short walk from the Red Barn location (number 10). Please drop by and see what I’m working on. I’ll have a selection of brand new original minis, ornaments and works on paper available along with art cards and prints.   >>you can download your map here

August 2025

Visual  Space Gallery

Thicken & Fade
Fredi Rahn and Shelley Wales

Opening reception: Saturday, August 16 from  2 to 4 pm, please come and celebrate with us.

August 14 to August 30
3352 Dunbar Street, Vancouver, BC

I can’t tell you how happy I am to announce this exhibit that explores the slow push and pull of the cycles of growth with hand built stoneware vessels by Fredi Rahn and my recent mixed media landscapes of Tsawwassen’s Secret Garden. I have admired Fredi’s work for quite some time now so I am beyond thrilled to be showing alongside her. 

April 2025

Southlands Art Show

Saturday, April 19, 2025  |  10 am to 4 pm
Tsawwassen Southlands Grange

It’s not every day I can walk to a group show I am exhibiting in, so I am thrilled to share that I will be participating in the Southlands Art Show for the second year in a row. This years theme is ‘Where the light gets in’, a vibrant celebration of our our little seaside community’s spirit and strength. The group show featuring local artists will be taking place alongside and next door to the annual Spring Market at the Read Barn. I can hardly wait and hope you can drop by and say hi. I’ll post more information as it becomes available. >>Find out more

March 2025

Cityscape Community ArtSpace
North Van Arts Art Rental Show

March 8 t0 April 12, 2025

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 8, 2pm-4pm

Beacon, Eventide and All the Little Things Left Unsaid will be in the Annual Art Rental show at Cityscape Gallery starting March 8. If you are in North Vancouver come check it out it is always a fantastic show. I’ll post a link as soon as one is available.

February 2025

Gallery 1710 
Share Your Technique Demo: Stretching Watercolour Paper

February 18th from 1:30 to 3:30 pm
1710 56 Street, Tsawwassen (in the workroom)

Join us for the Tuesday drop-in and learn how to stretch watercolour paper. Free for SDAG members and 15- for non-members.

Federation Gallery
Scenes from Canada Exhibit

February 11 to March 2
Federation Gallery, Granville Island, Vancouver

My watercolour, Looking for Alaska, will be showing at the Federation Gallery’s Scenes from Canada Exhibit this February. I couldn’t be happier to be exhibiting in what is sure to be an amazing show.  >> find out more

REACH 
Art Auction For Autism

February 10-26

I’m happy to announce that I will again be a participating artist in the REACH Art Auction for Autism. Not only is this important to me because it will help support families in my community but it is also a cause that is close to my heart as my son is on the Autism spectrum. I know personally how hard it can be emotionally as well as financially on families and how early intervention and support can make a child’s life so much brighter.

This year I am donating “After” from my Sea to Sky Series. >>Find out more

Gallery 1710 
Share Your Technique Demo: Stretching Watercolour Paper

February 18th from 1:30 to 3:30 pm
1710 56 Street, Tsawwassen (in the workroom)

Join us for the Tuesday drop-in and learn how to stretch watercolour paper. Free for SDAG members and 15- for non-members.

January 2025

Atelier 8.18
LALA: Landscapes, Abstract Landscapes & Abstracts

January 26th to April 5, 2025, by appointment only
8 East 18th Ave, Vancouver

Opening Saturday, January 18 from 2 to 6pm, everyone welcome

I am beyond thrilled to be exhibiting alongside the immensely talented Golya Mirderikvand, Liz Ruest & Amanda Wood in this group show that explores location, space and a sensibility of observed realities.  >> find out more

Federation Gallery
2025 Exhibiting Members Exhibit

January 7 to 26
Federation Gallery, Granville Island, Vancouver

My watercolour, Chasing Morning, will be showing at the Federation Gallery’s Exhibiting Members show this January. This is one of my favourites from my 2024 Sea to Sky Collection so I couldn’t be happier to have it exhibiting in what is sure to be a fantastic show.  >> find out more

November 2024

For the Love of Art
Harris Barn, Ladner

November 2 & 3
10 am to 4 pm both days

It doesn’t get more local than this for me so I’m very happy to announce that back for a third year in a row at the “For the Love of Art” at Ladner’s Historic Harris Barn. It’s a fantastic show with a great selection of local artists & artisans, live music and lots of good things to eat as well! Its well worth a visit, come by and say hi. >> find out more

Federation of Canadian Artists
Water Online Exhibition

November 19 to December 1, 2024

I’m happy to share that two of my watercolours, Mr. Toads Wild Ride and Lullaby, from my Between Two Oceans series have been selected to be included in the online portion of the Federation of Canadian Artists exhibition Water.  >> find out more

Gallery 1710 – Artist in Residence Demo

From Backcountry to Gallery, Wilderness Watercolours
November 30th from 12 to 3 pm

Gallery 1710, Tsawwassen

I’m am absolutely tickled to be the artist in residence at our local artists guild gallery in Tsawwassen this month.

Come and see what’s in my backcountry plein air pack, how I build up a larger watercolour paintings from my plein air pieces and photographs, plus learn to make a small lightweight single sheet eight page folding sketch book like the one I use while hiking.

Stay for the afternoon or just long enough to make a sketch book, ask a few questions and have a short chat.

September 2024

Ladner Business Association’s
Art & Wine Stroll

Thursday Septmeber 19th From 4 to 8 pm
Ladner Village

I’m very excited to announce that I’m participating for the first time in the Ladner Village Art and Wine Stroll! This casual adult only experience takes you through various participating businesses located in the historic Ladner Village. Each business has a featured artist showcasing their work or talent while offering wine/beer tasting and appetizers. Your ticket includes a wine glass and wrist band. I’ve been partnered with Ladner Village Physiotherapy at 105-4841 Delta Street. Get your ticket today and drop by to say hi! >>Purchase your ticket

Cityscape Community ArtSpace
North Van Arts Art Rental Show

August 23 to September 21, 2024

Flower Stones and Chatterbox, from my ongoing Sea to Sky series, will be in the Annual Art Rental show at Cityscape Gallery starting August 23rd. If you are in North Vancouver come check it out it is always a fantastic show. I’ll post a link as soon as one is available. >>Find out more

June 2024

Federation Gallery
June & July Curated Collection

June 1 – July 31
Federation Gallery, Granville Island, Vancouver

I’m very excited to announce that five of my paintings (Bunny, Bird Song, Symphony, Wet Nurse and Boarders) will be joining the Federation Galleries Curated Collection for the months of June and July. If you are in Granville Island make sure to check it out, there are some real gems in racks! >>Find out more

Gallery 1710
Oil and Water Exhibition

June 6 – 23, 2024
Fridays to Sundays 12 to 4pm, Tsawwassen

Opening reception: June 6, 6:30pm

I am very happy to share that two of my pieces were juried into the South Deltas Artists Guild’s Oil and Water Exhibition. You will be able to find Beacon and Chasing Morning (not yet up on my site) on display at the gallery from June 6 to 23rd. I’m very excited to be showing these pieces at the gallery as both paintings are very local scenes of the every beautiful Boundary bay that we live next too at its most spectacular times of day, in my opinion, sunrise and sunset.

Anyways, it is always a fantastic show, hope you can make it.  >>Find out more

March 2024

Southlands Art Show

Saturday March 30, 2024  |  10am to 4pm
Southlands Grange Centre, Tsawwassen

It’s not every day I can walk to a group show I am exhibiting in, so I am extremely proud to share that I will be participating in the Southlands Art Show right down the street from my home in Boundary Bay. The exhibit, featuring local artists and celebrating resilience within our little seaside community, will be taking place alongside and next door to the annual Spring Market at the Read Barn. I can hardly wait and hope you can drop by and say hi. I’ll post more information as it becomes available. >>Find out more

February 2024

REACH Online Art Auction for Autism

February 11 – 26, 2024

I am excited to share that this February I will be participating in the REACH Art Auction for Autism. Not only is this important to me because it will help support families in my community but it is also a cause that is close to my heart as my son is on the Autism spectrum. I know personally how hard it can be emotionally as well as financially on families and how early intervention and support can make a child’s life so much brighter. >>Find out more

Cityscape Community ArtSpace
North Van Arts Art Rental Show

February 24 t0 April 6, 2024

Opening Reception: Sat February 24 from 2-4 pm

Flower Stones and Chatterbox, from my ongoing Sea to Sky series, will be in the Annual Art Rental show at Cityscape Gallery starting February 24. If you are in North Vancouver come check it out it is always a fantastic show. I’ll post a link as soon as one is available.

January 2024

Federation of Canadian Artists
Active Members Online Exhibition

January 9 – 28, 2024

I’m happy to share that one of my watercolours of the Black Tusk in Garibaldie Provincial Park, Symphony, is available through the federation galleries online Exhibit for the Active Members Show. This particular view of the tusk is from Decker Mountain on the Blackcomb side of sining pass in the early summer with Whistlers colourful Symphony ridge in the foreground.   >> find out more

North Van Arts
Art Rental Program 2024

So happy to announce that I have been accepted into the North Van Arts Rental Program for the third year in a row. Flower Stones and Chatterbox, from my ongoing Sea to Sky series, will be available starting in February from Cityscape Gallery in North Vancouver. If you’re not familiar with the program I highly recommend checking it out. It is an excellent program to introduce yourself to some amazing local artists, to live with a piece of art before making the commitment to buy it, or an affordable way to create a mini rotating fresh selection of art in your home. >> find out more

November 2023

For the Love of Art
Harris Barn, Ladner

November 4 & 5
10 am to 4 pm both days
It doesn’t get more local than this for me so I’m very happy to announce that back for the second year in a row at the “For the Love of Art” at Ladner’s Historic Harris Barn. Its a fantastic show with a great selection of local artists & artisans, live music and lots of good things to eat as well! Its well worth a visit, come by and say hi. >> find out more

July 2023

The Gallery George
“The Great Escape” 

June 28th to July 23rd
Super excited to be showing select pieces from my Stone Mountains series at The Gallery George in Gastown for its July Group Exhibit. The opening reception is July 7th from 6 to 9 pm. Hope to see you there!

May 2023

Federation of Canadian Artists
May & June Curated Collection 

Federation Gallery
What Lies Beneath and Running on Empty will be joining the Federation Galleries Curated Collection for the months of May and June. If you are in Granville Island make sure to check it out, there are some real gems in racks. 

February 2023

Artwrk
February Group Show

Online February 1
Four of my pieces from my Sea to Sky series will be joining some amazing work by fellow artists Leisa Rich, Emiko M Venlet, Ashley Alexandra, Mishel Schwartz, Carole Milon and Karen Goetzinger for Artwrk’s February Group Show. Be sure to visit artwrk.ca to check it out.

Federation of Canadian Artists
Artists Choice Exhibition

Federation Gallery – February 7 – 19, 2023
Super happy that Outflow and The Boy and a Toad from my Sea to Sky series is going to be included in the Federation of Canadian Artist “Artists Choice” exhibit. For those that can’t make it to Granville Island for the show it can also be viewed online. I’ll post the link once it is live.

January 2023

Federation of Canadian Artists
Works on Paper Exhibition

Federation Gallery – January 24 – February 5, 2023
I am very excited to announce that Bunny and Coyote from my Sea to Sky series will be exhibiting in the Federation of Canadian Artist “Works on Paper” exhibit at the end of January. For those that can’t make it to Granville Island for the show it can also be viewed online. I’ll post the link once it is live.

Cityscape Community ArtSpace
North Van Arts Art Rental Show

January 13 – February 11, 2023
Chit Chat and Pinch Me, two of my favourites from last year, will be in the Annual Art Rental show at Cityscape Gallery starting January 13. Opening reception is January 12th. If your in North Vancouver come check it out.  >> find out more

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