Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm. Evenings by appointment.
Flying down Winnipeg streets with the ever-present backdrop of space, seeing that nature has taken over in earnest in a gently apocalyptic neighborhood. Portait-in-motion, created using multiple image transfers, acrylic and ink.
Jim’s Artist Statement: Jim enjoys the contemplative and meditative nature of creating in watercolour compared to the creating a world for a video game. Images come from a delightful space of connection between artist, materials and imagery and includes thoughtful choices of materials, composition and colour as well as the, often accidental, results of working with wet-on-wet and spattered colour. There is a storytelling component in these images but in this show it is less whimsy and more of a dream.
James Thomson received his Bachelor of Environmental Studies (Architecture, 1983, U of Manitoba) in 1983 and his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from the University of Saskatchewan (1985). Jim had a solo show in Wasagaming (1989) and participated in group shows including two Manitoba Society of Artists shows. While working in the graphic arts as an illustrator and production artist and later as a supplier James became involved in computer graphics technology leading to a new career as a teacher of Interactive Digital Media at Kildonan-East High School. James taught students how to use technology as a form of storytelling, using art and code to produce animations, web sites, video games and VR experiences (2001-2021) After retirement, James returned to his traditional visual art with the exhibition “Infinite Horizons” in 2023 at cre8ery.
Sandy’s Artist Statement: Sandy’s first learning to paint with oil paints came from watching Bob Ross. Sandy paints mostly on black canvas, playing with transparent colour, which works very well with painting and exploring the Northern Lights’ beautiful dancing lights for “Dancing Skies”. Painting the aurora and mountains are what Sandy calls her “heart-happy” pieces. She feels great joy from imagining their shapes and movement.
Sandra (Sandy) Proulx Artist’s Bio: Sandy is a self -taught, rural Manitoba based oil painter who began painting 25 years ago. In the last 4 years, her creative inspirations grew. While landscapes were her initial love, the desire to learn how to paint other subjects led to painting aircraft, animals, and people. Due to Sandy’s occupation, she paints planes as she was a pilot for 22 years, with 18 of those years being a flight instructor. In December of 2022, Sandy accepted a position with Air Traffic Control and is currently undergoing training for that license. Sandy completed a collection of paintings for the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada permanently displayed in their multi-purpose meeting room. She has exhibited her work at both Cre8ery gallery in Winnipeg and Prairie Fusion in Portage la Prairie.
Sandy’s Artist Statement: Sandy’s first learning to paint with oil paints came from watching Bob Ross. Sandy paints mostly on black canvas, playing with transparent colour, which works very well with painting and exploring the Northern Lights’ beautiful dancing lights for “Dancing Skies”. Painting the aurora and mountains are what Sandy calls her “heart-happy” pieces. She feels great joy from imagining their shapes and movement.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Recently Patti Fernie found her niche and became known for her mixed media, textured canvasses, and alcohol ink paintings. She spent a lot of time experimenting with alcohol ink as it was a steep learning curve to become adept at ‘reading’ the movement of the ink instead of fighting it. She loves the beautiful, intricate details and the fact nothing can be recreated. She developed a distinctive style, inspired by her love of nature and the outdoors as abstract landscapes.
Patti Fernie Bio
Patti’s interest in art grew more serious after completing an Art Education Course at the University of Manitoba as part of her Bachelor of Education Degree (1999). Ann Stinner, her professor, suggested she consider a career in art education. As a result, Patti enrolled in some Fine Arts courses as part of her teaching degree, graduating in 2001 and starting her career as a middle school teacher and then a high school teacher.
As part of her Professional Development, Patti has attended countless Art Education conferences, workshops, and artist forums. She served on the Manitoba Association for Art Education executive for five years. She connected with many artists and learned more about the local art community.
Her work is featured in the reception area of the Reid and Miller chartered Professional Accountants office, in the St. James Assiniboia Teachers Association office, and she has been commissioned for several private works.
She has been featured in several news and magazine articles and has exhibited and sold works at the Cre8ery Gallery in both 2022 and 2023. She is a member of the Cre8ery Gallery, MAWA, Manitoba Association for Arts Education, and the National Association of Art Educators (U.S.).
Patti started selling under the name Lake Gal Artworks in 2015 to reflect her life-long love of the lake. It is also a nod to her Grandpa and her dad who established, then maintained, their family cottage in the Whiteshell for over 70 years. I am so fortunate to still enjoy summer days relaxing or creating there.
She is an active participant in art markets. Her art has travelled to China, Germany, Australia, the United States, and Britain. When she retires from teaching she will begin a full time art career.
Exhibit Statement: Parallel Pathways: A mother & daughter retrospective exploring recurring themes & imagery. Mar Desmet & Pamela Desmet Franklin. Curated by Jeanne Downing.
Perhaps on life’s journey we travel along parallel pathways, moving toward a common destination, restricted by our similar biologies, maybe shaped by comparable upbringings, but never diverging from our paths. The drive to create beauty, to make some sense of the chaos, to create something meaningful that wasn’t in the world before…Then, although our paths never converge and despite all their similarities, we remain as far apart from each other at the end of our course as we did at the beginning. This is our relationship: that across the chasm of our separate understandings, we have occasionally reached our hands across the void of our fragile and tenuous humanity and found a certain empathy.
My mother, Mar Desmet, was my first teacher about appreciating and creating art. Although our styles are quite different, I can feel her influence in my process, in taking risks and the importance of finding ones’ own truth. As I am creating, I may see her echo in the use of colour, line or focus or hear her voice in critique as we look over her works from art school for the day. Separate, but always together, mother and daughter; I hope you enjoy and have some fun recognizing the nuances of relationship in our works.
Biography/Artist Statement Mar Desmet: Mar Desmet, B Ed, BFA HonoursandFormer Art Educator with Winnipeg School Division #1, has exhibited paintings at the Fleet, cre8ery, & MAWA galleries, and has shown her work at the Faculties of Fine Art and Education Art Galleries at the University of Manitoba, at her former home & studio at Victoria Beach and local businesses, as well as the Tombstone Art Gallery in Arizona. Mar helped to develop the Sun Country Arts & Crafts group in the East Beaches area of Lake Winnipeg, acting as vice, president and past president for over 35 years and is currently a lifetime member!
Characteristically drawing and painting with pen, ink and stick, Mar’s unique style is featured in the homes and offices of many happy art collectors. Mar has drawn inspiration from the various amazing natural landscapes that she has witnessed in her travels, always with pen and pencil in hand, to places across Canada and other countries including Mexico, USA, France, Britain, Spain, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Barbados, and Hawaii. Her vibrant mixed media and acrylic paintings allow the observer to feel the beauty and energy of her exuberant artwork in moments that she has captivated on canvas and paper. Mar explains that a significant piece in Parallel Pathways, Irises on Marion Street, ”Is a riot of color and exuberance for the place I first lived with my husband, raised our children and where I decided at the age of 40 to go to university for the first time and receive my BFA Honours and B Ed Degrees.”
Biography Pamela Desmet Franklin: Multiplatform Artist, Pamela Desmet Franklin, @pameladesmetfranklinart, combines inspiration and images from the natural world in photography, mixed media, found object sculpture, collage, watercolour & ink, acrylic painting and fabric arts including dyeing with botanicals & fibre reactive dyes. Experimentation and the urge to create from materials at hand intrigues this artist who utilizes both traditional and novel processes for exciting outcomes. Pamela has exhibited at Martha Street Studio, C2, Fleet, cre8ery, Buhler, The Pavilion at Assiniboine Park, MAWA, & Prairie Fusion Galleries. Her art can be seen @pameladesmetfranklinart & alternative gallery spaces: El Spa & Gordies’ Coffee House.
Pamela Artist Statement: InParallel Pathways I have had the opportunity to select pieces from a variety of different mediums, hopefully complimenting the themes and imagery of my mother, Mar Desmet’s work. Many of my pieces are based on subjects from the area of the Lake Winnipeg watershed that continuously holds me in its thrall with its variety of life in all its variable weathers and in all its torrent of seasons.
I’d like to thank Jeanne Downing for curating this exhibit, for all her help with framing, painting and myriad acts to get our pieces gallery ready and on the wall. Thank you, my friend for going above and beyond!
A collaboration of deign focused pieces exploring the light & dark in a wide variety of mediums.
June 13 to 25, 2023.
Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm, evenings by appointment.
Meet the Artist
June 13 & Saturdays: 12-4
Wednesdays & Thursdays, 12-2
by appointment or any other days/times
125 Adelaide Street, 2nd floor.
204-944-0809
Duality: A Collection of art and pottery
“Duality” is an exhibition where design takes center stage, exploring the captivating dance between light and dark.
Through each piece there is aim to evoke a sense of contrast, harmony, and tension. Navigating the depths of this interplay, where multiple mediums and textures intertwine.
This body of work invites viewers to contemplate the balance and find your own meaning within the duality.
Carrie Paulicelli is an artist based on Treaty One territory. Raised in St Clements, Manitoba, Paulicelli began making art at a young age. As a child her demonstrated creativity in school led to art classes at The Winnipeg Art Gallery.
Encouraged by her husband to return to art, Paulicelli began painting in earnest and boldly began a new chapter of her life as an artist. Her pieces are abstract, inspired by her love of interior design and decorating. Paulicelli has exhibited her work at A Little Art Boutique, The Cre8ery Art Gallery and Kathleen Crosby Gallery. Her pieces can be found in collections in Canada and the United States. She lives in West St Paul, Manitoba with her husband Sam and their dogs.
The earth has undergone many changes over many years but never as much as in the past 100 with the impacts of human exploration. What will happen in the next century?
May 30 to June 11, 2024
Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm.
First Friday, June 7, 11am to 9pm.
Meet the artist times: Thursday, Friday, & Saturdays, 12noon to 5pm; First Friday, 12-9pm.
Corinne Flaws, moved from Winnipeg to the Isle of the Arts (Gabriola Island) in 2020. She retired from her career in information Systems Program / Project Management in 2017 to direct her full attention to her photography and art.
Corinne has always had a passion for nature and capturing its beauty. It inspires her to share what she sees, through her photographs and her art.
She enjoys capturing images with her camera to use as inspiration for her paintings. This beauty is at risk. Human activity in the name of progress is depleting the earth’s resources and heating up the planet. Housing development is taking away habitat from animals, causing them to interact more with humans often resulting in their demise. The ice fields are melting causing rise in sea levels which is causing flooding. Temperatures are rising causing more and more fires. The artworks in this show is imagining what a future might be like if this continues at the pace it is currently occurring.
“ Quest for Tranquility” is an eclectic mixed media collection of works that seeks to bring about, at the very least, a brief moment of peace in our often frantic daily lives. The collection seeks to provide an escape from the mundane and stressful. The works search for that combination of color , texture and subject that will cause one’s mind to find a few brief, or hopefully many, moments of reprieve from a modern world that constantly challenges a person’s quest for a few sparks of inner peace. The collection seeks to let one’s mind meander to a more blissful place of sensation.
Gary Potter is a lifelong Winnipeg artist who searches for creative ways to express his ideas on canvas, glass, wood and other media. There is no substance that is safe from this creative mind. He uses a wide variety of mediums to get the desired effect. What is true of every piece is that creativity, ingenuity, imagination and emotion are clearly present in all his work.
Gallery Hours: May 2 – 14, 2024, Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm, First Friday, 11am to 9pm.
Meet the Artist times: All hours of the exhibition.
cre8ery is located on the 2nd floor of 125 Adelaide Street in Winnipeg’s exchange district.
A mix of abstract photography and pallet knife painting
Artist: Tameem Safi
BIO:
At the age of eight, inspired by and in love with the hills and mountains surrounding Kabul, Tameem picked up a brush to paint and bring them to his little bedroom. Later, Tameem honed his skills as a nature photographer to professional level. His love for nature, its photography, pulled him further down an artistic path to a passion for putting what he saw into bold and strong colors band movement with abstracts.
Tameem’s harsh life with a unique life experience gives him an equal unique prospect on life and he
pulls on from his life and experience as different skills and disciplines to enhance his abstracts with a uniqueness, yet grounded in realism.
Consequently, with this exhibit, Tameem has used a lifetime of skills from varied disciplines and a worldly perspective to elevate his artistry.
“Why shouldn’t we create a work of art with loose hands that allows the paint to glide freely across the canvas, creating an abstract naturally as it swims and dances across and below”, says Tameem. “The mood of art is like a wind. It comes and goes. An artist must be prepared to catch it before it escapes.
“Colors and Movement”
As an artist, my creative journey has always been guided by the captivating interplay of colors and the dynamic essence of movement.
In “Colors and Movement,” I will showcase my exploration of these two vital elements through the medium of acrylic and oil.
In this collection, I employ the bold and expressive strokes of palette knives, harnessing their unique texture and versatility. With each deliberate mark, I aim to capture the vivacity and vitality found in the world around us, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the energy and life of my creations.
Nature, with its infinite spectrum of hues, serves as an endless source of inspiration for me. Through observation and contemplation, I have honed my skills to distill the vibrant colors of nature into my artwork. From the rich crimson of a setting sun to the soothing blues of a tranquil lake, I strive to encapsulate the beauty and diversity that surround us.
Photography plays an integral role in my artistic process, allowing me to document and study the colors found in the natural world. These photographs serve as references, guiding me as I translate the visual impressions into my painted compositions. By combining the immediacy of photography with the tactile and expressive nature of paint, I seek to bridge the gap between representation and interpretation, inviting viewers to experience the harmonious blend of realism and abstraction.
In “Colors and Movement,” I aim to transport the audience along a visual journey, awakening their senses and evoking emotions through the rhythmic dance of colors and the dynamic flow of brushwork. I aspire to create an immersive environment where viewers can lose themselves in the captivating interplay of hues, as if stepping into a realm where the boundaries between reality and imagination blur.
Together, let us celebrate the beauty of nature and the transformative power of art, as we embrace the boundless possibilities that lie within each brushstroke and capture the essence of life itself.
Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm, evenings by appointment
Meet the Artist times: Saturdays, 11am to 5pm.
Inspired by old world architecture, Tyler Barrett explores the diversity and the versatility of lime and gypsum based plasters with a modern approach.
Step into the captivating art show, “A Tale as Old as Lime,” where the versatile essence of lime is brought to life, bridging the gap between art and architecture across diverse social strata and geographical boundaries.
Lime as a decorative medium has graced the palaces of royalty and the humble abodes of common folk alike for centuries. This exhibition explores the fascinating history, versatility, and symbolism of lime, an ancient material that has played a significant role in the cultural tapestry of humanity.
Tyler Barrett, a seasoned plasterer in the trades, discovered his artistic calling by transcending the ordinary. After mastering the fundamentals of plastering, Tyler ventured into the world of fine art, specifically exploring the ancient allure of Venetian plaster. His journey took a transformative turn as he transitioned from coating walls to crafting wall art. Tyler’s creative vision infused traditional plastering techniques with a contemporary aesthetic, resulting in unique and captivating pieces. By embracing the tactile nature of Venetian plaster, he brought life to walls, turning them into canvases for his expressive creations. Tyler’s innovative approach not only elevated his career but also redefined the intersection of craftsmanship and artistic expression in the world of fine art plastering.
Last update April 29, 2024, 5:30pm. More works available in person.
To May 4: Monika Hansen (small paintings in our cabinet display) Bazil & Carol Stocki
arriving May 4 to June 8: Tanis Bannister, Mariam Daien Zipursky & Shona Helgastrom.
June 8 to July 13: Lois Hogg, Marcella Poirier & another TBA.
July 13 to September 7: Don Gobin, 2 more TBA
September 7 to October 19: Sonia Rothenmund & more TBA
October 19 to November 26: Noella Hanan & Ana MRC
December 17 drop off: TBA Exhibition dates January to April TBD.
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11am-5pm, evenings by appointment, open later, 11am to 9pm for First Fridays of each Month (May 4).
Call 204-944-0809 or email jordan@cre8ery.com Please review our 2D auxiliary gallery page for samples of what we have for paintings, drawings, photography etc. Curbside pick-up available before or after hours.
We have many more pieces in the gallery than what is available for previewing online.