Turning The Page

Jordan Miller,

March 28th to April 22.

Open Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm.

First Friday, April 4, 4-9pm (closed 11-4pm)

last day of the exhibition: April 19, 11-5pm.

Jordan Miller has worked in the arts and culture sector for 24 years with a strong focus on visual arts. This will be her last exhibition at cre8ery as she plans on writing a book, “If the Walls Could Talk: Stories from an Artist and Art Gallery owner.” Not having a clue as to how to write a book, she is jumping in and turning a new page.

This mixed media exhibition will be a collection of new works from 2024 & 2025. She is very excited for what the next chapter will be.

Please join in, in celebration of 23 years of gallery ownership and new adventures to come.

A blog with more info about the exhibition will be posted on her personal website in approximetly March 2025.

Crossed-wires: Painting through a synesthetic lens

“Cantaloupe Island (Herbie Hancock)”, 2024 5×7″

Jan Rogers

March 6 to March 25, 2025

Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm.

First Friday, March 7, 11am to 9pm.

Meet the Artist Times:

First Friday, March 7, 5-9pm.

Saturdays, March 8, 15, & 22, 11am to 5pm

Jan Rogers (she/they) graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in 2000, Since then she has developed a unique artistic style characterized by the use of bright, neon colors fused with metallic pigments. 

Working primarily with watercolor and acrylic mediums, Jan is influenced from a personal and introspective source: their own brain, due to the phenomenon known as “synesthesia”. This sensory experience infuses their work with a vibrant and dynamic quality.

“The Underdog (Spoon)”, 5×7″, 2024

Initially, Jan’s extensive body of work focused on figurative art, capturing the human form with vivid intensity and emotion. However, their recent endeavors have ventured into the realm of abstraction, exploring new dimensions and pushing the boundaries of their creative expression.

With a career spanning over two decades, Jan continues to evolve, creating visually striking pieces that resonate with viewers and challenge conventional perceptions of art.

“Weightless (Marconi Union)”, 9×12″, 2024

Graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from NSCAD in 2000, Jan Rogers is known for their vibrant use of bright, neon colors fused with metallic pigments, working primarily in watercolor and acrylic mediums. Heavily influenced by synesthesia, Jan’s extensive body of work initially focused on figurative art but has recently transitioned into abstract expressions. Their evolving style continues to captivate and challenge conventional perceptions of art.

Primavera

by Ana MRC

February 13 to March 4, 2025

Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm.

Meet the Artist Times: TBA

Bio, Artist Statement & Images, TBA

Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Retrospective

by Earl Rina.

Thursday, January 9 to Tuesday January 21, 2025

Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm.

Meet the Artist Times: Wednesday, Fridays & Saturdays: 1pm to 5pm.

Artist Statement: Playful Picturesque: Artfully demonstrates the connection between our daily experiences and the broader themes of sexuality, identity, culture, and the natural environment. A whimsical take on the exploration of movement, emotions, and adventurous colorful figurative visuals to show a connection between our daily encounters with our sexuality, identity, culture, and natural environment. I utilize bright and vivid colors, along with figurative shapes and humorous elements, to deliberately create contrast and irony within my art. This approach allows me to explore these serious connections in a lighthearted yet thought-provoking manner.

Chlorophyll, Grassland, Horizons, and Blossoms: The interconnectedness of emotional experiences with the significance and splendor of our natural world.

Chlorophyll: This series is a collection of acrylic paintings that celebrate the beauty and emotions of plants. Through each brushstroke and fluidity of color, I express the connection we have with nature and how it affects us physically and mentally. These paintings invite the viewer to enter a world where plants are amazing and remind us of the comfort and mixed emotions they give us throughout the seasons. The Chlorophyll series is a tribute to our shared experiences with plants and how they enrich our lives and remind us how important nature is to us.

Grassland:. The purpose of my artwork is to relay a vision of joyfulness, in particular, the connection between our daily encounters with our environment and the changing seasons. The environment that my artwork aims to show is the beauty of the forest, partly the boreal forest and the prairie woodlands and grasslands of Manitoba to make a statement and give meaning to their importance.

Horizon: A collection of photographs of the beautiful sky, showcasing the changing seasons, weather, and time of day. I use natural light, wide angles, and minimal editing to create a realistic and immersive experience.

Blossom: Captures the beauty and diversity of plants and their flowers/fruits in photography. It showcases the vibrant colors, shapes, and textures of different floral species, as well as the emotions and moods they evoke. It celebrates the joy and wonder of nature’s creations.

Short Biography:

Earl Rina (b. 1987) is an interdisciplinary visual artist, closely connected to their Filipino-Canadian heritage. Raised in the Philippines and later immigrating to Canada, Earl Rina has successfully merged their passion for healthcare and the arts, initially serving as a Registered Nurse and Visual Artist in the Philippines until 2018. Currently residing in Winnipeg, Canada, Earl Rina is dedicated to expanding their artistic education. Having completed an Art Program Diploma from the Stratford Career Institute (2021), they are now pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours Degree at the University of Manitoba’s School of Art.

In their artistic practice, Earl Rina employs an array of media and techniques to explore and discover the intricacies of movement, natural patterns, and symbolic landscapes. Their work explores emotional experiences and the complex web of our daily interactions, thoughtfully addressing social themes such as sexuality, identity, and the nuances of Filipino-Canadian culture, all while maintaining a connection to the natural environment. Earl Rina’s multifaceted approach to art reflects a commitment to creating a dialogue on the inevitable connections that shape our world.

Earl Rina’s work, themed “Playful Picturesque,” presents a whimsical exploration of movement and emotions through adventurous and colorful figurative visuals. This series artfully demonstrates the connection between our daily experiences and the broader themes of sexuality, identity, culture, and the natural environment. The collections titled “Chlorophyll,” “Grassland,” “Horizon,” and “Blossom” delve into the interconnectedness of emotional experiences with the significance and splendor of our natural world.

Full Circle

Artists: Dave Colvin & Leon Pewarchuk

November 28 to December 17, 2024

Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm. Evenings by appointment.

First Friday, extended hours, December 6, 11am to 9pm, both artists in attendance both days.

Meet the Artist times: Leon: Thursday, Nov. 28, 29, 30; Tuesday Dec. 3, 5, 6, 7, Wednesday Dec. 11, 13, 14, Tuesday Dec. 17.

Dave: Thursday, Nov 28, 29, 30; Wednesday Dec. 4, 6, 7, 10, Thursday Dec. 12, 13, 14 & Tuesday, Dec. 17

Developing from an unexpected reunion after 45 years without contact, an art teacher and his student have come together for a joint exhibition. This unique showcase, not only highlights their individual talents but also celebrates the enduring bond of friendship, shared creativity, and the power of reconnection.

With a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba, Leon Pewarchuk became a teacher of Art, Advertising Art and Graphic Design. In his 25 years of retirement, he returned to painting with oil on canvas for his own pleasure, inspired by his years at the cottage in Northwestern Ontario and his love of the outdoors.

Through his paintings, he expresses his creativity with vibrant, colourful landscapes drawn from his imagination and his real life visual experiences. The resulting work is both evocative and compelling.

Dave Colvin is an inveterate people-watcher.

His fascination with aspects of the human condition has been a constant throughout his life… as an artist, playwright, parent, husband, and clinician.

Although geared toward a future in visual communications and illustration art, his life took a decidedly different trajectory after high school, which ultimately led to a long and satisfying career in the behavioral health field. As such, he chooses to reflect human emotion through his artwork.

Fleshing out these emotional memories are key to the examination of Colvin’s art.

Given that yearning is said to be a blend of the primary emotions of love and sadness, this is no small task.

Dave draws inspiration from the Early Netherlandish painting schools, and creative sources as diverse as the outsider work of Henry Darger. The narrative compositions of Jessie Oonark, Pieter Bruegel, and the single-panel, darkly comedic cartoons of Gahan Wilson.

His quasi-realistic pieces are also driven by dreams, psychedelia, and too many hours poring over Graphis magazines in Commercial Art class.

Colvin’s commission works hang in private collections across North America and the UK. He has also been short-listed multiple times in the Manitoba Society of Artists open juried competitions.

Currently, atypical watercolour is his go-to, but any combination of water-soluble media including acrylic, acrylic pen, India ink, and gouache is fair game.

David Colvin’s ARTIST STATEMENT

Although my work is primarily representational and features hints of the surreal, at the centre of all that I try to accomplish artistically, is to evoke a measure of personal identification in the viewer.

My pieces are presented with buried narratives; unclear stories that will often be translated differently by each individual.

I try to accomplish this by introducing dichotomies and visual metaphors, such as holy men reveling while basilicas burn, curling rocks made from jam cans, errant tricycles lodged in tree canopies, and tumbling umbrellas that twist through wind-whipped skies above darkened neighborhoods.

Through this exhibit, it is my goal to evoke the emotional memories of those who see my work, and to challenge them to look more carefully at their own worlds.

Linear Threads

Elowen Megan, White Terror Of The North, Needle Felting.

A mother-daughter exhibition, Kathleen Black & Elowen Megan

November 14 – 26, 2024

Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm.

Meet Kathleen Black: November 16 & November 23, 11am to 5pm.

Meet Elowen Megan: Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Friday 11-2 (November 15, 19, 20, 22)

Kathleen Black, Bunting Lake, Snowy Owl, Thread on Paper Map.

“Linear Threads”- a mother-daughter fibre odyssey. Artists Kathleen Black & Elowen Megan embark on a joint fibre exploration. Texture has always been a point of interest for both artists, and the tactile nature of fibre makes it the perfect medium which to sprout artistic creations. Using cotton, wool, silk and other fibres they ‘paint’; inspiring each other to explore the possibilities of fibre in art.   

Elowen grew up immersed in the arts. She dabbled in many areas of fine arts as a child and while attending university training to be a classical singer. Elowen found her interest in felting by receiving a felting kit as a Christmas gift from her husband. From there the exploration blossomed and the wool has taken over! 

Elowen Megan, Drive On, needle fleting.

The needle felting process starts with a small barbed needle and wool roving . When stabbing through the wool the scales of the needle catch on the fibre entwining them together. Through time and diligent work the fibres are bonded together into the delightful designs you see.

Kathleen was happily encouraged to paint on walls as a child!  She is comfortable in many mediums such as cast glass, pate de verre, acrylic, oil, watercolour, fibre and mixed media. She is inspired by her Prairie home and its strong people and is fascinated by the concepts of time.

The Ghosts We Create

By Anja Studer

A series born at the Venezia Contemporanea Residencies Program in Venice, Italy. Paintings inspired by wildlife and the environmental issues that threaten their existence.

October 31 – November 12, 2024

Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm.

First Friday evening hours, November 1, 11am to 9pm

Meet the Artist times:

First Friday November 1, 5-9pm

Saturdays, November 2 & November 9, 11-5pm.

Anja Studer was born and raised in Switzerland and became an environmental activist at a very young age, feeling a deep need to protect the world we live in. She studied fine arts at the École de design et haute école d’art du Valais in Switzerland. Anja continued her fine arts studies at the University of Manitoba and graduated from Red River College with a diploma in photography. She currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and continues to create, exhibit, and sell her art in Europe and North America.

Her work includes painting, illustration, papercutting, embroidery, photography, sculpture and installation. Anja uses her work as a call to humanity to protect the planet and its wildlife. Her solo exhibition “Protect What You Love” highlighted the negative impact humans have on the environment and wildlife. The works exhibited in her most recent solo show “Healing Power” represented Anja’s response to the world-wide-wide pandemic, ongoing environmental crisis, and the increased human divide.

ARTIST STATEMENT – The Ghosts we Create

This newest series of work titled “the ghosts we create” was born in the summer of 2023 at the Venezia Contemporanea Residencies Program in Venice, Italy. The series features mixed media paintings and papercuts inspired by wildlife and the pressing environmental challenges they face, causing their numbers to diminish until they vanish.

The mixed media paintings feature abstract watercolor washes that loosely evoke landscapes, playing with the dynamic between nature and emotion. The color washes are enriched with details in ink, acrylics, 24k gold and graphite. Each artwork includes a wildlife illustration in graphite. Opting for graphite instead of her usual medium of black ink emphasizes the fragility of our ecosystem and underscores the threat of wildlife extinction due to habitat loss, exploitation and pollution. The wildlife illustrations consist of simple line drawings and geometric patterns inspired by folk art from all over the world, and in particular Swiss papercuts.

For the first time the Swiss artist is unveiling a limited edition of papercuts as a homage to this old Swiss tradition. The artist has had a love for traditional Swiss papercuts ever since her childhood and her illustrations have long been inspired by this artform and were translated to ink. A workshop in Switzerland in 2018 gave her the needed confidence to explore papercutting within her art practice. Anja’s delicate papercuts depict wildlife in her distinctive graphic style using patterns. The patterns unravel into lines of paper, echoing the message of wildlife being in danger of becoming extinct and disappearing in front of our eyes.

The artist continues to use her work to raise awareness about climate change, urging action to protect our wildlife before more and more species vanish, becoming ghosts of the past.

Anja will be donating 10% of sales from this exhibition to the Manitoba-based Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre. Wildlife Haven’s main goal is to treat injured and orphaned wildlife and to successfully release them back into their natural habitat.

You won’t believe how much this matters

Exhibition by Stephanie Westdal

October 17 to 26, 2024

Meet the Artist: Saturday, October 19, 1-5pm.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm. Evenings by appointment.

BIO:  From earliest childhood memories and experiences creating has always been in my blood, my fabric, my soul. Whether inspired by exploring tidepools in Senegal as a child, frog searching by the light of the African moon, climbing pyramids in Egypt, floating on the Dead Sea or running around London UK as a teenager, I have always needed outlets for self-expression. I’m guessing we all do… Mine are visual arts, songwriting and music. 

 I am originally from Winnipeg but have spent over 20 years living in other countries… Senegal, UK, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, USA. My parents are adventurers and moved the family to Senegal and then London, UK. Their passion for experience and adventure became my passion as well. I have been painting and writing songs my entire life and my passion for collage has been growing for years. I take photos of personal artifacts collected during my travels, nature, seas, oceans, pools, flowers and I cut and arrange and re-arrange and shift and discard and add and shift and remove and walk away and come back to create the pieces you see here. I am inspired by water, beautiful bold colours, the harmony the colours create together, the inner joy when it all comes together. Child-like delight. 

In any photo or collage you might find the gold base of my Turkish perfume bottle, the lily pads at the English Garden in Assiniboine Park, the luminescent green stairs of a pool at night, Moroccan lanterns, precious petals picked up off the ground during spring in Seattle, bits and pieces of this and that.

EXHIBITION STATEMENT

“Art – You won’t believe how much it matters!”

Art – It’s everything, it’s everywhere, it’s what matters! It’s the sights the smells the sounds, the touch, the experience. It permeates every inch of our lives, every crease, every corner, every circle, every line. We are enveloped by art, creativity and passion at every turn – from the beauty of the wind through flowing red hair, to the delicate curve a neckline, to the intoxicating smell of a soup bubbling, to the soothing feel of fur – it is intrinsic to life – you won’t believe how much it matters! Art is the essence of life.

I’m thrilled to be exhibiting my interpretation of “Art – you won’t believe how much it matters”. Art is life. This exhibit is somewhat eclectic. as is life! As are my passions and what inspirations matter to me – travel, immersion, sensuality, innocence, view (oh! the view!), secrets, playful childlike fantasies… bliss. I hope you get lost in your OWN creative story through this exhibit!

Art – it’s everything, it’s everywhere, it’s what matters!

Artisthood

Art Exhibition & Sale

Paintings by Jamie Plummer

September 26 to October 15, 2024

Regular Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm, evenings by appointment.

Open later for First Friday, October 4, 5-9pm.

Meet the Artist times: Saturday, September 28, 12-3pm; Friday, October 4, 5-9pm. Saturday October 5 & 12, 12-5pm; October 19, 12-3pm.

125 Adelaide Street, 2nd floor, Winnipeg.

Artist Statement: As a child I always felt I was able to express myself with art. Words were never my friend. Reading was never as enjoyable as it was to others, math and most sciences were tolerated, French and physics class were suffering. The only time I felt like I was intelligent, confident and truly myself was when I was creating something. Over the years I have done a little bit of everything. I took up beading in high school and even sold my jewelry in some craft fairs. I studied and practiced photography during my undergrad and ventured into wedding photography. Theatre design allowed me to explore a large cross section of skills, technical drafting, model making, costume rendering, sculpting with form and even light. During the pandemic I sold paint poured coasters with a good friend. But all of these practices eventually turned into a chore. I enjoyed the process of creating and expression, and still do. They truly brought me joy. But the product of my work was for others. The jewelry was made for others to wear. The photos were taken to celebrate others special days, the set and costume designs were for others to act on and to wear, the coasters were sold as a means during the pandemic. And that was enough, for a while at least.

When I became a mother, that changed. Motherhood is hard. Motherhood during a global pandemic is even harder. I returned to work after 9 months of maternity leave with my first son. Four months later my father died. One month after that the world shut down and I was cut off from my creative outlet, my job. Needless to say, my mental health suffered. I didn’t realize how much I needed a creative outlet. It was during that time that I first picked up a pallet knife. I had always been intimidated by it, thinking it was beyond my skill set. But as I spread the paint across a canvas for the first time, it felt right. It felt like me. It is easy to lose yourself in motherhood and I definitely did for a while. Taking care of small humans consumes your identity and your time. In the rare instances when you do find time for yourself, you are exhausted. When I take the time to paint, I am taking back a piece of myself, remembering who I am as an individual, feeling at home, enjoying something I am good at. It is meditative, it brings me joy, it brings me peace, it brings me confidence. It is just for me.

There is nothing complicated about these paintings. There is no deeper meaning. I don’t have time for anything more than that. Ultimately what it comes down to is “I like to paint and flowers are pretty”.

“Colourful artwork can trigger the release of dopamine… leading to feelings of happiness and well-being” – Dr, Shivani Khetan, Expressive art therapist. 

Artist Bio:

Jamie Plummer grew up in East Africa with the Serengeti as her backdrop. Safaris with her family were a common occurrence, driving through the Serengeti looking for animals, but mostly enjoying the grass fields, endless skies and warm sun. Summers were spent in Winnipeg, with weekends at the lake with her sisters and grandparents. Driving through the prairies with vast infinite blue skies, its far away horizon, and vibrant yellow canola fields has always brought a smile to her face; a world away from the game drives through the Serengeti but the same sky, and a familiar feeling with the warm sun on her face.

Jamie always had an affinity for art. It didn’t really matter what she was creating, it’s where she felt most at home. In school she always found a way to bring her artistic side into what she was working on.

In 2000 Jamie and her family permanently moved back home to Winnipeg where she attended Grant Park for her last 2 years of high school. A difficult adjustment and missing her African home, she spent her art classes recreating African art styles that she grew up around, the artwork that her parents collected. After high school she attended the University of Winnipeg. Wanting to take some sort of art class, she took the only practical art class the university offered, Principles of Theatre Design. She was in love. She proceeded to take every theatre course the University offered, that wasn’t onstage. She graduated with honors with a Bachelors of Arts in Theatre Design and Backstage Production. She then found her way to the University of Alberta where she completed her Masters of Fine Arts in set, costume and lighting design. 

In 2013 she returned home to Winnipeg to marry her husband and start her career. She worked for several years as a gallerist at the Woodlands Art Gallery, where she was surrounded by established and budding Canadian artists. At the same time Jamie continued with her theatre life, designing shows for theatres across the city. In 2016 Jamie started in the Props department at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre as a prop buyer. It was a perfect fit. It combined all her knowledge of the backstage with her design eye, her love for creating and crafting, her knowledge of art, as well as her love of shopping. Over the next few years Jamie experienced the birth of her first son, a global pandemic, the sudden death of her father, and a promotion to the Head of the Prop Department at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre. 

Following the birth of her second son in 2023, she is loving being a mom of two while also finding time to paint simple and beautiful things that remind her of the warm sun and beautiful big skies. 

Fine Craft Auxiliary Gallery

Melanie Hiebert, ceramic cups, $30 each (includes taxes)

Last update September 13, 3:38pm.

Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11am-5pm, evenings by appointment, open later, 11am to 9pm for First Fridays of each Month.

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. 

Melanie Hiebert, Ceramic bowl (1 available), $30 (includes taxes)

We have more pieces in the gallery than what is available for previewing online. Please visit and if you aren’t in the city, please note that all artwork can be shipped. Please contact us for a quote!

September 7 to October 19: Sonia Rothenmund (ceramic sculpture vessels), Melanie Hiebert (Ceramic Pottery), Harriet Neal (Purses & Bags).

October 19 to November 26: Noella Hanan (Ceramic/Pottery), Lois Hogg (Miniature Houses), & Ana MRC (ceramic pottery)

Melanie Hiebert, Ceramic Plates, $30 (includes taxes)

Cabinets & Plinths: November 26 to January 18: Lainie Rosner (ceramics, pottery), Patti Fernie & Carol Stocki

Plinths: January 18 to February 13: Marcella Poirier

Cabinets: January 18 to February 22: Jacquie Trudeau & Brenda Martin.

Cabinets, February 22 to March 29: Bazil (cearmics/ Sculptures, Connie Wawruck Hemmitt (jewelry, painted ceramics).

Melanie Hiebert, Lava Bowls (2), $45 (includes taxes)

Plinths: March 4 to April 8: Shona Helstrom

Sonia Rothenmund, Curvey Shaped Porcelain Vase with 1 white and pink flowers, 14″ x 7″ x 10″, $55 (includes taxes)
Sonia Rothenmund, Brown and Blue Square Vase with 5 Flowers, 17″ x 7″ x 11″, $95 (includes taxes)
Sonia Rothenmund, Brown and Black Round Vase with 3 Orange Flowers, 27″ x 7″ x 9″, $95 (includes taxes)
Sonia Rothenmund, Brown and Copper Square Vase with 5 Lavender Flowers, 13″ x 7″ x 8″, $90 (includes taxes)
Harriet Neal, upcycled denim crossbody bag with Japanese Sashiko style hand embroidery, 9″ x 10″ x 4″, $70 (includes taxes)
Harriet Neal, Upcycled denim shoulder bag with raw edge woven pattern, 12″ x 11″ x 3″, $80 (includes taxes)
Harriet Neal, Upcycled Denim Market Tote with Raw Edge Reverse Applique and thread painted flower, 13″ x 13.5″ x 4″, $75 (includes taxes)
Harriet Neal, upcycled denim crossbody bag with raw edge reverse applique, 12.75″ x 8.75″ x 1″, $70 (includes taxes)
Harriet Neal, purse/bag (available behind the counter)