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Collaborations In A Time of Covid: Writers and Artists of Salt Spring October 15th to November 1st, 2020   Collaborations In A Time of Covid: Writers and Artists of Salt Spring Island  is an exhibition put together by Margaret Day of the Point Gallery for an exhibition

Currently showing: AUNTIE PESTO:   I am currently showing some of my more recent art here, primarily landscapes but also some portraits from the Portrait of an Island series.   Auntie Pesto’s   can be found nestled on the waterfront boardwalk in the heart of Ganges Village.

Octogony: eight artists and their new work Mahon Hall, Ganges, Salt Spring Island September 25th – October 4th, 2020 In this one series of paintings, I have juxtaposed colour panels in acrylics with the realism of charcoal and pen drawings. The work explores the connection between men

  These are primarily paintings that I have shown before but now with an awareness of the problems in nursing homes and the danger from the virus which seems to primarily attack older people, it seemed a pertinent time to re-show the work. In our society we

I first got to know Susan Benson over the many years I reviewed the Stratford Festival, starting in 1976 (during the long-vanished golden era of Robin Phillips). The celebrated British designer was already putting her stamp on Canadian theatre, opera, and ballet, and my admiration for her

The world around us is regarded evermore superficially through portals – through the restricted vision of a cell phone lens or through the narrow rectangular shape of a car windscreen – this does not encourage us to look further than the frame. I have used the white

A number of us are opening our studios on Saturday 28th September from 10am­­‑5 pm.  Dragonfly Art Supplies is at 155 Rainbow Road (almost opposite Windsor Plywood). There will be food and wine served. We look forward to seeing you.

These are a few pictures of the lovely time we had in Stratford to celebrate Patricia Flood’s new book on my work.  The Common restaurant in Stratford provided a lovely setting and a delicious meal.  Many thanks to all of you who attended and special thanks to

Book launches for Patricia Flood’s book on my work were held in June. There will be another launch in the Yukon at the Canadian Institute of Theatre Technology’s 2019 Trade Show and Conference in Whitehorse, which will be held the week of August 13th. Patricia and I will be signing her book about my work and giving a TEC talk.

Susan Benson, C.M.   On June 27th, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, announced 83 new appointments to the Order of Canada, recipients to accept their insignia at a ceremony to be held at a later date. The announcement of Susan’s appointment as Member of