Pearl Ellis Gallery invites everyone to fill out our first annual Member Survey. Your voice is important to us as we move Pearl Ellis Gallery into the 2025 season! This survey should take less than ten minutes to complete and will be a very useful tool for us to gather statistics and to allow you to share your thoughts with us.
Members of the Pearl Ellis Art Gallery have responded to the call to bring in their brightest colours, to help lighten moods and the gallery walls during the dreariest days of winter. How individual artists interpret “bright colour” is the theme of the current exhibition, on display from January 28-February 15. Paintings, photography, fabric art and sculpture are included in the show and all work is available for purchase. …
The Pearl Ellis Art Gallery starts the new year with “Selections” by J.F. Janzen. The exhibition is about choices and – in this case – images that are part of the artist’s journey of change and growth over the past five years. A recent move to the Comox Valley from Victoria led Janzen to establish Studio Rivertown on his new property. It meshes, along with other ongoing projects, his impressions of the surrounding area from an environmental viewpoint with a deep need for concern for the planet. ”Selections” could be considered a familiarization of Janzen’s style of mark making.…
Welcome to The Pearl Ellis Art Gallery Volunteers Showcase Display and Sale…
Our Wonderful PEG Volunteers, majority of them artists, along with our patrons, keep the PEG open day-after-day, is that's what this show is all about!…
Brushworks painters featured at the Pearl Ellis Gallery
The Pearl Ellis Art Gallery will feature the Brushworks painting group from October 29-November 16. Brushworks is a painting group that includes long-time members as well as some recent arrivals to the Comox Valley. Established in the 1990s, Brushworks has a membership of 30 painters who get together weekly at the Lion’s Den in Comox to paint and offer each other encouragement, inspiration and challenge in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. Viewers can expect to see professional level paintings in watercolour, acrylic, oils and mixed mediums by both established and emerging artists.…
“Double Dog Dare You” from one Penny to two friends triggered three local painters to commit to a year of exploration and development of their various painting styles, skills and methods used to represent the human figure in preparation for a group exhibition. The show runs from October 8-26 at the Pearl Ellis Gallery in Comox.…
Mother/daughter painters at the Pearl Ellis Art Gallery
The Pearl Ellis Art Gallery presents “Philocaly, the Love of Beauty”, by mother/daughter team, Christina Nilsson and Amanda Ritchie from September 17 to October 4. …
The Vancouver Island Silk Painters celebrate their 20th Anniversary with a “West Coast Symphony” from August 27 to September 14 at the Pearl Ellis Gallery in Comox. This group of eclectic artists has taken the ancient fine art form of silk painting to its optimum level. Using various techniques, each painter has developed their own distinctive style using the magic of dye on silk as their choice of medium. With every new painting comes a new learning experience that challenges the artist and viewer alike. Ongoing workshops and monthly meetings keep the artists engaged with their creative goals and offer inspiration and the confidence to achieve the next level of excellence. The group represents skill levels from beginner to professional.…
Pearl Ellis Gallery presents 42nd Anniversary Members’ Show
The Pearl Ellis Gallery is pleased to present its members’ anniversary show from August 6-24. A wide variety of styles and themes will be displayed and available for purchase.…
Mostly Watercolours, showcasing local artists Trisha Scarlett Milne and Heather Wilkinson, runs July 16-August 3 at the Pearl Ellis Gallery in Comox. The artists are friends with much in common: both are excited by watercolour, have travelled widely, live in the Comox Valley and winter in La Manzanilla, Mexico.…
Wire sculpture artist featured at the Pearl Ellis Gallery
Wire sculptures by local artist, CG Swanson, will be featured at the Pearl Ellis Gallery in Comox from June 25 to July 13, 2019.
In her first solo exhibition, CG Swanson brings you on a journey down The Winding Path, exploring the imaginative, relational, and reflective opportunities trees provide. Come, picnic under the flowing willow while children laugh and play. Let the maple take your mind beyond the past and future, into something so vast you are everywhere and nowhere, so big you lose yourself completely. Be inspired by the tree that has cast off boundaries and limitations, living a situational reality in an unexpected way. Come, walk this winding path, imagine and explore.…
In recognition of their ten year anniversary, Comox Valley Photographic Society (CVPS) members have raised the bar on their upcoming show running from June 4 to 22 at the Pearl Ellis Gallery in Comox.…
The Pearl Ellis Gallery in Comox presents the Monday Bunch Annual Spring Art Show and Sale from April 23 until May 11. This group of local artists works in a variety of mediums including oils, acrylics, watercolour, pastels and scratchboard. Subject matter varies widely and can range across landscapes, floral, portraits, wildlife, seascapes, modern, inspirational and architecture.…
‘Home’ usually refers to the place where people reside. It is also where other creatures live: a bird’s nest, beaver lodge, spider web, under a log, in a compost heap, or in a lake. Homes can be mobile or temporary: an RV camper, a cabin in the woods, an empty shell for a hermit crab.…
Channing Holland’s “Colour Vision” at Pearl Ellis Gallery
The Pearl Ellis Gallery presents “Colour Vision”, paintings by local artist Channing Holland, from March 12 to 30. The show is a celebration of colour and patterns expressed through the artist’s interests in nature, especially botanical subjects and flowers, historical architecture and religious symbolism and imagery.…
Rainforests to prairie grasslands, a visual road trip at Pearl Ellis Gallery
The markers on the road are not measured by distance, but by images captured by eight local photographers on an extended trip by boat, car and on foot across western Canada over a period spanning two years. They start in Haida Gwaii, heading south to Vancouver Island, then eastward through the Great Bear Rainforest, stopping in Farwell Canyon in the Chilcotin, heading across the Rockies, through the Alberta Badlands and finally end in Arcola, Saskatchewan.…
Diverse styles featured at Pearl Ellis Members’ Open Show
The Pearl Ellis Gallery will host its first Members’ Show and Sale of 2019 from January 29 to February 16.
A wide range of styles, from both emerging and professional artists, will be displayed and includes watercolour, acrylic and oil paintings, photography, fibre art and sculpture. All work will be available for purchase. …
Mediterranean colours featured at the Pearl Ellis Gallery
The Pearl Ellis Gallery starts off the new year with “Now and Then: Paintings by Stephanie Wood” from January 8 to 26. Stephanie spent 25 years living on the island of Cyprus before moving back to Vancouver Island five years ago. This exhibition presents canvases contrasting the exuberant colours and strong Middle Eastern themes of one island with the healing greens and delicate leaf patterns of the other.
Included in the retrospective show is a world of Mediterranean magic gardens imbued with the spirit of the Creator in gratitude and celebration evident throughout Stephanie’s work. Tiny sailboats nestle in patches of vibrant foliage. Miniature Greek churches glow white on flat edged leaves. Fish fly serenely in groups through garden patios, and sometimes the odd living room.
Stephanie has had solo exhibitions in Cyprus, Israel, England and France. Her work hangs in these countries, as well as in Canada and the US. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Victoria and now resides in Comox.…
Marine artist featured at Pearl Ellis Gallery of Fine Art.
The Pearl Ellis Art Gallery is pleased to feature a solo exhibition by Dan Telosky, AFCA from November 27 to December 15, 2018. Dan Telosky has lived and worked all his life on or near the waters of Discovery Passage. As a result, marinescapes reflecting his love of hidden coastal places, are a main theme of his art.…
