British Columbia Landscapes
Paintings by Derek Gillingham
Opening Night Reception
Thursday, June 18, 2009 • 7 to 9 pm
Artist in attendance • Free Admission • Everyone is welcome
Exhibit runs until Sunday, July 12, 2009
Derek Gillingham's paintings deal primarily with the land. These paintings portray the mountains and forests of British Columbia and its coastal regions…Mount Seymour, Port Moody, Tofino...For Derek, these works are as much about the painting of the subject as they are an act of meditation on the artist’s personal relationship with the land and its meaning to him. He is fascinated by the forms and the abstract images that he sees in nature.
At every level, Derek is in awe of the land, of the vastness of its presence and constant reminders of its unrelenting processes of change and motion. Having converted to Judaism, he comments on a connection between his art and his recent spiritual awakening.
“The connection, for me, is that Judaism is about embracing the process of life and everything around me. It’s about recognizing the oneness.“
Derek Gillingham has been painting since he was 16 years old. He attended Sheridan College and the Ontario College of Art and Design during the early 1980's and has worked as a professional artist in both fine art and film throughout Canada and the United States for over 25 years.
Summer Exhibit
The Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia presents
Returning Home: A Visual History
July 16-August 28, 2009
Acclaimed painter and multi-media Vancouver artist Linda Dayan Frimer journeys back home through artwork to her early years in the British Columbia wilderness and compares life to that of her ancestors home in Lithuania. A well-known community facilitator, Linda has been intimately involved in world, Jewish and Canadian national, cultural and artistic pursuits. She creates commemorative, historical, educational, cultural and aesthetically moving artistic works; during the course of this exhibit she will inspire others to paint historical messages.
