Helios Gallery

We are having a bit of snow during our Artic Snow Warning period for the entire province of BC. It isn’t very cold compared to the rest of Canada but; please stay off the roads and enjoy Valentine’s Day, BC Family Day and President’s Day this weekend and tomorrow. Have a wonderful time in connecting with your friends and family during challenging times! Wear a mask and your sunscreen as it is deceptively bright...all year. See you all sometime!

Merry Christmas and Happy Boxing Day! Hope all enjoyed their time with family or being by yourself making art and getting outside. We had a recent snowstorm from a cold front. Snow adds a magical time to the PNW. Keep in touch and stay safe and healthy!

Wishing all the viewers around the world a time to reflect what has happened this year and; to remind ourselves that when routines are upended, it is time to seek new avenues. Experimentation as in the cameraless image on the left is actually a cyanotype of tulips exposed on muslin and the image on the right is Ford Cove from a large format negative ( 8x10) on platinum/ palladium number 1/10. Please write in and let me know how people are during these strange times. Thank you for your support!

It is time to think of future events as in the biannual SSNAP- Salt Spring National Art to be held in Mahon Hall and ArtSpring on Salt Spring Island, BC in 2021. Here are some things I am working from a previous platinum/ palladium print of Red Rock Natural Coulee in Alberta and the next print is a long exposure of my garlic seed head on cyanotype and is cameraless. Both are contact prints, one from a negative and the other of a plant. Only in the summertime can you make long exposures in the sun...

We had a gorgeous autumn and now; hoping we may have a winter full of promises. All the best for winter!

Tomorrow, November 8 will be open from 1-4 pm for viewing prints, books and magazines, postcards sets all affordable for anyone who truly loves art. I will have some refreshments and hope I can muscle up my huge signpost to too of the drive on 2015 North End Road, Salt Spring Island. Social distancing please and you can call me at- 250.885.9050 or text me. Take care all and let us have some fun!

Hello All, I will be open on Nov 8 - come on by and enjoy a little repast or a chat with me and see some lovely images - most are 30% off regular prices and some are framed. I may have the sign up or not as it is very heavy to lift to the top of drive- my pals build too well lol! Hope to see some of you but; I will understand if life gets in the way !