FOYER Gallery Survey + On Now: BENNETT ~ MYERS
TOBY JAXON
FOYER GALLERY SURVEY
The Foyer Gallery at the Squamish Public Library is one of the few public art spaces in town and we want your input.
Whether you're a visitor or an artist, your feedback will help us improve the gallery experience, increase access to art, and plan for the future.
Take the short survey today and have your say!
ON NOW AT THE FOYER GALLERY
thru May 12
CHRIS O. BENNETT
Sea to Sky Mountains
oil paintings
PEACH MYERS
Light and Shadows
scratchboard art
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Most important in my art is to try to show viewers the experience that I have while hiking in the high mountains and reaching those special places we all yearn for.
My paintings are snap shot in time and therefore captures that moment that may or may not change in time.
They are a reflection of the times we live in and also the good and bad that we are doing to our environment. It is up to us to see if our mountains remain the same in years to come.
I am a contemporary landscape artist using oil and watercolour paints. I paint to capture that special light and atmosphere you get while walking in the high mountains where we find the quiet solitude and in nature that surrounds us. It is this special atmosphere I try to capture in my paintings. I try to put the viewer in my paintings standing next to me to experience the tranquility and enlightenment of the moment.
-- CHRIS O. BENNETT
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Scratchboard art is a fairly unfamiliar, perhaps ‘new’ medium and I enjoy sharing what I’ve learned about it and showing the works I have done.
I think artists who love sketching will find the process interesting and rewarding.
I learned about the methods to make my work online. Facebook happened to show me an incredible portrait done by Lorna Hannett previously from Williams Lake. It was of a young African boy and I was captivated by the detail and precision of shading that Scratchboard provided. I ordered the materials and got a book by Diana Lee on the medium and started from there.
This exhibit is the bulk of what one year of the Pandemic lockdown enabled me to do. I found a freedom in knowing there was nowhere I had to be and nowhere to go. Any image that I thought would look good as light and shadow made it onto a board and I was invigorated learning and developing as a Scratchboard artist.
-- PEACH MYERS
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THE BOOK
Featuring 20 local painters and 6 corridor poets!
It's an Artist Collaboration Supporting Bird Conservation in Squamish.
We're chirpin’ sad to see the exhibit and paintings fly away but our advocacy and fundraising efforts are not over.
We made a book! It's printed and on the shelves at the Squamish Public Library and in bookstores near you!
Want to buy your own copy direct? $12. Contact Tatiana at: itsraini...@gmail.com
A portion of the proceeds will go towards Squamish Environment Society’s bird conservation programs.
Thanks to our partnership with the Squamish Public Library
and to the @squamishfoundation for supporting the publication.
Birds & Words Team: Toby, Tatiana & Zoe
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We are excited to announce that Karen Yaremkewich will be joining in as Co-Curator of the gallery.
Karen has been volunteering with the Foyer Gallery installation team for many years
so this will be a welcome fit for her creative skills
Attention: FOYER Artists and past Contributors
We are looking for art donations for the 2025 Foyer Gallery Fundraiser Campaign.
Our non-profit Foyer Fundraiser Exhibit runs May13 thru July 9 culminating in the exciting annual 'Draw for ART'.
Donations can be a combination of smaller pieces and/or professional wall art/sculpture/pottery/jewellery for art enthusiasts to newly enjoy.
Receive a tax receipt for the donation value, along with promo & recognition.
Contact the curator: foyergalle...@gmail.com
Artist Exhibition Call Out for 2026!!!
The FOYER Gallery invites visual artists to submit work for our two month long Exhibition Program.
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Visit a sampling of our Artist Exhibits from the comfort of your own device.
WE HOPE THAT YOU ENJOY THE CURRENT DISPLAY IN THE FOYER GALLERY
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Pop into the Foyer Gallery in the entrance to the Squamish Public Library.
Toby jaxon + Karen Yaremkewich
Foyer Gallery Co-Curators
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