News — Penticton Art Gallery

Here's to the Red Dots

Posted by Bethany Handfield on

  I had an interesting conversation with someone last night at the duel Tumbleweed Gallery & Saint-Germain Café & Gallery art show openings about artists and the sale of paintings. I was very excited as many of my fellow artists were getting red dots which equals sales of their paintings. A person who I had struck up a conversation with asked me why that was so important. "Why do artists who show in galleries need to sell their work? Don't they all just do it because they love it? Is the main purpose of painting for the art to be sold?"...

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Bee Alchemy & the Resurrection of Dreaming & Anatomy of a Meadowlark Exhibitions

Posted by Bethany Handfield on

I would like to cordially invite you to my two current exhibitions. Both of these were made possible by the lovely folks at the Meadowlark Nature Festival asking me to be their featured artist for 2015. Part of that fabulous deal is also getting an exhibition at the Penticton Art Gallery. So awesome! Anatomy of a Meadowlark is currently running at Saint Germain Cafe | Gallery until  June 3rd. Located at 102 - 449 Main St, Penticton you can view all of my meadowlark paintings including the 2015 Meadowlark Nature Festival painting  "Meadowlarking" (prints available).   Bee Alchemy & the...

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