Longtime Gabriola Photography Club member and extraordinary photographer John Poirier passed away in May of 2025. An exhibition and sale of his work will be held at the Gabriola Arts & Heritage Centre, on Gabriola Island, August 14-16, 2026. It will provide a welcome opportunity to celebrate John, his work, and his vision of northern Canada and the west coast.
Details are below. Please help spread the word. Hope to see you there!
While our club continues to show our work downstairs at the Gabriola Medical Centre, this month you’ll find a new exhibit by one of our members upstairs as well.
“Adventures in Photography” is a new show by Corinne Flaws, a visual artist and photographer who specializes in landscape, wildlife and abstract imagery.
Corinne has always had a passion for nature and for capturing its beauty. It inspires her to share what she sees, through her photographs and her other art. As well as producing beautiful photographs, she enjoys capturing images with her camera to use as inspiration for her paintings.
Corinne moved from Winnipeg to Gabriola Island in 2020. This show includes a collection of her favourite images captured right here on Gabriola and on Vancouver Island, as well as from Manitoba and her travels in Utah and Oregon, and the Shetland Isles.
The exhibit will be on display upstairs at the Medical Centre until January 10, 2025.
Gabriola’s beautiful Drumbeg Park is the subject of our next Photo Walkabout.
Plan to meet at 9 am on Saturday, December 7. Bypass Drumbeg’s main entrance and instead, park at the very end of Stalker Rd. (You’re in the right place if you see a large ornamental lighthouse on your starboard side as you face the water.)
Our plan is to follow the shoreline loop trail, returning through the forest.The entire trail is well maintained and easy walking.
It’s a picturesque place and you should be able to find plenty of photographic subjects, including fir, arbutus and Garry oak trees, winding trails, the sandstone shoreline and various views and landscape possibilities – perhaps even some wintering birds. Along with the big picture scenes, try to narrow down your focus for some detail photography.
Drumbeg is not a long distance walk, so we’ll take our time and really try to observe things we might normally walk right past.
Dress accordingly for what will likely be damp and/or chilly weather. Option to meet afterwards for coffee and lunch at either the Ground Up, Mad Rona’s or the Golf Club.
Click on the first thumbnail below to see the entire photo and view the series in carousel format.
As an ongoing project, Gabriola Photography Club curates the art display space downstairs at the Gabriola Medical Clinic on Church Street, Gabriola Island. Club members take turns having solo exhibitions or taking part in group exhibitions.
We’re delighted to present Diane Green‘s latest solo show. In Diane’s own words:
The ever-increasing use of artificial intelligence is affecting almost every aspect of our lives. It is now nearly impossible to tell (when done well!) whether an image – or even a voice – is original, altered, or completely artificially created. In many ways this is all a frightening prospect for the future.
ON THE OTHER HAND……!
“Messing about” with AI in the arts field can be a lot of fun and can enhance creativity exponentially.What is the dividing line between photography and “art”? Art created using paint does not have to justify itself when it doesn’t exactly recreate reality! Photography (unless journalistic photography which has to be 100% unmanipulated) should be similarly accepted as art, “messed around with” or not!
The resulting images in this exhibit are created from my original photographs, sometimes manipulated to different degrees using tried and true programs like Photoshop, but now may also be amended in a variety of ways using artificial intelligence.
So “let’s play”!
As an ongoing project, Gabriola Photography Club curates the art display space downstairs at the Gabriola Medical Clinic on Church Street, Gabriola Island. Club members take turns having solo exhibitions or taking part in group exhibitions.
Gabriola Photos Club member Steve Struthers’ fascinating new chapter in his “Postcards from the Heart” series is now on, this time with the focus on West Africa. In Steve’s own words:
“The photographs in this show offer a glimpse of a part of Africa that provides astounding scenery and a kaleidoscope of peoples, with crowded markets and almost empty deserts, bad roads and great rewards at the end of long, bumpy rides.
Join me on a trip from the Sahara of southern Morocco, through Western Sahara (administered by Morocco but yearning to be independent), the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Senegal, and seldom-visited Guinea Bissau and its offshore islands known as the Bijagos Archipelago. I hope these images allow you to feel some of the excitement and wonder I experienced during my visit to these places.
Enjoy the photos, enjoy the journey.“
The show will run until August 1, 2024.
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