Current Exhibits
Enlighten yourself by viewing our year-round exhibitions!
Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant’s year-round exhibition schedule offers the community enlightening and challenging exhibitions of contemporary art by regional and national artists as well as a Biannual Juried Exhibition open to Ontario artists. Art works from the Gallery’s Permanent Collection are also displayed regularly throughout the exhibition calendar.
Current Exhibition
The Promise of Painting
January 7 – March 4, 2012
Three artists work within the promise of painting to uncover and contribute their individual passionate attachments to this form of visual expression. The viewer will experience levels of emotion and relationships to the media of painting and to the artists who manifest these works.
Robert Achtemichuk works with gouache on silk or washi (Japanese paper). Achtemichuk’s studio looks out into an ordinary Ontario back yard in Kitchener. His interest is in the quiet contemplation of the small changes that occur due to time of day, weather, season and the inspirations and revelations from that kind of study. 
Misty, watery, sensual small paintings are titled the date they were painted. Sultry, earthy colours of raw umber and grays, and washed out blues and reds direct the viewer through a quiet passing of time. There’s innocence in his work from a delicate touch that exposes poetic vibrating atmospheric simplicity. In today’s fierce world this may be considered otherworldly.
Robert Achtemichuk received his BFA from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. He apprenticed in colour etching techniques in France and studied master classes at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Mexico City. He has exhibited his work and taught courses across Canada. He has been the Executive Director at Open Studio, Waterloo Regional Art Council, and the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery. This work is accompanied by a catalogue written by Liz Wylie, Curator of the Kelowna Art Gallery and Gary Michael Dault. Robert Achtemichuk acknowledges and appreciates support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.
Cristina Zanella is interested in the play of light and dark and its effect 
on the intensity of colour. She treats her subject matter, whether it is dead birds or subtle still life forms, with an eye to balancing broken space with colour, light and line. Her paintings are both vibrant and moody with a linear graceful approach to her marks.
Port Dover based Cristina Zanella has exhibited throughout Southern Ontario. She received a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
Ian McLean uses colour to lure his viewer with his unusual environments and combination of elements. His imagery harks on a 1950’s feel but his colour palette is later; part pop art/ part post impressionistic. Residential environments 
hold an elusive chronology with his use of symbolic objects expressed through textured painted surfaces. Both McLean and Zanella use black as accents in their work and often include lime green, cadmium yellows, oranges and turquoise. McLean’s objects are infused with a landscape of these brilliant colours applied with creamy seductive brush strokes of oil paint on canvas.
McLean resides in the Sarnia area in Brights’s Grove and received a B.Ed. from the University of Western Ontario, and a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Guelph. He has had solo and group exhibitions in Ontario and he is represented by Gallery Moos, Toronto.
In the Community Gallery Space, Jack Jackowetz’s photography is manipulated with computer software. His subject is our built heritage with a focus on architectural renderings. He calls his process post impressionism photography. “I start with an original photograph then I use software to ‘paint’ or enhance the image.” Jack has shown his work throughout the region and is represented by galleries in New York, Waterloo, and Paris ON.
Exhibition Assistance Grants
Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant invites visual artists and craftspersons living in Region 2 in Southern Ontario (includes Brant, Norfolk, Haldimand, Perth, Wellington and Dufferin counties) to apply for financial assistance for costs related to a confirmed, upcoming exhibition. These costs may include framing, presentation, crating and transportation.
This year’s deadline for submissions is:
All funds have been expended until June, 2012. Please check back for future deadlines.
Funding is available for expenses up to a maximum of $1500 per artist per fiscal year.
For program guidelines please contact Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant at (519) 756-5932 or khogg@glenhyrstartgallery.ca
This program is funded by the Visual Arts Office of the Ontario Arts Council.
Exhibition Proposal Guidelines
Are you interested in exhibiting your works of art at Glenhyrst in the future? Your information package to the gallery should include the following:
Cover letter – addressed to the Curator. Please tell us who you are, what you have been working on and outline your proposal.
Curriculum vitae – which should include: address and phone number(s), email, education, exhibition history including gallery names, dates and an indication of your involvement in the show (juried, solo, group etc.). Include any other relevant information such as teaching experience or other employment related to your art, awards and scholarships, reviews or articles.
Artist’s statement – expand on ideas mentioned in your cover letter. Describe the focus of your recent work and what you hope to achieve. If you are proposing a particular project with a predetermined curatorial theme, outline this clearly.
CD and list of works – include as many images as are needed to communicate the scope and range of your work (usually 10).
Images should be compatible with a PC, in jpeg format. Identify each image on the CD with a number that corresponds to a separate sheet that lists that number plus title, dimensions, media, and year.
Self-addressed envelope – with adequate postage for return of CD. Envelope should be padded or lined with cardboard.