Jeff Wilson spent a month in the Shetland Isles, Scotland, as artist in residence. Now a show of his work is on at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery (www.gpag.ca) until March 6.
Though the Vancouver based artist has his studio in Gastown, he is originally from Edinburgh, and he will talk more about his Shetland experience on Saturday, Feb. 20 at 2 p.m. at the gallery.
At the opening reception on Feb. 13, Wilson was pleasantly surprised when a woman from Gibsons pointed out to him the very room, depicted in one of his paintings, that she had lived in while growing up on Shetland.
In the smaller Eve Smart Gallery, Nick Westover, a recent resident of Gibsons, is showing his refugee family portraits. When he worked for a volunteer agency in Vancouver, Westover approached immigrants from Myanmar, Somalia and other countries, many of whom had lived for years in refugee camps. The photos were taken in anger, he said, about the government at that time and its disconnect with the refugee situation.
