Happenings
At The Gallery House in Bayfield you will fall in love with our passion for the arts and The Art of Living and Living with Art. Please visit our gallery at 16 The Square at the top of Clan Gregor Square beside the Albion Hotel and we will welcome you with enthusiasm and knowledge of Art.
Please ask about art talks that are held in the gallery and join in on the fun. We pride ourselves in consulting on art and working with designers. We are specialized in sourcing furniture by known designers that are iconic for their furniture art.
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THE ICE PROJECT
November 7, 2025 to January 3, 2026 Quest Art Gallery, Midland Ontario
January 17 to April 11, 2026 at Orillia Museum of Art and History, Orillia Ontario
Come experience the fragile magic of the arctic with your eyes, ears and soul.
The Ice Project draws attention to the state of crisis in our Arctic regions, in a language that is authentic to the artist. This solo, immersive installation offers a sensory, multi-media experience that aims to reconnect the viewer with our fragile environment and inspire responsible stewardship and climate action.
Included in this body of work are original oil paintings, a suspended 3 dimensional work on frosted mylar, light boxes, and archival audio sound clips of the Arctic environment courtesy of the Macaulay Library. These sounds include melting ice, a calving glaciers, icebergs and a Bowhead whale, a species native to the Arctic.
*the ambient sound of the Bowhead Whale, originally recorded by Ocean Conservation Research Organization, courtesy of the Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithica NY.
Billy Bert Young: Cloudburst
Museum London
August 30 to February 15, 2026
Interior Gallery, Second Level
For over fifteen years, Billy Bert Young has been a vital presence in London’s lively art community, widely recognized for his intricate, monochromatic ink drawings filled with comic book creatures, dense patterns, and playful text. Now, in Cloudburst, a solo exhibition of new paintings created over the past four years, Young shifts gears to embrace vivid colour, sculptural form, and theatrical compositions.
This bold new body of work draws from a wide range of visual motifs, including nostalgic advertisements, movie posters, children’s book illustrations, and historical prints. The result is a series of layered, dreamlike paintings that reward closer looking. Blending high realism with pop culture and collage, Young’s compositions radiate a carnivalesque energy that feels familiar and fantastical.
Each piece is a visual puzzle, rich with symbolism and surreal titles that invite viewers to explore and imagine their own unique narratives. Behind the scenes, Young’s process is rooted in avid sketching and collecting, affording old magazines, artist publications, deaccessioned textbooks, and vintage ads new life through his work.
About the Artist:
A graduate of the prestigious H.B. Beal Secondary School in 2002, Billy Bert Young also attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His practice has included drawing and design, zines, found object work, and murals.
Image: Billy Bert Young, What Goes Up... (detail), 2021, acrylic on wood panel, 122 x 91.4 cm, Collection of the Artist. Photo Credit: Brad Turner
2024
New Artist Announcement
Announcing a New Artist to The Gallery House. Brad Turner will be joining our roster and artist team this fall. His Limited edition Photography is a testament to his constant strive for perfection in everything he does. He has been capturing moments in time with his camera since the 70’s and continues to so. It is our pleasure to share the great news with our collectors.
Exhibitions 2024
Exhibition Wall of Nests
Exhibition 2023
Exhibition 2022
Last Light is a haunting new series resulting from artist Christine Fitzgerald’s visual inquiry along the St. Lawrence River, as she engages with 19th discourses of natural history specimen collecting and in-progress environmental stewardship to protect vulnerable coastal places and species. Her work is centered on the exploration of our relationship with the natural world with underlying themes of time, precarity, and loss, and the role that photography plays in shaping human experience with these universal aspects of life. Fitzgerald’s images are formed from her meticulous resuscitation and mastery of obsolete photographic techniques, creating new hybrid modes of seeing by entwining wet plate collodion camerawork and specialized printing techniques such as pigmented impressions on platinotypes. The images of Last Light are cloaked in blue, referencing the diminishing capacity for completely dark night sky in the face of human industry and climate change. Fitzgerald’s blue twilight is an elegy to our present moment – caught between the “deep” time of life on Earth, and the advancing effects of the Anthropocene age.
Artist Statement
In creating the works in Last Light, I am bringing back to life historical methods from photography’s past and manipulating images working with modern digital technologies to push the boundaries of the medium. The images in this series present vulnerable places and species at risk along the majestic St. Lawrence River from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic coast. I have used a blue as a tool to express how we are ultimately all connected with the health of the planet. Last Light connects the revival of obsolete technologies of seeing with the urgent imperative to witness the precarity of the natural world in our present time.
The project was supported with grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.
Book Signing Events 2021
James Kirkpatrick catalogue TO THE UNSEEN FUTURE
Are now available in the gallery, please come in to purchase your signed copy.
Allen Smutylo Latest Book
Signed copies in the gallery for purchase.
The Mongolian Chronicles – A Story of Eagles, Demons and Empires