Trépanier Baer Gallery

06/12/2026

Last Weekend
Kim Spink, Ron Moppett, Fred Herzog

Reminder: exhibitions by Ron Moppett in the Main Gallery and Kim Spink in the Promenade Gallery are on view until June 13, 2026.

These exhibitions are not to be missed and offer a wonderful opportunity to experience these remarkable works firsthand—and perhaps even add to your collection.

Be sure to stop by this weekend to enjoy new works by Ron Moppett, including two wonderful still life paintings from 2004, Kim Spink’s latest botanical drawings, including her magnificent 288 cm long concertina book, and a selection of Fred Herzog photographs including recently released works from the estate in the Viewing Room.

We look forward to seeing you at the gallery.



Kim Spink
Athyrium otophorum ‘Okanum’, Eared Lady Fern, 2025
Colour pencil and graphite on 70 lb (114 g/m2) acid-free white sketch paper
9” x 12” / 22.8 x 30.4 cm – image

Kim Spink
Athyrium otophorum ‘Okanum’, Eared Lady Fern, 2025
Detail View

Ron Moppett
Hotel, 2025
Acrylic, oil, alkyd on canvas
5 panels: 74” x 178”/187.9 x 452.1 cm – overall

Ron Moppett
Hotel, 2025
Panel A, Detail View

Fred Herzog
Two Men in Fog, 1958/2009
Colour photograph, archival inkjet print
Edition: 8/20
19.75” x 30”/ 50.1 x 76.2 cm – image
Signed and dated on verso

06/11/2026

New Work: Chris Millar

TrépanierBaer is happy to share images of a new work in progress by Chris Millar, offering an exciting glimpse into his latest creations.

After several years working on monumentally scaled wall mounted kinetic sculptures, Chris Millar has been spending time in the studio making smaller works. This untitled work in progress reflects the artists ongoing maximalist exploration of form, colour, and composition. Incorporating resin, acrylic paint, and brass into elaborate worlds including his signature zany narrative interests.

We look forward to sharing more as these new works are completed.

Chris Millar

Chris Millar
Untitled (work in progress), 2026
8 miniature paintings, 2 miniature relief sculptures, and 3 miniature sculptural bits on the frame
Acrylic paint, resin, brass, glass, thread
Detail Views

05/30/2026

05/29/2026

On Wednesday evening, I attended Equinox Gallery’s private preview dinner for Fred Herzog: A Colour Legacy, celebrating the release of 69 posthumous photographs and the eponymous publication.

It was a beautiful evening, marked by insightful remarks by Andy Sylvester and Helga Pakasaar. The installation is masterful, and the work once again reminds us how remarkable and important an artist Fred Herzog was.

Thank you to everyone at Equinox Gallery for their continued stewardship of Fred Herzog’s legacy. It is always a pleasure to work with the team at Equinox.

Beginning Saturday, May 30th, in the Viewing Room, TrépanierBaer will feature works by Fred Herzog, including Orange Cabs, Green Balloon, Two Men in Fog, and Closed for Renovations.
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While in Vancouver, I took the opportunity to visit the Vancouver Art Gallery, where I ran into my old friend Matthew Teitelbaum, former CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario and, more recently, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Pleasantly surprised to see one another, we quickly found ourselves asking the same question: “What do you think?”

Matthew remarked, “It feels like the VAG is back,” to which I replied, “Agreed.” We both felt the Emily Carr exhibition is one of the finest presentations of her work we have seen in some time. It is a well-curated survey from early to late works, with much of the exhibition drawn from the gallery’s own collection. If you happen to be in Vancouver, this is an exhibition not to be missed.

In fact, the entire suite of exhibitions—from That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature to Future Geographies, Highlights from the Collection, Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places, and Jim Lambie’s visually distorting and playful installation Zobop (Colour Chrome)—come together to create a thoughtful, cohesive, and rewarding gallery experience.

Congratulations to Eva Respini and Sirish Rao, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s current Interim Co-CEOs, on a job well done. I look forward to seeing more ambitious and timely exhibitions as the gallery moves toward its next chapter and the realization of its new home.

05/22/2026

Now on View
Kim Spink, Ron Moppett, Han Sungpil

To gardeners, art lovers, drawing enthusiasts, and anyone who feels a connection to the natural world, you are warmly invited to visit Drawings from a Gardener, an exhibition of exceptional botanical illustrations by Master Gardener and Society of Botanical Artists Fellow UK, Kim Spink.

Gardening calls for attention, patience, knowledge, discernment, and care. Botanical illustration requires many of the same qualities. Through careful observation, botanical illustration celebrates the beauty and details that make plants so remarkable, mysterious, and wonderful, revealing the rich wonder of the botanical world.

Kim Spink’s botanical illustrations follow in the long tradition of botanical art, from the Greek physician and botanist Crateuas in the 1st century BCE, through Leonardo da Vinci, Otto Brunfels, and Gherardo Cibo during the Renaissance, Giovanna Garzoni during the Baroque period, to the exceptional 18th - century artist and naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian, who is credited with bringing together ecology, entomology, and botany, and helping move natural history from myth toward empirical science.

This exhibition is not to be missed and offers a wonderful opportunity to experience these remarkable works firsthand—and perhaps even add a piece to your collection.

And during your visit you can enjoy new works by Ron Moppett, including two wonderful still life paintings from 2004, and recent works by Han Sungpil.

We look forward to seeing you at the gallery.



Kim Spink
Tropaeolum majus, Nasturtium, 2025
Colour pencil and graphite on 70 lb (114 g/m2) acid-free white sketch paper
9” x 12”/22.8 x 30.4 cm – image
$ 2,800.00 – framed

Kim Spink
Ricinus communis, Castor Bean, 2024
Colour pencil and graphite on 70 lb (114 g/m2) acid-free white sketch paper
9” x 12” / 22.8 x 30.4 cm – image
$ 2,800.00 – framed

Ron Moppett
With a Vase of Flowers - 1, 2004
Oil, alkyd on canvas
28” x 28”/71.1 x 71.1 cm - overall
$ 9,000.00

Han Sungpil
Frozen Fire 106, Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, Jasper, 2025
Archival pigment print – Edition 1/7
26.4” x 39.4”/67 x 100 cm
$ 5,500.00

05/15/2026

Weekend Hours

Ron Moppett
Kim Spink
Han Sungpil

Thank you to everyone who joined us last night for an inspiring evening celebrating the opening of three exceptional exhibitions.

Featuring works by Ron Moppett in the Main Gallery, Kim Spink’s latest botanical drawings, including her magnificent 288 cm-long concertina book, in the Promenade Gallery, and Han Sungpil’s newest works from the Frozen Fire series, Jasper Suite, in the Viewing Room.
It was a wonderful opportunity to gather, connect, and experience a wide range of artistic practices across the gallery spaces.

We will be open on Saturday, May 16 from 11:00-3:00 p.m. The exhibitions are not to be missed, be sure to stop by this Saturday!

For more information or to purchase work please contact: [email protected] or call 403-244-2066.



Images: Courtesy and TrépanierBaer

Han Sungpil, Ron Moppett, Kim Spink
Image Courtesy Eva Blue

Ron Moppett: New Works
Paul Kuhn and Yves Trépanier
Image Courtesy Eva Blue

Ron Moppett: New Works
Rod Shaver, Marion Weinberger, Llyn Strelau
Image Courtesy Eva Blue

Ron Moppett: New Works
Brad Johns and Ron Moppett
Image Courtesy Eva Blue

Image Courtesy Eva Blue

In the Viewing Room: Han Sungpil
Image Courtesy TrépanierBaer

Kim Spink: Drawings by a Gardener
Image Courtesy Eva Blue

Kim Spink:Drawings by a Gardener
Detail View, 288 cm long concertina book
Image Courtesy Eva Blue

Kim Spink: Drawings by a Gardener
Image Courtesy Eva Blue

Kim Spink: Drawings by a Gardener
Image Courtesy Eva Blue

Image Courtesy Eva Blue

05/13/2026

Ron Moppett
Kim Spink
Han Sungpil

Thursday, May 14 | 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Please join us for an opening reception celebrating three exhibitions featuring works by Ron Moppett in the Main gallery, a selection of Kim Spink’s latest botanical drawings including her magnificent 288 cm long concertina book in the Promenade gallery, and Han Sungpil’s latest works from the Frozen Fire series, Jasper Suite in the Viewing Room.

Enjoy a glass of bubbly as you stroll through the galleries, meet the artists, and share your thoughts on the work.

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow night!

For more information or to purchase work please contact: [email protected] or call 403-244-2066.

Ron Moppett
May, 2026
Oil, alkyd, acrylic on canvas
2 panels: 72” x 60”/182.8 x 152.4 cm – each
72” x 122 ½”/182.8 x 311.1 cm – overall
$ 60,000.00

Kim Spink
Ricinus communis, Castor Bean, 2024
Colour pencil and graphite on 70 lb (114 g/m2) acid-free white sketch paper
9” x 12” / 22.8 x 30.4 cm – image
$ 2,800.00 – framed

Han Sungpil
Frozen Fire 105, Maligne Lake Rd (Township Rd 453 A) Jasper, 2025
Archival pigment print – Edition 1/7
26.4” x 39.4” / 67 x 100 cm
$ 5,500.00

05/13/2026

Introducing Kim Spink
Drawings by a Gardener
Thursday, May 14 | 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

TrépanierBaer is delighted to announce the representation of Kim Spink (b. 1956, Calgary, Alberta). Spink is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design (AUArts, 1979) where she trained as a graphic designer. As a professionally trained graphic designer her practice evolved over 40 years through independent consultancy, a partnership in a communications design studio, and work with several major corporate design departments.

Now retired, Spink is an avid flyfisher, hiker, master gardener and committed botanical artist. Her connection to nature is intimate, profound and attentive. Spink draws inspiration from the long history of botanical art from antiquity through to the 17th century German naturalist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian, and more recently and closer to home Mary Schaffer Waren and Mary Vaux Walcott.

Spink has a strong sense of composition and clarity in her work combining design thinking with botanical knowledge. Working primally in coloured pencil and graphite she creates detailed portraits of plants that focus on a single structure or a small group of forms. With her controlled yet gentle touch Spink magically teases the beauty and detail out of very plant she draws. The precise and nuanced tonal transitions that she creates can only be achieved by an artist with a profound understanding and respect for the materials she uses, a tender touch, and patient and acute concentration. Within the long history of the genre Spink’s drawings are nothing short of remarkable.

Her work has been selected for major international exhibitions, including the American Society of Botanical artist Annual International Exhibition at the Society of Illustrators New York, The New York Botanical Garden Triennial, and exhibitions at Wave Hill among others. She is a Member of the American Society of Botanical Artists, and Society of Botanical Artist UK Fellow.

05/08/2026

Ron Moppett
Kim Spink
Han Sungpil
Thursday, May 14 | 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Please join us for an opening reception celebrating three exhibitions: featuring works by Ron Moppett (Main gallery); a selection of Kim Spink’s latest botanical drawings, including her magnificent 288 cm long concertina book (Promenade gallery); and Han Sungpil’s latest works from the Frozen Fire series, Jasper Suite (Viewing Room).

Enjoy a glass of bubbly as you stroll through the galleries, meet the artists, and share your thoughts on the work.

We look forward to seeing you.

For more information or to purchase work please contact: [email protected] or call 403-244-2066.



Ron Moppett
With a Vase of Flowers - 3, 2004
Oil, alkyd on canvas
28” x 28” - overall

Kim Spink
Alcea rosea, Common Hollyhock, 2024
Colour pencil and graphite on 70 lb (114 g/m2) acid-free white sketch paper
9” x 12” - paper

Han Sungpil
Frozen Fire 111, Marmot Mountain, Trident Range, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada , 2025
Archival pigment print on Hanji Maru White (Korean paper)
Edition 1/7
26.4” x 39.4”

05/06/2026

Contemporary Calgary’s
LOOK26 Gala: Off The Path

THANK YOU!

We’re still glowing from Contemporary Calgary’s LOOK26 Gala: Off The Path—and we’re happy to share a few highlights from the night.


The evening was brought to life by artist duo DaveandJenn—LOOK26 Gala Curators—whose whimsical, imaginative vision infused the event with an enchanting, spirited energy. Every detail, from the performances to the cuisine, was designed to spark curiosity, connection, and celebration. TrépanierBaer extends heartfelt thanks to all attendees, collectors, staff, volunteers, sponsors, and supporters who helped make LOOK26 such a memorable experience for guests, our artists, and Contemporary Calgary.

The LOOK26 Art Auction, supported by Heather Edwards, achieved exceptional results, with 100% of works sold across live and silent auctions, for a total of $583,356. The sale featured 88 works, with select pieces exceeding twice their fair market value. In total, the event raised $1.2 million to support CC’s ambitious exhibitions and public programs.

TrépanierBaer’s featured artists included: Jen Aitken, DaveandJenn, Chris Cran, Curtis Cutshaw, Fred Herzog, Paul Kuhn, Ed Pien, Michael Smith, Han Sungpil, René Pierre Alain, and Carol Wainio—along with a work by John Adams Griefen, donated by Cheryl Gottselig and Yves Trépanier.

Yves Trépanier also acquired Faye HeavyShield’s powerful work titled Pierce, featured in the live auction.

Thank you again for being part of LOOK26. We can’t wait for next year’s gala—and to come together once more to celebrate and support Contemporary Calgary.



Contemporary Calgary
LOOK26 Gala: Off The Path
All Images Courtesy of Phil Crozier