Metchosin ArtPod

10/26/2026

Congratulations to Juror's Choice Award winner Alison Taylor for her piece Let her east cake.
Many of us have an overabundance of food choices; unlimited opportunities for consumption.
It is easy to be greedy. Gluttony can be enticing.
Eat cake like no one is watching.
Photo of Curator Pierrette Vézina with Alison's piece.

10/25/2026

Food: Ritual and Identity opened this weekend and was well attended despite our juror and many artists away due to cold and flu season. Thank you all who made it a wonderful opening event.
Congratulations to show Curators Pierrette Vézina and Cindy McMath, alongside Juror Janice Beaudoin, on a beautifully curated exhibition!
Food runs though to Dec 20th, open Fri-Sun, 11-4.

10/25/2026

Congratulations to Juror's Choice Award winner Jake James, for his piece The Offering.
"With this sculpture I am asking the question, “What deals have we all accepted for the cornucopia we get to live with?”.
We have all taken the proffered bowl of plenty, but most of us have never really thought about how that bowl is perpetually filled. The demon/devil figure, forged in black iron is the symbolic of the forces of food production, the corporatization of agriculture, the industrialization and dehumanization of all that we eat, personified. The demon is unseen in our daily lives, yet we live with the bounty of its work. We have taken the shiny offering. But what is the true cost?"

10/21/2026

A very warm welcome to our latest member Alannah MacPhail.
"I am a visual artist and a retired, professional Art Therapist. As an Art Therapist I witnessed the power of creativity and the imagination in healing, transformation, transitions, and health. As a visual artist, I dig deep to see what a painting is telling me. I am inspired by both the inner and outer landscape. My life informs my work.

I love to paint large on canvas: painting portraits, florals, landscapes and colourscapes in an abstract, expressionist manner. When I begin a new painting, I gather materials that appeal to me, put on music, warm up by painting onto the substrate words and colourful marks with various tools. Many layers are worked in this intuitive, expressive manner, each layer responding to the marks beneath – a process of curiosity, discernment, informing and transforming, and adding to the richness of colour, shape, texture, and narrative. That is the fun part! Things get more serious as I bring the work together into a finished piece. This is the satisfying part!

10/21/2026

Meet our Juror : Janice Beaudoin

Janice is a full-time Canadian artist and a recent transplant to Vancouver Island, British Columbia. With a background in media and interior design, she shifted her focus to painting over a decade ago and has been fully committed to her studio practice ever since.

Her foundation in the applied arts informs a strong emphasis on value, line, form, colour, and composition—core design principles that continue to shape her work.

In addition to formal studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Janice has further developed her practice through mentorships and workshops with established artist-educators across Canada and the United States.

She is represented by two Canadian galleries, and her work has been exhibited throughout North America. Her paintings are held in private collections across Canada, the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, and Asia.
FOOD opens this Friday Oct 23rd. Please join us Saturday Oct 24th from 2-4 for our opening artists' reception.

10/20/2026

What's new you ask? The ArtPod ArtLab!
ArtPod launches our new space, an incubator and ArtLab for developing art projects, presenting exhibitions, and offering workshops, art activities and community events.
Yesterday, the watercolour drop in session was our inaugural atelier for this space. You can join any of our watercolour drop in sessions on Mondays from 1 to 3, right beside the ArtPod Gallery. We'd love to see you there!

10/19/2026

Congratulations to our People's Choice Award winner Georgina Montgomery for her piece Entanglement.

10/17/2026

10/15/2026

Art pick up is this Sunday between 3 and 4pm.