G.K. Boyter Art

10/08/2025

Only 1 spot left!!! Classes
Start next Wednesday the 15th for the next 6 weeks. Come join us and get your paint on!!! 🖼️🖌️🎨

09/28/2025

🗺️✨ Map Your Way Around the Bay Studio Tour ✨🗺️

No matter where you begin, our interactive map makes it simple to explore all 24 artist stops.

🌟 Make sure to visit me at Stop #17! 🌟
I’ll be opening my studio doors to share my latest work in painting, sculpture, and printmaking.

🎨 Plan your route and discover all the incredible artists along the way: www.thebaystudiotour.com/maps

Get directions to each studio location, while you're on the move. The information link includes artists names, addresses, location number as well as any special directions. This is best used in conjunction with the brochure.

08/28/2025

“Art is a way of survival.” – Yoko Ono

For me, these words are truth. Art has become more than practice - it is necessity. Through brush, fabric, and form, I find expression for what cannot always be spoken. It is my place of survival, reflection, and release. Without it, I would feel silenced. With it, I live fully.

08/25/2025

Art Slam: True North – Featuring GK Boyter

I’m honoured to have been selected as one of the artists competing in this year’s Art Slam: True North, hosted by Quest Art School + Gallery.

📅 Date: September 12, 2025
🕕 Time: 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
📍 Location: 333 King Street, Midland, ON

This exhilarating live painting competition brings together a group of talented artists for three rounds of high-energy creativity. In just 30 minutes per round, we transform blank canvases into original works while the audience votes to decide who advances. Music, food, drinks, and a spirited crowd make it an unforgettable night of art and community. This year’s theme, True North, challenges us to interpret Canada’s landscapes, stories, and cultural roots in our own unique way. All artworks will be available for auction, giving you the chance to take home a piece of the evening.

🎟 Tickets are $30 per person and available now at https://questart.ca

I’m thrilled to be part of this celebration of creativity and community. Come cheer us on — and maybe even take home an original GK Boyter artwork!

07/11/2025

Excited to be back again teaching Fine Art in our wonderful community of Tiny. Check us out in the Fall/Winter publication. 🎨🖼️🖌️

Each season, the Township of Tiny prepares a Recreation and Special Events Activity Guide that is published online. In addition, printed copies are available at the Township Office, community centres, and local seniors centres.The Guide is a complete overview of programs, services, and events offe...

06/22/2025

Meet “Keeper of the Pearl” 🐚

Hand-sculpted with intention, she embodies resilience, femininity, and guardianship. Draped in weatherproofed fabric and rooted on rock foraged from the shores of Georgian Bay, she holds space—for memory, motherhood, mystery.

Her form honours the strength of women. Her presence withstands the elements, both of nature and of life.

Crafted to live indoors or out. She is more than art—she is remembrance, protector, woman.
Showing now at the Coldwater Studio Tour.

06/19/2025

This is a wonderful art tour filled with fabulous talented artists. I will be at Location 7 this year. I hope to see you there. 🎨🧑‍🎨

06/05/2025

A few weeks ago, as I stood in the Winnipeg airport security line, I witnessed something quietly extraordinary. A man ahead of me placed a soft leather satchel into a bin. It was fringed and hand-embossed:
Chief of the Nation – David Monias.
Drawn to the quiet dignity of this moment, I asked what he was carrying.
He replied gently, “My headdress.”

We spoke while the line stalled. He had travelled eight hours from a northern Manitoba community—Pimicikamak Cree Nation—to attend the throne speech in Ottawa, where King Charles would address Canada.
He shared that he had also been present in England when the King ascended the throne. Despite the honour of his role and journey, he was humble, soft-spoken… yet his presence carried weight—power not through volume, but through grace.

I watched the speech. And there he was—wearing the headdress that had rested quietly in that satchel.
I felt grateful to have met him.

Tonight, I saw him again.
Not in regalia, but front and centre in the news, calling for aid, asking the RCMP to help evacuate his people as wildfires threaten to engulf their land.
Even as some refused to leave, he stood firm: protect them, even if it means detaining them—for life is sacred, and home is more than just land.

As a former RCMP officer, I felt a profound connection.
This is what true leadership looks like:
strength rooted in love, conviction guided by compassion.

My heart is with Chief Monias, with Pimicikamak, and with all communities displaced or in danger from these fires.
As a country, we must rise together—to protect, to support, to remember that Canada is not just geography, but people, story, and spirit.

Let us stand united.
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