Featured Artist | Don Bergland

Don Bergland’s psychological creations rely upon the viewer’s internal ability to engage willingly in the process of metaphysical reflection. His dark images, featuring youthful characters, aged mentors, oddly assembled creatures, and quaintly juxtaposed objects, are rendered in precise detail in captured moments of frozen time, mechanical statements voicing eternity, death, childhood, and absurdity in the unfolding of the human drama, an uneasy combination laid before the viewer in a exposure of theatrical puppetry.

Featured Artist

Don Bergland | Victoria, BC, Canada
http://www.donbergland.com

Lamentation | Pigment Print on Canvas | 24" x 30" — *Lamentation* | Pigment Print on Canvas | 24″ x 30″

Silence | Pigment Print on Canvas | 24" x 30" — *Silence* | Pigment Print on Canvas | 24″ x 30″

The Skeptic | Pigment Print on Canvas | 24" x 30" — *The Skeptic* | Pigment Print on Canvas | 24″ x 30″

Exile | Pigment Print on Canvas | 24" x 30" — *Exile* | Pigment Print on Canvas | 24″ x 30″

Featured Artist – Sally Mandl

I am endlessly inspired by the natural world that surrounds me/is me. My drawings are portraits of you and me. My name is Sally Mandl and i was born and raised in Montreal (but ran away to the country as soon an i turned 25. Right angles aren’t my thing – surprise, surprise). Growing up i was always encouraged to be creative in any and every way possible. Both my parents and brother are artistically inclined and i really do feel like it’s in my blood. My veins are full of it.

My work is a depiction of how strange it is to be alive. We are all just vibrating sacs of fluid. Temporarily eternal fleshy temples living beside and within each other. Teeth and hair and fingernails floating through space and time.

What a world.