The Pickled Painters at Colborne Street Gallery

Colborne Street Gallery’s latest exhibition has a reception taking place this weekend on Saturday, May 13, 2023 from 4-7pm. The artists will be in attendance as well, so it should be a super fun evening! You can read more on their website.

The Pickled Painters is a collective of 12 artists. They organize and undertake extensive trips into the wilderness, including locations around the Kawartha Lakes, Algonquin Park, and beyond, to explore, experiment, and create together. Every member is assigned a role within the group, based on their strengths, to compliment and support the group as a whole. Painting lakes, rivers, trees, mountains, rolling hills, forests and more, the majority of their subject matter borrows from idealized Canadian painting tropes such as rugged, idyllic, and seemingly untouched landscape scenes.

All the artists in this show are members of the East Central Ontario Art Association. Others are members of the Kawartha Lakes Arts Council, The Women’s Art Association, Society of Canadian Artists, Ontario Society of Artists, and Scugog Council for Arts. Marissa Sweet, Joanne Barker, Kate Segriff, and Rhonda Laursen are all featured in Season 2 of Landscape Artist of the Year Canada which premiered on CBC in 2020. With a rich exhibition history between them, these women are forging their path as a rural collective.