GALLERY
The DPW Gallery, in front of the workshop, exhibits members’ work throughout the year. Members can apply for solo or group exhibitions, while group shows of smaller format prints are held in the summer and winter months to showcase all of the members’ new work.
The DPW Gallery has a wide variety of original prints of all sizes for sale. Small format prints are packaged and displayed in the gallery, while large works are available from the print portfolios. Come in and browse our selection to see the range of artwork from Dundarave members.
CURRENT SHOW
Impressions of the Pacific Northwest with works by Betty Jean Drummond
Betty Jean Drummond graduated with honours from the Ontario College of Art and worked as a commercial artist before discovering a passion for printmaking. This retrospective includes Drummond’s richly textured landscapes of the Pacific Northwest mountains, seasides, marshlands and rock formations often including sweeping flocks of birds.
Betty Jean’s printmaking experiments combine both intaglio (etched with acid) and collagraph (building up from the surface) on the same plate, as well as combining plates.
In both the lyricism of her artistic expression and her mastery of technique, she was unique. These powerful images from a 40 year printmaking career can be seen at Dundarave Print Workshop and Gallery from February 26 to March 23, 2025.
LAST SHOW
This collection of prints represents the intersection of the past and present. They are for me a mirror of my experiences, memories, and historical context, expressing the introspection and inner turmoil that has shaped me as a person.
You will notice that death is a prominent theme in this body of work, with many pieces incorporating narrative imagery from the Tarot and traditional Catholicism, two cultures whose relationships with death are woven into the fabric of their stories. Death is central to my work for a few reasons:
How do we converse about loss without becoming numb? I turn to printmaking because I need to talk about these circumstances without words, and to do so wordlessly is easier on the heart. Bell Hooks states: Justice is a necessary element of love. The problem is not death but having our loved ones taken from us because of greed. I cannot think of death as an outsider; it is inside my love and in the pain of all of us who are hurting; in the injustices that make the act of waking up a nightmare, one that can only be confronted by nurturing spaces of joy.
