Still Life

Welcome to Metchosin ArtPod's ONLINE GALLERY for the juried show...

STILL life:

art to seize the moment

STILL life: art to seize the moment celebrates how art can capture life, evoking the power and poignancy of what it means to be STILL.

The juror for this show is T.B.A Check out their work: on Instagram: or Website:

The web gallery is where you can vote for your favourite piece in the show. At the end of the show's run, votes are tallied and a People's Choice Award is presented to the deserving winner!

This show also exists in real life in Metchosin, BC, Canada, at Metchosin ArtPod. We highly encourage you to come see it in person during its run from January 31st 2025- March 30th 2025. People are always happy to have seen the show in person; it is quite a different experience from seeing it on-line.

**Note that ArtPod is open from 11am-4pm from Fri-Sun.**

We welcome everyone to our Opening Celebration on SATURDAY 1 February between 2-4. Meet our juror, and hear how he chose the works featured in this show, listen to accepted artists in attendance speak about their works and process, and celebrate the 3 Juror's Choice Winners!

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Enjoy the show!

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Can You Be Still?

Can You Be Still?

Pierrette Vezina

CA$250.00

Dimensions: 16 x 16 x 1.5
Inspiration:: I have been thinking about how difficult it is to be still in the modern world. I wonder if «Can You be Still? »is possible in this digital world of near constant tap, tap tap in search of the next dopamine hit.
Materials and Process:: Acrylic & pen on cradled board.
Custom Value Q: Digital World. By Dale & Dawson.

Sit With Me Awhile

Sit With Me Awhile

Diana Smith

CA$875.00

Dimensions: 42 x 42 x 2
Inspiration:: Can art be an intermediary for an experience of inner calm? This is my ambition for this painting.
Materials and Process:: Oil on wood panel

Attending (Triptych)

Attending (Triptych)

Diana Smith

CA$525.00

Dimensions: 12 x 36
Inspiration:: Objects barely present and as quiet as can be.
Materials and Process:: Oil on canvas, each 12 x 12 x 1.5

Awaiting the Return

Awaiting the Return

Andrew Bradford

CA$450.00

Dimensions: 8 x 12
Inspiration:: The marsh is waiting The very air holds its breath on that slow morning for Spring’s first birdsong
Materials and Process:: Archival giclée photo on fine art paper
Custom Value Q: Salaman by Toumani Diabaté & Ballaké Sissoko

The Gyre

Andrew Bradford

CA$450.00

Dimensions: 12 x 18
Inspiration:: Stillness is an eddy, collecting things from a fast current. Stillness is a life that’s left its mark. Stillness is the frozen past. Stillness is an illusion; only the present exists, in constant motion.
Materials and Process:: Archival giclée photo on fine art paper
Custom Value Q: Rivière-Éternité by Cœur de Pirate

#3 Untitled

John McFetrick

CA$260.00

Dimensions: 11 x 14 x 1
Inspiration:: In the hushed embrace of the forest, I found a stone, cradled by moss like a treasure hidden by time. Its stillness mirrored the quiet around me—no rustle of leaves, no distant birdsong, only the soft pulse of the earth. I sat beside it, my breath slowing to match the rhythm of the trees. The stone, unmoving and enduring, seemed to hold the essence of the forest’s timeless calm. In its presence, I contemplated the stillness—an invitation to linger, listen, and exist in harmony with nature’s sere
Materials and Process:: Photograph, archival paper, digital print

(Trouble/d) glue / a hammer / the tape: A still life of objects with purpose.

(Trouble/d) glue / a hammer / the tape: A still life of objects with purpose.

Dyan Marie

CA$1,200.00

Dimensions: 48 x 93 x 0.25
Inspiration:: I was sick-winter cold, COVID, pneumonia, or something else entirely. Sleepless nights and feverish days dissolved into obsessive, terrorizing social media doom-scrolling. In recovery, I turned to my tools and materials for grounding. Their familiar forms became anchors. The paintings, made with disruptive blasts and bleeds of color, layer outlines: intersecting, overlapping, colliding. A still life of objects with purpose—a meditation on process as agency, defiance, and clarity in work.
Materials and Process:: Painting, acrylic and graphite on felt.
Custom Value Q: To be added

#1 Untitled

John McFetrick

CA$370.00

Juror's Choice Award

Dimensions: 15 x 0
Inspiration:: The stillness of an empty laundromat feels profound, as if the space itself holds its breath. Machines stand silent, their glass doors reflecting the quiet glow of overhead lights. The hum of fluorescent bulbs is the only sound, a soft murmur against the silence. Air hangs motionless, undisturbed by movement. Chairs sit in perfect rows, untouched, waiting. In this suspended moment, the quiet feels infinite, wrapping the space in calm. The absence of sound and motion amplifies the presence of sti
Materials and Process:: Photograph, archival paper, digital print

Fresh Snow

Cindy McMath

CA$155.00

Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.5
Inspiration:: When I thought of stillness, I thought of that time when fresh snow falls and brings a unique silence - especially if it snows overnight when the world is already quiet. There’s something magical about fresh snow. I tried to capture this stillness as a night scene.
Materials and Process:: Acrylic painting
Custom Value Q: Silent Night - Mariah Carey

Curious Caller (Varied edition 3 of 5)

Curious Caller (Varied edition 3 of 5)

Dave Skilling

CA$950.00

Dimensions: 26 x 18.5 x 1
Inspiration:: Deep in the forest a bird call breaks the stillness, announcing dawn’s arrival. The solitary song signals the day’s beginning to the other birds and their animals neighbours and lets them know all’s well in the woods.
Materials and Process:: Linocut print, ink on paper
Custom Value Q: Earth Song, Paul Horn

Cabin Dream (Artist's proof)

Cabin Dream (Artist's proof)

Dave Skilling

CA$325.00

Dimensions: 13 x 13 x 1
Inspiration:: The cabin sits empty. Our return may be months from now, after the snow has piled deep on the decks and then vanishes before the hummingbirds arrive from the south.
Materials and Process:: lino cut print, ink on paper
Custom Value Q: A Journey, Paul Horn

Stasis

Debra Gloeckler

Dimensions: 18 x 33 x 33
Inspiration:: Stasis began when my daughters moved away from home. Struggling to let go, I held onto small amounts of rainwater, preventing its evaporation and interrupting the natural water cycle. This installation, consisting of 100 dated bottles of rainwater, is a personal response to that transition. The larger bottles serve as a reflection on human interference in natural systems, an act that contributes significantly to climate imbalance.
Materials and Process:: Rainwater, 100 dated bottles on plywood, water-based finish and 5 dated bottles on plywood 36x14x14

'Still' 'Life'

Michele Carlino-Tamane

CA$350.00

Dimensions: 13 x 6.25 x 0.1
Inspiration:: Beauty can be found anywhere even in dried lifeless things.
Materials and Process:: Soft pastel on Uart 400 paper

Fallen

Debra Gloeckler

CA$250.00

Dimensions: 13 x 10 x 1
Inspiration:: Fallen reflects on interconnection through monoprints of dry, fallen plant pieces. These prints do not depict intact plants, but rather the shadows of fallen ones, diverse species intertwined to form a negative space. Captured in the still moments when the plant pieces are in contact with sun-sensitive paper, these ghostly forms serve as reminders of the importance of biodiversity and the Earth’s delicate balance.
Materials and Process:: Rainwater, sunlight-sensitive paper, dry plant parts, handmade wood frame, natural finish or wood cradle

Critical Points of Contact

Critical Points of Contact

Debra Gloeckler

CA$350.00

Dimensions: 24 x 18
Inspiration:: Critical Points of Contact is an ongoing project that emerged during my experience of extreme weather events in BC. When it rains, hails, or snows, I place sun-sensitive paper next to a plant remaining still, present and attentive as the materials respond to one another. The paper captures fleeting moments of interaction between the environment, the plants that evolved here, and my body. Over time, the prints become a record of changing atmospheric conditions and my evolving relationships.
Materials and Process:: Rainwater, sunlight-sensitive paper

Conversation with Morandi

Conversation with Morandi

Peggy Bell

CA$800.00

Dimensions: 36 x 12 x 1.5
Inspiration:: I have been thinking of the still life artist, Giorgio Morandi (Italy, 1890 - 1964). Morandi spent his life creating soft muted still life paintings of bottles and other small objects. I relate to Morandi because he continued this focussed intention through two world wars. I love Morandi's paintings and I wanted to soften and darken my palette. I recently introduced the use of a French curve into my line design. Seen vertically the shapes in this composition are bottle-y.
Materials and Process:: Acrylic on birch panel
Custom Value Q: Here Comes the War/Sarah Spring

Recurrence

Jane Francis

CA$1,850.00

Dimensions: 60 x 30 x 2
Inspiration:: 'Recurrence' is one of a few renderings made from a quick sketch of a grand chandelier in an antiquated Vienna cathedral. I was moved by a sense of suspension, weight, refracted light, mystery, and shadows. In this version, I wrapped continuous lines that feel like fascia, holding the light, depth, and dazzle.
Materials and Process:: oil on wood panel

Ceramic Still Life

Ceramic Still Life

Irene Ives

CA$275.00

Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 2
Inspiration:: Traditional still life compositions often include 2-dimensional arrangements of 3-dimensional, functional pottery in everyday use. This work, though recognizably a collection of pottery vases, explores flattened, 2-dimensional-like forms that are more decorative than functional, with a more painterly surface design. As a composition, they are meant to evoke the “stillness” of a painting to celebrate ceramics as more than just a functional craft, but as an art form. $100 each - $275 for trio.
Materials and Process:: Cone 6 white stoneware clay, underglaze and sgraffito decoration and oxidation-fired

Remembering Morandi

Remembering Morandi

Irene Khurana

CA$450.00

Dimensions: 12 x 16 x 1
Inspiration:: In my search for the magic in all forms and subjects I was particularly inspired by Giorgio Morandi’s still lives while painting my own domestic items.
Materials and Process:: Oil on canvas

Humpback Whale Tile

Humpback Whale Tile

Memet Burnett

CA$300.00

Dimensions: 12 x 24 x 1
Inspiration:: Humpback whales require stillness, attention, and imagination to "see", as most of their bulk remains under water and the evidence of them is a fraction of their immense size. Like the Japanese garden in which the whole is never seen in its entirety, the whale can only be appreciated in parts- a flipper, the spout of an exhale, the tail flukes shown as a whale dives. Like the Japanese garden engenders quietude, so does even a glimpse of a whale.
Materials and Process:: Ceramic tiles with underglaze and glaze, mounted on painted wood cradleboard.

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