Wanda Ellerbeck
“Unfinished Gardens and Peculiar Scrawls”
August 23 - September 11, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION on Saturday August 23, 2025
2-7 PM
Concourse By Elevation Gallery
75 Dyrgas Gate, Three Sisters Mountain Village, Canmore AB
The Artist Will Be In Attendance
“Unfinished Gardens and Peculiar Scrawls” moves away from traditional landscape while referencing it - in a more poetic and metaphoric way. These works move through representation and abstraction.
I work in a non-narrative, intuitive way responding to each work as it emerges. This work began from the idea of unfinished gardens as a metaphor for the dreams and impulses of younger selves and how the interaction with life’s living shapes our experience and creates spaces for re-imagining these ”gardens” or life chapters over time. In my case, eight decades of time.
As well, the act of painting itself presents each work as an unfinished garden that is becoming and disintegrating, simultaneously like our present world. One work leads to the next as in life. The fragility and strength of our natural world is reflected in our own temporality and our world - being one and the same.
For me, the unknown in the act of making art is the magic that has consistently kept this energy of creation leading me to the next - always seeking for that one thing, knowing there is never one thing.
~Wanda Ellerbeck~
“Unfinished Garden 1” 48” x 78” Oil 2025 $6174
“Unfinished Garden 5” 40” x 72” Oil 2025 $5488
“Unfinished Garden 2” 60” x 40” Oil 2025 $4900
“Unfinished Garden 3” 36” x 48” Oil 2025 $4114
“Unfinished Garden 7” 36” x 60” Oil. 2025 $4704
“Unfinished Garden 4” 40” x 48” Oil 2025 $4312
“Unfinished Garden 9” 60” x 30” Oil. 2025 $4410
“Unfinished Garden 10” 20” x 20” Oil 2025 $1960
“Unfinished Garden 6” 48” x 78” Oil 2025 $6174
“Unfinished Garden 8” 48” x 78” Oil 2025 $6174
Wanda Ellerbeck
Born and raised in Alberta, Wanda’s artistic practice has spanned a lifetime and has covered the disciplines of painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. Before her engagement with visual arts Wanda was involved with dance and performing arts. She operated a decorative concrete business for fourteen years and was an industry leader in this sector in Western Canada.
As well as a Canada-wide exhibition record, Wanda has taught extensively in post-secondary institutions in Halifax, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. Her awards include the prestigious Canada Council for the Arts “B” grant and numerous project grants from The Alberta Foundation for the Arts. She graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design with a Masters Degree in Fine Arts.
Wanda lives, teaches and works in Canmore, Alberta where she is actively engaged with various art community groups and projects and mentoring emerging artists and students.
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