Web Gallery

Fleeting: Exalting the Ephemeral

Public voting (any user) is enabled ( 1 votes) from 01/06/2024, 11:00 (PDT) until 14/09/2025, 23:56 (PDT)

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

Fleeting:

Exalting the Ephemeral

FLEETING: We invited artists to explore AIR in all its meanings and possibilities for this unique show! Can we both celebrate AIR as a fundamental life force while also communication its fragility?

The juror for this show is Daniel Laskarin. Check out their work: on Instagram: @dlaskarin or Website: https://laskarin.ca/

The web gallery is where you can vote for your favourite piece in the exhibition. At the end of the 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 the Metchosin ArtPod. We highly encourage you to come see it in person during its run from July 25, 2025- Sept 14, 2025. People are always happy to have seen the show in person; it is quite a different experience from seeing it on-line.

 ArtPod is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11am-4pm.

We welcome everyone to our Opening Reception on SATURDAY, 26th of July from 2pm tp 4pm. Meet our juror, and hear how the works featured in this show were selected to bring the them to life,  listen to accepted artists in attendance speak about their works and process, and celebrate the three Juror's Choice Winners!

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Enjoy the show!

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Dawn Horizon
Dawn Horizon
Liz Wells
CA$120.00


Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1
Artist Statement: As an artist and photographer, I’ve often found my most authentic expression through the lens — not to hold time still, but to capture the idea of fleeting thought. Dawn Horizon explores a different moment: the sudden burst of light at the break of day. A fleeting shift, too quick to hold — yet filled with promise.
Medium: Photograph
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The Runner
The Runner
Liz Wells
CA$150.00


Dimensions: 12 x 16 x 1
Artist Statement: As an artist and photographer, I’ve often found my most authentic expression through the lens — not to hold time still, but to capture the idea of fleeting thought. The Runner is a collaboration with a fellow artist inspired by her deep connection to nature and her experience as a trail runner. Her movement through landscapes expresses the fleeting bond between body and terrain — graceful, grounded, and gone in an instant. In all these works, I explore the impermanence of experience, not to resist time, but to acknowledge its beauty as it slips past.
Medium: Photograph
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Traction Trio
Traction Trio
Dana Nygard
CA$500.00


Dimensions: 9.5 x 12 x 1
Artist Statement: Collaroration between Dana Nygard and Eri Sawatsky. In this collaborative piece, the two artists explore the traction of dream state against conscious waking mind. That space between sleep and rising, where our consciousness normalizes dismemberment and anatomical abstraction. That moment the fibrous entrails of thoughts drop into new places, materialize anew, meet reality again within the vessel of a body. This series represents the quick, harsh realities we slip into when we sleep. Terror, joy; these extremes of emotion are embodied in the real/felt experience that is presence and mindfulness, but capturing and holding space for these emotions can only truly be felt as brief moments in our waking lives where that place is possible. The subconscious dream state however? We relinquish control there and lose the tangible matter that is our physical form, into a world of loose, wobbly, emotion-driven surrealism, passing through what feels like weeks in mere moments of rest.
Medium: Charcoal, recycled paper, textile, paint, ink, varnish and mixed media on wood boards.
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Escape
Escape
Alison
CA$950.00


Dimensions: 30 x 40 x 1.5
Artist Statement: One has to admire the swift and immediate moments in the animal world. Whether it is in the fight for territory or a mate, the deadly accuracy of a kill or the joyous trill of birdsong. Or the flash of a lucky escape. All these fleeting moments are brief and decisive and then over.
Medium: Oil on canvas
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Unrest
Unrest
Eri Sawatzky
CA$300.00


Dimensions: 20 x 16 x 0.5
Artist Statement: A collaboration between Dana Nygard and Eri Sawatzky. The friction of the material world becomes more and more off-putting when faced with the idealism of the digital dreamscape becoming our ever present reality. Meticulous accountability and the labour of attunement are something the bodies we live in are forced to confront, and yet are given permission to turn from, effectively tenderizing our resiliency and capacity for raw strength in the face of hardship. This collaborative piece is a reflection of the moment when we decide to turn away and take what seems like the easier route, but in turn, becomes vapid inability in the long run.
Medium: Conte, acrylic, hand dyed linen, thread, paper, ink
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Clay Mentor
Clay Mentor
Eri Sawatzky
CA$350.00


Dimensions: 23.5 x 19 x 0.75
Artist Statement: A collaboration between artist, Dana Nygard and artist and model, Eri Sawatzky. A contemplation of knowledge held in the body and passed on, most effectively, through the art of co-regulation. A study of stewardship in the lived form. As our means of tracking history and stories become more varied and new to how our internal systems track a sense of self, this piece looks at the space between us and the charge that it holds. What is the responsibility of those who know? Receptivity in a time of untruths, how do we stay open to learning, while maintaining integrity? It speaks to the pressure on the teachers of our world to understand the body and the importance of mutuality. Something so easily complicated into oblivion.
Medium: Acrylic, texture medium, conte, paper on canvas
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Undercover 2/5
Undercover 2/5
Dave Skilling
CA$375.00


Dimensions: 10 x 13 x 1.5
Artist Statement: Sitting motionless in dappled light under a leafy canopy the forest’s spirit appears with a soft whisper.
Medium: Linocut print, ink on paper
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In the Open V 2/2
In the Open V 2/2
Dave Skilling
CA$1,500.00


Dimensions: 26 x 18.25
Artist Statement: Feeling the freedom of the moment… taking delight in the day with a leap of joy!
Medium: Linocut print, ink on paper
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Encirclement
Encirclement
Jane Francis
CA$1,250.00


Dimensions: 36 x 36 x 2
Artist Statement: Encirclement explores the interplay between human spirit and nature’s irrepressible vitality. Through mark making, I drew into red root systems – through native currants and fanciful figures – to celebrate nature’s subtle choreography, where nothing holds still, and everything matters for a moment.
Medium: Acrylic & oil on wood
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Nocturne
Nocturne
Jane Francis
CA$1,250.00


Dimensions: 36 x 36 x 2
Artist Statement: I set out to capture a visceral, interactive sensation—bodies and blossoms tumbling together in moonlight. Through a close-cropped scene, I gently layered sculpted line-work and soft scumbling, enveloping a loose, mysterious intermingling of figuration. Tender, restless, and barely held.
Medium: Acrylic & oil on wood
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Usher
Usher
Jane Francis
CA$1,450.00


Dimensions: 34 x 45.5 x 1.5
Artist Statement: Usher draws from a visceral experience during a heady management retreat long ago. My attention drifted – literally – out the window into the surrounding forest. I felt my arms stretching and interweaving within the trees, held in their quiet strength. I moved between line and form using neutral, layered opacities and translucencies. A limited palette helped me stay tuned to instinct, tracing both studied and imagined life forces.
Medium: Oil on linen
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memory sometimes
memory sometimes
Dl Clay
CA$450.00


Dimensions: 24 x 24 x 1.5
Artist Statement: In response to my mother's ongoing dementia and to my own aging I have been exploring memory and what it is to remember. There is an ethereal quality to memory, to what we store in our minds and bodies. Things rise to the surface of our awareness then slowly, or sometimes rapidly, disintegrate. In "memory sometimes" a swirl of blue fog is a backdrop to the binary code for the word "memory". Overlaid on this, a few memories struggle to the surface. Binary code has a long history and is associated with information storage. How is our memory stored? Can some colour, texture and pattern be enough to store it? How can it be retrieved? In a short poem called "memory sometimes", I explore what it is to be surrounded by a new, beautiful landscape and my efforts to save the feelings and connection I have to it. It begins: "I remember last week's view out the window. the blue habit of it. how it changes - fluid as what it contains". I continue to explore.
Medium: Mixed media: plaster, acrylic and pencil on board
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