Gabryel Harrison & Jim Threapleton
Bloom
July 5 - 31, 2025
L: Gabryel Harrison, Bloom In The Bracken, 2023, Oil on canvas,50 x 40 inches R: Jim Threapleton, Glitch Hymn Sun, 2025, Oil on panel, 51 x 51 inches
“Bloom” is the title that brings together the works of painters Gabryel Harrison and Jim Threapleton. Bloom does more than insinuate that we are going to be in the presence of landscape as subject. If we look closer, as the works demands, we can quickly assert that everything else that is part of the cycle of life has been accounted for. There is no spring without winter and no freshness without decay.
Gabryel Harrison’s romantic and poetic set a mood, one that we are invited to join and contemplate. Her works have the capacity to disarm you with her loose and energetic brushstrokes and her use of light. Her gardens and floral works are skin deep and her colour palette is one that stays with you long after you have left her paintings. I like to think of them as melancholic comments on unspoken words.
Jim Threapleton moved to Deep Cove from the UK and that distance shows in his expressionist paintings. His lyrical works carry echoes of landscape that prompt the viewer to whisper “Turner…” Jim’s painting offers glimpses of the vast and expansive. The view from his studio where the sky meets the ocean is a recurring theme in his abstract romantic works. Jim's works exude something of the turbulence of loss and redemption and they are oh so captivating.
These two artists create work that is poetic in nature and soulful in character. We are so pleased to be showing them together.
Gabryel Harrison’s romantic and poetic set a mood, one that we are invited to join and contemplate. Her works have the capacity to disarm you with her loose and energetic brushstrokes and her use of light. Her gardens and floral works are skin deep and her colour palette is one that stays with you long after you have left her paintings. I like to think of them as melancholic comments on unspoken words.
Jim Threapleton moved to Deep Cove from the UK and that distance shows in his expressionist paintings. His lyrical works carry echoes of landscape that prompt the viewer to whisper “Turner…” Jim’s painting offers glimpses of the vast and expansive. The view from his studio where the sky meets the ocean is a recurring theme in his abstract romantic works. Jim's works exude something of the turbulence of loss and redemption and they are oh so captivating.
These two artists create work that is poetic in nature and soulful in character. We are so pleased to be showing them together.
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Mónica Reyes Gallery (MRG) has been supporting the growth and development of emerging, mid-career and established visual artists since 2013. While these artists are primarily based in western Canada, MRG’s reach extends to South America. Since its early days, MRG has been committed to exhibiting artists from the diaspora. The gallery showcases experimental approaches in various mediums such as painting, sculpture and textiles as well as media installations and billboards in public spaces. MRG often works with visual artists who employ abstraction to reflect on place in an unstable world.
MRG also initiated COMBINE Art Fair, an annual event since 2021 that is ongoing, and is the first art fair on the westcoast. Mónica Reyes Gallery is a driving force in the local art scene, recognized for its dynamic programming and social contributions. MRG takes pride in presenting a bold programme that is relevant and often challenging within a commercial context.
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MRG also initiated COMBINE Art Fair, an annual event since 2021 that is ongoing, and is the first art fair on the westcoast. Mónica Reyes Gallery is a driving force in the local art scene, recognized for its dynamic programming and social contributions. MRG takes pride in presenting a bold programme that is relevant and often challenging within a commercial context.
We respectfully acknowledge that we live and work on unceded, traditional and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.
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