Wagtails and Pipits

by Commander A.M. Hughes

This was used for a "dry run" of the original gallery, and was a colour plate from a used book on Japanese birds purchased at one of Kingston's used book stores. Probably the last non-Canadian art ever to feature in the Tiniest Gallery, and hopefully the last non-local artist.

• Displayed: October 2015
• Colour plate

Brian's Record Option

by Tully

Local artist Tully (also 50% of local musical legends Kyra and Tully) has been painting the familiar sights of Kingston for some time -- I picked this print up at Martello Alley, on Wellington Street.

• Displayed: November 1-15, 2015
• Print

Untitled (Special Koala)

by Audrey McLean

A resident of the Kingston Fruit Belt neighbourhood, Audrey is an up-and-coming artist still exploring form and subjects. Untitled (Special Koala) has been the Tiniest Gallery's most abstract to work to date, and we look forward to seeing where Audrey's muses take her in the future.

• Displayed: November 16-29, 2015
• Acrylic on prestretched canvas

Chair

by Nancy McIntosh

Another purchase from the Martello Gallery, Chair has now found a home in a small art collection in Mississipi. One of our favourite works to date.

• Displayed: November 30-December 13, 2015
• Ink and paper in found frame

Market Man

by Wayne Westfall

Loaned to me by some dear friends, Market Man is one of many watercolours by local artist Wayne Westfall, who has been capturing slices of Kingston life for some time. His work can be puchased at stores and fairs around Kingston, including the Minotaur and Martello Alley.

• Displayed: December 13, 2015 January 3, 2016
• Watercolour (print)

East End Field with Orange

by Ben Darrah

The first official exhibit of 2016, by acclaimed local artist Ben Darrah, who has worked and exhibited around the world. This was originally part of a public art project a few years ago, and Ben graciously loaned it to us for the Tiniest Gallery, bringing welcome colour to a grey January.

• Displayed: January 3-17, 2016
• Arcylic and oil on fabric

In Blue on Green

by Mark William Laundry

Our first "out of the blue" artist! Mark emailed us out of the blue, saying he loved the project and wanted to be involved. There was a lot of high-fiving and cheering when we received that email. Mark Laundry is self-taught and has been amassing an impressive body of work; not currently for sale but possibly in the future. In Blue on Green is one of a series of mono prints.

• Displayed: January 17-31, 2016
• Mono print - water mixable oil on paper

Staple Rain

by Felix Bander

A mystery even to us -- this arrived on our porch one day in the manner of an abandoned baby, but instead of an orphan it was an already-framed photo titled "Staple Rain" with no contact information or further instructions attached to it. Mystery is a good thing! We may never know where this came from, who took it, or what the intent behind the work was, but we like it. Thanks to the Mysterious Mister (or Ms.) Bander.

• Displayed: February 1-14, 2016
• Photo print in plastic frame

Sasquatch

by Melodie Papp

A frequent vendor at craft and art shows around the city, Melodie Papp has a unique art style that literally jumps out at me every time I see it. Well, not literally. That would be weird. But it's really great; you can find her work at Minotaur on Princess Street, and via her website at melodiepapp.com.

• Displayed: February 14-27, 2016
• Print; original watercolour on paper

Nope!

by Chesty Wilson

Chesty Wilson claims he once killed a man with a guitar string, but I'm not sure if he means that he once killed a man through the use of a guitar string, or killed a man who was in possession of a guitar string. These are the kinds of conversations you have with Chesty. He's got an unusual outlook on things.

• Displayed: February 27-March 13, 2016
• Print; manipulated public-domain art from comics

Cloud 9

by Ian Kennedy

Ian Kennedy, a retired health care professional, has had something of a nomadic life - born in Victoria, growing up in California and London, England, and finally returning to Canada in 1973. Originally trained in technical drawing and drafting, Ian has always maintained an interest in art, filling numerous sketchbooks with his unique view of the world around him.

Ian’s involvement in printmaking began with Rebecca Cowan’s Drypoint Workshop at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been a regular at Rebecca’s weekly Open Studio. His prints have been included in the annual Kingston Printmakers Exhibition at the Window Gallery since 2012, as well at the Proof Gallery International Print Exhibition in 2014 and 2015. In 2014 one of his drypoints was featured on the Year of the Horse exhibition poster. In October 2015 Ian participated in a joint exhibit at the Verb Gallery in Kingston, Ontario.

With the purchase of his own small press, Ian continues to explore his passion for printmaking.

• Displayed: March 13-March 27, 2016
• Collograph

Organized Sharks

by Marisa Sandlin

A resident of Kingston since 2014, Marisa Sandlin originally hails from the American South, including -- among other places -- the Gulf of Mexico town of Cedar Key, where this picture was taken.

Origionally a writer, photography has become a recent and abiding interest.

• Displayed: March 27-April 10, 2016
• Photograph

Birds of Kingston: Lady Sparrow

by Chantal Rousseau

Local artist Chantal Rousseau has exhibited across Kingston and Canada, both in solo shows and as part of various art collectives. Her work frequently focuses on animated GIFs based on watercolours like Lady Sparrow.

Find out more about her work at chantalrousseau.ca.

• Displayed: April 10-24, 2016
• Watercolour

In a Boat

by Samantha Purdy

Samantha Purdy is not currenlty a resident of Kingston, but a mainstay at local art and craft shows. She's also on Instagram!

Find out more about her work at Samantha Purdy Textile.

• Displayed: April 24 - May 8, 2016
• Cross stitch on black Aida cloth

Harris Lake, Near Parry Sound

by Roy Timm

Sometimes, we plumb run out of original art, which is why we have a stockpile of library-fundraiser books of Canadian art. This is a photo by Roy Timm, from Canada With Love, originally published by McClelland and Stewart and edited by Lorraine Monk.

• Displayed: May 8-22, 2016
• Photograph

Store Famous (from Convenience Stories of Kingston

by Allison Chisholm

Allison Chisholm is a Kingston resident and photographer. Convenience Stores of Kingston is a series she started with a friend who has since moved away, but will continue in the future!

• Displayed: May 22 - June 5, 2016
• Photograph

Moose (from Cave Paintings of the 21st Century

by Michael e. Casteels

Michael e. Casteels is a Kingston resident who makes art through typography and micropublishing.

• Displayed: June 5-19, 2016
• Typography

Untitled

by Mark Chamberlin

Mark Chamberlin is a Kingston encaustic artist.

• Displayed: June 19-July 3, 2016
• Wax pigment on paper

Korridor

by Marco Petrovski

A Kingston-area resident, Marco Petrovski uses only found media -- usually curbside -- for his art, and refuses to purchase any art-making materials. His primary concerns are the "returned gaze" -- crude representations of being watched in a watchful society.

• Displayed: July 3-17, 2016
• Ink on plywood

Fizzlekitten

by Team Macho

Another "from the archives" post -- no local artists for this cycle -- so this is a print from one of Canada's freshest art collectives, Team Macho. I love their work, frankly; I've seen a couple of exhibitions and they occupy this beautiful space between mashup and mature expression.

• Displayed: July 17-31, 2016
• Print
• From "The Merlin Years"

St. John's Zig Zag

by Doug Bird, Holyrood Studios

Visiting Doug's Scuttlebutt Gallery in St. John's, this just leapt out at me, and despite a vow not to purchase any "jellybean house tourist art," I picked it up; partly for the art itself, and partly for Doug's approach to self-framing his work with a combination of wood and puff paint for detailing.

• Displayed: July 31 - August 14, 2016
• Print
• Doug's galllery online

Jasper Triptych with Sun

by Meagan Berlin

Formerly a student at Queen's Law, Meagan Berlin now lives in Western Canada. Her work has been shown at the Art Gallery of Alberta (2009) and won honours in a number of juried shows in Lloydminster, Alberta, including the Arts Without Borders Juried Show (2007, 2008, 2009). Her work is displayed in the offices of the Governor General of Canada and received attention in gallery shows in Kingston, Ontario. She has been published in Queen’s University’s Muse Magazine and also contributes as an illustrator.

• Displayed: August 14-28, 2016
• Ink on paper

At Your Own Risk

by Matt Shepherd

Matt Shepherd owns and runs the Tiniest Gallery! He's exploring the photo capacities of his iPhone, and is pleasantly surprised by the results.

• Displayed: August 28 - September 11, 2016
• Photo

A Break!

by the Tiniest Gallery

After almost a year, the Tiniest Gallery took a couple of weeks off to have a breather and attract new artists to the project.

• Displayed: September 12-26, 2016
• Text

Left Art

by James Duncan

James Duncan is a Montreal artist who, above and beyond his amazing MINE! comics and his sublime work on the early webcomics classic Man-Man, creates and leaves tiny pieces of art around the city as "Lost Art" to be found -- and kept -- by residents. Learn more about James and his work at his site.

• Displayed: September 25 - October 9, 2016
• Watercolour

Anju Datta Photo

by Jonathan Sugarman

Jonanthan Sugarman is a local photographer, web designer, graphic designer and teacher -- learn more about him at his site.

• Displayed: October 10-23, 2016
• Photo

Headphones

by Westridge Art

WestridgeArt is a local Kingston resident and designer.

• Displayed: October 23 - November 20, 2016
• Photo

Deer

by Deborah Twiddy

• Displayed: December 2016
• Sketch

Robot

by the Stick Kid

• Displayed: January 2017
• Painting
• A local legend in art and design, Kevin Merritt produces not only original drawings and paintings, but also takes on commercial work for all sorts of clients. Check out his portfolio at The Stick Kid site.

Local Business

by Benjamin Nelson

• Displayed: February 2017
• Letterpress Print
• With work seen on everyting from album covers to posters to art prints, Benjamin Nelson is one of Kingston's most exciting artists (he did a Frog Eyes album cover, for God's sake! I love Frog Eyes!). His work can be found at his website.

Horse Moments

by Sian Watson

• Displayed: March 2017
• Bronze
• At Queen's as a visitor from Australia to finish a graduate degree, Sian Watson (Insta) is the very first sculptor to be featured in the Gallery! We're very excited to feature Horse Moments, part of an award-winning multi-horse series modelled after Sian's own horse from her home outside Canberra. We're also very lucky it fit unmodified in the Gallery. :)

Anticipation

by Cathie Hamilton

• Displayed: April 2017
• Acrylic
• A long-term resident and member of the Kingston art scene, Cathie's works can be seen at galleries across Kingston, and at her shared studio at NGB Studios on Cataraqui Street in Kingston.

good with his heart

by Heidi Mack

photo: TH Carpenter

• Displayed: May 2017
• Arcylic on Wood
• Heidi Mack has a number of artistic outlets; her work can be seen around Kingston, including a current exhibition at the Elm Cafe. You can view more of her work at the artist page on her website.

Morning Glory

by Anthony Buttazzoni

• Displayed: June 2017
• Watercolour & Ink
• A Kingston resident, Anthony's distinctive ink-and-watercolour scenes are often exhibited in town, including (where I found them) at the delightful Small Batch Café on Princess St. You can see and purchase his art at his website.

Summer Day

by Macie

• Displayed: July 2017
• Watercolour
• Another in our Young Artist series, Macie actually asked her mom if she could put one of her paintings in the Tiniest Gallery. We said yes! A seasonally appropriate Summer Day for July 2017. Thanks, Macie!

If Evil Is Contagious, So Is Goodness

by Tony Taylor

• Displayed: August 2017
• Oil on Birch
• Among the many artists at Artfest Kingston in July, Tony's art was one of the booths that really leapt out at us (and having pieces we could afford to buy didn't hurt, either!). You can find his work at tonytaylorart.com.

I Can't Believe I Went To Design School For This

by Ashley King

• Displayed: September 2017
• Digital Work
• Work spotted at the Small Batch on Princess, and the email was leaving my phone before the espresso had hit the counter! It's a thrill to have Ashley in the Tiniest Gallery. Check her work out on Behance.

Fashion Illustration #1

by Emily Harmsen

• Displayed: October 2017
• Pencil, Ink, Watercolour
• Emily Harmsen is a graduate from the Fashion Design program at Ryerson University. She has taken courses on illustration, costume and design history, graphic and visual communications, sewing and pattern drafting. Emily currently works and studies at Queen's University, she freelances on the side from time to time to keep her creative energy high.

Bridge Over the Tay River

by Shawna Caspi

• Displayed: November 2017
• Oil
• I met Shawna at a house concert she was giving at a friend's house from the radio station CFRC 101.9 FM -- not only a great show, but also one with a modest display of original oils on the merch table! As Shawna says: "I love painting landscapes of places that I see when I’m on tour! Here are some examples of my paintings. They are usually sold at live shows with my merchandise. I also do commissions – if you have a landscape you’d like me to paint, drop me a line at info@shawnacaspi.com. All paintings are one-of-a-kind and created from photos that I take when I’m on tour." Be sure to check out her music, which is also fantastic!

With Xmas Best Wishes

Artist Unknown

• Displayed: December 2017
• Postcard, Wooden Frame
• Found art in its purest sense -- I don't even recall how this wound up in my home, regift after regift after regift. It seems appropriate for the holidays! Ho ho ho.

On the Rail Fence

Ken Danby

• Displayed: January 2018
• Original: Egg Tempura, Gallery: photo from book
• A bit of a cheat! Clipped from Ken Danby by Paul Duval.

A Wild Imagination

Ashley King

• Displayed: February 2018
• Photograph

Tippy Cake

Nancy McIntosh

• Displayed: March 2018
• Ink & India Ink

After A Little While, She Heard A Pattering Of Feet

Clelia Scala

• Displayed: April 2018
• Collage, Watercolour, Photo Transfer

What A Pear!

Laura Lee Moreland

• Displayed: May 2018
• Oil on Canvas

Fitting In

Keleigh Korteweg

• Displayed: July 2018
• Arcylic on Canvas

Unimagined Hour

Mathew "Ordo" Nagendran

• Displayed: August 2018
• Gouache on Paper

Little Miss Muffet

Isaac Gillis

• Displayed: September 2018
• Mixed Media

Skull & Snails

Chantal Rousseau

• Displayed: October 2018
• Watercolour

Bootiful

Wendy Fahey & Cecilia Stewart

• Displayed: November 2018
• Ink & Rouging

Mittens

Laura Kingsbury

• Displayed: December 2018
• Watercolour (Greeting Card)
• Picked this up at the Grotto gallery in Merrickville -- a delightful little watercolour card from local artist Laura Kingsbury. You can buy this as a card for $3, or matted and ready to mount for $10. Lovely!

Birds

Nazca Indigenous People, Peru

• Displayed: April 2019
• Print Print; reproduction from Handbook to Regular Patterns by Peter S. Stevens
• It's been a while and I rebuilt the Gallery, but messed the door up. I need to build a new/better door. Anyway, this is from a book I picked up for $1 at a sidewalk sale a while ago; a bit of a desperation play to get something in the Gallery!

Market Man

Wayne Westfall

• Displayed: May 2019
• Print of watercolour
• Local artist Wayne Westfall is having a gallery show of his work, celebrating 40 years of art, in the Kingston Window Art Gallery, so I decided to revisit his 2015 entry in the Gallery, Market Man.

Fort Henry

Jack Chiang

• Displayed: June 2019
• Photo, from collection Images of Kingston
• I was a bit burnt out at this point, and managed to pull it together enough to clip a Jack Chiang photo out of an old Kingston photo-book. Not my finest hour as a gallery owner!

A Mysterious Metal Bird We Named Hector

Artist Unknown

• Displayed: July 2019
• Metal bird, purchased at the ReMixta Gallery, Montreal Street, Kingston
• It's a tiny metal bird! Perfect for summer and bringing a lot of cheer to the street and a second wind for the Gallery.

Felt Art

Sue Steffes

• Displayed: August 2019
• Sue Steffes was a great find at the 2019 Skeleton Park art fest -- making amazing felt art in, among other things, greeting card formats. I bought cards for my mom and my sisters' birthdays, and a third for the Gallery (and probably somebody's birthday down the line).

Drusilla & Ozzy

Jenny Grant

• Displayed: September/October 2019
• My wife loves tattoos (I do too, but she also likes getting them) – and this year, she's getting two tributes to our fallen friends Drusilla and Ozzy; beloved tortoiseshell and black cats. I loved the designs of Jenny Grant of True North Tattoos here in Kingston so much I asked if I should show them.

drEAMED

Jo Roberts

• Displayed: November 2019
• My sister sent me this photo by Jo Roberts a few years ago, and it seemed like an appropriate sentiment and palette for November weather.

Monarch Dreams

Claudia Zistra

• Displayed: December 2019
• From a pre-Christmas gallery showing of (appropriately) tiny art at ArtNOISE in Kingston, this sunny piece by Claudia Zistra to offset the cold winter days.

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Nicole Strangman

• Displayed: February 2020
• As winter eases slowly into spring, a contemplation of the cosmos from Kingston artist Nicole Strangman.

Shy Kitty

D.C. Caesar

• Displayed: June 2020
• In turbulent times, an adorable kittycat to ease the mind and soothe the soul.

Connection

Brandon B. Liesen

• Displayed: July 2020
• One of those happy moments when a passerby said hello when I was changing the June art, and asked if he could have his work in here! This is going to be a family affair, with Brandon's daughter holding down our August slot as well. Check Brandon out on Instagram (bbliesen.art) or buy prints on his website.

Joy is Everywhere

Delaney Liesen

• Displayed: August 2020
• Our first father-daughter combo in the Gallery! Delaney, age 10, is the daughter of July artist Brandon B. Liesen. She's contributed "Joy is Everywhere," a delightful breath of fresh photographic air to help break the late summer heat.

November 5, 1933

Eric Ravilious

• Displayed: October 2020
• Okay, I'm not proud of this, but sometimes you get busy, nobody's tossing art your way, and COVID has kept you from looking around much. So this is pulled from an Eric Ravilious calendar. It's not local art -- sorry! -- but I think it does a great job of capturing that October/November feeling.

Sagittarius

Jen White

• Displayed: November-December 2020
• I picked this up last year for my wife (who is a Sagittarius, natch) at the local art store / gallery Art Noise's "Show of Smalls". Jen White normally specializes in equine art, but had an astrology series.

The Fishing Hut

Hanna Barczyk

• Displayed: January 2021
• I picked this up last year for my wife at the local art store / gallery Art Noise's "Show of Smalls". Looking it up, I discovered that Barczyk's piece is part of a very cool series called The Canadianist by local press Everlovin' Press; you can read more about it here.

Watercolour 10

Kathleen Dempsey

• Displayed: February 2021
• Another pick-up from the store / gallery Art Noise's "Show of Smalls" last year. A nice little robin to get us through February and hopefully usher in spring!.

imagination to power

Posy Legge

• Displayed: April 2021
• Every two years, my wife and I participate in Cezanne's Closet, a fundraiser for Queen's Union Gallery. You buy tickets, preview art, and then pick your art when your ticket is chosen at random. Sometimes you get your first pick, sometimes you don't... and sometimes you realize you can just contact the person whose art amazed you but you didn't get, and ask if they sell small-scale watercolours at reasonable prices! Hence this wonderful piece by Kingston/Winnepeg artist Posy Legge; gorgeous light making the mundane marvelous.

Lay on, MacDuff

Anne Finlay

• Displayed: May 2021
• Can there be a more iconic farm critter than a chicken? This little lady – a New Hampshire chicken - is part of a flock of laying hens that are thoughtfully cared for by one of my younger brothers. Although I’ve named this one Mac Duff, it’s best not to name your poultry or livestock. After all, no one wants to sit down to nice pork tenderloin named Kevin!
• Showcasing this piece at the Tiniest Gallery is a double thrill! 49 Cherry Street is the home of my mother and her five siblings. Each of them was born under this roof and each was raised with love and care. Oh the stories this house could tell. For me this house was always my safe place. My grandparents Jim and Agnes McGarvey loved each of their fifteen grandchildren very much.
• Thank you Matt Shepherd and Marisa Sandlin for the lovely opportunity to share my art in your awesome Tiniest Gallery.

Menu Series

Jennifer Roche-Brown

• Displayed: July 2021

• One of the more ambitious installations for the Gallery in a while -- six discrete panels of recipes, complete with artist's statement, which took some figurin' with jute, tape and a staple gun (to attach to the top of the box) to puzzle thorugh on installation.

Untitled

Sheila Wright

• Displayed: August 2021

• Heading to visit my folks, close to Oshawa, we decided to side-trip through Warkworth -- a town we were familiar with but had never visited. Outside a fun Ontario-goods specialty food shop, we saw boxes of prints for sale -- including an amazing array of blue-hued ones that really grabbed our eye. We didn't meet Sheila, but picked up a print for the Gallery.

At Their Doorstep

Sheila Wright

• Displayed: September 2021

• Introduced via a friend at the Cataraqui Canoe Club -- this blows me away with the vivid colours, the imagination, and the -- never to be seen by you, gentle reader! -- secret collage on the back. This is a reassembly of elements used for The Gertrudes' video for their song Parham, which is itself a work of genius.

Eve of St. Agnes

Alan Taylor

• Displayed: October 2021

• Picked this up at a small gallery in Prince Edward County, thinking ahead to October and the spooky turn of the seasons... the Eve of St. Agnes is traditionally a January tale, but the ghostly themes and spooooooky woodcut made it especially appropriate for Hallowe'en. Per the gallery owner, Alan Taylor, who passed away a few years back, was a notable woodcut artist in the Picton area.

Microcosm

Kass Ilagan and Blackbird Belle

• Displayed: November 2021

• Microcosm is the third beat-tape from Blackbird Belle. The title evokes the effect of looking at a glass marble from afar, where it seems small, simple, and insignificant - until you put it up to your eye and the perspective and scale changes as light filters through, opening a portal to an enveloping universe.

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Winter Scenes

Gloria Wood

• Displayed: December 2021
• I first discovered Gloria's work through her husband Joe, on Facebook -- and hired her to paint not only these winter scenes, but a Rock Facts rock for my wife, a huge Over the Garden Wall fan. She does a lot more than decorative stone painting -- track her down and discover a whole world of paint and also paper art.

Good Pals

James Duncan

• Displayed: January 2022
• Welcoming my old pal James back to the Gallery; "Good Pals" is a super-sized version of some of his Left Art work -- a public art project where he leaves very small art pieces scattered around his hometown of Montreal (kind of the opposite of this project, when I think about it).

Satisfaction

Nell Casson

• Displayed: March 2022
• While on a brief trip to Picton I was lucky enough to see the sign and walk down the alley to Carbon Art and Design, a truly amazing art/social justice/cool-ass-stuff space. Literally everything in there is my jam, artistically, but this jumped out of the prints-for-sale section as something that'd be a good fit for the gallery. It's by Nell Casson, who seems to just be a very cool person who does all kinds of neat stuff.

Down by the River

Alyn Stirk

• Displayed: May 2022
• Popping into Kingston Community Art and Design, a new local-art-and-craft space in downtown Kingston, this Alyn Stirk print just leapt off the wall at me -- it's great! Turns out he used to live not too far from the Gallery and would walk by it from time to time, so in a way this welcomes him back to the old neigbourhood.

Here Comes the Sun

Herman Kaur

• Displayed: June 2022
• A visit to the Juniper Cafe at Kingston's Tett Centre led to a drop-in at the Tett Centre gallery and being surprised by an exhibition of local art, featuring a lot of smaller works including this charming print by local artist Herman Kaur.

YEE HAW

Alex Old

• Displayed: July 2022
• Back after two COVID-cancelled years, the Skeleton Park Art Festival was in full swing in 2022, with some fun art vendors including Alex Old, who turned away from a full-time job a while back to work on his art full-time, which is also a full-time job, so I don't know quite why I'm framing it like this. Fun, funky, cool stuff.

Tiniest Gallery in the Union Gallery

Collaboration w/ Union Gallery

• August-September 2022
• The ultimate meta-gallery experience! The Tiniest Gallery was invited to be part of an exhibit at Queen's Union Gallery on community art and community art projects. It was great to see the Gallery in a gallery, and to be part of an exploration of the many art projects that make the Kingston art community amazing.

Untitled (For Now)

Lauren Hare

• December 2022
• Took a while to get the Gallery back from the Union Gallery (my organizational failures, not theirs), but it's good to be back, with some repairs, and featuring the work of Kingston liquid glass artist Lauren Hare!

Christine

Nenagh Hathaway

• February 2023
• A really welcome email shortly after the gallery went back up in December -- Nenagh is not only a Fine Arts PhD working in Kingston, but a tremendous artist in her own right and was happy to see the Gallery backk up and running! It's a delight to have Christine in the box, bringing lively colour to the dreariest month of the year. I wasn't thinking Valentine's Day when I put it up, but as I type this, it does seem like kind of a fit, no?

Cognitive Dissonance

Mary Kate Noseworthy

• March 2023
• A burst of textures and media as winter turns into spring -- Mary Kate Noseworthy reached out early in 2023 about showing her work in the Tiniest Gallery, and it's been a delight to feature her in the box.

The Blue Vase

Irene Castellano

• May 2023
• It's been a rough spring in Kingston -- cold, wet, and generally kind of blah -- so this vibrant burst of colour, which we picked up at the latest Cézanne's Closet fundraiser for Queen's Union Gallery, is very welcome as we shift into what looks like a very pleasant June! Haven't had the pleasure of meeting Irene Castellano, but Mrs. Tiniest Gallery has fallen completely in love with her work, especially the spoopier side of fun ghosts and ghouls in her website portfolio.

Tuxedo Glance

Karen Lahey

• July 2023
• I'm always happy to stop by Kingston Community Arts + Design on Princess Street from time to time -- as the oft-repeated saying about the chocolates goes, you never know what you're gonna get. This time, a cool cat to help ease the pain of 30-degree-plus temperatures as Kingston heads into a hot, hot summer, courtesy of local painter Karen Lahey.

Church

The Wood Shepherd

• August 2023
• Picked up on a day trip to Brockville (the railway tunnel there is amazing!), and one of very few works created under a nom de plume, this leapt out as possibly more sinister than Stephen Shay -- the Wood Shepherd, "Working Wood while Following God," intended. But the whole "abandoned church" vibe was too good for my wife and I to pass up. It'll be in the box until September, and in the house just in time for Hallowe'en.

Emergence

Jasper Lyon Wicke

• September 2023
• Always great to feature young talent in the Gallery! I first encountered Jasper's work at a local small-art display at the local board game and funky-stuff shop Minotaur, and reached out to their contact email to ask if they'd be interested in exhibiting. I was a bit surprised to find out Jasper is a young and emerging artist!

Untitled (Cat Witch)

Julianna Brazill

• October 2023
• A delightful thank-you gift from some friends we were catsitting for, and perfect for Hallowe'en: this untitled print comes to us from Vermont and Julianna Brazill, whose art is well worth checking out.

Join the Raccoon Revolution

Soft Trash Studio

• November 2023
• My wife, the incredible Marisa Sandlin, bought "Join the Raccoon Revolution" on a trip to Toronto at the Ghostwood Hobbyist & Makers Market, and we're both really enjoying it, and the other art of Soft Trash Studio (seriously, check out the other stuff on that Instagram.

Country Cabin Chip Hut

Chantal Bennett and Joel Kimmel

• December 2023
• On the annual pilgrimage to the delight that is the Fat Goose Craft Fair, my wife and I discovered Every Chip Stand, a project by Chantal Bennett and Joel Kimmel to chronicle every chip truck in Ontario (and neighbouring regions) through art. Bought the Kingston representative on the spot, and we're just delighted by the whole thing. Casse-croutes in the future?

Chicken Medallion

Tracy Davison

• January-February 2024
• A cheery wee chicken to drive the winter away! Picked up at Kingston Community Arts + Design on Princess Street.

From Above

Skull Studio

• March-April 2024
• This was supposed to just be March but I couldn't bring myself to take it down! Punk rock, vivid, kick-ass skull art for the people. Sold out of Kensington Market, Toronto, Skull Studio has an "art for the people" ethos that keeps their work high-production and low-cost.

Ticks

Kid Icarus

• May 2024
• A trip to Toronto for my new job took my wife and I by Kid Icarus in Kensington Market, where we saw this among many other collages of old-timey books. "A seasonally appropriate PSA for the Tiniest Gallery," I said. "Yes,' she said. And thus it came to pass that the Tiniest Gallery is letting you know: BEWARE THE TICK!

Feather

Judy Durocher

• June 2024
• Submitted work by Judy, who has been carving since her retirement and has an amazing array of work -- "Feather" is just small enough to fit in the Gallery!

Good Things on the Horizon

Lauren St. Onge

• July-August 2024
• Bought at the Skeleton Park Arts Fest, the perfect look ahead to the rest of a fun summer!

I'd Rather Stay Home

Maria Filar

• September 2024
• Picked up this little print in Detroit -- not the norm for the Gallery, which focuses on Kingston-area artists, but what better sentiment for the back-to-school season than this? Whether you're being frog-marched back to class, or ducking to avoid the ragers thrown by university students flooding into town... wouldn't we all, really, just rather stay home?

Fancy L'il Dracula

Matt Shepherd

• October 2024
• It's not often I pick up the brush, but with a few canvases in the basement and the spooky season starting up, I thought it was time to bring this fancy l'il Dracula to life. It actually has two pals, Fancy L'il Skellingbones and Fancy L'il Spookers, but the Gallery is only so big.

Yellow Tomato

Normand Dupont

• November 2024
• An autumnal treat from right here in the neighbourhood! Normand lives in the Kingston Skeleton Park area, and emailed one day asking if he could put one of his paintings in the Gallery. Of course! What a treat as the weather turns to have this delicious reminder of the summer in view.