Loch Gallery offers expertise in the art of collecting. Our knowledge and commitment will ensure that you are building not only a collection, but also a timeless legacy that future generations will treasure.
For five decades, we have quietly and confidentially established a number of the finest art collections in Canada.
Collections of art such as these cannot simply be purchased.
Paintings and sculptures must first be discovered, vetted and then considered before asking a client to deliberate an acquisition.
Collecting art is a journey. It will enrich your life and enhance your investment. It is the culmination of a relationship between the artist, the collector and the dealer.
Philip Craig is well-known across Canada for his extraordinary ability to connect with the viewer by painting ordinary people engaged in daily activities. This element of connectivity is emphasized in his landscapes, interiors and still life works via the beauty of colour, his execution of light and lively brushwork. Craig’s painterly style and expressive colouration ignite a desire to live with his work.
Philip Craig was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1951. Graduating from the Sheridan College of Art and Design in 1971, Craig’s continual search for new subject matter has pushed him to travel widely.
As a highly versatile artist, Craig allows his audience to experience many places across Canada and abroad through the unique properties of light and palette. The artist has exhibited extensively in Canada since the early 1980s and can be found in collections around the world.
Ron Bolt is one of the leading landscape painters in Canada. Combining a conceptual approach with superior technical ability, Bolt’s work transforms the Canadian landscape into an other-worldly plain. In his early years, the artist was profoundly influenced by abstraction and adopted a minimal approach to his subject matter. Gradually with a return to oil, a change occurred in his work that led to complex compositions of rich colour and expressive brushwork. Bolt has continued the powerful tradition of landscape painting in Canada with a focus on the coastal and river waterways that fascinate him—wildernesses that he describes as “sacred”.
Ron Bolt was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1938. A member of the Arts and Letters Club, and former President of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA), Bolt’s career has spanned over fifty years and includes more than 70 solo exhibitions from coast to coast. He was awarded the Canada 125 Medal in 1992, the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in 2002, the RCA’s Centennial Medallion in 2005, and in 2012 the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. Ron Bolt has been described as a quintessential “Northern Romantic” painter.
David Thauberger, born in Holdfast, Saskatchewan in 1948is well known across Canada for his paintings of vernacular architecture and cultural icons. These paintings of popular culture and postcards involve an articulate debate on art, culture, and how we view our world. His paintings transcend regionalism while still capturing the heart of what it means to be from Saskatchewan.
Studying ceramics at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, Thauberger earned his BA in 1971, and his MA in 1972 from California State University (Sacramento). These studies during the early 1970s inspired him to create art that was rooted in his own life experience and his own geographical location. David Thauberger is represented by major museums throughout our country including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Burnaby Art Gallery.
Landscapes, figures, and still lifes are all interpreted in a highly energetic and linear style for which Shannon Craig Morphew has become well known. Travelling extensively in Canada and Great Britain has enriched her experience and helped her create a very personal and vibrant vision. Her use of ink, paint washes and thick strokes of colour are characteristic of her approach to painting.
Shannon Craig Morphew was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1977. Her studies included courses at Sheridan College in pottery and furniture, and concluded with painting and sculpture at Ontario College of Art (OCA) in 2001.
Craig Morphew’s work is represented in private, corporate and public collections throughout Canada, the USA, the UK and Ireland.
John Hall was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1943. After studying at the Alberta College of Art from 1960 to 1965, he moved to Mexico where he continued his learning at the Instituto Allende, from 1965 to 1966. Hall has held art teaching positions at Ohio Wesleyan University, the Alberta College of Art and Design, the University of Calgary, and the Okanagan University. Notable among Hall’s long list of exhibitions was the 1979 to 1980 solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada and a major retrospective exhibition at Mexico City’s Museo de Arte Moderno in 1994. In 2016 the Kelowna Art Gallery opened “Travelling Light: a forty-five year survey of paintings”. In 2017, the exhibition travelled to the Nickle Galleries at the University of Calgary.
The artist rose to national prominence during the 1970s with his large hyper-realist still life paintings of common objects. Today, Hall continues to focus on recording the appearance of familiar objects, materials, surface and colour. Likened to an urban archaeologist, he produces paintings that mine the rich complexity of contemporary urban life.
Hall is represented in many important public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and the Art.
Dr. Roberta Bondar is an astronaut, physician, scientist and photographer. As the world’s first neurologist in space, Dr. Bondar is globally recognized for her pioneering contribution to space medicine research. At an early age, Dr. Bondar was drawn to photography and influenced by her father and uncle who were photographers. Bondar studied at the prestigious Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California, where she was an honours student in Professional Nature Photography. Her work captures the stunning beauty of planet Earth, its landscape, architecture and nature. In addition to far-reaching Canadian landscapes, her subjects include the American Southwest and other major deserts of the world.
Dr. Bondar has authored four best-selling photo essay books—Passionate Vision: Discovering Canada’s National Parks, Canada: Landscape of Dreams, The Arid Edge of Earth, and Touching the Earth. In 1997, her work was exhibited in “Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science” at the National Gallery of Canada. Her photographic works are found in private, corporate and institutional collections in Canada, the USA and England.
Peter Sawatzky is a remarkably energetic and prolific artist who thrives on challenges. His passion for wildlife and the natural environment has been an inspiration for decades. Sawatzky’s subject matter has developed to incorporate a range of North American birds and animals and most recently, a trip to Africa catalyzed the creation of species new to the artist’s body of work. Sawatzky sculpts in all scales; his latest public commission “Seal River Crossing” was installed at Portage Avenue and Main Street in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is a twenty-nine foot long heroic bronze of eleven caribou crossing a river.
Born in southern Manitoba in 1951, Peter Sawatzky grew up on his family’s farm in the Mennonite village of Sommerfeld. As a winner of countless awards and numerous commissions in both Canada and the USA, Sawatzky has achieved a unique status in Canada’s sculpture tradition.
Nick Rooney obtained his MA in Painting from the University of the Arts London, at the Camberwell College of Arts in London, England.
Much of his early career was spent focusing on the craft of oil painting and developing a contemporary art practice deeply rooted in art history. His current studio work and research now look at the relationship between the reductive formalism of geometric minimalism and the complexity of classical realism. He has had the opportunity to teach workshops on historical drawing and painting techniques and the making of oil paint to a wide range of students. Nick Rooney has taken part in exhibitions both locally as well as internationally, most recently being selected to participate in the Saatchi Gallery’s exhibition “London Grads Now”. He is currently based in Calgary, Alberta where he teaches foundation studies at the Visual College of Art and Design.
A professional artist for the past four decades, Barry McCarthy has produced a unique body of paintings reflecting his personal passion for Canada, and follows a solid tradition of representational painting. In the beginning he developed an outstanding watercolour technique to convey soft, impressionistic light. In his current work, McCarthy has turned to oil painting where he has been able to adopt and refine the light and transparency that made his watercolours so memorable. McCarthy’s work transforms the common object, ordinary person, or familiar landscape with colour, light, and texture to engage the viewer. We recognize the subject, but more than viewing it, we experience the moment in time that impels the viewer’s mind to thoughts of human history.
Valerie Palmer was born in Toronto, Ontario and received a BFA Honours degree from the University of Manitoba in 1973, where she studied under Ivan Eyre, one of Canada’s renowned artists. Leaving both Toronto and Winnipeg after her studies, Palmer headed north to the far shore of Lake Superior. Recognising a profound love of the wilderness fostered by summers in her youth, she created a home and embraced the inspiration that has informed her paintings for more than 35 years. Palmer is a strong figurative painter but she is also a committed landscape painter. What is unique in the artist’s work is the singular relationship of the figure to the land. The order and quiet drama of her compositions establish a narrative connecting the viewer to their own world and to the artist’s.
Celebrating 50 years building some of the finest collections in Canada.
