Artist Residency and Talk

For a number of years now the Newfoundland provincial art gallery (The Rooms) along with the Parks Canada has offered a residency program here in the park

(Here is the link if you would like to be the next resident!) http://www.therooms.ca/artinthepark/default.asp

Tomorrow evening at 6:30 the newest artist in Residence Svava Thordis will be giving an artist talk and slide show of the some of her work!

Were pretty excited that all the artist talks that are normally done up in the parks building will now be hosted by Galliott Studios!

Here is Svava’s web sight http://www.svavathordisjuliusson.com/about.html

We’ve attached a picture of the lovely artist having coffee with our local legend Black Hat George.  

Rainy Day Activities

Well we had a few nice days of sun, and now it’s a bit chilly and rainy. 

So here is a list of things you can do at Galliott Studios during the rain!

Top of the list of course is our fair trade fresh ground espressos, coffees lattes. We also offer different specialty teas and hot chocolates and coffee hot chocolate mixes.

Aside from the beautiful art and crafts to look at and hot (or cold) beverages to drink and shop guitar; we also offer drop in activities for rainy days!

All of our activities are kid friendly and we even have aprons for you to wear so you don’t get covered in paint!

You can come in and paint your own pottery, a canvas or wind sock. Make your very own Jelly fish or jewellery or even play with some clay!

If your in town for a few days and would like an activity that don't have listed, we’d be more then happy to try and accommodate! 

 

Matthew Hornell Poster!!

As promised here is Galliott Studios new Matthew Hornell poster!  This one was drawn by Jenn and then the text was put in latter. Not as crazy as last year "quick draw" poster of Matt, but we still enjoy it.

CD Sale!

We’ve been rearranging the studio and realised we have tones of CDs from great Newfoundland bands! So we have decided that this week we’ll be giving away free beverages with every CD sale!

Because when it comes down to it, we’re pretty sure that artist keep themselves pretty caffeinated!

We have all kinds of genres from Traditional Newfoundland, to reggae, alternative, country and folk pop! All created by talented musicians straight from Newfoundland!

  

 Also heres a picture of your shop hours...for now 

Matthew Hornell! 2013

We are supper excited again this year to host Matthew Hornell at Galliott Studios! Matthew has a new cd and will be playing songs off both albums!

Matthew will be bringing along talented musician friends Andrew Sneddon and Matt Gallant.
Andrew Sneddon plays slide guitar while Matt Gallant plays drums, both are musicians are from the Nova Scotia band “The Modern Grass”, Check out their link!


http://www.themoderngrass.com/the_band/

Matthew and Friends will be here July 7^th at 9:30 pm!  You can call for tickets 453 2142 or just drop by!  They will sell out fast so make sure you get yours!
Also keep checking back for this years quirky poster! Last year we had a fast draw competition for the poster, so stay tuned for some more fun!


If you can't make it out on Sunday July 7th and would like one of Mr. Hornell's Cd's  check out the link to our favorite record shop  Freds Records!

http://www.fredsrecords.com/site/shop/matthew-hornell-have-it-all/

Quick Update

Still getting the shop in tip-top shape, but here is a quick up date!

We will have specialty cheeses as of Friday this week! We will also have a special food and wine night this Friday! So drop in for some friendly faces and yummy eats!  

We’ve attached a picture of the sunrise this morning, have a great day!

Sculpins, beautiful sculpins

One of our favourite activities here at the Galliott Studios is fishing off the wharf!  Sometimes we catch Mackerel, Smelt or even a Cod! But more often then not we catch Connors and Sculpin. For those of you that don’t know what a sculpin is, we have added a picture below. As one of the locals says “they wont win a beauty pageant” but we think there so ugly there almost beautiful!

In fact, Jennifer loves them so much she might be on a new artistic kick! Here she is making her very own clay sculpins!    

New Wharf!

It’s occurred to us that we never posted any pictures of the finished wharf,

so here they are! Also, we happily have internet hooked up for the season, so we should be better at updating you on all the fun stuff that’s happening!

 

As you can see in the picture, the fellas got a little 

excited about the wharf building and have extended ut out just a bit more! This is a great little platform for serving coffee to the morning kayakers! We’ll be adding a bell and a sign that will say “Ring for coffee!”