October 9 – December 20, 2026
Exhibition: ‘Between silence & Gesture’ – Stu Oxley
This exhibition presents a curated collection of works by Stu Oxley, a prominent Canadian painter and printmaker whose abstract language of marks, colour fields, and intuitive composition invites contemplative engagement. ‘Between Silence and Gesture’ explores Oxley’s enduring dialogue between the visible and the invisible – between the expressive energy of the painter’s hand and the quietude of the contemplative space it creates. Including new, never-before-exhibited works, the show will highlight his evolution in palette, spatial awareness, and emotional resonance. Through large scale paintings and monoprints, the exhibition investigates how abstraction can hold memory, atmosphere, and meaning without narration.
“My work begins in silence. It builds through gesture – through traces that are both intuitive and layered with history. Each mark is a search for something both familiar and elusive.” – Stu Oxley.
Stu Oxley’s paintings are deeply rooted in the Canadian and international traditions of abstraction, yet they remain uniquely personal. His use of colour, gesture, and surface accumulations elicits emotional and psychological space.
You are invited to meet the artist at an Artist Reception on Sunday October 18, 2026 from 2-4PM. Details can be found here.
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Meet Stu Oxley
Stu Oxley is a Canadian artist with a 30 year history of exhibitions in National and International, public and private galleries. Primarily working as a printmaker and painter, his practice is defined by a distinctive form of poetic abstraction involving evocative colour and exquisitely responsive mark marking.
As a Master Painter, Oxley has also made a very significant contribution editioning prints for numerous distinguished contemporary artists at Riverside Studio, the printshop he runs in Elora, Ontario.
Oxley earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Waterloo and has for the last fifteen years been an extremely supportive and effective instructor of art, teaching at notable post secondary art programs such as Georgian College and the University of Guelph.
Stu Oxley has realized twenty-six solo exhibitions of his artwork, including regular exhibitions at prominent art galleries such as Paul Kuhn Gallery in Calgary, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery in Vancouver, Mira Godard Gallery in Toronto and Jill George Gallery in London, England. Included in numerous private and public art collections such as the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Museum London, the Maclaren Art Centre, the Nickle Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Stu Oxley has also been awarded recognition with a Purchase Award by the Ernst and Young ‘Great Canadian Print Prize’. A significant high point in Stu Oxley’s exhibition history is a catalogued, international solo exhibition at the Naughton Gallery at Queen’s University in Belfast, Ireland.
