Spring 2023 New Gallery Exhibitions!

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This exhibition of paintings by Diana Chabros explores forms of energy, cycles of life and death, and authentic relationships through story as a means to understand Chabros' interdependence with the land. Known to artists, biologists, photographers, tourism operators, ranchers and other locals as grasslands, to the Lakôta as maka tatanka, and to the nehiyaw/Cree as buffalo land or paskwâw mostos askiy, Saskatchewan’s southwest and its natural inhabitants are celebrated for their beauty and resiliency to survive under extremely harsh weather conditions. Through accelerated human intervention, the lives of these inhabitants are compromised to the point that even the soil has become a "species at risk."

From her home in Val Marie, a village on the cusp of Grasslands National Park, Diana documents, through paint, her dialogue with the area’s rich mix of cultures, stories, and resident beings. Moved by its power, subtle energy and sentience as a biological entity, she explores her interdependence with the land and the human impacts conferred upon it. 

Informed by research and practice within the fields of Yoga, Buddhist and nehiyaw/Cree worldviews, she is careful to honour these traditions and her teachers. Her work has been exhibited at public galleries including the University of Regina Fifth Parallel Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Swift Current, the Mann Art Gallery, alternative spaces across southern Saskatchewan and in Kansas, USA.