![If you always wanted to experience the kind of epiphany available through fine art then don't miss the latest offerings from Keisha Treber and Robin Wiltse at the Revelstoke Art Gallery which opened with their new shows on Friday, September 13. David F. Rooney photo](https://legacy.revelstokecurrent.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/online-front-art-show-sep-2013.jpg)
By David F. Rooney
If you always wanted to experience the kind of epiphany available through fine art then don’t miss the latest offerings from Keisha Treber and Robin Wiltse at the Revelstoke Art Gallery which opened with their new shows on Friday, September 13.
Keisha Treber is one of the most prolific young artists from Revelstoke and her show, Nature at its Finest — A Celebration of Color, demonstrates her skill with a brush and a palette of paint and her productivity. Her paintings are, by turns glorious and haunting anthems to Nature.
The second show of note is Robin Wiltse’s exhibition, entitled Felted Works. Robin is a fabric artist in Kaslo and her work has to be seen to believed. Her works are magnificent tapestries made of hand-felted wool. Some, like her work Birch Trees and Strata, are relatively small; others like her magnificent Redwing Blackbirds and Cat Tails are riveting pieces of art.
The third show is my own Trail of the Bear. For the most part they are workmanlike and, in three instances frankly a little surreal. The main piece for the show, the 6′ x 4′ painting Where the Bears Are, met with a sad fate when I was loading it in the back of SUV. It got hung up on a box in and the top stretcher bar and two vertical struts in the center broke, with the knife-like point of the stretcher bar piercing the canvas and leaving a 5-inch long L-shaped rip in the center. Poof! Three months of work went out the window!
Fellow painter Margo Goodman suggested that I might be able to salvage it by cutting the canvas in two, then re-stretching the two pieces and framing them together. I can see what she’s getting but it won’t work because — as I feared — it would mean cutting a four-inch strip of canvas right down the middle of the painting. I’d essentially have repaint the entire painting to make it work and if I’m going to do that I might as well just by a new monster canvas and repaint it from scratch. And I will do that because my image of people dancing in Grizzly Plaza with its bear statues in the foreground and a star-lit Mount Macpherson in the background is too good to let go.
At any rate, it’s fair to say that two of the three shows on offer are magnificent and well worth seeing. The art gallery at 310 Wilson Street, just behind Days Inn, is open Tuesday through Saturday from 12 pm until 4 pm. For more information phone 250-814-0261 or send an e-mail to info@revelstokevisualarts.com.
In the meantime here are some images from the show that we hope you’ll enjoy:
![About 100 people attended last Friday's opening of three shows at the Revelstoke Art Gallery. With paintings by Keisha Treber, myself and Kaslo artist Robin Wiltse there was something for art lovers of every age. David F. Rooney photo](https://legacy.revelstokecurrent.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/online-art-show-sep-2013-11.jpg)
![Redwing Blackbirds and Cat Tails By Robin Wiltse Needle and Hand-Felted Wool](https://legacy.revelstokecurrent.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/online-art-show-sep-2013-01.jpg)
By Robin Wiltse
Needle and Hand-Felted Wool
![Birch and Strata By Robin Wiltse Needle and Hand-felted Wool](https://legacy.revelstokecurrent.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/online-art-show-sep-2013-02.jpg)
By Robin Wiltse
Needle and Hand-felted Wool
![Sunflowers in Fall By Robin Wiltse Needle and Hand-felted Wool](https://legacy.revelstokecurrent.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/online-art-show-sep-2013-03.jpg)
By Robin Wiltse
Needle and Hand-felted Wool
![Kaslo artist Robin Wiltse (right) talks with a gallery visitor about her spectacular needle and hand-fleted wool work, Redwing Blackbirds and Cat Tails, during the opening of her show at the Revelstoke Arts Gallery last Friday. David F. Rooney photo](https://legacy.revelstokecurrent.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/online-art-show-sep-2013-13.jpg)
![Rebirth By Keisha Treber Acrylic on Canvas](https://legacy.revelstokecurrent.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/online-art-show-sep-2013-04.jpg)
By Keisha Treber
Acrylic on Canvas
![Tomorrow's a New Day By Keisha Treber Acrylic on Canvas](https://legacy.revelstokecurrent.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/online-art-show-sep-2013-05.jpg)
By Keisha Treber
Acrylic on Canvas
![The Perfect Evening By Keisha Treber Acrylic on Canvas](https://legacy.revelstokecurrent.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/online-art-show-sep-2013-06.jpg)
By Keisha Treber
Acrylic on Canvas
![Sculptor Andrew Stacey chats with painter Keisha Treber at the opening on her show, Nature at It's Finest — A Celebration of Colour, at the Revelstoke Art Gallery. Keisha is well-known for her bold paintings and is one of the few artists in Revelstoke who makes her living as a full-time artist. David F. Rooney photo](https://legacy.revelstokecurrent.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/online-art-show-sep-2013-07.jpg)
![Ursa Major By David F. Rooney Acrylic on Canvas](https://legacy.revelstokecurrent.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/online-art-show-sep-2013-08.jpg)
By David F. Rooney
Acrylic on Canvas
![Bear's End By David F. Rooney Acrylic on Canvas](https://legacy.revelstokecurrent.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/online-art-show-sep-2013-09.jpg)
By David F. Rooney
Acrylic on Canvas
![Electric Bear By David F. Rooney Acrylic on Canvas](https://legacy.revelstokecurrent.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/online-art-show-sep-2013-10.jpg)
By David F. Rooney
Acrylic on Canvas