Lyse Deselliers solo exhibit features ‘The Food We Grow’

Ripening in place, Dave’s farm on the West Bench, by Lyse Deselliers (Richard McGuire Photo)

Penticton painter Lyse Deselliers has returned to The Art Gallery Osoyoos with a new solo show, The Food We Grow.” The show opened Wednesday, May 24, 2023 and it runs until June 14.

Deselliers, who was born in Quebec City, last had a solo exhibition at TAGO in April 2021, when the theme was water. She takes the themes seriously, and for this show about growing food, she interviews local farmers or prints accounts by them. It’s a feast for the mind as well as the eye.

“…We have been made aware in the past few years that where our food comes from is important,” she writes in an artistic statement about the show. “Supply chains and food security are words now often mentioned that speak to the importance of food and where food is grown.”

The exhibition, she says, is an ode to the farmers. Especially the family farm.

The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

It is located at 8713 Main St. in Osoyoos, B.C., just west of Town Hall.

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Author: Richard McGuire

Richard McGuire is an Osoyoos photographer who worked at the Osoyoos Times between 2012 and 2018, first as reporter and then as editor. He has a long career in journalism as well as research, communication and management at the House of Commons in Ottawa and in the federal government.