Welcome to the Salt Spring Island Painters Guild

The Painters Guild is a society promoting artistic expression and creativity on Salt Spring Island. We provide art classes for painting and drawing, and activities for our members to collaborate in developing their skills techniques.

We share our art with our community through exhibitions and displays at several venues each year.

The only prerequisite to join us is a desire to draw and paint. All levels are welcome.

Our annual membership fee is $30.

Activities

Weekly Workshops

Life Drawing / Portraiture

Urban Sketching

Plein Air Painting

Shows

Major Annual Show

ArtSpring Lobby Shows

Country Grocer Cafe

Lady Minto Hospital

Annual Membership
$30

* Memberships are for an annual term that begins from the date of purchase. A notification will be sent twenty days in advance of the following year’s renewal reminding members to renew at that time.

Join or Renew

Volunteering with the Painters Guild

Volunteering in your community provides a lot of benefits - the joy in knowing you are helping, providing learning opportunities, as well as connecting with others with similar interests.

Community groups, like our local Painters Guild, would not happen without the commitment of our valued volunteers. From setting up art shows, to creating the teaching programs, to assisting run the guild, we all have a role we can play. And many hands make less work!

Do you have some experience or skills with website maintenance, accounting, Square, spreadsheets like Excel or Google, event planning or social media? We would love to hear from you.

Volunteer

Student Scholarship

Each year we award a scholarship of $1000 to a GISS graduating student to further their studies in art.

The 2025 recipient is Madeleine Dagenais.

"I was overjoyed to receive the Painter's Guild scholarship in June 2025. I’ve always loved making art, ever since I was six; it's a vital part of my soul, a piece of my being I cannot live without. I love learning about art, I’m like a dragon with my hoard; using new mediums, experimenting with styles, with techniques, I can never learn enough.

When I make art I am drawn to the feeling of being haunted, haunted by something you can’t ever quite separate from yourself, be that good or bad. I express this through my paintings, the thick brushstrokes and heavy coating of paint. I want to feel the texture, I want the painting to leap out at me.”