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 $35.

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
$35

* 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.

*If you are renewing, you don't need to sign up again.

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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.

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Painters Guild
GISS Scholarship Student

The Salt Spring Island Painters Guild Scholarship is awarded annually. The successful candidate is selected based on submissions from students of the graduating class of Gulf Islands Secondary School.

Our goal is to provide the recipients with financial assistance as they embark on post-secondary education with a focus in fine arts.

The 2026 scholarship has been awarded to Oscar Harlow Scaia.

Oscar Harlow Scaia (b. 2009) is an acrylic painter whose aesthetic is stylized and vibrant. Inspired by the combination of real and surreal, he experiments with colour and texture in unique ways, depicting memories and moments in dreamscapes.