Imaginarium – Don Monet, Beth Shepherd & Sarah Wayne

Welcome to Imaginarium — a space where memory, myth, and whimsy collide. Each work in this exhibition offers a doorway into a world just slightly askew from our own, where the familiar transforms into the fantastical. Imagination reshapes the everyday, inviting curiosity, reflection, and a quiet sense of wonder.

Don Monet(link is external) focuses his practice on landscape, photo-collage, and acrylic painting on birch plywood. Through photo-collage and acrylic paint, he creates sequences of fractured photos which are then unified through paint and traditional landscape techniques. Co-Founder and director of Cube Gallery, Ottawa (2005-present), Don has organized dozens of thematic group exhibitions and solo shows and provided a venue for hundreds of artists.

Beth Shepherd(link opens email application) is an Ottawa-based artist working in printmaking, photography, video, and text. Situated at the intersection of ecology, animal advocacy, and ecocritical art history, her multi-year art-research projects explore the non-human world and humanity’s impacts on it. In this exhibition, the artist imagines a garden far beyond.

Sarah Wayne is an acrylic painter and mixed media artist creating works focused on abstracted figures and landscapes. An accountant by profession, Wayne brings a structured and disciplined approach to her art. Her bold colour palette and emphasis on shape combine to create stimulating pieces that invite the eye to linger.

ASP Gallery, Stafford Studios
Nepean Creative Arts Centre, Unit 1
35 Stafford Road, Bells Corners
Free admission

The gallery is open to the public by appointment only: cgc@ottawa.ca