LONSDALE ART GALLERY

Wai Sedioe

November 16, 1984

Newsroom 985-2131

SECTION

Bernadette s gets a new home

TUCKED away beneath the cavernous walls of
Cisco’s on Lonsdale, lies an oasis of art — oils,
water colours, limited edition prints and exhibition
pottery.

Here at 4103-1200
Lonsdale is the new home of

Bernadette’s Galleries, which
Officially opened only a few

Joanne & Staff

invite you to our

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Open Sundays
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By CATHERINE McGHEE

weeks ago.

Formerly located at 2027
Lonsdale, across from Lon-
don Drugs, the gallery

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Oulgrew its former quarters
and now has the distinction
of being the North Shore's
largest, as well as newest art
gallery

Bernadette’s Galleries has
built is reputation on the sale

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of exquisite objets d'art by

local and international
artists
The new location has an

expanded display area which
enables the customer to
browse with ease. The at-
mosphere iw relaxed. The
spacious, air Conditioned set-
ting lends itself to the ap-
Ppreclahion of displayed art
The sott tones of the plush
carpeting enhance the feel of
light and spaciousness

Bernadette and her stat
understand that not everyone
Is an art expert and take the
time tO answer questions and
explain the difterent pieces
on display

Many fime touches have
been added to induce the
customer to take the time fo
acquaint themselves with the
art preces There are Shiding
backgrounds in light and
dark tones to. give the
customer an idea of how the
paintings will look on his or
her own wall Cushioned
Seating tS Seattered
throughout Co let people stop
and think about

what thes

see

Bernadette bohmson
became interested im the art
gallery business seven years

ago Opening her tirst gallery
ip Richmond. she moved toa
North tive years
ago A schoolteacher by pro
fesston

Vancouver

She taught anton her
native Singapore before mos

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of these tnends One thing
led to another and the vallers
soon expanded to include
limited edition prints, non
functional pottery and con
servation traming.

“‘One thing led
fo another and
the gallery soon
expanded to
include

limited edition
prints,
non-functional
pottery |
and conservation
framing”’

A large part of the gallery's
business isin the area of con-
servation traming and. Ber-
nadette’s husband Bill, takes
customers through the
workshop to explain the con-

sefvation process upon
request

Regular gallery hours are
Monday (to Saturday, 9 30

am to 6 0O pm, Friday nights
tt 9:00 pm and Sunday 12 30
to 6 00 pom

Thus

new ygatlery ois oa
delpyht to wander through
whether you intend on buy
My ot  yUst enyoy the

ambience

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