Gallery On The Lake In Buckhorn Will Close For Good This Week

Gallery On The Lake in Buckhorn will close for good on Friday.

Photo courtesy of Gallery On The Lake.

The Gallery was opened in 1983 by the late artist Edwin Mathews and printed and sold pieces.

After a successful decade in operation, two new owners took over and closed the gallery in 1997.

Esther Inglis and her husband Alan Hitchon purchased the site in 2000, and re-opened the Gallery on The Lake in 2002.

The Gallery became one of the country’s largest privately owned retail art galleries in the years it was operated by Inglis and Hitchon. They sought to showcase the works of artists from across Canada, ranging from sculptors, woodturners, jewellers and glass-blowers.

Inglis estimates that more than 250 artists were featured at the lakefront gallery during its two-decade run.

The property the Gallery sits on spans 4.5-acres. The property along with the 15,000-square-foot gallery building and 5,000-square-foot private residence, was purchased for a total of $2.8 million in late November.

The buyer will not be continuing The Gallery on The Lake.

The Gallery will remain open by appointment only from Monday to Friday.

An ongoing closing sale is offering discounted prices on artworks from 10 to 50 per cent and can be found on galleryonthelake.com.

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