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Exhibitions

2026
Reave Dennison: Tree Work Judith Williams: WATER / COLOUR
2025
Shayne Weston Abbott-Arcan et al: Nocturne
2024
Graham Landin: Tight Span Sergio Suárez: Aphelion Janine Dunn: cover the taken bone Maru Aponte: Salt Stains
2023
Tania Willard: Sensitized Nicole Ondre: Primes Robin Arseneault & Maura Doyle: IODAME Michael Drebert: Fresh Eyes
2022
Graham Landin: Triangle Beach

Artists
Maru Aponte
  • Graham Landin
  • Nicole Ondre
  • Tania Willard

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    Pale Fire
    They/ Them, 2024, 66" × 69.5" / 167.5cm × 176.5cm. Watercolour and gouache on canvas. Chapuzón de cielos naranjitos (Splash of orange skies), 2024, 66" × 69.5" / 167.5cm × 176.5cm. Watercolour and gouache on canvas. Tinto de verano (Summer red), 2024, 48” x 60" / 122cm × 152.5cm. Watercolour and gouache on canvas. Verde Tahití, 2023, 41” x 55”/ 100cm x 140cm. Watercolour on canvas. Light in August, 2024, 48" x 60" / 12cm x 150cm. Watercolour on canvas. Looking for Turtles, 2024, 84"x 72"/ 210cm x 180cm. Watercolour on canvas. Salt Stains, 2024, 72" x 84" / 180cm x 210cm. Watercolour on canvas. Maru Aponte, Las Islas, 2023, 84" x 72’ / 210cm x 180cm. Watercolour on canvas. Veronica, 2023. 37.5" x 103" / 95.25cm x 262cm. Watercolour on paper, Twin waterfalls, 2022, 162" x 24"/ 412cm x 61cm. Watercolour on paper. Red Beach, 2023, 12.5” x 10” / 32cm x 25.5cm. Watercolour on paper, pink mahogany frame. “Palmera Real”, 2023, 12.5" x 10" / 32cm x 25.5cm. Watercolour on paper, pink mahogany frame. Silver Sun, 2024, 4.5” x 8”/ 11.4cm x 20.3cm. Watercolour on paper, pink mahogany frame. Pink Tides, 2024, 6” x 8” / 15.2cm x 20.3cm. Watercolour on paper, pink mahogany frame.


    Maru Aponte


    Bio


    Maru Aponte is a Puerto Rican artist working in Canada and the USA. Her practice explores the ecological, cultural and psychological aspects of water. New paintings begin in Puerto Rico, where she sketches en plein air on small scraps of paper. In her studio she scales up details of these images, highlighting the saturated colour and vivid light that the island expresses. Her recent installation The Sea is a House (2025), which was created and presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, explores memory as a water-based phenomenon.

    Aponte graduated with an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, BC (2023) and a BFA from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (2021). She recently completed residencies at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2025); Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, ME (2024); and Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, BC (2023).

    Exhibitions


    Salt Stains, 2024

    Available Works

    Press


    Khadra Ahmed, “Maru Aponte on Pushing the Boundaries of Watercolour” . Foyer, May 8, 2025.

    Rhys Edwards, “The Earthen Ocean: Maru Aponte at Pale Fire” for Peripheral Review

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