Featuring
High Quality Contemporary and Historical Fine Art
The Willock
and Sax Gallery celebrates the arts and natural grandeur of the
environment. We strive to cultivate aesthetic appreciation and concern
for our world by offering an extraordinary collection of fine art. The
Willock and Sax Gallery features a broad spectrum of emerging,
mid-career and established North American artists as a counterpoint to
the experience of being in a Canadian National Park. We showcase
contemporary and historical artists. Many of the artists we represent
have received national and international recognition for their quality
artwork. We feature original paintings, sculpture, black and white
photography, stone lithographs, folk art, first-nations artwork,
drawings, etchings, lino-block prints, ceramics, designer jewellery,
turned-wood work, handcrafted knives, and sculpted, stained, and
hand-blown art glass.
The gallery
offers many services - individual purchase plans, commissions,
installation, corporate and home consultation.
The Gallery
is owned and operated by Thomas Willock and Susan Sax-Willock.
Collectively they bring to the business over 50 years of experience from
the cultural sector, commercial enterprises, and academic studies,
including Director of a Public Museum and Art Gallery, Director of a
Provincial Arts Service Organization for Visual Art, and academic
background in the history of art, design, and visual culture. The
Gallery was established in 1999 in Waterton Lakes National Park.
In 2007 we closed our shop in Waterton and have relocated to Banff
National Park. We are sad to leave Waterton; in turn we are
excited by the new opportunity in Banff.
We
do hope you will visit as often as you can.
Banff
- We have a view of Mount Rundle from our front windows on Bear Street
Both Tom and Susan are
Alberta raised and they are both graduates of the University of Alberta.
Tom did graduate work in Zoogeography (The Ecology and Zoogeography
of Fishes in the Missouri (Milk River) Drainage of Alberta) at Carleton University (1969), Ottawa and
Susan did a graduate degree in the History of Art, Design, and Visual
Culture through the
University of Alberta (National Potency:
Ritual and Action Code in United States Marine Corps Recruiting Posters
of the Vietnam Era) in 2004.
Tom is a respected black and white photographer.
He wrote A Prairie Coulee (Lone Pine Press, 1991), a book on the
natural history of a Southern Alberta coulee, which features his
photography. He
was a private museum consultant and a founding member of the Waterton
Natural History Association. Tom is a former President of Museums Alberta
(he also served on its Editorial Board and as its Treasurer). He
was a founding Trustee of The Heritage Community Foundation, currently
he is a member of its Patrons Council.
Tom started his
professional career at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in
Ottawa. After which, he conducted Wildlife Impact Studies, was a
Sessional Instructor in Wildlands Conservation at the Lethbridge
Community College and a Technician for the Department of Biological
Sciences at the University of Lethbridge. He was a professional wildlife
photographer and commercial photographer (including aerial and
industrial photography). As
a natural history photojournalist his landscape and wildlife photographs
have been widely published in both Europe and North America. Tom was Director of the Medicine Hat Museum and Art
Gallery for 20 years. 291
Film Company, Regina, Saskatchewan produced a film, entitled Waterton
Lakes National Park, with Tom in 2005-6.
The film is part of their Landscape as Muse Series for SCN
and Bravo TV.
Susan taught Art History at Augustana Faculty, University of
Alberta. She worked in commercial
and public galleries, acted as an editor and writer for "Museums
Review", and wrote a regular article on visual arts for
"Legacy, Alberta's Heritage Magazine". Susan is editor of the
Alberta Women's Archives Association newsletter, she wrote and
illustrated two children's activity books, and worked as a commercial
artist. Her fine art (primarily watercolor and mixed media) is in
private collections across Canada. She was the founding Executive
Director of Visual Arts Alberta Association (a provincial organization
for the visual arts). Susan is a founding member of the
Alberta Cultural Human Resources Steering Committee (now the Alberta
Cultural Action Network - ACAN), which deals with
issues relating to the cultural labour force in Alberta. She travelled
extensively across Canada, in England, the United States, Europe, and
with Canada World Youth to Colombia, S.A.
