Gathie Falk, North Shore Roses, 1992

Falk’s six decade career brought a fundamental groundwork for many contemporary Canadian artists. Painter, sculptor, ceramicist, performer, Falk revealed the extraordinary embedded in everyday life: roses, shoes, benches, fruit, clouds; her work bridged the domestic and the surreal, the intimate and the mythic. 

North Shore Roses (1992) embodies Falk’s lifelong interest with memory, ritual, and narrative. The work merges observed detail with imaginative space, fusing the real and the dreamlike qualities, assembling visual fragments and layered surfaces. 

Gathie Falk passed in 2025 at the age of 97. 

The works of Russna Kaur, Elizabeth McIntosh and Gathie Falk have been brought together in the 2026 Spring Portfolio to consider the intersections across generations through mentorship, influence, and time.  Each limited edition in this release embodies a distinctive approach to making and examines the lived and inherited relationships that have helped shape it.  

Falk’s influence on Kaur is both personal and symbolic. The Gathie Falk Visual Arts Scholarship, which Kaur received in 2019, connected her to Falk’s legacy at a pivotal moment in her formation as an artist. Living in Richmond, B.C., Kaur regularly encountered Falk’s public artworks—quietly absorbing their presence, their humour and their reverence for the ordinary. Through proximity, recognition, and lineage, Falk’s work became an influence of the landscape which Kaur has called home. 

Together, this collection invites us to consider how knowledge is shared across generations through shared practices, conversations, inherited ideas, and the unfolding of time. 

Gathie Falk is represented by Equinox Gallery