The Gallery - Wolseley & Surrounding Area

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The Gallery - Wolseley & Surrounding Area Various artisans display their work. We also offer classes in various areas including classes for kids and adults We take cash and cheques only.

From birdhouses, paintings, jewellery, knitting and crocheting, quilts, local authors, pottery to name only a few items we have on display.

10/13/2026

NEW HOURS

Wednesday through Saturday
11 to 4

Beverly dropped into the Wolseley Gallery with more of her beautiful and very popular tatting jewelry. Tatting is a art ...
10/11/2026

Beverly dropped into the Wolseley Gallery with more of her beautiful and very popular tatting jewelry. Tatting is a art form rarely seen these days and the Gallery is lucky to be able to showcase it.

Deanna has brought in more of her cross stitch, including these lovely gingham blankets, so this post is on the history...
10/10/2026

Deanna has brought in more of her cross stitch, including these lovely gingham blankets, so this post is on the history of gingham.
When you think of gingham, you think of a checkered material, but the word gingham actually means ‘ stripes’. It comes from the Malayan word ‘ genggang’, and dates back to the early 1600’s when it was made in Malaysia, Indonesia and India, and was a striped material.
It gradually started being imported to Europe. Then in the mid 18th century, mills in England and the US began producing it with the checkered design. It was valued for being inexpensive, durable, reversible and breathable. And was popular for everyday practical items like aprons, tablecloths and durable work and farm dresses for women.
It gained massive visibility when Judy Garland wore a blue and white gingham pinafore as Dorothy, in the 1939 movie the ‘ Wizard of Oz’.
In 1959, Brigitte Bardot chose pink and white gingham for her wedding dress, which resulted in a massive fashion craze and a temporary fabric shortage in France.
Today gingham still remains popular for fashion and home decor. 😍

Here’s some more of our great variety of paintings here at the Wolseley Gallery
10/07/2026

Here’s some more of our great variety of paintings here at the Wolseley Gallery

Usually galleries have lots of paintings, so this post is about the history of paintings. The oldest known paintings are...
10/07/2026

Usually galleries have lots of paintings, so this post is about the history of paintings. The oldest known paintings are more than 40,000 to 60,000 years old. A drawing of a wild pig was found in an ancient cave in Indonesia in 2021. It is recognized as the world’s oldest known example of art, atleast 43,900 years old. Early humans used charcoal and clay to draw their pictures on cave walls.
Since that time , pictures have been painted all over the world, with different countries often having their own styles and techniques.
Watercolours, acrylics, oil, pencil, alcohol inks, pastels, hot wax, gouache, tempura, enamel, and digital art are just of the mediums available to artists today.
The most expensive painting ever sold was Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘ Salvator Mundi ‘- it went for $450.3 million in 2017!! Leonardo died in 1519, bet he never thought his painting would be so valuable!
On the other hand, another Italian artist in 2019 used silver duct tape to tape a banana to a white wall and it became a instant sensation and was praised for its inventiveness 🫪 A version of it was sold in New York in 2024 for $6.2 million 😵‍💫( don’t think it was the same banana after 4 years!)
A strip of duct tape and a banana for 6.2 million! For that amount you could probably buy the banana plantation and the duct tape factory. 🤔
Well we don’t have any duct tape or bananas for sale here at the Wolseley Gallery, but we do have a variety of lovely painting in different mediums.
( wonder if we had a painting class involving duct tape and bananas if we would get many people for the class?)

Well fresh from the Crochet Critter farm is Blossom the Cow, who has come to join the menagerie at the Wolseley Gallery....
10/05/2026

Well fresh from the Crochet Critter farm is Blossom the Cow, who has come to join the menagerie at the Wolseley Gallery.
Blossom stands about 18 inches tall, has the cutest multicoloured toes ( on her hooves) , and flowers on her front hooves. With sunflowers on her head, and her bright multi colored dress she definitely is the best dressed cow in the herd🥰

Giddy the porch Goose, is ready for fall and Christmas shopping. (Outfits available for sale at the gallery)CURRENT OPEN...
09/30/2026

Giddy the porch Goose, is ready for fall and Christmas shopping. (Outfits available for sale at the gallery)
CURRENT OPEN HOURS
Tues to Friday 11 to 4

Carol K. was at the Wolseley Gallery today with 2 more of her Crocheted Critters. I wish you could have seen them but t...
09/29/2026

Carol K. was at the Wolseley Gallery today with 2 more of her Crocheted Critters. I wish you could have seen them but they sold in the first 15 minutes!🥰

09/29/2026

Donna Dares you to read Blueberry Blunder by Amanda Flower, another book in the Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series.

I find this series both interesting and entertaining. Some of Jethro the pig’s antics are just hilarious!

This story has a special twist that has me wondering what will happen next! I love it when a book makes you want to keep reading the next one in the series, don’t you?

09/29/2026

Today I want to tell you a little about how I arrive at the dates, attributions, origins and values I give to the objects we find.

The first thing I do is photograph the most obvious details: marks, construction, materials, wear, fittings, decoration, anything that might provide a clue. I then run those images through several AI programs — usually Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude.

If their answers are broadly similar, I move on. If they disagree, things become more interesting: I give each program the others’ conclusions and ask them to challenge them.

Sometimes the reactions are quite funny. ChatGPT, usually the least patient of the three, is perfectly happy to criticize my theories and occasionally seems to take disagreement almost personally. To be fair, it is also the program I have tried hardest to “train” to be direct and critical with me. The problem is that, once I make a decision, it can suddenly become very accommodating and find a way to justify almost anything I have decided — which is precisely why I don’t trust it blindly.

Once I have extracted the information that seems most credible, the real research begins: antique dealers’ archives, museum collections, auction records, image databases, old catalogues, specialist websites and reference material.

This is also where personal knowledge becomes important — in my case, my background in architecture and art history, being European, and simply having spent much of my life looking at old things. AI is useful, but it does not replace experience. It gives you clues; you still have to know which clues make sense.

Once an object is reasonably well defined in terms of date, origin and use, I go back to AI and ask it to help search for comparable sales from recent years.
And this is where you have to laugh.

Prices for apparently similar objects can range from a few dollars to several hundred. One of the most important things is to specify that you want sold prices, not asking prices. We all know that everyone likes to believe there is a hidden treasure somewhere in the house.

So this is really just a small warning about identification apps and instant AI valuations. Many people use them — including customers in our shop — and there is nothing wrong with that, provided they are used cm grano salis: with a grain of salt.

As a starting point, they can be very useful. But if the object appears to be important, unusual or potentially valuable, it is worth doing considerably more research.

And then, of course, the market occasionally makes fools of all of us.
That biscuit jar we might have thrown away without a second glance turns out to be highly desirable to a very specific group of collectors.

The difficult part is not discovering that the collectors exist.
The difficult part is getting one of them to walk through our door in Saskatchewan.

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Wolseley, SK

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Tuesday 11am - 4am
Wednesday 11am - 4pm
Thursday 11am - 4pm
Friday 11am - 4pm

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+13066982026

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