The Gallery @ Ambrose

Ambrose University is proud to support artists with exhibitions in The Gallery on the second floor of the main building.

Current Exhibition

SHADOWLANDS  

Shadowlands explores the meeting place between light and shadow, in both the natural world and our inner lives. Through layered colour and intuitive gesture, these paintings reflect moments of uncertainty, waiting, and transition—times when clarity is not immediate, yet presence remains.
Dark area seem to dominate, yet light penetrates, shaped and revealed through shadow. Just as shadow in nature offers shelter and nuance, these paintings attend to emotional landscapes where meaning emerges gradually, through attention and patience. They invite an appreciation of beauty, light, and clarity without fear of the dark, the uncertain, or the confusing.

Shadowlands presents in-between spaces—places to linger, reflect, and pause. Rather than offering clear direction, the works suggest passage, stillness, and quiet refuge. Even when the path is not fully lit, light continues to move within the unknown.

About The Artist

Alberta born, Cindy Bouwers is an artist and designer. After obtaining her BFA in Visual Communication Design and building a career as an accomplished graphic designer, as well as teaching design courses at the Alberta College of Art and Design, she decided to explore a long buried desire to paint and pursue her own artwork. This has led her along a new creative path and resulted in a rich body of work informed by her design background. Cindy has been juried into a number of group shows in Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto and in 2019 won the Duggan Landscape Award presented by the Society of Canadian Artists for her landscape painting titled Gust and Flurry. A highlight of 2020, Of a Certain Age, was presented at the Leighton Art Centre along with Jean Pederson. Cindy is a juried, active member of the Calgary Artist's Society and the Riverview Artists Group.