Soundscapes, an exhibition featuring new work by Jane Adams.

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 7, 6–8 p.m.
Meet the Artists: Saturday, May 9, 2–3 p.m.
Tour for Mandarin Speakers: Saturday, May 16, 3 p.m.

The Ferry Building Gallery and the West Vancouver Memorial Library are proud to present Soundscapes, an exhibition featuring new work by Jane Adams.

In an era shaped by an ever-expanding digital landscape of shifting influences and opinions, Jane Adams offers a deeply personal and reflective body of work grounded in memory, music, and lived experience.

Her latest paintings draw from intimate reflections on home and studio life, as well as her years collaborating with her mother, the distinguished Canadian composer Jean Coulthard (OC, OBC). Together, they created illustrated music books for Royal Conservatory students and developed costuming for Coulthard’s opera adaptation of The Return of the Native. These formative collaborations continue to resonate within the artist’s practice.

The exhibition features Image Astrale I and Image Astrale II, abstract works inspired by Coulthard’s piano composition of the same name. Described musically as a “tone cluster,” the composition evokes vastness and layered intensity — qualities that the artist translates into painterly form. The canvases become meditations on the immensity of the universe, rendering the incomprehensible through tonal abstraction.

As a mature artist, this exploration of cosmic scale and musical structure represents a natural progression in her practice. Additional works in the exhibition further reflect her engagement with musical ideas drawn from both personal history and the broader canon of composers. Through abstraction, memory, and sound translated into visual form, Jane invites viewers into a contemplative space where music and painting converge.

Soundscapes is presented in partnership with the West Vancouver Memorial Library. The exhibition will be on display in the library exhibition space and at the Ferry Building Gallery.