We Are The Songs of Weather - Christina Parker Gallery - St. John’s, Newfoundland
The exhibition will open with an artist reception on Friday 17 October from 6-8 pm, and continue until 8 November 2025.
Please visit this link for full information about the exhibit
https://christinaparkergallery.com/exhibition/alan-stein-we-are-the-songs-of-weather/
Ontario Society of Artists - Honouring Life Members
Exhibition opens 28 September 2025 and continues to 23 October 2025 at the Cedar Ridge Creative Centre in Scarborough, Ontario.
Pastel painting - The Harbour at Night, Newfoundland
Ten years ago we bought a beautiful old, 2 story, wood framed house on the Bonavista Peninsulas, in Old Bonaventure, Newfoundland, We loved the house and the location, the landscape of the area, and the ocean views of Trinity Bay,
I have been inspired by the harbours up and down the coast, but especially by our working harbour with it’s old buildings, wooden stages, fishing premises, the old cemetery, and the fishing boats of all sizes and colours which come and go, in and out of the harbour. Over the years I have made many on-site sketches and worked those up into paintings, combining different elements and views into an imagined, dreamlike landscape, sometimes visions at night, often with icebergs floating by, lit by the moon and stars.
It has been a busy year. I spent the winter in Sicily and Malta, sketching every day. This spring and summer I developed 20 of these sketches into pastels.
In the spring I spent each day in my Newfoundland studio, preparing the charcoal underpaintings.
Over the summer in the island studio on Georgian Bay I completed the pastels, celebrating the colours of the landscape and towns on these two Mediterranean islands.
This exhibition is titled Mediterraneo, and opens November 15, 2025 at the Roberts Gallery Toronto.
For more information and to see images please visit
On May 1, 2025 an exhibition of charcoal drawings by Alan Stein, RCA will open at Wasaga Beach Public Library. The charcoal drawings are from the successful multi-media performances last year at the Festival of the Sound and the Collingwood Music Festival.
In this exhibition Alan will present a series of original charcoal drawings and paintings highlighting real and imagined events from his grandparent’s lives, inspired by messages found on old family postcards. The exhibit is enhanced by reproductions of selected old photographs and the postcards themselves.
The images in this exhibit take us on a trip through time, from a young woman in St. Petersburg Russia during the Russian Revolution, and a young man in Lodz, Poland to the invasion of Poland, inside the Lodz ghetto, then immigration to Toronto and New York City, and a joyful marriage. How did they meet? What secrets were never told? What happened to the families left behind? We will never know but perhaps we can imagine. There were dreams of youth, tragedy, war, and finally love.
The performances featured renowned Canadian musicians performing an array of works to complement the narrative thread, including heart-warming Yiddish songs, profoundly moving children’s poems set to music, and stirring works by a variety of Jewish composers, and Yiddish narration of the postcards. Starring Andrea Ludwig, mezzo-soprano; James Campbell, clarinet; Jaclyn Grossman, soprano, Moshe Hammer, violin and Daniel Vnukowski, piano.
Alan will also present at Wayzgoose #47 Book Arts Fair, a celebration of the book arts to be held at Grimsby Public Art Gallery, April 26. Their 50th-Anniversary Exhibition will feature Alan’s handprinted work while an artist’s talk by Alan, titled “Bill Poole and the Founding of the Grimsby Public Art Gallery,” will take place on at 1 p.m.
