Welcome to Five Island Art Gallery!

Tors Cove is a community that is not easily forgotten once seen.

The community is nestled in a bowl like setting that serves as an introduction to European settlement dating back to the fifteenth century. First it was the Portuguese and the Spanish. Then came the English and the Irish. The coastline also saw French, American, Dutch and English warships vie for possession of its valuable cod fishery leaving behind the haunted hulls and rusted cannons of many a mortal encounter.

Today Tors Cove attracts a milder form of adventurer. Along with campers, sailors and hikers, international and national artists have also felt its magnetic pull. Tors Cove history, landscape and casual lifestyle lends itself to a creative milieu that is hard to find in the modern world.

The newly opened Five Island Art Gallery is but an extension of what the area has to offer. It is based in an old two room schoolhouse that provides the perfect venue for the display of original local art. The rooms are spacious with ten foot ceilings and a minimal amount of furniture, giving the patron lots of room to view the unique artwork. The ambience of the old schoolhouse is still retained as the original chaulkboards, hardwood floors, architecture and 238 window panes in the front facade will attest to. It remains the only one of its kind still standing on the Irish Loop.

While Newfoundland and Labrador has attracted many artists from mainland Canada, the United States and Europe, provincial artists have often made their own mark on the international art scene. Many well known names have produced bodies of work that hang on corporate, commercial and private walls all over the world. But it is the oceanic sized art scene in this province that forms the raison d’être for this new gallery.

New and emerging artists in this province have proven themselves to be just as creative and novel as the ones who have gone before them. And it is for that reason the Five Island Art Gallery presents itself as a medium for this new wave of energetic artists. Not only will the Gallery offer original watercolours, acrylic and oil paintings but will also present uniquely designed hooked mats done by Newfoundland artists who take the traditional form into a new and creative realm.

The Five Island Art Gallery is a must visit for one and all.