The Community pARTners Gallery is a partnership between the Yorkton Public Library, the City of Yorkton and the Yorkton Arts Council that provides space in the library for art exhibitions.

The gallery is currently closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and will reopen once library services and exhibitions are permitted. In the meantime, we are pleased to present exhibits online.

As students head back to school with new limits due to Covid-19 restrictions, Morgan Sheppard shares with us her paintings created over the past few months.

About the artists:

Morgan Sheppard is a 13-year-old grade 8 student at St.Paul’s School in Yorkton. She began making art when she was a small child. Her daycare encouraged her creative process and she has been making art ever since.

Morgan’s inspiration comes from nature. She is drawn to photos of animals, trees, birds and flowers which she searches out online. She is self taught and experimental in her technique using acrylic paints on canvas as well as watercolour, Sharpie marker and simmer mister.  She will see paintings in art galleries or other public spaces and then go home and try to recreate what she saw by trial and error.

Her family is very supportive of her work with her mom always willing to buy paints, brushes and canvas and sometimes giving her ideas for new paintings. Both her younger brothers will often join her in her creative projects, working alongside her but often getting frustrated or distracted by other things.

Morgan is sure that painting will always be a part of her life. “It calms me down and helps me think” but she is not sure it is something she will pursue as a career.