What’s New
Welcome to the What’s New section of our site. Here you’ll find updates on recent exhibitions, upcoming events, public installations, and special projects, including a behind-the-scenes look at the documentary currently in development. We invite you to check back regularly for the latest news from the Geert Maas Sculpture Gardens and Gallery.
ONGOING PROJECT SHORT VIDEOS AND PODCASTS can be viewed here.
On July 5 and 6, 2025: GEERT MAAS ART WAS EXHIBITED from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m. with snacks and refreshments at 250 Reynolds Road in Kelowna. Harp Music by Natalie Wood and the Kelowna Sketching Club was also active during the event.
The Geert Maas Sculpture
Gardens and Gallery are in NOVEMBER OPEN AT IRREGULAR HOURS AND BY APPOINTMENT. Contact us Call 250-860-7012 or Email geertandelly@gmail.com or Email maas@geertmaas.org Groups are also welcome.
The Gallery features many new works including dry needle point / hand coloured etchings, serigraphy, and wax cut art.
Three new bronze medals: Chateau d’Orquevaux, France – Church – and Waterfalls d’Orquevaux, France.
The PRESIDENT’S AWARD by Geert Maas for the newly formed ASSOCIATION OF INTERIOR REALTORS, the largest real estate organization in British Columbia, is made of cast bronze on a black marble base. Bronze is a venerated material, regarded as the highest form of sculpture from antiquity on for its value and durability.
From February 10th till 24th, 2020, Geert and Elly were at Chateau d’Orquevaux in France as ‘artists-in-residence’, selected from 1000 applicants. Our group consisted of 12 artists from different countries including Australia, Canada, Bulgaria, Italy, France, and the U.S.A. Geert was the only sculptor of this group. He designed three medals in clay and made the molds there. Elly prepared the visual presentation of the entire process from clay design, mold making and wax preparation to finished bronze medals for the ‘open studio’ day for the public in Orquevaux. Back in the studio in Kelowna, Geert continued the medal making process with the wax preparations of each medal to be rough cast in bronze at the local foundry. Geert has now finished the medals including the patination.
October 21, 2018 Unveiling of Geert Maas painting STATIONARY OBSERVERS, acrylic and lacquer on canvas, in Kozoji New Town of Kasugai, Japan
Ongoing exhibition
"Silhouettes In Stainless Steel"
including sculptures,
paintings, wall sculptures and medals.
Geert Maas and his wife Elly
established the internationally acclaimed Geert Maas Sculpture Gardens and Gallery
in the early 1980s in Kelowna featuring one of the largest collections of
bronze sculptures in Canada. His work is represented in collections in 34
countries.
MADD Monument: In March 2010, Geert was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award
during the annual Okanagan Arts Awards. He was selected from
six nominees in that category.
Bronze medallions of the SPIRIT OF KELOWNA community public
art project have been permanently installed in two special earth rammed walls
in the entrance foyer of Kelowna City Hall involving hundreds of residents
Photo albums about this commission can be viewed at Geert Maas Sculpture Gardens and Gallery.
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L I N K S
Geert Maas Medals at Medals4Trade
People’s Power, Bronze
Parent and Child Playing
Landscape, Multimedia
A Selection of
Free-Standing Sculptures in Stainless Steel.
Watching Sailboats
Family Tree Wall Sculpture
Brushed Stainless Steel on Wood
Geert Maas has created a commissioned sculptural donor
structure to recognize donors to the Kelowna YMCA-YWCA Capital Expansion
Campaign. The monument located in the main lobby of the Kelowna Family YMCA-YWCA
in the Rutland neighbourhood was unveiled on September 7 together with the
expanded facility. Total
height of this stainless steel artwork is 3.66 m. (12 ft). The sculptural
structure has been decorated with mirror finished stainless steel imagery of
running youth and faces as well as the logos and core values of the Y: Caring,
Honesty, Respect, and Responsibility. Four panels that are part of the monument
have given ample space for the extensive engravings.
A
sculpture in stainless steel and bronze commissioned by MADD Canada –
Mothers Against Drunk Driving has been installed. The Monument dedicated to leaving a legacy to
victims of impaired driving, and to educating the public about the dangers of
impaired driving is located in Central Park, Burnaby, B.C.,
intersection Kingsway, and Boundary Road, Vancouver.
Elly and Geert
Maas in front of the medals wall in Kelowna City Hall
A
Monograph entitled The Spirit of Kelowna – A Celebration of Art &
Community
a full-colour 128 page book, was published by Okanagan Institute to
showcase the medals, and the spirit and history of the project. It offers a
philosophical context for considering art in community, presents artists’
thoughts on their experiences, and each medallion is faithfully photographed by
well-regarded art photographer Yuri Akuney.