FROM RUSSIA With Love Art with a mission BY CATHERINE ROBERTS
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inding a good art gallery is like finding a good bookstore–not a chain bookstore, but an independent bookstore that you tend to stumble upon while looking for something else. Instantly, you know it’s a place you’ll come back to again and again. It’s cozy, charming and often filled with a friendly but eccentric staff. That’s the exactly what Chancery Art Gallery is like. Located along a tiny walkway lined with interlocking red brick, with an entrance through a wrought iron gate, the Chancery Art Gallery is housed in a two-storey 19th century building, filled with an old world elegance. There’s a hardwood floor; high, embossed tin ceiling; and minimal furniture: a rocking chair, wooden pew, two wooden end tables, classic wooden-leather armchair, and grand piano. The paintings, lining the white walls, have a definite impressionist and surrealist feel. And, in keeping with the spirit of the building (which was
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