The Gallery at L.E. Shore is pleased to present Robin Kingsburgh and Maija Zemitis for the month of November 2026.
Our collaborative exhibition invites viewers into a space of serenity, shaped by the quiet beauty and rhythms of the natural world. In contrast to the overwhelming pace of urban and technological life, our work offers a meditative refuge: an opportunity to transcend the noise of everyday existence and reconnect with something more timeless and grounding.
Drawing inspiration from the forms, textures and patterns found in nature, we explore how these elements can foster stillness, reflection and a deeper sense of presence. Nature, we believe, speaks a universal language. One that reminds us of our shared humanity and our place within the greater flow of life. As artists, we seek to nurture an ethic of care for the earth, for one another and for future generations.
Kingsbrugh | Zemitis
Exhibit Schedule
Opens: November 7, 2026
Grand Reception: November 7 | 2-4pm | All welcome!
Artist Talk: November 28 | 2pm | Registration Required
Closes: December 2 at 2pm
The Gallery is a busy multi-use space and is often booked for private events and library and gallery programming. Drop ins are welcome during our open hours, but we encourage patrons to call 519-599-3681 before visiting to ensure The Gallery is available for walkthroughs.
Robin Kingsburgh
Process-driven, my work tends to explore notions of geometry, and looks for the fine balance between order and chaos. Although I am a trained scientist, my artwork does not often draw directly from science. Rather my scientific training comes through in an unconscious way, where geometric motifs emerge or are imposed. I am spontaneously drawn to them in nature. I feel geometry is an ideal that humans impose on the world: there is no perfect square, nor perfect circle. A square rendered by the human hand becomes imperfect, and for me, beauty lies in imperfection.
Recent works draw inspiration from found geometries and rhythms of the Bruce Peninsula. The process of making has deepened my awareness and connection to the natural world. My digital work renders simple, overlooked patterns in nature into an expansive chromatic palette, printed at larger-than-life scales. These captivating rhythmic forms draw attention to the nominally unremarkable. The ‘Birch bark collage’ series presents a meditation on presence. As time gradually reveals subtle colour and texture variations in found swatches of birch bark, we recognize how slowness allows us to truly see. My most recent ‘Sky spirits’ digital hybrid series explores the emergent forms that arise from imposing irregular geometries onto images of the natural world. In all my work I play with rhythmic notions; I look for that moment where chaos balances order – for me, that is a place of stillness.
About the Artist
Robin Kingsburgh (OSA) is a trained astronomer (PhD 1992, University College London) and painter. Her artistic education comes from the University of Toronto, as well as in the U.K. and France, and has paralleled her scientific development. She has longstanding interests in the intersections of art, science and education. She currently teaches Natural Science courses at York University. She has curated numerous exhibitions featuring artwork inspired by the ideas and methodologies of science. Robin has been an elected member of the Ontario Society of Artists since 2019. She is Past-President of the Colour Research Society of Canada, and a Project Team member of the Colour Literacy Project. She splits her time between Toronto and Sauble Beach, where she has a leased-land cottage on the lands of Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation #29, and finds the peaceful landscape an inspiring and motivational setting for her current work. She is grateful to the Chippewas of Saugeen as traditional keepers of the land.
Maija Zemitis
My art practice is rooted in exploration, discovery and a deep connection to the natural world. I am curious about materials and processes—what they can do, what is possible, and what can emerge when intention meets the unexpected. For me, making is as much about discovery as it is about creating an image or object.
I work across a variety of media and techniques, including airbrushing, collage, natural dyes, ecoprinting, photography, stitching and pleating. Although these approaches may appear diverse, they are connected by my interest in transformation. I transform materials, images and found or reclaimed elements, while allowing the inherent qualities of each material and process to influence the outcome. Natural dyeing and ecoprinting, for example, require both control and acceptance: colour, pattern and texture can be guided, but never completely predicted. It is often in the reveal that I experience the greatest sense of surprise and discovery.
My relationship with the natural world is both visual and contemplative. Plants, stones, butterflies and naturally derived pigments are recurring subjects and materials, offering ways to explore beauty, fragility, connection and change. The process of making often becomes meditative, allowing me to enter a space of quiet observation and response, where the work can evolve.
While my subject matter and techniques have evolved over time, I hope a recognizable personal language connects my work—a distinctive way of seeing, transforming and responding to the world around me. My Latvian-Canadian heritage is another thread within this practice, most deeply expressed in my Refugee Project, where memory, displacement and inherited identity come together through material and image.
About the Artist
Maija Zemitis is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist whose practice has developed from photography, printmaking, painting and collage into an exploration of fibre, textile and mixed media.
Her work incorporates natural dyes, eco-printing, stitching, pleating, airbrushing, digital photos and reclaimed materials, reflecting an ongoing curiosity about materials, processes and the possibilities they offer.
Zemitis received three years of intensive studio training at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art & Design, where she was awarded a diploma in 1977. Following her studies, she exhibited a series of drawings in a Montreal gallery. She subsequently earned a BFA in Fine Art with a minor in Art Education from Université du Québec à Montréal and pursued further studies in surface design and print at Ontario College of Art, as well as medical illustration.
Her work has been exhibited in Canada and internationally and is held in the permanent collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts as part of the Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Collection of Canadian Art. She is also represented in the Centre for Latvian Art in Cēsis, Latvia, and was included in Breaking Boundaries, a SAQA Virtual Gallery exhibition. Her inclusion in the Government of Canada's Artists in Canada database further reflects her professional standing.
Drawing on her Latvian-Canadian heritage, travels and enduring connection to the natural world, Zemitis continues to explore the relationship between material, image, place and memory.
Based in Ontario, Zemitis continues to develop a multidisciplinary practice that brings together traditional textile processes, natural materials and contemporary mixed media.
