"All At Once" 2026 Spring Collection
There are moments in life when everything is felt at the same time — joy threaded through grief, love amplified by loss, stillness charged with motion. These are not contradictions. They are the full spectrum of being alive.
"All At Once" is a collection about the intensity of a single emotion and the way it floods the entire body. Not gradually. Not gently. All at once.
Each piece is built through layers — colour pressed into colour, texture emerging beneath and beyond the surface, flowers finding form through the chaos. The work does not ask you to be still. It asks you to feel everything you have been quietly carrying and let it exist, fully, without apology.
This is what colour can do that words cannot — arrive completely, without warning, and change the temperature of the room.
— Ryley James
"I paint what I feel. Each canvas holds a story, an energy—channelled through colour, movement and texture. Somewhere out there, someone was always meant to find it." -Ryley James
2026 Shows & Events
BMFA 2026 Juried Art Show
April 17th to June 12th
The juried art show, now in it's 46th year, highlights and promotes artistic excellence in the Visual arts in South Georgian Bay.
Collingwood Art Market
June 27th - 10AM to 4PM
One of the largest outdoor art markets in the South Georgian Bay region! The Collingwood Art Market is a celebration of creativity and originality across all areas of artistic creation!
Muskoka Arts & Crafts Festival
July 17th to 19th
This three-day event brings together 200 of Canada’s most talented artisans, showcasing a diverse array of handcrafted art, from stunning sculptures and intricate jewelry to beautiful textiles and captivating paintings.
Kempenfest Arts & Crafts Festival
July 31st to August 3rd
Kempenfest is one of Ontario's largest outdoor arts, crafts, and music festivals, held along Barrie's waterfront! This massive four-day event features roughly 300 juried artisans, antiques, live music and so much more!
Meet the Artist
Ryley James is a self-taught intuitive abstract artist and empath newly based in Innisfil Beach, Ontario. Working in mixed media on canvas, she translates emotion, energy and the unseen into layered works of colour, movement and texture. Ryley believes every piece she creates holds a story meant for one specific person — that art, like energy, always finds its way to where it belongs. Her work invites you not just to look, but to feel.
Explore Past Collections
Enchanted Meadows Collection
2024
Some places carry an energy you can feel before you fully arrive. This collection began on the Cabot Trail — in the wild, living landscape of Cape Breton, where the meadows hold something ancient and mischievous in them. I found a book about the fairies of that land and I felt immediately, completely recognised by it. That playful, feisty, untameable spirit hidden in the natural world — I had always known it lived in me too. These pieces are not just inspired by that landscape. They carry its energy. The magic of pressed flowers embedded in layers of paint and texture. The feeling of stumbling into something secret and sacred. The joy of a world that is wilder and more alive than it first appears. Somewhere, someone will find this collection and feel that same recognition. Like the meadow was always theirs to discover.
Day Dream Collection
2023
There are questions we cannot answer in our waking life. They live somewhere deeper — in the space between sleep and consciousness, between this world and whatever comes next. This collection was born from a feeling I couldn’t name. An awareness that when we close our eyes, something moves through us that has nothing to do with rest. The subconscious does not sleep. It travels. It searches. It receives. Each piece in this series holds the energy of that in-between place — the thread that connects what happens to us in sleep and what awaits us beyond this life. I felt it before I could explain it, and I painted it before I could say it. If one of these pieces stops you — if something in it feels strangely familiar — trust that feeling. It was always meant for you.
Feminine Power Collection
2023
There is a strength that doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t need to. It simply endures — and in the enduring, it becomes unstoppable. This collection is for every woman who has carried more than anyone could see. Whose power has lived quietly, internally, in the spaces between what she shows the world and what she actually holds. I felt this energy before I painted it. The divine feminine — not soft, not fragile, but rooted. Expansive. Luminous in the dark. Each piece in this series was built through layers, the way a woman builds herself — through time, through experience, through the accumulated weight of everything she has survived and chosen and become. These works were made for the woman who will stand in front of one and feel, without needing an explanation, that it was painted for her. Because it was.
