Come for the Douglas Haynes abstractions, stay for the chocolate distractions.

The Douglas Haynes exhibition at Virginia Christopher Fine Art remains up until the Twelfth of April - so you still have lots of time to take in this overview of his fifty years as an abstractionist.

Visiting Vancouver lensman Jim Clare, presently preparing his own photographic exhibit, considers Douglas Hayes 'a ground-breaking painter in western Canada' - which is praise indeed.

Born in Regina in 1936 Regina, Saskatchewan, Douglas Haynes graduated in 1958 from the Provincial Institute of Technology & Art (now, Alberta College of Art).

He studied from 1960 to 1961 at the Royal Academy of Art, Holland, and thereafter Joined the teaching staff of the University of Alberta in 1970.

His first Solo Exhibition was in 1960 at Studio 60, in Edmonton.

And it gets better, because you'll also have an opportunity to contemplate some other masterful creations (like the one in the first photograph) at the gallery's Vue Cafe, open for lunch Tuesday to Saturday from eleven until four.

We can't tell you when the pastry chef was born - and it would be ungentlemanly to ask. But her work, as they say, speaks for itself.