One exhibit is out of this world, the other explores the magic winter brings to Earth. Both shows, displaying the work of area artists, are in London this season.

Structural Impressionism: Paintings by Jack Winn is on at London’s Fringe Custom Framing and Gallery until December 2.

This is a large exhibition for the prolific Winn who is particularly eager to draw public attention to his two newest pieces.

“Planet Locator” and “Intersection of Time and Space,” which Winn describes as spectacular and intriguing, both reflect his ongoing interest in space, the cosmos, time, and quanta. And they show a little bit of heaven here on earth.

“I have read that Stonehenge was a type of key to differentiate planet earth from other places in the galaxy,” Winn says. “The planet locator is sending the codex. The intersection is the beginning of the flow of time and is either being created by or is creating an overseeing consciousness.”

He must be headed in the right direction, as two of his related dark matter pieces were purchased by the quantum computing department at the University of Waterloo.

Chill Art Show is on at Art With Panache Gallery until December 15. Described by owner Audrey Cooper as a collection that expresses the beauty and excitement of the winter season, Chill presents the thrills and spills of our most challenging season.

Cooper says she named the show Chill because it was a word that could be played with. It could mean chill as in cold and snowy; it could also mean “to chill” as in relaxing while sipping hot chocolate in front of a toasty fire.

“Canadians seem to be cranky about wintertime, when really it is a glorious time,” says Cooper. The first snowfall of the year is magical; it changes our world completely.”

Cooper put out a call for works that conveyed the feeling of “braving and conquering yet another winter. She wanted people to remember how it felt when you went out and it was so cold your nostrils stuck together.

Cathy Groulx and Vera Graham are two of the talented artists who answered Cooper’s call.

Groulx’s oil painting “Around the Corner” shows a hushed winter landscape done in blue and mauve that exudes solitude. Whereas Graham’s acrylic painting “Rotary Memorial Park, Cottam” with its colourfully clad skaters strikes a more whimsical chord. They are two examples of the diversity Chill has to offer.

Two shows, and a smorgasbord of artistic styles. It just doesn’t get better than that.