Category: Creative Responses (Page 2 of 3)

Artist: Marie-Hélène Lavoie

Title: Day and night

Medium: color pencils

Date: 2021

This work is responding to the idea that doors are the beginning of a lot of physical places  by foot or by wheelchair.

Artist: Lisa Potter

Title: Friends and family

Medium: Digital poetry

Date: 2021

This is a creative response to friends and family.

Artist: Lisa Potter

Title: Reconciliation is important

Medium: Digital artwork

Date: 2021

This work is creatively responding to the idea that reconciliation is important.

Title: DANCE DEMO – SUMMER 2021

Medium: Video

Date: 2021

This work is a creative response to a demonstration captured on video this past summer in Pine Beach Park, Dorval for Lesley’s dance students.

Lesley Charters Cotton always briefly demonstrates each dance before teaching the routine.  Once the steps are mastered, dancers are encouraged to improvise using arms, hips, heads and faces.  Often we partner.  One is the audience while the partner personalizes the routine before switching and verbally sharing impressions.  Sometimes we mentally challenge ourselves as we repeat the same routine on the left side and switch back to the right.  We have fun. 

Artist: Lady Rojas Benavente

Title: Poussez La Porte, Push The Door of Time, Empuja La Puerta del Tiempo

Medium: Video et poesie

Date: 2021

Réponse créative à l’expérience collective vécue en tant qu’immigrant latino-américain au Canada.

Artist: Kelly Walsh

Title: Untitled

Medium: Steel wire, magnets, small screw-in hook, fridge, flashlight.

A creative response to what I saw in the wire when I obtained it.

Artist: Joanne Racette

Title: Bleu: Dissolution

Medium: Acrylique et feutre

Quitter l’espace temps, flotter dans un monde sans contrainte , léger, accueillant

Artist: Joanne Racette

Title: Rose: Au coeur de soi

Medium: Collage et pastels gras

Rencontrer sa profondeur, son intimité, son être.

Artist: Gaby Orbach

Title: Contemplation

Medium: Handmade art jewelry, polymer clay

Creatively responding to the mystery of one’s thoughts existing in one’s mind while bringing forth more wonderment.

Artist: Gaby Orbach

Title: Serenity

Medium: Handmade art jewelry, polymer clay

This work is a creative response to the peacefulness of mind and body, such as a satisfying yoga workout together with a feeling of calmness.

Artist: Eva Halus

Title: Châteaufort Community Garden with a “Matisse” view

Medium: Acrylic on paper

Size: 41” x 25”

Date: 2021

The designer of the garden, Mark, created lots of visual art in the garden this summer. One of his objects, a bird bath feeder, in which he arranged a sculpture-like stone and some plants and fruits, giving the impression of a near-cubist painting of Matisse. I pushed more this illusion in my painting by adding at the back of the garden a window from Matisse’s studio giving to the sea-side.

Artist: Eva Halus

Title: Contemplation

Medium: Watercolor and pastel

Size: 49” x 31”

Date: 2021

This is a creative response to my friend Louise at the edge of Viktor Lake in Saint-Sauveur, in a magic afternoon this summer.

Artist: Eric Skipp

Title: A Pleasant Winter Day

Medium: Oil

Size: 24” x 20” I was out walking in the Laurentians north of Montreal and was looking for a subject to paint.  I captured this beautiful winter scene in a photograph first, and then painted it at home using the photograph for inspiration.

Artist: Eric Skipp

Title: Summer Evening

Medium: Oil

Size: 18” x 24”

I saw these lovely flowers in a vase at a friend’s house, and decided that I wanted to paint them with the lighting of a summer evening.

Artist: Edna Katz-Silver

Title: Four Faces

Medium: Acrylic and bronze on canvas

Size: 20” x 24”

This is a family portrait, led by the shape of a mother who contains the faces of her three children, enmeshed in co-creating a life-giving abstraction. Engaging with the harsh angles of the world, the elemental metal is offered in contrast to the soft colours: art as alchemy, a site of treatment and knowledge beyond language.

Artist: Edna Katz-Silver

Title: My Lady

Medium: Acrylic on canvas, framed

Size: 24”x40”

This is an existential self-portrait, wherein transparent layers express a life lived from multiple perspectives and experiences. In combination they compose a spirit that flows like a series of diaphanous veils, undoing any singular or fixed identity; aligning instead to create a figure that stays curious, desirous and elegant, despite life’s harsh edges.