Category: art exhibits (Page 3 of 3)

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.

Artist: Arianna Garcia-Fialdini

Title: Spreading kindness

Medium: Watercolor and ink on paper

Size: 8” x 11”

Date: 2021

This work is a creative response to my experience co-facilitating an art hive for the first time this past session and the profound realization that despite the limited amount of male presence I have witnessed, art truly is for all to make, communicate and share regardless of gender, beliefs, and background.

Artist: Arianna Garcia-Fialdini

Title: Dive-in

Medium: Ink on paper

Size: 8” x 11”

Date: 2021 This work is responding to the idea of change and the unknown, and how sometimes it’s best to not think it through too much and just dive in.

Artist: Anita Cooperstone 

Title: In Memory of my Husband

Medium: Markers on wood 

Date: 2016

I made this painting in honour of my late husband.

Artist: Alice

Title: Untitled

Medium: Wool

Date: 2021

Pour tous les bébés de mes enfants. 

J’ai appris à tricoter pour l’armée française quand j’avais sept ans pendant la guerre.

For all my children’s babies. I learned to knit for the French army at the age of seven during the war.