Art Talk

We just love these Art in a Box kits by Janet Liesemer. Each kit contains everything you need to create the painting and there are links to online tutorials to help you along.

We have new work in the shop by Ivan Trotter. Ivan has had a long and varied career as a Canadian artist. For many years Ivan painted the Canadian landscape in 'Group of Seven' inspired oils. A love of France and her Mediterranean neighbours has in the past decade, turned his palette to vivid acrylics, better enabling him to capture and record his passion for Provencal and Tuscan villages.

Don't you just love Goldfinches? So bright and cheerfully active all summer long. It's a happy time when they appear in the yard from wherever they go in winter. This pensive fellow is painted in oil on a birch panel by Jennifer Keskikyla aka Jenn Keski.

We are celebrating the colour yellow this week in the Artfest shop and this joyous painting of yellow roses by Anna Krajewski is a good reason why. What a better way to brighten April showers but with this lovely composition of colourful flowers?

Drawn to the healing arts from a young age, Halina Stopyra has worked as a physical therapist and artist. She's inspired by myths, legends and history. In those stories she has found transformative powers that drive her work.

White Chair and Pears, a watercolour by Anna Krajewski, is available as a giclee print on gallery quality canvas and comes in a variety of sizes.

This original mixed media painting by Russian born artist, Vladimir Lopatin, is creatively framed on wood. The piece is wired and ready to hang. Free shipping in the GTA.

All mammals know love and these two whales in "Ocean Love" by Halina Stopyra reflect the joy of comfortable companionship in their ocean home. This original unframed work is acrylic on canvas.

Sea Change is a collaborative work by artists Lory MacDonald and Michelle Matthews. The two artists created a series of collaborative paintings that involved moving work back and forth between two studios and bringing two very different styles together to create a coherent piece of work.