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Item Ships From: Canada
Present - rich, colorful, lyrical, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Layers of yellow-gold and sea green acrylic articulated with dynamic calligraphic taches unfold across this long canvas by Alice Teichert like an illuminat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas, Acrylic
Wall Shikker
By Jules Olitski
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is one of the most collected and accomplished artists associated with the color-field movement, if not 20th-century American abstraction.
Possibly one of ...
Category
1960s Abstract Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Man with Hat - small blue, white, male portrait figurative still life oil
By Jennifer Hornyak
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Using layers of thick, expressive brushwork, solid colors and slightly flattened space, Jennifer Hornyak has created an elegant portrait of a man in black shirt and white sun hat. The simple, modern forms outlined in black on an indigo ground emphasizes the stillness of the oil portrait on canvas that is reminiscent of the work of Jean Paul Lemieux...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Shift in Season with Pink and Black - colorful, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Aron Hill’s dynamic graphic compositions were inspired by the work of the late Canadian modernists like Jack Bush. Minimalist shapes and bold colours continue to characterize their n...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Syncopation 2 - bright, geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on canvas
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Kramer’s modern and graphic paintings express lyrical, geometric abstraction via a harmonic interplay of syncopated shapes of various sizes and colors. This work includes primary and...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer
Seeing Through Red - bold, vibrant, gestural abstraction, acrylic on canvas
By Lynne Fernie
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Dashes of charcoal and black dance on a fiery red ground in this emotive acrylic painting by Lynne Fernie.
Lynne Fernie is a Toronto-based artist, OCAD University honors graduate an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Going Retro #2 - 9.5"x15.5", Original Art, Red, Vintage Dress, Black & White
By Andrea Stajan-Ferkul
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
In this painting on masonite, the enduring appeal of vintage style is vividly captured. Attention to detail embodies the chic aesthetic of times past. Layers of paint and loose brush...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil
3 Mangatas tryptic panels as column (or row) (tryptic, squares, minimal, grid)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
3-piece tryptic in a column or a row, total $4500
*videos for each piece available on their individual listing.
In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world act...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Canada - Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Thunderstorm (Oil Painting, Impasto, Impressionism, Colorful, Pastel, Cool)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Genevieve Hamel
Thunderstorm
Oil on Wood Panel
Year: 2024
Size: 24 x 24 x 1.625 inches
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-2097
The thunderstorm is coming! The sky is changing ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Canada - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Soft & Fluffy (Oil Painting, Impasto, Impressionism, Colorful, Pastel)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Genevieve Hamel
Soft & Fluffy
Oil on Wood Panel
Year: 2024
Size: 36 x 18 x 1.625 inches
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-2096
Soft & fluffy are the perfect words to describe...
Category
2010s Modern Canada - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Long Live Sarastro 2 - colourful, geometric abstraction, acrylic on panel
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this lively painting by modernist Burton Kramer a mirrored geometric pattern is enhanced by a complimentary soft colour palette of blues, pinks, yellows, and taupe. The title ‘Fug...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
It's New, Canadiana history and cottage life in a postmodern juxtaposition
Located in Toronto, Ontario
IT'S NEW is a classic Canadiana painting in postmodern style by Peter Husband, with acrylic paint and oil pastel on stretched canvas. It measures 40 x 30...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
The Pleiades-Taygete - nude, female, figurative, charcoal and ink on canvas
By Richard Tosczak
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Richard Tosczak creates life size paintings and sketches of his models which he then recreates in bronze. This large scale canvas reflects speed, gesture and the effect of capturing ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic Polymer
Shaded Archway with Earth and Red - bold, colorful, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Calgary’s Aron Hill creates unique, pop art Inspired by the dynamic form and colour of abstract artists like Jack Bush. This piece in acrylic and ink on canvas combines architectural...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Rising Water (Paradise Paintings) - large, abstract, series, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A ballet of colorful squares and rectangles float on a wash of turquoise streaked through with mauve. A conversation about visual balance emerges from this bold acrylic painting titl...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
PASTEL SKY - 30"x10", Garden Landscape, Textured Tulips, Flowers, Pink, Blue
By Andrea Stajan-Ferkul
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
Pastel Sky - This painting features soft pastel colours of tulips against a blue sky. Emphasis is on loose brushwork and the horizontal composition, evoking a sense of movement and o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Pencil
Untitled
Located in Vancouver, CA
Ron Stonier (1933-2001) was a dedicated Vancouver artist celebrated for his exploration of abstract painting, influenced by his mentors Gordon Smith and Jack Shadbolt, as well as by ...
Category
1960s Canada - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Board
Midnight Surprise - bold, colourful, abstract expressionist, acrylic on paper
By Adam Cohen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Hot pink and red intersects with drips and splashes of yellow, magenta and orange in this dynamic acrylic painting on paper. Beneath the energetic surface a scaffold of black completes the composition. Cohen intersects the language Abstract Expressionism with narrative to re-invent the experience of action painting in a contemporary context.
This painting on paper is currently unframed. However, it can be mounted on panel and framed or framed behind glass.
Adam Cohen, born in New Jersey in 1959, studied with artist Lilian Marzell, a friend of Willem de Kooning. Cohen earned his BFA at Philadelphia's Tyler School of Art at Temple University which included a year of painting in Rome. Returning to New York he studied at the School of Visual Arts, the Arts Students League and Parsons School of Design. Cohen has exhibited in Italy, Holland, New Jersey, New York and Ontario. His work is in numerous private collections. In 2015, he was awarded the International Art Prize Giuseppe Gambino...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Canada - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Crimson cardinal red pill (minimaliste grid round painting on wood dopamine art)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Crimson cardinal red pill" is one of the 30 small tondo paintings on wood comprising the Dopamine mosaic. This 30-piece ensemble was created between January ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Canada - Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint
Return - bright, colorful, minimalist, abstracted landscape, acrylic on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The colours of summer by the lake are celebrated in this pastoral painting by Pat Service. The Canadian artist is known for her landscapes—this minimalist piece illustrates a classic lake and beach view—the deep blues of the cloud filled sky and lake, green fields, a red cabin...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bonbon pink Mångata (grid painting minimal wood hard-edge dopamine vibrant)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Part of the Mångata series, "Bonbon Pink" is an intimate, minimalist painting meticulously handcrafted on wood using diverse, layered techniques. This artwork combines the raw mark-m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Canada - Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Descending Spirit - intimate, abstract, cubist, landscape, canvas
By Otto Rogers
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The diaphanous spirit of a bird rises into a brightening sky in this inspired composition by Otto Donald Rogers. Rogers paintings, rooted in a cubist-constructivist tradition, explor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Air Prism - colourful, impasto, abstract expressionist, acrylic on canvas
By Adam Cohen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Deep, rich colours--blues, purple and orange punctuated by a background of bright white add depth and energy to this painting by abstract artist, Adam Cohen.The New York-based artist is known for his method of applying paint in thick layers that he cuts through and moves with a pallet knife while the pigments are still wet.
“You can look at them and keep seeing new things in them. They’re alive and they have this inexhaustible quality.” Adam Cohen
Adam Cohen, born in New Jersey, studied with artist Lilian Marzell, a friend of Willem de Kooning. Cohen earned his BFA at Philadelphia's Tyler School of Art at Temple University which included a year of painting in Rome. Returning to New York he studied at the School of Visual Arts, the Arts Students League and Parsons School of Design. Cohen has exhibited in Italy, Holland, New Jersey, New York and Ontario. His work is in numerous private collections. In 2015, he was awarded the International Art Prize Giuseppe Gambino...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Stone Head
By Herbert Siebner
Located in Vancouver, CA
Herbert Siebner (1925-2004) was a German-born Canadian painter whose work is characterized by its expressive use of color and texture, and its exploration of themes of war, exile, an...
Category
1950s Expressionist Canada - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Blue Ocean
Located in Toronto, ON
12" x 12" Unframed
Original - Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed by Charles Carson
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Rift Valley, sonde 8 (texture abstract canvas bronze metallic burgundy wine red)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
“Rift Valley, Sonde 8” is a striking mixed-media composition that harmonizes Color-field staining, impasto-relief techniques, and gestural painting to create an immersive, multilayer...
Category
2010s Color-Field Canada - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Sumach Moon - blue, orange, trees, moon, graphic, pop-art, landscape, acrylic
By Charles Pachter
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Charles Pachter returns to the Canadian wilderness for this painting. The internationally recognized pop artist has chosen to celebrate the sumach, a tree that is native to North America. Pachter’s sumach frames an orange harvest moon which appears in the fall. Farmers often use the light of this full moon to harvest their crops late into the night. Pachter’s moon is small and distant and the thin line of a lake and mountain in the background give the painting a greater depth of perspective.
A painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer and author Pachter is a graduate of University of Toronto...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Blue Barn Green Field (Large) - landscape, contemporary, acrylic on canvas
By Charles Pachter
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Contemporary rural landscape painting of Pachter's iconic barn. In blue and green.
One of Canada’s leading contemporary artists, Charles Pachter is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, author and lecturer. His paintings hang in public and private collections around the world. Those of the Queen, moose, barn and maple leaf flag are pop icons of Canadian art. Pachter was born in Toronto and holds several university degrees and honorary doctorates, in addition to being a prestigious Officer of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and a recipient of the Queen’s Jubilee...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer
Running in the Woods, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A small square abstract in vibrant bold colors with mark making. Created in many layers with many different brushes. Light texture. Original acrylic painting. 12x12 inches x 1.5 inch...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
In the heart of the woods
Located in Westmount, QC
Gaston Rebry, Canadian, 1933-2007
In the heart of the woods. Quebec
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 in (image)
signed
signed , titled, and artist’s stamp verso
framed
Category
1990s Canada - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Orca Play - cool, colorful, lyrical, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A cloud of silvery white floats across shimmering layers of turquoise and cerise in this abstract painting by Alice Teichert. The cloud appears above a flurry of calligraphic marks t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
Wrap Yourself Around Me, 48"x60", Pearls, White, Beige, Grey Painting
By Andrea Stajan-Ferkul
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This contemporary painting is considerate to a restrained palette and composition. It finds balance between realistic representation and interpretive impressions, blending detail wit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Pencil
Contemporary Textured Illusion 'LOVE'
Located in Toronto, ON
In a joyful example of Jane Waterous' signature style 'LOVE' leaps of the canvas with colourfully dressed three dimensional dancers. Using airbrushed shadows to give a further illusi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Song of Nature, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Amanda Dagg
Located in Yardley, PA
Original beautiful textured triptych painting on three canvases 100% Handmade TITLE: The Song of Nature MEDIUM: High-quality professional acrylic paints. Varnished for protec...
Category
2010s Impressionist Canada - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Storm Surge Tondo Red - bold, glossy, impasto, abstract, acrylic on aluminum
By Shayne Dark
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Created in dynamic layers of molten red, this Storm Surge tondo by Shayne Dark envelops the viewer. The rich, almost baroque quality of the sculpted surface is enhanced by its metall...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Metal
Sprouts with Snake bite, I-Ching Hexigram, Aruna Ghar Studio, New Dehli
Located in Vancouver, CA
Mullvihill's work is comprised of Chinese characters written in four directions, creating a mandala effect. His Calligraffiti, employing 'Cut-Up' and 'Permutation' processes, results...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Curious (black old dog, snout, lady, vintage, animal, surrealist oil painting)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Curious," by Rudolf Kosow, is an engaging portrayal of inquisitiveness and wonder, bridging the natural world and humanity. Dominating the scene is a giant bulldog, its face a tapestry of textures from the soft fur to the glistening nose, each detail crafted to convey a lifelike presence.
Facing the monumental canine is a small-scale girl, her posture embodying the essence of childhood wonder as she stands before the immense animal. Her tilted head and attentive stance suggest a moment of mutual discovery and fascination. This poignant interaction is a snapshot of the innocent and pure connections that can occur across the divides of size and species.
Kosow's "Curious" captures the beautiful moments of discovery that occur when the young and the gentle giants of the animal kingdom meet, encapsulating a shared curiosity that transcends words. The artwork serves as a reminder of the universal language of wonder that connects us all.
keywords; painting on canvas, surrealist painting, animal vs human, americana, nature, man, man vs nature, surrealism, giant animal...
Category
2010s Surrealist Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moog Music 5D2A - geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on panel
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Rectangles and squares, large and small, in orange, mauve, blue and more, dance across a light green ground in this vibrant acrylic painting by Burton Kramer. The title of the painti...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Canada - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Speed - rich, expressive, floral, still life abstract, oil on linen on panel
By Mel Davis
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Montreal born Mel Davis creates beautiful abstract compositions using traditional themes. In this piece, a harmonious use of colour—bright white, burgundy, yellow and green appear in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Untitled
By Jules Olitski
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Jules Olitski (1922-1977) is one of the most collected and accomplished artists associated with the color-field movement, if not 20th-century American abstraction.
Possibly one of ...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Canada - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Canvas
Blue Leaf Still Life - blue, green, intimate, cubist, collaged acrylic on paper
By Otto Rogers
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Cubist, sliced views of three sides of a potted plant in collaged paper with sapphire blue and green leaves line up on a background of shifting depths. Rogers work, rooted in a cubis...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Moulin de Bosel
Located in Westmount, QC
Albert Rousseau, Canadian, 1908 - 1982
Moulin de Bosel
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 in
Signed lower right;
Titled verso on stretcher
Framed
Category
1970s Canada - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Irises - purple, blue, flowers, pop-art, contemporary, acrylic on canvas
By Charles Pachter
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Charles Pachter, considered to be one of Canada’s greatest living contemporary artists has embraced a new subject—flowers. Toronto born Pachter is best known for his iconic pop art paintings of barns...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Lighten Up - 24"x30" - Abstracted Chandelier Painting, Grey, Beige, White, Blue
By Andrea Stajan-Ferkul
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
Lighten Up - This is an abstracted style chandelier painting combining delicate detail with intuitive abstract brush work. Tonal layers build up a textured surface evoking visual movement, and form small paintings within the larger canvas. The blend of literal and abstract elements keep the eye engaged, with an outcome both expressive and refined.
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Andrea Stajan-Ferkul is a Canadian artist whose work conveys a sense of experimentation through the use of paint, fabric collage and abstract mark-making. While not exclusive to fashion, dresses have been a compositional focus throughout her oeuvre. With an emphasis on timelessness, her series of dress paintings shift between realistic representation and interpretive impressions. In contrast, her series of abstract works embrace minimalism, considerate to a restrained palette and composition.
Stajan-Ferkul began her career in fashion advertising before shifting her focus to fine art in 2000. Her work has been exhibited widely through galleries and art fairs, and hangs in private and public collections across Canada, US and Europe. A graduate of Sheridan College of Art and Design, Stajan-Ferkul's paintings can be found in numerous public and private collections, her work has been published in magazines and book covers, and prints are distributed internationally. In 2009, Stajan-Ferkul was invited to exhibit her work in Ottawa’s Rideau Hall, hosted by (then) Governor General of Canada, Michaëlle Jean.
keywords: enlightened, chandelier, painting, impressionistic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Summertime in Italy (Blue)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Canada - Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Emerald Sky By Troy Smith Fine Art Abstract Art
By Troy Smith Studio
Located in Toronto, CA
In Emerald Sky, Troy Smith captures the essence of nature’s boundless energy and the ethereal beauty of a sky tinged with rich greens and blues. The abstract composition is a mesmeri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Rujuh 14 - atmospheric, colourful, abstract landscape, acrylic, resin on panel
By Jay Hodgins
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A brilliant and stormy violet sky rises from a dark horizon in this emotive landscape by Jay Hodgins. Layers of saturated color coated with glossy resin ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Paintings
Materials
Resin, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Storm Surge Red - glossy, bright, impasto, abstract, acrylic on panel
By Shayne Dark
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Passages of fiery scarlet medium swirl within the confines of the picture plane in this Storm Surge painting by Shayne Dark. Its highly textured, sculpted surface is made more dynami...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Square Mangata 2024.3 (cherry red, sky blue grid, minimal, square, gold stripes)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Canada - Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Pine Portrait - large, blue, green, impressionist, acrylic and resin on panel
By Peter Hoffer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A magnificent mature pine tree stands tall in this serene landscape by Peter Hoffer. The rich green of the pine boughs contrast with the deep turquoise blue of the sky and the pastor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Resin, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Pellucid Whiteness - Botanicals & shapes in mauve, sapphire, yellow and green
By Fiona Ackerman
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Botanical imagery layered with shapes in mauve, sapphire, yellow and green form a playful narrative in this acrylic painting by Fiona Ackerman. The painting is part of a series inspired by the narratives and botanical drawings of women...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Set Back From the Shore - textured, pastel colours, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Sharon Kelly
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The line between sky and shore blur in this beautiful abstract acrylic by Sharon Kelly. A bright yellow sun in the lower frame adds a flash of brilliant c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Farm near Maple Lake Haliburton, 1938
By Alfred Joseph Casson
Located in Toronto, ON
Great Condition
Beautiful Imagery
Category
1930s Impressionist Canada - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Light at Dawn - intimate, abstract, cubist, landscape, tondo, acrylic on canvas
By Otto Rogers
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Passages of dense black outlined with a whisper of teal are topped with charcoal grey that ends at exact center of this canvas tondo by Otto Rogers. Above this horizon line, the sky ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hillside
Located in Toronto, ON
23" x 30.5" Unframed
Original Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed by Arno Arrak
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Streaming - modern, contemporary, abstract, acrylic and mixed media on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Atomic tangerine, persimmon, persian orange, petal pink and smoky plum hues. The colors in this painting shift as the viewer moves, creating a sense of depth and inner light.
"Over ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic
Ombre 7 (grid painting abstract wood contemporary organic motifs optical)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Canada - Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Flowers of the Field
Located in Westmount, QC
Molly Lamb Bobak, Canadian, 1920 – 2014
Flowers of the Field
Watercolour
22 x 15 in
signed
framed
Molly Bobak Biography
(1922 - 2014) RCA
It could be said that Molly Lamb Bobak was destined to be an artist. She was born on Lulu Island, near Vancouver, British Columbia, on February 25, 1920. She grew up in a bohemian enclave. Her father, Harold Mortimer Lamb, was a photographer and art critic. In 1926, her father opened a commercial art gallery in Vancouver, exhibiting painters, sculptors, and photographers.
In 1938, Bobak attended art school at the Vancouver School of Art and studied under Jack Shadbolt, where she learned to improve her drawing and composition skills. While working at the Yellow Point Lodge during the summer of 1940, Lamb kept a diary filled with text and caricatures and drew everyone that she encountered. Bobak joined the Canadian Women’s Army Corps in 1942. While serving, she found endless material to paint and included these paintings in her personal journal, which was later published and titled “W110278: The Personal War Records of Private Lamb, M”, which included 147 folios and fifty single sheet sketches. After being stationed in Alberta and Quebec, the military recognized her artistic abilities and invited her to attend a drafting course in Toronto. After finishing the course, Lamb tried to become an official war artist. In 1942, Lamb was sent to Ottawa where she drew at the Trades Training offices where she designed posters and Christmas cards. Three of Bobak’s drawings were purchased by the Art Gallery of Ontario in the same year.
In 1944, “Meal Parade, Hamilton Trades School” (n.d) tied for second prize at the National Gallery’s Canadian Army Art Show, which helped her receive the appointment as a war artist––the only woman who earned this designation. As women were not allowed on the active war front, Bobak was transferred to London, England, six weeks after Victory Day to document the aftermath of the war.
After leaving the military, Bobak settled with her husband Bruno, in Vancouver. After the move, Bobak had little time to paint as she was teaching night courses at the Vancouver School of Art and tending to her children. After earning a French scholarship in 1950, Bobak, her husband, and their two children traveled to Paris where she experienced the works of modernist painters like Cézanne and Matisse. Cézanne’s work in particular influenced Bobak’s art, which can be seen in the geometric organization of “A Bakership, Saint-Léonard” (1951) and “The Saint Ives Train...
Category
1980s Canada - Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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