2019 Black Book Artists in Canada Website Directory

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Arnold Burrell Bonny Macnab Deborah Czernecky Dwight Baird James Korpan Jan Corcoran Kathleen Slavin Lawrie Dignan Myron Swistun Kathy Traeger Lisa Lavasseur Nik Semenoff Rick Gallant Susan Gosevitz Susan Lott Teyjah McAren

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Art Purchases Make a Difference ..........4 Premium Membership ..............................5 Purchasing Art on Artists in Canada .....38 Get your original Art Online? ................39 Canadian Art Quiz .................................40 Artists in Canada Members ..............42–54 Quiz Answers ....................................57–58 Pension Plan Contributions ...................59 See how your art purchase contributes to an artists pension plan

A Pension Plan For Artists

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Featured Articles Wearable Art

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Encaustic Painting

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Arnold Burrell L A N D S C A P E

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C-2 Arnold Burrell

Occasionally an instantaneous, unexpected awareness of fusion between the physical being and the immediate physical world emblazons itself on a permanent synapse in the mind’s eye. It is forever accessible to total recall, a molten trice when everything is enhanced but only significant for itself. When I first saw Arnold Burrell’s work, and ever since, I realized this happened to him continually and each work was his depiction

of these flashes for others to see and interpret for themselves. As a writer rather than a painter, I saw his language of painting portrays an experience of being human, controlling the emotion, conveying it without the muddle factor. A Burrell landscape is his truth as he saw it at the time and excluded whatever was extraneous to the essence. Also with a figure, the work handles emotion rather than surrendering impotently, with just enough divine chaos for the rhythm to catch you. Each viewer sees what he saw, but not necessarily the way he saw it—which makes any work personal for the viewer. So I have my own ‘titles’ for each work, for what I see. Because my language is writing words and his is painting them. I see different things in the same work different days, a great similarity in all the arts. Great motivation for writing the biography-in-progress.

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Bonny Macnab P A I N T E R

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Textile artist Bonny Macnab combines her past experience with two-dimensional work into the visual elements of form, movement, color and line to evoke the human experience of emotions with fiber. Silk being one of her choice fibers, due to it's airy movement, evoke various emotions in her pieces. Macnab is driven by the ever-changing seasons that comes with each their own aromatic and sonic combination; each combination opens within us an ongoing series of memories and related emotion. Like the seeds of our earth, harvested and molded by the human hand to form functional or romantic structures; our memories and related emotions are formed and morph in the continuum of time and seasons.

Website: https://www.bonnymacnab.com/

Flower, Dyed Silk

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Deborah Czer necky L A N D S C A P E

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Mediterranean Heat, 24x30, o/c, $2000

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Have Brush Will Travel! From the Middle East to Monet's Garden. From Central America to the Yukon and Nunavut (Caribou and wolves! Oh my!

Plein Air Tip: Don't let the wildlife get between you, the pilot and the helicopter!). From the east coast to the west coast of Canada (Rocks, plains, water, trees, bigger rocks, ice and snow! Plein Air Tip: My whisky flask is one of the most important tools in my paint box. It turns out that a wee dram is a great ice breaker literally (think about recovering from painting at subzero temperatures) and figuratively (think conversation starter in a group of strange artists.)

Serious Artist Travel Tip: When asked at the airport, you are travelling with artist colours NOT paint. Even when you show staff copies of the TSA regulations confirming the legality of artist colours, they may attempt to confiscate your "paint". Do NOT use the P word!

Also, it is useful to pack a copy of the relevant TSA regulations, highlighted, in your checked bags.

Window Seat to Mtn Baker, o/c, 24x24, $1000

Website: http://www.spinningdogstudio.ca/

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Dwight Baird C O N T E M P O R A R Y

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Moving Colour, Havana, Cuba Acrylic on wood panel 24" x 36" Price available on request

Dwight Baird was born and raised in Huntingdon, Quebec, a small town southwest of Montreal, Canada. He worked briefly as a graphic artist and then spent two years traveling and painting in Europe. These travels resulted in his first two collections of works, “ A Touch of Europe”, in 1983 and, “There and Back Again”, in 1986.

For the next twenty years he specialized in watercolors and developed a very unique style which was featured in the publication, The Artist’s Magazine.

During this period Baird completed four additional series of paintings exploring specific themes. The first, in 1989, entitled “Newfoundland”, featured fourteen larger paintings and several smaller studies depicting life in Canada's eastern most province. Following this he completed ,”Midway”, a collection of 30 paintings and sketches focusing on the sights, sounds and smells of amusement parks, small town fairs and and the "Carny" lifestyle.

In the early 2000’s, Baird put his watercolors aside and since this point has been working solely with acrylic paint on wood panel. This major shift inspired a colorful series, “Contemporary Nudes” - paintings based on figure drawings of live models. This shift also coincided with Baird’s first visit to Havana, Cuba.

This trip became a springboard for an extensive collection of paintings which continues as the main inspiration for his work today. Working in acrylics, Baird has developed a unique and exciting new style of contemporary realism. His broad, impressionist strokes combined with specific detailed areas and his dynamic use of light, color and composition have become the signature of his work.

Baird’s new subject matter has resulted in an extensive depiciton of the daily struggle of life in Cuba. This Cuban work can also be seen as a historical documentation of a country anchored in the past, but now on the verge of dramatic change. Withover two hundred completed works, “Cuba, si!” is the definitive collection of Socialist Castro era works. It is one artist’s pictoral rendition of a unqiue time in a very unique country...

Dwight Baird exhibits in many of the most prestigious art festivals and has won numerous prizes for his work. He lives and works in Montreal. For enquiries contact Dwight Baird though his website.

Breeze, Havana, Cuba, Acrylic on wood panel 24"x36" Price available on request

Website: www.dwightbaird.com

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James Kor pan M E T A L

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Iron Horse, 14 inches, Welded steel

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Minimizing the complexities of building sculpture with found metal, is knowing what works for what you are creating. Discovery of usable shapes that work with the intended sculpture can have a serendipitous nature about it. Find a claw, build a bird – find a fin build a fish.

The edge of a material piece in my sculpture becomes the gesture line of the image I am portraying. I wish it was all that simple, but the evolution of discovery has moved me from smaller found pieces for raptor birds, fish and miniature horses – up to monumental public sculptures internationally.

Website: http://www.jameskorpan.com/

Launching Goose, 4 metres, Welded Steel, Representig Canada, Permanent Collection of Navida, Chile

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Jan Corcoran A B S T R A C T P A I N T E R

Vivaldi’s Spring, 55x66” mixed media/canvas, $1950

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“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive, well preserved body but rather…a skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out & hollering ‘Woo Hoo what a ride’!!”

Website: http://www.jancorcoran.com/ http://instagram.com/jancorcoran.art corcoran.jan@gmail.com Brain Storming, 30x30” mixed media/canvas, $1025

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Kathleen Slavin L A N D S C A P E P A I N T E R

Curiosity Leads Down New Paths Oil on Masonite Panel 15x12" Framed in blonde maple $400.

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My first love as a painter is the myriad of ways to apply pigment to a surface. I am a mark-maker, making marks until they relate to each other. I aim to hover between abstract and representational elements. Saskatchewan’s dramatic seasons, vast skies and diverse landscape offers spectacular source of inspiration. During the three decades that I have been creating art, I have benefitted from the critique and learning from many artists: at Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus, in my local community, and through art workshops and the viewing of art in many galleries in many countries.

I maintain an independent practice and have exhibited paintings in private and public galleries and in community venues.

Website: https://www.artistsincanada.com/slavin/ Verge - Oil over Acrylic on Canvas 48x36" Unframed $2200

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Lawrie Dignan D R A W I N G

Blue Barn, Pen and Ink

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I have found that one can never stop marketing and that you are continually required to find new ways to re-invent your artistic presence in an expanding marketplace. Years ago, I could set up a kiosk or booth and sell my work directly to patrons who knew I was there or they discovered me while in the area.

Those days are few and far between now as I rarely set up a physical booth anymore. Today it is my website that acts as my booth or Kiosk.

I do miss the “in person� interaction of Direct sales marketing and talking to people about the technique and subject matter of my pen and ink drawings. Please feel free to stop by my website.

Send a note if pulled to do so, as I would Love to hear what you have to say!

Website: https://www.changing-realities.com/ 4 Seasons Vertical Pen and Ink

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Myron Swistun A B S T R A C T P A I N T E R

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Peterborough 2018 16" x 16" x 1.75 O/C $250

Myron Swistun’s work asks the viewer to go beyond the surface qualities of a painting. We are asked to look beyond the physical impression of the work: to look a little deeper in order to see beyond the obvious, and understand the unique composition of each painting. His paintings speak of other dimensions, timelessness, and harmony between disparate elements. This is what happens when painterly effects are transported to aesthetic and spiritual places. This is what it looks like when symbols, light and colour mix, combine, form and dissolve within the shared space of a canvas.

Each canvas explores a different range of tone and colour, and a conscious placement of line and shape. Compositions contain some kind of secret life- the sense of time passing and looping backward and forward- a landscape where time is not measured in minutes, days or years.

Swistun's work moves from representational symbols and shapes, into abstraction through the use of large fields of colour. It is interplay between the philosophical intentions of the artist, the spiritual and mystical qualities of the symbols and shapes.

Website: http://myronswistun.com/ Toronto Phoenix 2017 16" x 12" x 1" O/C $300

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Kathy Tr ae ger H Y P E R R E A L I S T P A I N T E R

Dog Pile 40x40" A/C

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Traeger doesn’t lean towards traditional landscapes or subject matter. She loves to bring a hyperrealist style into her work.

Inspiration is pulled from urban landscapes, old buildings, weathered signage, anything that is iconic, eclectic or rusty. Evoking a memory, creating a unique story or adding a whimsical touch, through both the visual piece and the title of the work. There are stories in all of these forgotten treasures just waiting to be unleashed in a painting.

Her work is a reflection of her personality, often described as either humorous, contemplative or something in between.

Website: http://kathytraeger.com

It All Started With a Mouse 30x40" A/C

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Lisa Levasseur A B S T R A C T P A I N T E R

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Diamonds'n Frills Mixed Media

Canadian born business woman, Lisa levasseur began painting 2010 and quickly emerged as an artist. She's become recognized as the creator of PaletteArt™ a new art form using 100% acrylic recycled paint to sculpt 3D one of a kind award winning paintings. She’s been featured as a Modern Art Master & Top Contemporary Artist in magazines, books & exhibitions all over the world. Her work hangs in private & museum collections next to the likes of Picasso, Renoir & Dali. Conveying a strong message about the value of things we might overlook or throw away without thinking. Levasseur’s goal is to help other artists, through paint recycling at PaletteArt.org and charity art sales at LJLgalleries.com ARTIST STATEMENT: I am moved by the actions, history and events that shape mankind, by nature or anything that touches the human spirit. It translates into all this energy, which I can express in a positive way through artwork. I only hope it inspires the same passion, love and hope in others.

Website: http://www.paletteart.org Copper Moon, Palette Art Mixed Media

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Nik Semenoff P R I N T M A K E R

Flowers for Sydney, Waterless Lithograph

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"I took a sebatical from the printmaking department at the U of S to develop a waterbased screen printing process and ended up discovering waterless Lithography technology for printmaking."

A recent retyrospective exhibition titled ALCHEMY, curated by Paul Constable continues to be shown in Semenoff's home province of Saskatchewan through 2020. In November 2019 he will participate and be honoured for his contributions to printmaking at an International printmaking exhibition, held in New York.

Nik Semenoff is a master printmaker who has changed how printmaking is being done around the world. His work is part of numerous permanent collections and his work has attained 'Cultural Property' status.

Medal 14, Waterless Lithograph

Website: http://www.ndiprintmaking.ca/ Website: http://homepage.usask.ca/~nis715/

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Rick Gallant R E A L I S T I C

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“Summer in Antarctica” 18 x 36, Acrylic on gallery canvas unframed, $1400

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My passion for art comes from an innate desire to capture the boundless beauty of nature that surrounds us.

With the effects of global warming and natural disasters, my planet is rapidly changing. For this reason, I seek to capture breathtaking images from every corner of the globe. Beauty can be found everywhere, from my own backyard to the other side of the world. Every region has it's own unique plant life, climate and geographical landscapes that continue to inspire me.

My style is realism. I paint using acrylics and create depth by building layers. The colours I choose are true to the scene and I capture realism through shapes and details. To add more passion and dimension to my work, I use washes that allow the underlying layers to come through.

“Cyprus� 22 x 30, Acrylic on canvas, framed, $1300

Many of us take the splendour of our world for granted. I believe that it can be ours forever. My wish is to increase people's appreciation of the incredibly beautiful world we live in.

Email: rickygallant@rogers.com Website:https://gallantgallery.ca

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Susan Gosevitz R E A L I S T I C

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SUSAN GOSEVITZ, OSA, SCA, AFC Susan Gosevitz is an award-winning visual artist and a painter of nature.

She is an elected member of the Ontario Society of Artists, Society of Canadian Artists and a signature member of Artists for conservation.

Susan finds her inspiration in the beauty that surrounds her in Muskoka painting scenes of nature that are serene and calm. She is the recipient of the 2012 Robert Bateman Award.

"My art is defined by nature including land, water and wildlife. I have a deep respect for the natural world and the wildlife that lives within.

Conservation awareness through artistic expression is my gift to nature."

Susan has exhibited across Canada including the McMichael Gallery in Kleinberg. Original paintings in oils and acrylics can be found in public and private collections. Commissions welcomed. susan@susangosevitz.com Website: www.susangosevitz.com

Out of the Blue, 36"x36", Acrylic on Canvas

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Susan Lott A B S T R A C T

MOVIMENTO, 16 X 20, Acrylic on canvas $475.00

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My abstract paintings are driven by intuition and inquiry into the power of colour. The paintings have no predetermined subject matter, but are a manifestation of the deep intuitive and emotional connection that I feel towards colour, light and energy.

Painting is a freedom to express my experiments with colours and forms.

In the end I enjoy the expressions and opinions of others as they contemplate the painting before them. What I want people to take away with my paintings is their own creative thoughts of what they see.

SFERA, 24 X 36, Acrylic on Canvas

The Italian name given is unique to the expression of that particular painting".

Website: https://www.susanlott.com/

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Te y j a h M c A r e n A B S T R A C T

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Convergence 8"x 10" Oil-based Alkyds $155

Teyjah’s experiences, education and interests contribute to the way she creates her multidisciplinary works of art. She is curious and likes to be challenged physically, mentally and creatively. Her spirit of discovery, whether it is science, nature, astronomy, geography, psychology or music, draws her to anything new and intriguing.

She loves to travel the world to satisfy her innate sense of adventure but her deepest inspiration derives from hiking in nature.

You will find that in Teyjah’s work Intriguing colors and forms are used to convey a sense of time and place. Much of her work is experimental and based on her visual and emotional observations and responses.

Website: www.teyjahsartden.com email: teyjah@shaw.ca There’s gold in them thar hills Oil-based Alkyds 10” x 10” $195

blog: www.teyjah.com www.Instagram.com/teyjah.artist

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What is the name of this building where artists met to discuss their art in Toronto?

What Winnipeg artist is named for this sculpture garden, where his work is displayed?

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Who is the sculptor that created this sculpture that is presently outside this Art Gallery in Toronto?

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Where would you have to go to see this very large spider sculpture?

Who was the artist that created it?

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What modern Art Gallery on the prairies acquired a major collection of Picasso linocut prints?

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Who is the prairie sculptor that depicted this famous, 20th Century, West Coast woman artist?

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What was the name of this famous group of artists that painted Canada's north?

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Who was the artist that painted this scene of a jack pine and where would you go to see it?

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Who is the West Coast First Nations artist that sculpted this canoe filled with travelers? Where can it be seen?

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What famous architect redesigned the Art Gallery of Alberta?

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If you had a residency on this island what province would you be in and on what island?

What were these five artists from Regina best know for and what was their groups name?

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What city would you have to go to see this large mural of Leonard Cohen?

Who was the artist/ printmaker that depicted the lifestyle of the Newfoundland inhabitants?

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What art gallery would you be at if you were looking at these 4 stone carvings?

What First Nations interpretive centre and exhibition gallery is located at a buffalo jump?

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What famous First Nations artist was well known for his woodland style of painting and story telling?

What West Coast woman artist became famous for her wild forest scenes?

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What did James Houston encourage the Inuit of Cape Dorset to do?

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What is Canada's most visited museum, which under-went a name change?

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David Burch

Abstract Expressionist Painter

ANCESTRY, Acrylic on canvas, 36x36x2. $ 2,000

SINGULARITY* Acrylic on canvas, 40x40x1, $ 2400 * Singularity is a term used by astronomers to describe black holes in space.

David Burch is known for his very colourful and dramatic canvases. He is that rare artist who, before he took up the brush when he was in his early 50s, collected mostly abstract art for 30 years from Canada, the USA, Europe and most of the states in the former Soviet Union. He moved to New York City in 1995 from Toronto where he had lived from 1967 (although born and raised in Alberta) and consequently started painting by attending the Art Students League of NYC (ASL).

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His primary instructor was Mr. Ronnie Landfield who is considered one of the pre-eminent abstract expressionists working today in the USA. David’s paintings owe a great deal of gratitude to Ronnie’s work and although David moved back to Alberta in 2007 he continues to paint with Ronnie on frequent trips back to his “home town”, the trips usually lasting up to two months. David engaged in painting in oil on canvas somewhat fantastical abstract landscapes early in his painting life and increasingly with attention being paid to individual brush strokes and the exploration of colour has dramatically expanded his artistic horizons. Although he painted strictly with oil on canvas very early, he switched to predominantly acrylics circa 2012.

Website: www.davidburchpaintings.com

Sylvia Audet Painter

Sylvia's paintings testify to an environment; since nature by its fauna and its flora has always been at the heart of her interests. "Indeed, I am influenced by the natural environment in which the water and its vapors, whether mist, ice, snow or clouds, bathed my paintings."

She has received recognition and awards from peers in Quebec, Canada, France, Spain, the Vatican, Belgium and Italy.

Website: http://sylviaaudet-artistepeintre.com sylvia.audet@hotmail.com

Rochers Baie Epave

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Julie Drew Painter

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Bob Pitzel

Watercolour Painter, Humboldt SK

Never Ceasing Love, watercolour

5777, 9 x 12.inches, watercolour

Beauty surrounds us. It is in the vivid colours of a sunset, in the sparkle of a child’s eyes as they smile, or in the light dancing through the trees. I want to absorb it all and capture the images with paint or pencil. Art is communication, and through it we are able to listen and express our innermost thoughts, not only to ourselves, but to the world and spiritually to God. As Madeleine L’Engle said, “Art creates a window to God”.

Bob Pitzel, an accomplished Saskatchewan watercolour artist, depicts images of vanishing rural landscapes, transportation and farm implements by subtly using detail, colour and light and the contrast of geometric versus organic shapes. His paintings convey an astonishing and haunting intensity, moments in time, that often go unnoticed by passersby, all with a stark realism that is uniquely his own.

Most of my paintings are in watercolour. I also use my own handmade paper for painting, using a variety of media. Most of the subjects I paint are found in nature, from large landscapes to the small details of a flower, whether exploring one idea or a theme.

Born in Humboldt, SK in 1948, Bob left the community at age 18 to study art at the Alberta College of Art (ACAD), in Calgary, then returned to Humboldt to run his Graphic Design business for 34 years. His paintings can be found in collections of businsesses, governments and in private ownership in Canada as well as internationally. member of American Society of Railway Artists.

Website: JulieDrew-ArtandFaith.com Email: julie@shedrewit.com

Bob’s current work is available for viewing at: www.bpitzel.com

Kathy Bradshaw Landscape Painter

Kathy Bradshaw - Award-Winning Encaustic and Oil ArtistLandscapes, Portraits and Still Life.

“A Saskatchewan Artist to Watch in 2019” Nouveau Gallery, Regina Representation: Avens Gallery, Canmore, AB Webster Galleries, Calgary, AB Nouveau Gallery, Regina, SK Black Spruce Gallery, Waskesiu, SK Trinity Galleries, Saint John, NB

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www.kathybradshawart.com www.instagram.com/kathybradshawart _______________________________ Kathy discusses her encaustic painting process with Paul Constable, Director of Artists in Canada.

See page 55 Uplifting II, Encaustic & oil stick on 36” x 42” cradled panel, 2019

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Bozica Grskovich

Mixed Media Figurative Artist

Claire Bull Painter, ON

Dreams of Love, Acrylic 36"x36"

Parchment Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas 19.5x15.5in / 50x40cm

Part of “Conversations� series. The word parchment comes from a blend of Old French word parchemin and late Latin word pergamina. It is a durable writing surface used in ancient and medieval times.

Website: www.bogrskovich.com

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I just can't give up, but get so defeated... and then keep trying because I am the "Little Engine that Could" haha. I have a Peony painting that is quite pretty, Hope it fits with your decor.

Website: https://claire-bull.pixels.com/

Nikki Jacquin

Portrait & Plein Air Instructor, Regina SK

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Rolf Krohn

Landscape Painter, Delmany SK

Tangled Thoughts, Acrylic /Copper Leaf

Kootenay Mountains,

For many years my work focused on commissioned portraiture. With plein air painting, I get to combine my two loves, painting and the outdoors. My plein air group tours to France and Cuba enable me the privilege of connecting others to their creativity through a more intimate experience of another's culture. Each introduction shrinks the world just a little bit more. ____________________

Much of my landscape painting is now plein air, due to down-sizing. My studio in my residence is on the tighter side, so smaller paintings occupy my winters. In the spring and through till fall, I head out with the motorhome and travel the province from north to south in search of new imagery and I am rarely disappointed.

See Nikki"s Wearable Art on her website.

More Wearable Art by Le Galeriste.

See Page 51.

Website: www.nikkisportraits.com

Website: https://www.artistsincanada.com/krohn

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Kevin Quinlan AOCA

Irene Stroshein

Figurative, Saskatoon SK

Song of the Forest Watercolour on rag paper 22 x 30�

Painter, Saskatoon SK

$2500

Kevin is a Saskatoon Based artist who works in various media. Working in drawing, painting and sculpture his works explore the human condition and the natural world. Kevin’s Hall of Fame portraits can be seen in Saskatchewan Western Development Museums. His large scale public sculptures are installed in various communities throughout Saskatchewan and other artworks are in private collections.

Kevin has completed several successful long term artist in residence contracts and has taught classes and workshops in over one hundred different Saskatchewan communities. His goal is to continue to be involved in the development of the arts in Saskatchewan.

Website: www.artistsincanada.com/quinlan

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Red, Yellow & Blue Spirals, 30x15" A/C I work in pastel, watercolor, acrylic, oil, pencil, alcohol ink and mixed media. Art is different for everyone, but to me it brings me great joy and inspiration creating a unique piece for myself or a customer.

Website: https://www.artistsincanada.com/stroshein

John Perret

Landscape Photographer, Saskatoon

Canola, Digital Print I operate a business called Light Line Photography and market scenic prints in a variety of media and sizes.

I have also recently published a photography book called 'Love This Saskatchewan' available in bookstores or through my website. Individual and corporate commissions accepted.

Website: http://www.johnperretphoto.com/

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Oded and Pamela Ravek Glass Artists, Ottawa, ON

Two of four sculptures on exhibit 2019 - 2020 at Jerusalem’s dynamic Mamilla Avenue. The ancient walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, seen here as a backdrop to our glass art.

MEMORIES OF THE HEATH Glass Art Sculpture. Iridescent Glass. Hand Shaped Molten-Glass. Maple Wood. ­ Base: 46cm x 53cm.

Height: 85cm.c. RAVEKAGA 2019. All Rights Reserved.

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COURTYARD OF A THOUSAND GOLDEN DREAMS Glass Art Sculpture. Iridescent Glass. Dichroic Glass.

Hand Shaped Molten-Glass. 24K Gold. Contour Kiln Fired. Babinga Wood. Base: 46cm square. Height: 74cm. c. RAVEKAGA 2019. All Rights Reserved.

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Jinny Slyfield

Painter, Figurative, Landscape

Jinny Slyfield loves vivid colour in all her work, including landscapes, portraits and abstracts. Her nudes glow. The vibrant under painting creates a solid base for the palette of soft skin tones defining the curves of the body.

Jinny has taught in Ottawa, France and Switzerland and traveled widely to paint plein air in Mexico, California, France, Croatia, Australia and Italy.

• Member of: the Canadian Institute of Portrait Artists, • The Portrait Society of Canada, • Associate Member: Society of Canadian Artists email: jingrant@rogers.com Website: https:/fineartamerica/profiles/jinny-slyfield.html

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Nude with Pony Tail, 36 x 24" Oil on Board

Serge V. Richard

Sculpture / Installation, Fredericton NB

“Internum Fortitudinem” (installation) 2017 - Various metals, Glass, Sand and Rubber Dimensions: 10’ x 6’ x 20’ My sculptures and installations are often conceived out of play and experimentation. In a scientific way, I enjoy the ability to form glass, metals, wood or finding focus during nature hikes. Exploring and combining ideas from night dreams' inspiration also fuels my wonder.

Website: www.1000dreams.ca

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Patricia Savoie Painter

Wiz Wensel

Painter, Edmonton AB

Selection of 9 inspirational abstract paintings

As a painter, I am primarily a landscape impressionist. Through study, the gradual awakening of my inner senses has guided my endeavours to blend light and colour into beauty.

I strive to realize this through each finished work.

Painting "en plein air" puts me in an empowering environment, allowing me to paint "the moment" quickly and spontaneously and to condense and process what I see into a reality without clutter.

Wiz has been a visual artist and formalist, abstract painter for over 30 years. Much of her work is primarily concerned with colour. "I am very passionate about colour and surrounding myself with beautiful, vibrant hues that uplift me. I derive energy and inspiration from them and feel that my paintings offer the same to others. Working in an abstract format enables me to be experimental and playful with the process. The outcome is often unpredictable and therefore adds a higher degree of risk in my art making. Please feel free to see more of my work."

Website: https://www.artistsincanada.com/savoie

Website: http://wizwensel.com/

Untitled, painting

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Encaustic Painting

Kathy Bradshaw is revived by an ancient painting medium

By Paul Constable The new age of painting with an old age medium. From the time of the Pharos this time honoured medium was used to embellish wall murals as well produce life like death masks that were placed over the mummified face of their loved ones. Even after thousands of years these likenesses retained their owners likeness in colour and brilliance as the day they were produced.

Egyptian mummies were sealed in airtight tombs, which helped keep the paintings like the day they were painted, but even so, today’s encaustics will be retain their freshness for a lifetime.

Kathy's portrait version (on the right) of a portrait belonging to an Egyptian Princess done in encaustic over 2000 years ago.

I am visiting Kathy Bradshaw her studio in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as she takes me through the process of creating her landscapes, horses and animals. The studio is outfitted with a ventilation system positioned above her stainless steel work table.

A warming plate off to one side has a half a dozen empty cat food tins partially filled with bees wax that are melting on the surface.

Each tin is tinted with a different colour of oil paint and she has a 2 inch flat hogs hair brush dedicated to each colour. Encaustic paintings are not as fragile as you might think.

“I add a 1/7 parts Damar varnish to each tin, this hardens the surface of the wax for durability, says Kathy.” Kathy is an experienced oil painter and in the past 15 years she has almost totally switched over to encaustic painting. "I love what I can do with wax and oil and it surprises me every day. I am able to add gold leaf and other elements into my work as I build onto the paintings using transparent layers of wax and pigment”.

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Kathy tends to work with an established pallet before starting out and the pigments flow onto birch panels that offer stability for the wax. The pigments set up quickly and she works the surface with a hot air gun and a butane torch. (That is why she has a metal table top) The heat and hot air push the pigments around as she tilts the board from side to side moving a wave of colour with it.

She uses oil sticks to work directly on the surface of the hot plate and then mixes and layers the colours. It is surprizing how much detail she can achieve doing this. For finer detail she uses hogs hair brushes to load and move the paint and wax around. Brushes are dedicated to certain pigments to keep the colours fresh.

“I switched to encaustic as there are a lot of traditional landscape oil painters out there and I was able to acquire Gallery representation because what I was doing was different. My days are filled with commissions and working toward gallery showings, so not much inventory is left in the studio. I feel very fortunate that people have embraced what I am doing.”

See how this painting has evolved and what it looks like finished on Kathy’s page 44 of this catalogue. Also take a moment to view her website from the links provided to see more of her work.

Kathy's website.

Website: www.cathybradshawart.com

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Canadian Art Quiz Answers 1 2

The Arts and Letters Building, Toronto

The sculptor, Leo Mol, Winnipeg

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Henry Moore, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

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The artist Louise Bourgeois, National Gallery, Ottawa

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The Remai Modern Art Gallery, Saskatoon

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Joe Fafard, sculpture of Emily Carr, Toronto

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The Group of Seven met regularly, Toronto

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Tom Thomson, Jack Pine, National Gallery, Ottawa

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Bill Reid, Spirt of Haida Gwaii, Vancouver Airport

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Randall Stout Design inspired

by Frank Gehry, Edmonton

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Fogo Island, Newfoundland

The Regina Five, Regina

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Leonard Cohen, Crescent Street, Montreal

David Blackwood, Fire Down on the Newfoundland, Etching

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The Art Gallery of Burnaby, Vitality & Slate of Nature by Thomas Cannell

Wanuskewin Heritage Park, Saskatoon

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Norval Morresseau, Woodland style

Emily Carr, A Rushing Sea of Undergrowth, Vancouver Art Gallery

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The Canadian Museum of History, formally The Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa

James Houston introduced printmaking to the Inuit of Cape Dorset

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Quiz Answers from pages 40/41

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