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State/Province: Ontario
Country: Canada

Dimensions: 12.2 x 16.1 x 1
Artist's Statement: This painting was inspired by a seafood market I visited in Dijon, France this summer. The mackerel fish looked fresh and inviting, and the markings on the fish were richly expressive. I used a wet-on-wet technique to depict the color gradients and stripes on the fish. I applied highlights, shadows, and dark areas to create the value, and I also portrayed each fish as a distinct individual.
Year painting was created: 2025

State/Province: Saskatchewan
Country: Canada

Dimensions: 15 x 22
Artist's Statement: I tried to capture the sunny yet long cold season on the prairies. Typically around February each year in my hometown of Regina SK, wildlife is out and about gathering food and suddenly there's an excitement for the arrival of warm seasons.
Year painting was created: 2020

State/Province: Ontario
Country: Canada

Dimensions: 14.75 x 18.25
Artist's Statement: My background in graphic design has informed both my representational and abstract creative expression, with pattern, hue, tonal ranges, texture, repetition, composition and design being given due consideration
Year painting was created: 2025

State/Province: Ontario
Country: Canada

Dimensions: 30 x 22 x 1.5
Artist's Statement: Searching for ancient trees and rock, I found this amazing old tree on a trail in Neyaashiinigmiing (Cape Croker) Ontario, where I live nearby on the Saugeen Bruce Peninsula. Its twisted and gnarled trunk, broken branches and hollowed cavities are witness to the life around it and within it. The young saplings nearby are fed by the old trees’ energy, being cared for like a forest family. My art expresses my deep connection to the forest, the trees, the wildlife living within this natural world. The forest is both complex and alive; silent and singing; where the trees talk to me.
Year painting was created: 2025

State/Province: Alberta
Country: Canada

Dimensions: 11.5 x 15
Artist's Statement: During a 60-day period of working as an artist and crew member on an Antarctic expedition ship a few years ago, I had the privilege of being exposed to many Antarctic moods and incredible natural wonders!
Year painting was created: 2025

State/Province: Alberta
Country: Canada

Dimensions: 20 x 28 x 1
Artist's Statement: Based on reference photos that I took while visiting Newfoundland, this piece is one of an ongoing series presenting dramatic interpretations of the gigantic and ever-changing forms of ice that appear along its coastlines.
Year painting was created: 2024

State/Province: ON
Country: Canada

Dimensions: 12 x 16
Artist's Statement: A painting from a reference photo I took of a place on our way back from Beaverton, Ontario. I liked the scene and the cottage.
Year painting was created: 2025

State/Province: ON
Country: Canada

Dimensions: 15 x 11
Artist's Statement: Cuba used to give people a mysterious feeling, now more tourists come after its opening. A few years ago, I traveled to Havana, Cuba. I love the local cultural color very much. The ancient buildings and classic cars are very picturesque. This dilapidated building attracted me. The raw iron window frames, the iron bars on the balcony, and the shabby earth walls are all lifelike, which are very good subjects for watercolor painting.
Year painting was created: 2023

State/Province: Saskatchewan
Country: Canada

Dimensions: 14.75 x 21.25
Artist's Statement: This amazing sight along the shoreline of a the boreal forest in autumn was truly remarkable. I tries to capture the the wonderful display of colour of the different foliage. I reflected back on my favourite group of painters from the Impressionist era while reviewing also a few of the modern impressionists. IUsing mymy own style and painting techniques which brings out the textured details as well as freer smooth transition from colour to colour.
Year painting was created: 2025

State/Province: Ontario
Country: Canada

Dimensions: 22 x 30
Artist's Statement: a full moon lighting up a wetland pond is my equivalent of taking in a night ball game, brings the a different alive to the dark. the full moon overfills this small beaver pond flowing westward along 12 mile bay rd in georgian bay. painting the light involved Wife Wendy accompanied me during the night when / where we took notes of what the moon highlighted and then we came back during the day to see what the night would not reveal.
Year painting was created: 2024