Title: Rose Cottage
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 12 3/4″ x 18 3/4″
Artist: Ian Nicholl
About the Artist:
Ian Nicholl has been drawing and painting most of his life. Since retiring he has concentrated on watercolours pursuing a love of landscape and architectural subjects developed in his native England. In addition to commissions for house and cottage portraits his paintings and prints have sold privately and at shows in Muskoka and Toronto.
The massive Danforth Bridge always captivated me. My first painting of it, a full size watercolour, bought by The City of Toronto, was of the bridge before the protection at the top, which may be very convenient, but ugly. Its real name is the Prince Edward Viaduct System, or more commonly know as The Viaduct, and it was completed in 1918.
Title: Pez Collection
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 12″x16″
Artist: Maureen Wood
About the painting: This was my sons’ Pez collection.
Title: Solitude on the Way to Santiag
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 24″x36″
Artist: Encarnita Gardner
About the painting: Â Belongs to a series of paintings drawn from my experience walking El Camino de Santiago. The Way to Santiago is the name given the route medieval pilgrims followed from all across Europe to Santiago de Compostela, a city located in the northwest corner of Spain where the Apostle Saint James is buried. Pilgrims walked this long route as penance or petition to the saint, with the expectation of achieving special grace. This painting depicts the solitude you face when storm and cold threaten as you cross the vast, flat Meseta. The tree, lonely itself, is your companion for a few steps. Last year I completed the 800 kilometre walk from the Pyrenees to Santiago with my husband John.
Artist’s websites:
www.johnandencarnita.blogspot.com
www.encarnita.ca
Russell Division 16x12in by Michael Steinhauser
I managed to sketch this picture the week before the TTC retired the old street cars. Great memories.
Michael Steinhauser
Title: Temple of Apollo and Church of St Paul, Syracuse, Sicily
Artist: Pat Vicari
About the painting: I found this an eloquent juxtaposition of the very ancient, and pagan religious monument and an eighteenth-century Christian church.
Title: All That Jazz
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size: 12″x9″
Artist: Gay Gooderham
About the painting: This painting was inspired by a beautiful jazz concert by Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White playing at Koerner Hall shortly after it opened. The notes just flew up into the air in bursts of colour.
Picture title: Trappers’ Cabin, Temagami
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 18′ x 24″
Artist: Jane Eberhard
About the painting: In the north, where hunters were out checking traplines for days on end, there were straegically placed trappers’ cabins where anyone could bunk down for the night. Â Some remain, and this one is on an island in Lake Temagami.
About the artist: Jane has spent summers in Temagami almost all her life. She has a strong emotional attachment to the wilderness forest. This feeling is expressed through the colours in her paintings
