Title: Waiting in vain…
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 16″x20″
Artist: Petro Dhimitri
Artist’s blog: petrodhimitri.blogspot.com

Title: David
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 18″x24″
Artist: David Xu
Year: 2011
Artist’s website: www.artsofdxu.com

Title: The Bridge in Bruges
Medium: Oil
Size: 16″H x 20″W
Artist: Elizabeth Petite Prociw
Year: 2011
Artist’s website: bethprociw.blogspot.com

Title: Market Woman
Medium: pastels
Size: 16H”x12W”
Artist: Sally Mills
Year: 2011
About the painting: From a photo taken on a recent trip to Argentina. Woman in Buenos Aires market was asking for money, and was delighted to pose for a few pesos.

Title: Young woman at rest, Madrid
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 18.5″x25″
Artist: Alejandro Rabazo
Year: 2010
Artist’s website: www.alejandrorabazo.com

Title: Longing for Spring
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 24″ x 24″
Artist: Athanasia Susie Colomvakos
Year: 2011
About the painting: Painted the week of Jan 24th. It was cold, grey and damp out. I had a need to paint flowers as a “So Long” to January, “Welcome February” and looking forward to “Spring just around the corner”
Artist’s website: www.susiecolomvakos.com

Title: Vision of the day
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 9.5″ x 13.5″
Artist: Martine Simard

Title: New Snow
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 16″x20″
Artist: Edward Abela
Artist’s website: www.edwardabela.com

Title: Winter in Danforth Area (Toronto)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 16″x20″
Artist: Petro Dhimitri
Artist’s blog: petrodhimitri.blogspot.com

Title: Mary Fragedakis, Toronto Councillor
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 18″x24″
Artist: David Xu
Year: 2011
Artist’s website: www.artsofdxu.com

Title: Ponte Vecchio
Medium: Watercolour
Size:  14″ x 22″
Artist: Gay Gooderham
Year: 2011
About the painting: The sun was starting to set as we approached the bridge. The warm colors glowed and held us transfixed.
Artist’s website: www.flickr.com/photos/gaysart/

Medium: watercolour
Size: 12″x16″
Artist: Irene Flint
Year: 2010
About the artist: I am interested in portraying people in familiar situations. More of my work may be seen on the internet at centralconnection.ca.

Title: Winter at Earl Rowe Park, Toronto
Medium: Oil
Size: 36″ x 30″
Artist: Alejandro Rabazo
Year: 2010
About the painting: A really nice park for all seasons. You might very well be the only one walking  in the forest.
Artist’s website: www.alejandrorabazo.com

The Don Valley Art Club cordially invites you and your friends to its Annual Spring Art Show & Sale at Todmorden Mills Museum and Arts Centre

Opening Reception
Saturday, May 7
12 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Show Dates and Hours:
Saturday, May 7, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, May 8, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday, May 14, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, May 15, 12 p.m. to 3p.m. (last day of show)

Location:
The Paper Mill Gallery at Todmorden Mills Museum
67 Pottery Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

FREE PARKING

Painting title: Sebingbille, Ontario
Medium: Oil
Size: 16″ x 20″
Artist: Dennis Moss
Year: 2010

Title: Tree Dancer
Medium: Pencil on illustration board
Size:  13 x 19
Artist: Mark Johnson
Year: 2010
About the painting: Tree Dancers are my artistic vision of how we interact with the world around us. They bathe in light, pull water up from the earth, exhale purity, and dance.
About the artist: Wonder, alongside witnessing and whimsy, are core values in my work.
Artist’s website: www.markfineart.ca

Title: Mack
Medium: watercolour
Size: 11″x17″
Artist: John Werner © 2006

Title: Portrait of a woman
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Size: 24″x18″
Artist: Amy Yi Chen
Year: 2010
About the drawing: This is one of my several portrait drawings done in our Sunday Portrait Session. For 3 hours we paint or draw different fellow members who take turns modeling 25 minutes poses for the group. I find it a great exercise because it requires quick observation and intense focus. Though when it was my turn, I felt like it was an hour long…

Title: Autumn Maple
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 30″x40″
Artist: Dianne Shackel
About the painting: As a true Canadian I love the colours of Autumn. My paintings range from semi realistic to abstract.
Artist’s website: www.diannesecord.com

Title: The Fall in Toronto
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 16″x20″
Artist: Petro Dhimitri
Artist’s blog: petrodhimitri.blogspot.com

Title: drawing on memory
Medium: powdered and vine charcoal
Size: 20 x 16″
Artist: Catherine X Blank
Year: September, 2010

About the painting: The other night, I dipped my fingers in powdered charcoal and ran it over the paper. At first, it was just a lovely smear but memory began to surface in those fingers and I remembered using the same gesture on horses, running fingers and palms over their faces, feeling the line and curve, the underlying bones and muscle. With that memory, the horse began to emerge — muzzle, cheek and brow from remembered gesture, remembered communication of touch.  The mind’s eye is not as sure or detailed as the artist’s vision, but the hand remembers.

Website (of sorts): www.catherineblank.ca

Title: Rolling Hills
Medium: Acrylic on board – heavy impasto painted with the palette knife
Size: 5″x8″ (framed and matted 11″x14″)
Artist: Julita Wolanska
Year: 2010
Artist’s website: www.julitka.com

Title: Cheers
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 48″x36″
Artist: Linda Roy
Artist’s Blog: lindasartandattitude.blogspot.com

Title: Mackerel
Medium: Oil on Birch Panel
Size: 6″x6″
Artist: Derek M. Lowes
Year: 2010

About the painting: This is one painting in a series of six. The series is a high-realism small scale project I chose to try and test the limits of my ability. All paintings in the series were done from photographs.

About the Artist: Derek Lowes is a resident of Toronto, Ontario. He works as a Creative Director/Marketing Consultant and was trained as an illustrator at Sherian College in Oakville. Derek has been painting for over 20 years and uses different mediums to effect the outcome of his work. He likes to experiment with landscapes, but his subject matter varies. Most works are part of a themed series of paintings or mini collections.

Artist’s website: www.explainit.ca

Title: The Scarborough Bluffs at East Point Park, Toronto
Medium: Oil
Size: 18″x36″
Artist: Alejandro Rabazo
Year: 2010
About the painting: A really nice area of the Bluffs, very quiet, great for painting, relaxation, walking.
Artist’s website: www.alejandrorabazo.com

Title: Faith, Love, Hope
Medium: Acrylic and gold foil on wood
Size: 8″x18″
Artist: David Bowring
Year: 2010
About the painting: This painting represents the Three Cardinal Virtues by single blossoms of Trilium, Bleeding heart and Croccus. I have borrowed the gold (imitation) foil halo from Byzantine inconography to represent holiness.

Title: Balinese Dancer
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 16″x12″
Artist: Myra Evans
About the painting: This portrait was inspired by a trip to Bali, where I was fortunate enough to see young Balinese dancers getting ready for a traditional dance. This girl was only 10 years old.

Title: Upper Canada College at Night
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 20″x24″
Artist: Patricia Vicari
Year: 2010
About the painting: I painted this as part of my ongoing project of painting Toronto scenes. I pass this site almost every day and find it vaguely disturbing, as the College itself is vaguely disturbing to  me.
About the artist: I have studied painting for many years, at the Toronto School of Art, the Haliburton School of the Arts and with various teachers. I am a member of the Toronto Watercolour Society, the Don Valley Art Club, the Forest Hill Art Club, the Artists’ Workshop, and have participated in many group shows. I  have also exhibited in several solo shows.
Artist’s website: http://www.patriciavicariart.blogspot.com/

The waves of the Jonian Sea, (oil on canvas, 16×20) by Petro Dhimitri.

Title: Street at dusk
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 12″x16″
Artist: Bai Ting Wun
Year: 2010
Artist’s website: http://btwunarts.weebly.com

Title: Fruit Salad
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 9″ X 12″
Artist: Julita Wolanska
Year: 2010
About the painting: I painted others were cutting fruits. Salad was excellent – I was reminded that next time I will be cutting they will be painting!
Artist’s website : www.julitka.com

Title: Waiting To Be Served
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Size: Cropped from Original 18″x24″
Artist: Linda Roy
Artist’s Blog: lindasartandattitude.blogspot.com

Title: Blue Nude
Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media
Size: 36″ x 24″
Artist: Sandee Shore

Title: Fall time at Earl Rowe Park, Toronto
Medium: Oil
Size: 36″x30″
Artist: Alejandro Rabazo
Year: 2010
About the painting: Earl Rowe Park, located at Bathurst south of Sheppard has a great and beautiful forest so accessible and convenient for all. Very quiet. The colors in fall time are incredible. A truly massive display of oranges and yellows.
Artist’s website: www.alejandrorabazo.com

Title: Flowering Hills on the Camino de Santiago
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 24″x30″
Artist: Encarnita Gardner
About the painting: This is a third painting from the same series. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the slopes, carpeted up to the horizon with spring flowers.
Artist’s websites: www.johnandencarnita.blogspot.com and www.encarnita.ca

Title:  At the Fish Market
Artist: Myra Evans
Medium: Ink and Watercolor
Website: myra-evans.artistswebsites.com
About the Painting: This recent painting was inspired by a trip to North Vietnam. I especially enjoyed rendering  the “sea” of colorful hats the women wore as  they worked cleaning fish.

Title: Market Day in Aix-en-Provence
Medium: Watercolour
Artist: Irene Flint

Title: Sombre Light at the Brick Works
Medium: Oil on Wood Panel
Size: 36″ x 48″
Artist: Charles Wakefield
Year: 2010
Artist’s Statement: I started painting a series on the Don Valley Brick Works a few years ago to document the changes which were taking place in this historic site in Toronto. While most of my works are Plein Air paintings, this one is a studio piece, based on photographs that I take on my many walks through the walking trails in the old quarry. I chose to make this painting almost monochromatic to capture the moodiness of the scene. It was an overcast day, with low clouds, the city-scape barely poking through the clouds. The reflections of the buildings in the pond were marred by the slightest ripples indicating a breeze. The sun was bravely shining, behind the clouds, in a vain attempt to burn off the heavy mist, and cast its light on the glassy pond.
Artist’s Website: www.charleswakefieldartist.com

Title: Visit to the Sugar Shack
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 10″ x 14″
Artist: Ian G. Nicholl
Year: 2010
About the painting: This painting was done after a March break visit with our granchildren to a sugar shack near Huntsville. It was a glorious spring day. Following a cool night the sun had the sap running and the children enjoyed snow cooled maple sugar twirled on a popsicle stick. In bush that was almost monochromatic, the children’s clothing provided a bright focus.

Title: Path in the park
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 16″x20″
Artist: Bai Ting Wun
Year: 2009
About the painting: This painting just won the Jurors choice Award in 2010 Art Club juried show
Artist’s website: http://btwunarts.weebly.com

Title: Blooming
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 10″x8″
Artist: Julita Wolanska
About the painting: Inspired by hanging basket with petunias.
Artist’s website: www.julitka.com

Title: Summer In Glen Williams
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 12″x18″
Artist: Linda Roy
Artist’s Blog: lindasartandattitude.blogspot.com

Title: Cotswold Morning
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 16″x20″
Artist: Brent Arlitt
About the Painting: The mill at Lower Slaughter in the Cotswold, built in 1658. The brilliant June morning sun warms the stones as the clear water happily cascades down the mill race to the tune of birds singing.
About the Artist: Mr. Arlitt is a professional engineer who enjoys capturing and conveying the feelings of a landscape scene into a painting.

Title: Poppies in a Wheat Field
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 24″x30″
Artist: Encarnita Gardner
About the painting: This is another painting in the Camino de Santiago series. In late spring the rich red colours of the poppies in the foreground contrast with the green of the wheat.

Title: A woman’s portrait
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 16″x20″
Artist: Petro Dhimitri

Title: Farm on the Hill
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 11″x17″
Artist: Carole Robitaille
Year: 2000

About the painting: Driving through country side near Kirby Ontario and found lovely view of farm, with cows grazing on slope. It was a beautiful day and totally enjoyed the afternoon paintinn many different mediums. First love is painting people, but have also grown to love plein aire painting and also doing some abstracts.

About the artist: Love painting in many different mediums. First love is painting people, but have also grown to love plein aire painting and also doing some abstracts.

Title: Solar Storm
Medium: Acrylic
Artist: Patricia Vicari
About the painting: The sunspots created by explosions on the sun’s surface during a solar storm look oddly like huge sunflowers. I found the granulation of the surface, seen through a telescope quite fascinating and tried to capture the effect here.

Artist: Michael Steinhauser
Title: Psyche bathing
Size: 20″ x 16″