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: 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: 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: The White Pine
Artist: Jane Eberhard

About the painting: In Temagami Provincial Forest, the white pines are the forest royalty. This ancient giant is on high ground, but even if it weren’t, it would tower over all other trees on its island. It can be seen from a great distance, and is a landmark for boaters.

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.

Title: Walsh Road No.1
Medium: Oil
Size: 6″x8″
Artist: Carol Berry
Year: 2010

About the painting: It was an unusually warm day for the first weekend of June, so I wore short shorts, a tank top and crocs. I remembered sunscreen but I thought it was too windy for my fancy new plien air umbrella so I took it down. Big mistake for two reasons. Although I was very happy with my painting, the mid-tones are a bit dark when viewed indoors, because the strong daylight light was so much brighter when painting without my umbrella’s shade. And because I was in the direct sunlight, I myself got fried by the sun, but only where I missed with my sunscreen. Particularly horrible are the small circle tan marks on my white feet where the holes in my crocs let in the sun.

About the artist: I am involved in both the applied and the fine arts fields. Work days are spent as a production designer, creating print layouts on my Mac. With job and family commitments, as well as (oddly) my volunteering for my art club, I only find time to paint a couple of times a week. I attend Tuesday evening life painting sessions at the Don Valley Art Club, where the models hold one pose for three hours. On the weekend I try to paint en plein air, capturing the orderly farmland and countryside near Toronto, Ontario. I spend about three hours on these life and plein air paintings and I consider these quick studies to be finished paintings. The benefit of working alla prima is that I push myself to focus on the composition and values. I try changes to the colours on my palette and with the materials I work with. No touch-ups are done later in the studio, these studies capture a moment in time. I approach larger studio paintings completely differently, much more time is spent planning their composition and developing the forms with underpainting and glazing.

Artist’s website: http://www.carolberryartdesign.com/

Title: The Scarborough Bluffs
Medium: Stryofoam oil palette & gesso
Size: 5″x7″
Artist: Liz Creswick
Year: 2009
Artist’s website: lizcreswick.com
About the painting: This is one of my newly invented “Recycled Styro Art”, made from using styrofoam trays, reused as palettes, then cutting up into images and embedding in gesso/plaster.

Title: Luty Light House
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 18″x18″
Artist: Linda Roy
Artist’s Blog: lindasartandattitude.blogspot.com

Title: Pensilvania (USA)
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 18″x24″
Artist: Petro Dhimitri
Artist’s website: http://petrodhimitri.blogspot.com/

Title: Laccalmie Comes to Rest
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 16″ X 20″
Artist: Brent Arlitt

About the Painting: The old freighter was beached in a storm and abandoned for decades at Baie ST. Paul, and now evokes a variety of feelings.

About the Artist: Mr. Arlitt is a professional engineer who enjoys capturing and conveying the feelings of a landscape scene into a painting.

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.

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.  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

Title: Algonquin Vista
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 15″x22″
Artist: Carolyne Pascoe
Year: 2008

About the painting: This painting was the 2008 winner of Best Landscape Award for the DVAC. Every year I participate in a show in Algonquin Park during October. This painting depicts a scene along the Highway 60 corridor, so typical of the beautiful fall in Algonquin. Many of my paintings are done on location, however this one was painted in the studio with a sketch, photograph and memories of that beautiful day for inspiration.

About the artist: Carolyne Pascoe is primarily a watercolour painter who enjoys painting on location in her many travels throughout Canada, New England and Europe. She also paints abstracts in acrylic and watercolour as well as flowers from her garden at home in her loft studio gallery. She is the immediate Past President of the Toronto Watercolour Society(TWS) and has received numerous awards for her paintings in many shows that she has been juried into throughout Ontario. She holds the honour of  a Silver Level of Distinction-Signature Membership of TWS and is also a member of the Scarborough Art Guild, Markham Group of Artists, Pine Ridge Arts Council, Central Ontario Art Association, East Central Ontario Art Association, Vodka Painters of Canada, and is an associate of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, as well as the DVAC. She has paintings in private and corporate collections in Canada, the USA, a variety of countries in Europe and Asia as well as Australia. On Location Carolyne tries to capture not only the mood of the day, but also her inner feelings towards the beauty of the landscape, sea and town that make it a unique moment in time and  and place.

Title: Calling the Grandfathers
Medium: gouache
Size: 16″ X 20″
Artist: Carole Robitaille

About the painting:
Painted after experiencing a Sweat Lodge Ceremony.  Near the beginning of the ceremony, everyone’s grandfathers were called upon to hear and aid in whatever we we needed assistance with. The experience  left a deep impression that seemed to open doors to my creativity.

Title: Winter memories
Medium: Acrylic on Watercolour Paper
Size: 16″x20″
Artist: Jullita Wolanska
Year: 2010

About the painting: I documented snow as it occured – looking through the window:)
Artist’s website: www.julitka.com

Picture Title: Algonquin Park
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 10″ x 14″
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.

Boat Repair on Grand Manan 10×8 by Michael Steinhauser

One of the great scenes that a painter encounters on Grand Manan Island

Joanina Lake, Greece (oil on canvas, 16×20) by Petro Dhimitri

Emily Provincial Park (16 x 24) oil, by Carol Berry, copyright 2006

This painting of the view from the beach at Emily Provincial Park on Pidgeon Lake near Omemee, Ontario. Mixing the blues was very elusive, I finally realized that I had mixed all my tubes of blue paints together to get the blues I wanted.

Carol Berry

Coming from England to Canada more than 50 years ago, it was fun to return to  the U.K. to paint this sceneof the usually short-lived english winter in the so-called West Country.

Ian Balfour

A view of the Toronto Don Valley River (oil, 16×20 inches) by Petro Dhimitri

“Moment of Forever” 24″ x 30″ acrylic

Mark Johnson is a Toronto artist and recently a DVAC member. He enjoys exploring and sharing his sense of Wonder & Whimsy through his drawings and paintings. Please visit his website http://markfineart.ca to hear more about him and see other examples of his work.

“Force” Acrylic on canvas. Julita Wolanska

Charlevoix, Quebec, acrylic painting on gallery canvas 18″ x18″

Edward Abela

I was born in Tirana (Albania) and I arrived in Canada as a permanent resident on January 25, 2002. I graduated from Tirana’s Art College in 1956 and from Tirana’s University in 1963. I worked as a journalist for more than 30 years. At the same time I participated in many local and National Art Shows. I had a solo art show in Tirana in 1987.

I was born in Tirana (Albania) and I arrived in Canada as a permanent resident on January 25, 2002. I graduated from Tirana’s Art College in 1956 and from Tirana’s University in 1963. I worked as a journalist for more than 30 years. At the same time I participated in many local and National Art Shows. I had a solo art show in Tirana in 1987.

Jean Rodak

Short Bio:
Jean is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, where she has earned her degree in Design and Illustration. Jean exhibits, lives and teaches art in Toronto, Ontario. A founding member of North York Visual Artists, Jean is a signature member of the Toronto Watercolour Society and is an award-winning member of several other art groups. Her works are part of several corporate and private collections in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

Artist’s Statement:
“My fascination with colour, design and emotion are the main motivators in every single drawing and painting that I create. The subjects, medium and colours combine with fantasy and imagination to express impressions and feelings that are experienced at the time of fruition. The act of creating is often enough to stimulate the work  to a fascinating end. Turmoil and pleasure are equally important influences in my works.  They have been described as vibrant and exciting, a feast for the eyes – I love this description.

What Lies Beyond
watercolor
Jean Rodak

Short Bio:
Jean is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, where she has earned her degree in Design and Illustration. Jean exhibits, lives and teaches art in Toronto, Ontario. A founding member of North York Visual Artists, Jean is a signature member of the Toronto Watercolour Society and is an award-winning member of several other art groups. Her works are part of several corporate and private collections in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

Artist’s Statement:
“My fascination with colour, design and emotion are the main motivators in every single drawing and painting that I create. The subjects, medium and colours combine with fantasy and imagination to express impressions and feelings that are experienced at the time of fruition. The act of creating is often enough to stimulate the work  to a fascinating end. Turmoil and pleasure are equally important influences in my works. They have been described as vibrant and exciting, a feast for the eyes – I love this description.

Jean Rodak

Jean is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, where she has earned her degree in Design and Illustration. Jean exhibits, lives and teaches art in Toronto, Ontario. A founding member of North York Visual Artists, Jean is a signature member of the Toronto Watercolour Society and is an award-winning member of several other art groups. Her works are part of several corporate and private collections in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

Artist’s Statement:
“My fascination with colour, design and emotion are the main motivators in every single drawing and painting that I create. The subjects, medium and colours combine with fantasy and imagination to express impressions and feelings that are experienced at the time of fruition. The act of creating is often enough to stimulate the work  to a fascinating end. Turmoil and pleasure are equally important influences in my works.  They have been described as vibrant and exciting, a feast for the eyes – I love this description.

The wild and rocky Cape Breton shore is a romantic spot, frequented by seabirds and tourists mainly.  It is ideal to inspire artists, too, and, as you paint (or maybe take photos) you will sea eagles soaring overhead.

Pat Vicari

Lower Pitt Lake is a charming part of the Fraser River system where I have spent many a happy hour drinking in the peace and observing the great blue herons. The mountains of the Coastal Range are off in the distance.

Pat Vicari

The watercolour is of an unforgettable walk down a Cabbagetown street with my wife Sandy and our golden retriever Jessie, one morning in early November. It had snowed overnight when some foliage still remained on the chestnut trees. The quality of the light was soft and magical, and I have tried to capture it by avoiding contrasting tones.

Alan Waterhouse

This watercolour called Childhood Summer reminds me of a street near where I grew up in Oakville. It was a carefree time. We raced outside after breakfast and returned when the street lights went on.

Gay Gooderham

This is a sketch done from the Todmorden museum site looking across the valley at the Minto apartment building gong up at the Broadview-Pottery Road intersection.  It is an interesting piece of contemporary architecture and is bound to have a huge effect on the naighborhood as it is built to entice upscale professional people to this average income area. It is also a visual treat from the old East York format.
George Shane

After a life as a cartographer and architectural illustrator, I enjoy to portray in detail the architecture of Toronto, the places where we mingled, where we worked, where we loved, places  of worship and learning, the Toronto we carry in our minds.

This painting is part of a large collection of oils and watercolours  about the architecture of Toronto. I trust that one day they will be considered historical pieces of a  Toronto relentlessly changing by modernity.

Alejandro Rabazo

This is one of a series I’m doing using my old styrofoam palettes covered with oil paint, to make images using exacto knife and then squishing into plaster (gesso etc.)

Have done buildings, objects and this landscape.

Liz Creswick