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

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

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: 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 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

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

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: 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: 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: 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.

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: 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.

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.

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.

Mushrooms, by Maureen Wood

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

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