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. 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
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
