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
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
Title: Woman in Red
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 24″ x 24″
Artist: Grethe Jensen
Picture Title: Cotswold Morning
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 16″ X 20″
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.
Without hope. Portret, (oil on canvas, 16×20 inches), by Petro Dhimitri
Artist: Sandee Shore
Title: The Garden of Eden
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 15″ x 11″
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
