Beverley Tosh, a Canadian artist, painted One-Way Passage, a monumental portrait of her mother Dorothy as a young war bride who emigrated from her native Canada to New Zealand. The portrait includes the names of ships on which many war brides had travelled. This painting was the direct catalyst for her continuing research on war brides. These “war brides” are women she has met and corresponded with in Canada and the United States, Britain, Holland, New Zealand and Australia. Each …
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New Customized Theme for Holly Burghardt When Holly Burghardt contacted Artbiz to design a website her main requirement was that the site be a reflection of her vibrant and colourful work. I quite agreed but it is also extremely important that the design not over power the artwork and the text content be easy to read. So I set off to design a website that was an expression of Holly’s work, easy to read and user friendly. I used Holly’s …
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Peter’s new work is moving more towards reality. For his upcoming exhibition at Gordon Harrison Gallery he is working on a series of abstract landscapes whose subject matter comes from Ottawa and surrounding areas. As Peter says “It’s been fun, and ultimately each painting has to work in terms of colour, style and feel. The whole Landscape thing, regarding an real relationship with true reality, comes a distant last. I want interesting paintings first and foremost, but a system of …
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I find Isabel’s work comforting on so many levels. Especially the cafe works that I am featuring here. Perhaps it’s the familiarity that Isabel captures in her paintings of a place we have all been. I was a joy to work with Isabel on her site. We chatted a bit before starting on Skype and then corresponded by email to get the job done. Everytime an image came through I found myself say “ooh I want that one, oh I …
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Nicole LeBoutillier’s work focuses on the spaces in between things, just as the pauses in a conversation are as revealing as the words, the negative space in her pieces describe and define the main subject. Whether Nicole is working on a drawing, a painting or a print it is an additive and reductive process simultaneously working together and against each other. Series of work emerge, gathered around a main theme as she returns to her subject over and over looking …
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