Welcome to the Catalogue for the WASM 126th Juried Art Show!
Please take a look at the gallery below to see all the works, or scroll down to find out more about a particular artist, or to buy their works directly from this site.
* Artists are listed alphabetically by first name. For pickup of a purchased work, please e-mail info@wasmtl.org
A.M. Benz
How to reach this artist:
email: studiombenz@gmail.com
Kugo Pierro 8133, Mixed Media
Price: 1,400$
Shiro Piegare 8128, Mixed Media
Price: 1,400$
Artist Bio:
A.M. Benz is an emerging artist from Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) working in mixed media. She primarily works with various types of glass, paper, and wire, exploring the play of light while using a limited palette. A lifelong obsession with energy and movement influence her choice of materials, which are chosen and placed in specific spots to catch the light and simulate movement across the dimensional spaces.Her work has been shown in multiple juried exhibitions in both Canada and the United States.
From the Japanese for Black (“Kuro”) and the Italian for Fold (“Piegare”), Kuro Piegare 8133 is the combination of traditions from the artists’ Italian heritage in the form of mosaic art and her love of all things Japanese, especially paper and paper folding. The motivation behind this piece is to show the beauty of cultural integration. Taking these two ends of the spectrum, two ancient art traditions from opposite ends of the world, two disparate materials (paper, glass) and then combining them with a sculptural element to all come together into one contemporary art piece. A combination of influences creates a new beauty greater than the singular techniques of the past.
Annette Wolfstein-Joseph
Artist Bio:
The current theme in my printmaking is my garden and the growing life in it. I find myself in awe of the cycle of growth, blossoming, death and regeneration that happens daily in the garden, providing me with a connection to Creativity on a grand scale. My prints are my own attempt at creativity on a far more humble scale. I venture to recreate the marvelous colours and textures, lights and shadows as they vary with the shift of the sun and the changing of the seasons. The colours convey the sentiments and moods aroused by the splendour of the garden, in an up-close and personal, larger than life, bee’s eye point of view of the plants conveying total involvement in the setting.
Ever since I studied printmaking at Concordia University in Montreal, where I earned my Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1971, I have relentlessly pursued the etching medium as my primary means of expression.
During my years as a printmaker, the varied subjects of my work have been very personal, expressing of my passions and pastimes. I have worked in series of sixteen or more prints on each subject, such as the Doors of Montreal West (my neighbourhood), boats on Lake Champlain, my everyday life as seen in repose with my feet in the foreground, and currently, my garden. This series has expanded to include my vegetable garden and takes in the mystery of plants appearing out of shadows. It features strong contrasts of light and darkness on deeply textured plates sometimes combining etching with collagraphs, often with viscosity roll-ups. My interest in this new series is intended to convey my passions for my garden and the vegetation in it. I believe in this I have been successful and hope the viewer will share my enthusiasm.
Each etching was hand-printed in a combination of traditional and innovative techniques, entirely by the artist and each is, therefore an original print, designed into the metal etching plate, and not a reproduction of another art form. I design, etch and print in small editions (never more than twenty prints) in my own studio in Dorval, Quebec. For many years I had been a member of the etching atelier of the Saidye Bronfman Centre School of Fine Arts, where for nine years I was teaching etching and was Head of the Printmaking Department until its closing in 2007. I am also an associate member of Atelier Circulaire.
My work has been included in many collections both private and corporate and a number of my prints have been purchased by the Bibliotheque Nationale du Quebec.
Serenade the Sun
Etching with aquatint
25" x 18"
Price: 425$
My Wild Iris, Rose
Etching with aquating
25" x 18"
Price: 425$
April Pyne
April Pyne was born in Brooklyn, New York. She is influenced by such artists as Paul Klee and Mark Rothko. Her current series of work is in the acrylic medium. Through geometric abstraction and the interplay of color, she explores the idea of order. April‘s work has appeared in various publications such as ‘The Healing Muse‘ and ‘The Menteur’. My spiritual practice and my inner world contribute to my work. Through geometric abstraction I attempt to bring order to intuition.
Before the Mountains Were Born
Arcylic and Gesso
24 x 24
Price: 832$
Avy Loftus
Tabula Rasa
Batik and laser cut fabrication
25" x 15"
Price: 535$
How to reach this artist:
email: avyklee@gmailcom
Avy Loftus is a Montreal-based visual artist, batik designer and art educator. As a visual artist and batik designer, she has already had a number of collective and solo exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Bulgaria and Bermuda. She has received numerous awards for her artwork – most notably the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013 for her artistic and community contributions. Her artwork has been sold in Canada, the US, Ireland, Indonesia and Bermuda.
As an art educator, she is currently teaching fabric art, especially batik, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art and with the Quebec Culture in School Program. She has conducted batik workshops at numerous museums and festivals in Canada, the US, Ireland and Indonesia.
Currently, Avy is the President of the Asian Canadian Women Artists and the Director of Peace, Love and Hope. She is a member of the following organisations: English Language Arts Network (ELAN), National Art Education Association (NAEA), The Textile Society of America (TSA), Women’s Art Society of Montreal (WASM), The Canada-Indonesia Chamber of Commerce (CICC) and The Irish Protestant Benevolent Society (IPBS).
Avy holds a B.A. in Education, a B.A. in Language and Art and a Diploma in Public Relations. She finished her art training successfully at the Saidye Bronfman Centre School of Art. She recently finished her Master’s in Art Education at Concordia University.
Deconstructed Kaleidoscope
Mixed Media
25" x 15"
Price: 425$
Barbara Salonen Fox
Barbara was born in Vancouver B.C, and at 22 years old, moved to Montreal, where she still resides. Painting has been her passion all her life, beginning early before any formal training. Art classes began at 11 years old at the Vancouver Art Gallery, followed by the Vancouver School of Art and later at Ecole des Beaux Art de Montreal.She visualizes paintings everywhere she goes, stemming from her love of nature or her delight in seeing people on the streets, or wanting to express the intangibles not seen with the naked eye. Her main focus early on was to paint from nature, the beauty of Canada’s landscapes, trees, gardens, water and wildflowers. She now also paints semi-abstract and abstract works which show introspective thoughts about her love of music, ancient and worldly influences, as well as spirituality.
Oriental Garden
Acrylic on canvas
36" x 36"
Price: NFS
Barbara believes “to paint is to celebrate life”. She was inspired to createthis semi-abstract work from thememory of herfrequent visits to the ButchartGardens in Victoria, B.C. She says she wasprofoundly moved each re-visit upon seeing the differentsectionsin the garden, including the Japanese Garden, the Italian Garden and the Rose Garden. She paints with the emotional feeling she has about the subject, applying texture, colour gradations, and working towards depth, more than the eyesees at first glance. Creativity happens whenat some point, her own unique vision works together with the painting,itself,leading the way to completion. Often thisbecomes an abstract.
Birte Paul
Mirage
Watercolour
16" x 20"
Price: 425$
For approximately 10 years I have enjoyed watercolours. I continue to find it both beautiful and challenging. So much more to learn and often surprised by the result when the colours mix with the water. A wonderful medium to work with.
Dreaming of shapes and their interaction in a limited palette.
Joy and Happiness
Watercolour
13" x 16"
Price: 425$
Blue Joyce
Born and raised in Toronto, Blue first trained one Fashion Design, but in the spring of 2014 took up watercolor painting and has never looked back. She currently lives and works in Montreal.
Blue makes art to delight herself and her viewers, bringing both whimsy and detail together into something cohesive. In this piece, she has given a nod to her fashion design background.
Unity
Watercolour
16.5" x 20.5"
Price: 500$
Bonnie Frankel
The Colours of Summer
Acrylic
32" x 62"
Price: 850$
Bonnie Frankel is both an artist and operating room (OR) nurse. This dual career is reflected in her paintings. Her choice and love of vibrant colours becomes apparent and clear when one considers the monochromatic environment of the OR.
One series of black and white paintings capture the dedication, concentration and intensity of the OR team as they care for their patient.
In contrast are the themes of her other paintings. Children having fun in the park, or anticipating the sun after a rainy day.Nature is another inspiration, the wonderful, vibrant colours of flowers and peaceful settings in different seasons. Another series depicts favourite subjects in her interpretation of Pop Art.
A special series is called ”Synergy. Like the name, they are a fusion of mixed media, techniques and her nursing background. Using a hypodermic needle and a syringe with paint, injects energy into these abstract paintings. These paintings incorporate mixed mixed media, sculpted plaster of paris ( cast material) and hand molded paint, to create unique effects.
Bonnie has exhibited is several places in Montreal. Two paintings are presently in St. Mary’s Hospital.
Bonnie Frankel lives with her husband in Montreal where her three children and their families also reside.
Sweet Treats
Acrylic
28.5" x 36.5"
800$
Carol Rabinovitch
Runaway Lights
Oil
20" x 16"
Price: 300$
A vacation in the Charlevoix region of Quebec inspired me to enroll in a painting art class. I delved right in with my paints and brushes and impatiently waited for instructions from my first teacher. I mixed colours and drew shapes to create lively images.
I continued to paint at various studios and schools. This included classes in drawing, printmaking and collaging.
As a contemporary Montréal artist, my style is whimsical and sometimes abstract. I have experimented with various style and techniques. Happy images with bursts of bright colours are my passion. They fascinate me as they dance on my canvases. My joy is giving the canvas a personality, a mood, as shapes and forms spring into my mind. When they join together the result is fun and surprising - especially to me!
This kaleidoscope is the result of shining bright lights from a runway.
Amazing Maze
Oil
20" x 24"
Price: 350$
David Chandler
Rue de Rivoli
Ink on Aluminum
24" x 36"
Price: 750$
On retirement, after teaching social sciences and photography to secondary students for33 years, I embraced the digital photography world. While teaching I also developed the only antique map business in Québec. My photographic interests centre around travel, architectural and flower images (They don’t move and complain about the results!). In recent times I have moved increasingly into purely abstract images, based on photos. I also offer my services as a speaker, topics revolve around photography and antique maps.
One of the roles of the artist/photographer is to reveal the world to those who might otherwise miss the beauty and forms surrounding them. Photography today is available to anybody with a cell phone. Take enough images and some are bound to be great!Photographers are increasingly turning to abstract images to explain their viewpoint.
This image emphasizes the enormity of the built urban environment compared to the frequent loneliness of the solitary individual. The structural power of large buildings can be quite oppressing.
Urban Solitude
Ink on Aluminum
24" x 36"
Price: 750$
Deanne Hall-Habeeb
Imagine Van Gogh #1
Acrylic
24" x 30"
Price: 750$
As a practicing artist, I have worked in several media: etching, woodcut, pen & ink, pencil, oil and acrylic painting, as well as yarn and fabric collage. In my life as an artist, I have gone through various subject explorations, but mainly, I turn to indigenous subjects wherever I am.
I have had several solo and group shows in Montreal, Bahrain, Turkey and USA.
As an art educator, I have taught art in Montreal and Wisconsin with the greater part of my teaching career being overseas in Bahrain where I taught all ages: kindergarten, middle school, high school and adults.
The mammoth images of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings projected at the recent Imagine Van Gogh immersive exhibition in Montreal was, in this artist’s view, an overwhelming experience. Being surrounded by these pivotal works and being able to see each passionate stroke was truly uplifting. Being one with the many engrossed viewers was inspirational. This painting relives this phenomenal happing. What is better than van Gogh stars and moon?
Irises everywhere. In front, behind, sideways… total immersion. The strength and delicacy of Van Gogh’s flowers, magnified a hundred times, smacked the viewers appreciative eyes with pleasure and wonder. Everywhere one looked one digested the magnitude of these humble subjects. Exhibition in Montreal: Imagine Van Gogh, L’exposition immersive
Imagine Van Gogh #2
Acrylic
24" x 30"
Price: 750$
Deena Dlusy-Apel
Whatever You See
Acrylic on Canvas
40" x 40"
Price: 800$
I have painted all my life – and have taught art at all levels. I held a part-time position in the Art Education Department at Concordia University. I have exhibited widely both in group shows and individually. My work ranges from realism to abstraction and political themes as well as philosophical themes are attractive to me.
This painting is the offshoot of a series of paintings based on the idea of squaring the circle based on the photography of Robert Landry; eventually circular shapes of all kinds became attractive and this painting is a result of the fun I had with this idea.
This painting is a part of a series based on the photography of Robert Landry, a psychiatrist based in New York, who was squaring the circle in his photographs; inspired by his work this piece is a reflection of the process of playing with the circle.
Squaring the Circle
Acrylic on Board
30" x 30"
600$
Diana Bruno
Diana Bruno is an emerging photographer exploring various subjects and developing her photographic voice. She has participated in a number of group shows in Montreal. Her work is in private collections in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. She uses a micro four-thirds digital camera. She’s also a published writer; her book Lexique français-anglais de la cuisine et de la restauration is shortlisted for the 2020 Taste Canada Awards.
Listen
Archivally Framed & Printed Photograph
14" x 18"
Price: 500$
Anomie
Archivally Framed & Printed Photograph
26" x 29"
Price: 575$
Diane Simmoneau-Romiti
How to reach this artist:
email: diane.simoneau@gmail.com
Born in Montreal, her formative years are influenced by wonderful teachers – Arthur Lismer, Leslie Smith, Charles Gagnon, John Max. She takes drawing, painting and photography classes. She receives a BA in Communication Arts from Concordia which launches her work career as a visual communicator. Her audio-visual and multimedia experience teaches her how to get a message, an idea, a concept across which she executes creatively, with skill and ingenuity.
With her husband, she moves to England. This is a transition period. She is part of an art project lasting six months where she lets go of some of her uncertainties. It concludes with an exhibition called The bottom drawer – An experimental photography and mixed media exhibition that would travel the United Kingdom for two years.
Returning to Montreal, she changes career. With little resources, she undertakes a DEP in PrePress. She is then hired as assistant designer on a project for Veteran’s Affairs, a CD – Canada’s Coming of Age 1939-1945 – nominated at Corpovision’98, Applied Arts Awards. She then works as graphic designer – freelance for BCE Media’s MultiVisual Productions, and full-time for Air Canada until her retirement.
She is now rekindling her curiosity as an artist and collagist, enjoying, learning and discovering on her own.
Any dream world is full of surprises at every turn, at every angle. And every reflection is like a zigzag of images in a room of mirrors.
A Cat's Dream
Digital Collage Print
24" x24"
Price: 700$
Doina Bundaru
Fall
Acrylic
30" x 24"
Price: 720$
Doina Bundaru was born in Romania and moved to Montreal in the early nineties. She is interested in arts from an early age and some of her drawings were selected for a group exhibition while in school. However, she followed a different career path in engineering. A few years ago she renewed with her old passion, taking art classes and workshops to continue to improve her skills.
She is grateful to her aunt, artist and art teacher Zamfira Barbu Galan who lives in Bucharest, for her encouragement for all these years.
She gets inspired in her paintings by daily life, a beautiful sunset, interesting shapes, old memories, nature’s beauty and she is using colors as tools to bring her emotions to canvas.
She paints mostly in acrylics in an impressionistic style and is headed more and more into abstract. In the process of painting, she enjoys applying textures, playing with layers of colors and mediums until the painting ‘comes to life’. She likes the open dialogue between the piece of art and the beholder, the many interpretations one piece of art can generate.
She is a member of the Kirkland Artists Association, Artists Circle West Island and she recently joined Women’s Art Society Montreal. She participated in over twenty group art exhibitions and her paintings are found in private collections in Canada and Europe.
This painting reminds us of the fall season. It inspires a kaleidoscope of feelings and colors; nostalgia over the lost summer is symbolized by the color blue and the colored leaves bring us memories of long walks in the forest or on the streets while fall sets in.
Love is symbolized in this painting by the color red and the circles represent the circles of family and friends that are the Life Force that keep us alive and help us live a kaleidoscopic life, a life in which we see colors and beauty over dark and sadness.
Life Force
Acrylic
Size not indicated"
Price: 425$
Eileen Miller
I have lived in Montreal Canada all my life. My formal education in art began in the late 80’s under the guidance of Herman Heimlich, Marilyn Rubinstein and Leslie Schalk, a student himself of Matisse, Although I have been painting for over 30 years with notable artists, I feel I was self taught.
Kaleidoscope Night Lights
Acrylic
32" x 32"
Price: 1800$
Nature is her biggest inspiration, beautiful or not. It is what it is and how it affects her, reflects on the canvas. Her work tends to be free and painterly with contrasts of color. She fees most comfortable when she is surrounded by her work. It fosters the opportunity to express her deepest and most vivid emotions. The outside world disappears! Painting helps keep her grounded. There are never mistakes, just happy accidents! Her focus is on the here and now because that really is all there is at that moment in time. She believes her paintings have a mystery, not purposely done, it seems it just develops as she goes along. At its best, she believes her work also has an edge; something in it that takes a moment, a second look. As with all art, what you pull from her paintings depends on the viewers own experiences.
Elaine Bacal
Elaine graduated from Sir George Williams (Concordia) University with a BSc and has always worked in the health sciences field. In 2015, she retired from the Jewish General Hospital after 25 years of service. She joined the Women’s Art Society of Montreal (WASM) in 2015 and is currently the WASM Blog Manager. Elaine is also a member of the Montreal Camera Club. Her interest in arts and culture began early in life with music and dance. She began snapping photographs at an early age with the help of her dad using film cameras. Since going digital, Elaine’s photography has transformed – she likes to “play” with her photos by manipulating them in Photoshop, by printing them on unusual substrates, or by making photo-collages. She has also created traditional photo books as well as hand-made books in unusual 3D forms using her very own photographs. Many of Elaine’s creative images are influenced by music from many genres.
To view more, visit Elaine’s Website: https://elainebacal.zenfolio.com/
Exhibits:
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JGH Gallery 3775 for many years
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Annual WASM Juried Art Exhibit and Sale, Concordia Grey Nuns Residence, 2016, 2017, 2018; Livart Gallery, 2019, 2020
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Friends of the Mount Royal Cemetery Photography Exhibit, 2017, 2018, 2019
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125th Anniversary Photography Exhibit, McClure Gallery, Westmount, June 2017
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Concordia Alumni Association Exhibit, November 2017
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Westmount Photography Exhibit at the Art Gallery of Victoria Hall, November-December 2017
Circle of Sun
Altered reality Photo
12.5" x 12.5"
Price: 175$
“Circle of Sun Ra” is an altered reality image consisting of one photograph of a golden shrimp plant, applied 32 times in Photoshop, then mirrored, rotated, and blended to achieve the final creation of a sundrenched kaleidoscopic image. Sun Ra, the late jazz keyboardist, composer, philosopher, and leader of the avant-garde big band-The Arkestra, wore Egyptian-inspired outfits and played songs called Tiny Pyramids and Space Is the Place. “Circle of Sun Ra” is a tribute to one of jazz’s most controversial and innovative musicians of all time.
Mystic Autumn
Altered reality Photo
12.5" x 12.5"
Price: 200$
“Mystic Autumn” is an altered reality image consisting of one photograph of colourful autumn leaves, applied 16 times in Photoshop, then mirrored, rotated, and blended to achieve the final image in which mystical creatures appear. This image won a Gold Medal in the creative competition of the Canadian Association of Photographic Arts as part of a group of 6 participating photographers from the Montreal Camera Club: https://www.montrealcameraclub.com/capa-2019-2020.html
Esther Kanfi
Tea Time
Acrylic
27.5" x 21.5"
Price: 150$
Blue Vase
Acrylic
24" x 24"
Price: 200$
Gertrude Antoine Barwick
The Noble Beast
Acrylic
18" x 36"
Price: 900$
Jungian Kaleidoscope
Mixed Media
12" x 12"
Price: 300$
Ghada Bedgache
How to reach this artist:
email:ghada.bedgache@gmail.com
Memories
Acrylic
40" x 30"
Price: 1198$
Summer Breeze
Acrylic
40" x 30"
Price: 1198$
Helene Mann
Meditation in Blue
Inkjet Print
30" x 26"
Price: 500$
Retired teacher with thirty years’ experience (Morocco, Paris and Montréal).Since retirement my interest in the arts has taken me to digital art.As a long-term member of TRAM I have participated in many exhibitions and won awards for my work. Digital art is a developing field and allows much opportunity for imagination and flexibility in creativity.
Isle Martin
Galloping Horse
Watercolour
23" x 18"
Price: 250$
Mittens
Watercolour and Collage
26" x 23"
Price: NFS
Jackie Rae Wloski
How to reach this artist:
email: jackirae@colba.net
R.O.M. Staircase #4
Oil
32" x 26"
Price: 1250$
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Born in Montreal and continues to live and work here.
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Graduated from Sir George Williams (Concordia) University with a B.A., major in etching and minor in biology, and later went and learned computer graphics, receiving a DEC in Pre-Press from Rosemount Technology Centre.
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Worked commercially at Import Bazaar, the Gazette, Pratt & Whitney and free-lanced, and taught drawing at the Cummings Centre and privately.
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Jackie has been in many expositions over the years, both group and solo, receiving numerous prizes, and her work is in many art collections, private and corporate. She is in galleries in Toronto and Montreal, including the Campbell Framing Gallery here in Westmount.
Artist’s Statement:
Energy and movement,...the element of surprise,...the usual made unusual,
...slightly distorted realities: these are my themes. I believe there is more to what we see than can be seen at first glance. The more you look, the more you see.
There is nothing that, when viewed, is mundane. Everything can be fascinating, you just have to see and recognize it, whether it is light and shadows on a floor, cloud formations, buildings viewed one against another, or staircases, such as this one at the R.O.M. in Toronto. It’s all a matter of really looking. seeing, and recognizing compositions, balances, colours and how the light changes them. This is only one view of many of this staircase that has inspired me.
Flowering Shrub
Oil
32" x 26"
Price: 900$
Since this beautiful, large shrub was on the grounds of the Mt. Royal Cemetery, it seems fitting that you see 3 stages in the life of these flowers: birth (buds), young and mature versions, and flowers that are withering (dying). All are important.
Jad Al Nasrallah
Jad Al-Nasrallah studied at Concordia University where he was supervised by great artists such as Armand Tatossian, Yves Gauchier and John Fox. In 1979, he achieved a degree in Bachelor of Fine Arts. After graduating, he set up a screen printing textile company where he worked from 1989 to 2007. He then decided to take his retirement and dedicated all his time to his passion. His paintings often illustrated landscapes, abstract and portraits. In his various works he used especially charcoal, oil paint and acrylic. He enjoys using nature colors and textures in his paintings. He was inspired by many painters such as the Group of 7. He followed several art courses given by Gisèle Rivard and he participated in several exhibitions in witch he presented many of his works. He recently presented his latest paintings at the Anjou library Art gallery. He is also a member of the Woman’s Art Association of Montreal. He recently sold a few of his work to art lovers such as him.
Untitled
Oil
24" x 28"
Price: 800$
My Grandson
Pencil
NFS
Jane Wigglesworth
Tumbling Water
Oil
13" x 18"
Price: 450$
A scene near the Lachine Rapids on a day with constant changing light int he sky on the turbulent water.
Capturing a moment of changing light, colours and images while travelling by train in Northern Italy.
En Route by Train
Oil
17" x 14"
Price: 550$
Jennifer Laoun Rubenstein
Jennifer Laoun-Rubenstein holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (’07) from Concordia University and is currently mentored by her grandmother and visual artist, Marilyn Rubenstein.
She has shown work at the Musée des Maîtres et Artisans, Galerie Diagonale, Tokyo Big Sight (Design Festa Summer, Tokyo, Japan), and in the Papineau office of the Right Honourable Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.
In 2010, Laoun-Rubenstein scaled back her art practice in order to assume directorship of the Support to Arts and Culture programme at Georges Laoun Opticien, a family operated, Montreal-based business recognized for its long-standing patronage of the Arts by the Conseil des Arts de Montréal and the Ville de Montréal.
In her nearly 10 years with the company, Laoun-Rubenstein has overseen the curation and exhibition of over 300 artists of all disciplines, and has strengthened and elaborated existing and new partnerships with local organizations including the Festival Trans Amériques, Festival Quartiers Danses, OFFTA, CINÉMANIA, and Arion Orchestre Baroque.
Jennifer Laoun-Rubenstein made a definitive return to the active practice of Art in the fall of 2018, with a primary focus on drawing, painting, and creative writing. She works and lives in Montreal.
All the Pretty Colors on Palm Unread
Oil
48" x 60"
Price: 3000$
Jennifer Laoun-Rubenstein considers the experiential Now through an exploration of her own biography. Themes of identity, nostalgia, limerence, and erotica overlie undulating skin folds, threads, and waterlines recurring in her work. Sensorial and intuitive perception drive her process of visual storytelling, inviting viewers to graft onto it their own experience.
Johanne Dussault
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I’m a Montreal born and bred artist residing now in Ile Bizard. I’ve always been fascinated by art in all its forms, painting, sculpture, music, but painting is my therapy of choice. I was finally able to take painting classes 20 years ago, but due to a career change, I had to put a stop to my artistic activities. I’ve now been retired for a while and able to resume this rewarding cultural part of my life. Oil, acrylic, alcohol ink, tempera painting, I love learning new techniques and experimenting with new mediums. The contrast and play of colors, forms as well as movements are a constant discovery with each painting becoming another challenge. Inspiration for my artwork comes from pictures from my travels or simply things around me that give me a deep appreciation of nature. Painting for me represents a moment of inner peace.
Walking Around
Mixed Media
29" x 34"
Price: 450$
Wedding Day
Acrylic
19.5" x 23.5"
Price: 350$
Josette Wecsu
The Rethinker
Oil
30" x 30"
Price: NFS
After graduating from high school, I entered l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal where I received basic, academic training in drawing, painting and sculpture. We were the “notorious” sixties generation, eager to break loose from the constraints of convention. After two year at l’Ecole, I followed my friends to Europe where we hoped to expand our cultural horizons. I spent the following two years in London, England where I worked as a trainee in theatre make-up at the BBC.
Upon returning to Montreal, I took courses in teaching English as a Second Language; I enjoyed meeting people of other languages. This led me to further study at Concordia University where I completed a B.A. in Psychology. Further to this, I did a graduate diploma in Gerontology at UQAM (2003).
I have always been an artist having never abandoned my practice of painting, although only in my free time.
Finally upon my retirement in 2013, I enrolled as a full-time student of art at Concordia University and graduated with a BFA 2018.
Exhibitions:
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Women’s Art Studio of Montreal. Group show at Centre d”Art EK Voland,Complexe du Canal Lacine: -May, 2016; -May, 2017 -May 2018
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Galerie de la Ville, D.D.O., curated by Claudine Ascher. Group show -October, 2017 -June, 2018
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Winter 2018/ Fall 2019 Examples of my paintings were published in two issues of Concordia University Magazine.
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March, 2019: I had a solo exhibition at the Eleanor London Cote Saint-Luc Library.
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July, 2019 Group show at the Cote Saint-Luc Library
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April, 2019: Galerir Métèque, Montreal. Exhibited along with 9 other artists.
The Rethinker, a tribute to Rodin’s famous sculpture, is an example of an “Anthropomorphic Happening” where the artist takes the place of the sculpture. We often express love for a particular artist because we love his/her artwork; the two are interchangeable.
Behind the prominent figure in J. Wecsu’s painting, she peers over her shoulder to acknowledge several masters of the Surrealist Movement: Magritte, de Chirico, Ernst.
Both of Josette Wecsu’s paintings centre on the Surrealist Movement. Surrealism, according to André Bretton’s Surrealist Manifesto, 1924, is a dialogue of what is encountered by way of dreams, chance, coincidence; never predetermined, but defying rational discourse.
Salvador
Oil
30" x 30"
Price: NFS
” Salvador” is a tribute to the internationally acclaimed surrealist artist, Salvador Dali (1904-1989). Salvador, from the Spanish, is translated as Savior. Here, j.wecsu describes the conflagration of conflicting religious doctrines upheld in the Middle East.
Lavi Picu
Lavi Picu is a Montreal-based artist who was born in Romania. She is a self-taught artist who uses painting as an alternative form of self expression as well as pain management therapy for Lyme disease.
Lavi Picu’s paintings aim to awake people, make them look for deeper meanings, scratch under the surface. Her works offer glimpses of the human life cycle and its intricate relationships. She depicts feelings and emotions such as vanity, pride, love, fear, motherhood, etc.
Using acrylics as her medium, she explores the prejudices against women, the pressure and set expectations of the society on women of all ages.
She is interested in creating artworks that serve a multiple purpose: aesthetic, inspirational, reflective by challenging the conventional ideas of the society.
Kaleidoscope Pod Girl
Acrylic
40" x 30"
Price: 1000$
Kaleidoscope Pod Girl is a reminder that inner beauty comes from within, that mindfulness is key to a happy and healthy live. Although each one of us lives in his own pod, we are all connected; we are wired at a higher level.
The work offers a perspective into the human mind, an invitation to nurture self-empowerment, grow connections and live a meaningful life.
The contrast between the exterior and the interior emphasize the human’s interconnectivity.
Leslie Fehler
How to reach this artist:
email: N/A - if interested please reach out to the WASM at info@wasmtl.org
This work has been inspired by The Group of Seven.
Moon Shadow
Acrylic
20" x 24"
Price: 200$
The City Lights
Acrylic
16" x 20"
Price: 300$
Lianne Castravelli
I'm a compulsive maker living in the Great White North.
My interest lies in ignoring unhelpful boundaries between high art/low art/fine art/decorative art. Art is broad and consuming. I want the constant disequilibrium that is living with passion.
At this stage, I want life as an unraveling bolt of fabric, skein of yarn, exquisite piece of art. Life as the slow pour of a beautifully crafted wine, as the unfurling of a resonant sentence.
Beauty for me is found in anything that radiates joy and works its way down to my core. Anything that elevates us, that brings us level with an infinite horizon of possibility.
After all, isn't anything possible, always?
My studies in art and literature, my work in the wine industry, my adventures in London, my foundation in Montreal have all led me to this interesting intersection.
In my very ideal world, my goal is to make a good life and to help elevate others - those I love, those I've yet to meet, those in-between - with intent, grace and generosity.
Wish me a little cosmic luck.
Miss Quackenbush: Magia Naturalis
Oil
18" x 22"
Price: 360$
Lisa Elin
Lepidoptera & Lilac
Digital photograph and acrylic
20" x 30"
Price: 1200$
If Trees Could Talk
Digital photograph and acrylic
24" x 32"
Price: 1200$
Louise G. de Tonnancour
How to reach this artist:
email: N/A - if interested please reach out to the WASM at info@wasmtl.org
La Jupe Bleue
Oil
13" x 15"
Price: NFS
Attendre
Oil
15.5" x 13"
Price: NFS
Linda Goldman
With a Fine Arts degree, I had a design business, then veered off into teaching English and wrote 44 books with three major publishers, then became a copywriter and a book coach. I have now come full circle to creating art full time.
As an abstract artist, I’m attracted to luminous colors and lines. My art is described as bold colors with playful elements. Playing with patterns and lines is like a dance on paper or canvas. I paint smaller pieces in alcohol inks, which have vibrant colors and an unpredictable nature. I often add designs and patterns on top, making each piece totally unique. My larger paintings are acrylics and mixed media, such as pen, pastels, or even crayons. I actually dream in color after a day of painting. Resin is the finishing touch to many of my pieces. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I would be wielding a blow torch and a power sander, or painting with a mask and gloves, but that's what you do for love!
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Life is always bursting forth, and flowers are the eternal elements that bring us unrequited beauty.
Blossom
Ink and Resin
12" x 12"
Price: 275$
“Black Beauty” represents the threads of ideas and that reflect our past and color our futures.
Black Beauty
Ink and Resin
12" x 2"
Price: 275$
Lynton H. Martin
Country House
Oil
24" x 19"
Price: 400$
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Village Scene
Oil
18" x 15"
Price: 200$
Margaret White
Painting & photography.
Education:
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Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) major in painting, University of Manitoba, 1975.
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Studied Interior Design at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba, 1972/72.
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Stage at Graff centre de conception graphique, Montreal, 1978.
Exhibitions:
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Art Westmount 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 & 2019.
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"Westmount in images", Montreal Camera Club photo exhibition, Gallery at Victoria Hall 2017.
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Montreal Camera Club photo exhibition, McClure Gallery, 2017.
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Victoria Village Art Walk, 2014.
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SPPQ – MCC photographs, Buffet Antique, 2012.
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"Seasons in the City", Gallery at Victoria Hall, 2006. SPPQ - MCC photographs, L. L. Lozeau, 2002.
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"face à face", Powerhouse Gallery, 1984.
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"paysages ruraux/urbains", Galerie Alliance, 1984. "10 par 10 réalistes montréalais", Galerie Alliance, 1983.
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La maison de l'amité de Montréal, 1981.
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The Fleet Gallery, Winnipeg, 1977.
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Gallery 111, Winnipeg, 1975.
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Gallery at Victoria Hall (shared exposition), 2012.
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Powerhouse Gallery, 1983.
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Westmount City Hall - Winner of the ExpoCity photography contest City of Westmount, 2019.
Yellow and other colours. Abstract painting. Painting that is based on feelings and perceptions of emotions... as well as impressions... or maybe it’s expressions. Colour for colour’s sake. And the feeling of spreading colour around with a brush.
Kaleidoscope Yellow
Acrylic
20" x 16"
Price: 300$
Blue and other colours. Abstract painting. Painting that is based on feelings and perceptions of emotions... as well as impressions... or maybe it’s expressions. Colour for colour’s sake. And the feeling of spreading colour around with a brush.
Kaleidoscope Blue
Acrylic
20" x 16"
Price: 300$
Margo Godin
During the short N.B. summers, as a child, with rare determination, Margo would plant flowers and tend her garden. She is still fascinated by nature and now brings her imaginary garden indoor, on her canvas. With these colourful flowers she wishes to bring the viewer a sense of peace, tranquility but mainly of joy. Margo’s love of flowers and color is expressed through strong contrasts and primary colors.
Covid-19 Blues
Acrylic
24" x 24"
Price: 550$
Song of Joy
Acrylic
12" x 12"
Price: 275$
Maria Astadjov
Taste of Tears
Mixed Media on Aluminum
49" x 38"
Price: 2000$
Maria Astadjov is a Bulgarian born artist who's been living in Canada for the last 30 years.
She is an Academy of Fine Arts graduate from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria. She has done work in the animation and film industry but her passion remained her art.
Over the years she has been exhibiting in Montreal, Ottawa, New York, San Jose and participated in many European shows. Maria Astadjov’s work varys in medium and size but her commitment to the complexity of human emotions and connections remains consistent.
This particular piece is a unique mixture between abstract work and figurative art. The material used iswhite aluminum that creates a sleek surface in contrast with the intertwined, complex shapes of faces,forms and colours. The artist Maria Astadjov also created different textures on the aluminum base usingtools giving more depth and complexity of the image.
This painting is one in a series of works on aluminum. There’s a decorative element in it but the theme remains the same throughout Maria Astadjov work. It’s about intertwined shapes, thoughts and feelings and the ability to see the world through the eyes of a woman.
Brighten Up My Day
Mixed Medium on Aluminum
46.5" x 32.5"
Price: 1900$
Marie José Gélinas
I am a self-taught visual artist. I am inspired by nature, and I have the good fortune to live in a semi-rural area that feeds my passion. I am fascinated by constant, cyclical transformations. My camera lens guides my eye to life cycles around me, and the images I retain find their way onto the canvas. I love exploring new ways to honour the beauty around me, using a growing array of materials and techniques.
I awoke one morning with this image in my mind’s eye. It emerged from my dreamtime, by-passing my usually busy intellect. As it took shape on the canvas, I saw that Dreamtime had opened a door into my psyche, and my roots. It also gave me a key to my future.
Dreamland
24" x 20"
Acrylic
Price: 550$
In Marineland, life bursts forth in every form. Sea creatures reflect a kaleidoscope of colours, all ever changing as they swim in, out, and through the watery landscape. Each one also harbours its legacy : an embryo that ensures the never-ending cycle of life in the element that is also our beginning.
Marineland
Acrylic
15" x 30"
Price: 500$
Marja Hogan
Primary Colours
Oil
18" x 18"
Price: 450$
Meta Maclean
Remembering the waiting required in childbirth. A love of making potter objects and sculpture during this period helped shorten the waiting process.
Waiting
Clay
13" x 5"
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Inspired by a love of nature flowers bursting forth as birds land and take off. The power of their presence as they awaken our senses.
Awakening
Acrylic
27" x 21"
Price: 500$
Miranda Castravelli
Miranda Castravelli is a Montreal-based artist and President of the Women’s art Society of Montreal, est. 1894. Her background in literature and art history led her to pursue studies in interior design. From there, she studied architectural drawing and worked as a freelance sketch artist for various design projects. Miranda has worked in film, technology, education and management, but art has always been her true passion. In her works, she tries to convey the mood of a moment through the use of impressionistic use of shadow and color.
The Supper
Acrylic
18" x 32"
Price: 465$
Each one of us makes an impression. Each personality stands out as distinct. Variances small and large are visible but equal as we come together, though, making a symphony of color greater than any one of us could do on our own.
Mona Agia
How to reach this artist:
email: monaagia47@gmail.com
Feeling Good
Oil
24" x 36"
Price: 650$
On the River Nile
Oil
24" x 36"
Price: 650$
Nicole Gratton
Coffee à Notting Hill
Watercolour
22" x 29"
Price: 450$
Fish and Chips à Norwich
Watercolour
22" x 29"
Price: 450$
Patricia Belmar
How to reach this artist:
email: pbelmar@videotron.ca
Depuis qu’elle se souvient, Patricia a toujours été attiré par l’ART dans toutes ses différentes manifestations ; principalement la peinture, le dessin et la photographie. Elle utilise de nombreux medium tels que l’acrylique, l’huile, l’aquarelle et la cire pour créer des peintures basées sur la nature et la faune. Elle est titulaire d’un baccalauréat en beaux-arts de l’Université Concordia, 2014 et d’un certificat d’arts visuels de l’Université Bishops, 2007. Elle est aussi traductrice et parle plusieurs langues. Elle expose chaque année dans diverses expositions de groupe sur des sites comme : Galerie Le Livart, Université Concordia, Université Bishops, Ogilvie, Steward Hall, Centennial Hall, Galerie Warren Flowers, Peter B. Yeomans Center, Maison Trestler.
Elle a choisi l’art comme moyen de communication et d’expression personnelle ; Elle peut s’exprimer à travers des mots en tant que traductrice et à travers des images en tant qu’artiste. La nature, les souvenirs et l’imagination sont ses sources d’inspiration inextinguibles. Bien que, elle pense que la meilleure approche pour une interprétation libre- où la figuration et l’abstraction peuvent coexister- est la combinaison de l’imagination, la nature observée et les souvenirs.
Since she remembers, Patricia has always been attracted to ART in all its different manifestations; mainly painting, drawing, and photography. She uses many mediums as acrylic, oil, watercolors, and wax to create paintings based on nature and wildlife. She holds a BFA Degree from Concordia University, 2014 and a Visuals Arts Certificate from Bishop’s University, 2007. She is also a translator and speaks several languages.
She exposes yearly in various group exhibitions at venues as: Le Livart Gallery, Concordia University, Bishop’s University, Ogilvie, Steward Hall, Centennial Hall, Galerie Warren Flowers, Peter B. Yeomans Center, Maison Trestler.
She chose art as a means of communication and self-expression; she can express herself through words as a translator and through images as an artist. Nature, memories and imagination are her inextinguishable sources of inspiration. Although, she thinks the best approach for a free interpretation -where figuration and abstraction can coexist – is the combination of imagination, observed nature and memories.
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Facing the Day
Acrylic
36" x 36"
Price: 1200$
Comme Patricia se sent très attirée par la nature, elle a décidé de représenter certains des pollinisateurs qui visitent son jardin au printemps et en été. Après de nombreuses observations, photos et images de ces merveilleuses créatures, elle a préparé diverses esquisses avant le croquis final dans un grand format. Les couleurs vives lui permettent d’exprimer la joie qu’elle éprouve en observant ces bijoux de la nature, les petits colibris.
As Patricia feels very attracted by nature, she decided to represent some of the pollinators that visit her backyard during spring and summer time. After many sightings and images viewings of these wonderful creatures she prepared various sketches before the final sketch in a big format. The bright colors let her express the joy she experiences when observing these jewels of nature, the tiny hummingbirds.
Punita
Punita is a visual artist who works with a variety of artistic endeavors. Most of her life has centered teaching, coaching and lifelong learning. Visual art has always lit a fire in her journey of life. By understanding the psychology of art, Punita strives to accomplish the higher purpose of her life.
Challenges of mixed media, application of oil colors with spatula, pen & ink, diligent placement of silk colors and watercolors are just a few of the techniques that Punita thrives on. She explores using strong contrasts, vibrant and exquisite colors and marrying them together in such a way that provides solace to life. In her artistic style, fluidity and variety in colors plays a very significant role. She emphasizes the balance of colors while simultaneously seeking to manifest asymmetry.
Punita’s art brings attention to love; self love, love for humanity and the deep love for our planet ‘mother earth.’ She understands what we do to the planet we do to ourselves. Her art conveys the complex message to all humanity: love and return to your own significance. By remembering our unconditional self worth, we must never habituate to the unspeakable oppressions and vulgar disparities placed on us through life.
Understanding the spiritual realms as a human being plays a significant role in Punita’s work. Her art represents the required transformation from a shallow, per formative and unrealistic world to one that dreams to be more loving, compassionate, accepting and honest. Her work captures the dream state of mind as she navigates between harsh reality and soft faith and devotion to expansive other realms. She gained her inspiration and knowledge from her instructor Jerry Heine, at the University of Alberta where she studied in visual arts.
Punita has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including Chandigarh, India and Alberta, Canada. Punita’s generous spirit and passion to alchemize her art into community healing is evident by her donations to several nonprofit organizations including charity groups, silent auctions, and fundraising events for those marginalized in the real world.
Cosmic Rhythm
Oil
24" x 30"
Price: 850$
The real happiness lies within. The mind becomes slave when all desires are annihilated. The human body we enjoy is changing and everything is a movement. Learn to observe your energy since mind is unsteady. Who has purified his mind becomes a centre of force. The world is the best teacher. “Happiness is your right. All you have to do is to find out who you are, what you are, what you can be and then be so”. ----Yogi B.
Breath of an Angel
Oil
26" x 36"
Price: 7500$
Reni Fee
Born February 7th, 1975
Currently lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.
Reni Fee is an emerging artist, working primarily in water oils & acrylics. Self-taught, Reni has been creating art in various forms throughout her life but it was not until 2017 that she decided to pursue her dreams on a full-time basis.
Reni’s work dabbles in realism but mostly gravitates towards expressionism with a passion for the obscure. Reni is happiest when painting on huge canvasses with colorful thick paint that takes months to dry. She is inspired by nature & random everyday things that make her smile.
Reni is currently collaborating on a ‘wearable art’ project with her mother Wendy Fee, a talented watermedia artist. Reni has always been inspired by the generations of women in her life & by many other strong women each day, past & present. She hopes to represent this sense of bold beauty in her wearable art, a unique fusion of art and fashion which can be purchased at www.artistgenerations.com.
Spring Fling was inspired by a beautiful sunset which set the tone for a 'champagne palette', something that brought warmth, color and spirals to her Montreal art studio all winter long.
Spring Fling
Oil
25" x 37.5"
Price: 425$
True Blue was inspired by the many beautiful colors of winter which although dark still brought warmth, serenity and a sense of calm to her Montreal art studio all winter long.
Spiralling Down
Oil
25" x 37.5"
Price: 425$
Rochelle Mayer
Randonée Lune Noire
Mixte
12" x 16"
Price: 350$
Randonée Lune Blanche
Mixte
12" x 16"
Price: 350$
Ruth Dunsky
Ruth Dunsky’s first drawing and painting class was at Sir George Williams University in 1965-66.
Over the years, she took numerous painting courses including drawing and painting classes at the former Saidie Bronfman Centre for the Arts until its closing.
During the last number of summers, she has been participating in painting workshops at St. Lawrence College in Ontario.
Since 2005, Ruth has been exhibiting with the Women’s Art Studio annually as well as in other group exhibitions such as the Mount Royal Cemetery, Women’s Art Society of Montreal, Wynmoor Festival of the Arts (Florida), Broward College Library (Florida).
She has also had solo exhibitions at the Gryphon d’Or Restaurant, the Eleanor London Library and with 2 other artists at the Mile End Gallery.
In this painting, the artist was inspired by the sight of her granddaughter practicing the recorder. The combination of effect of the sunlight on the figure of the child and her surroundings, as well as the pose of the child, inspired this painting. Ruth Dunsky is inspired by music and has painted other works of musicians in action.
Music on a Sunny Morning
Acrylic
14" x 18"
Price: 250$
This painting was inspired by a trip in southern U.S.A. The artist was awed by this scene with its lush greenery, amazing reaching branches of a live oak tree and the play of light and shadow.
Cabin in the Woods
Acrylic
20" x 24"
Price: 600$
Sandra Boorne
How to reach this artist:
email: sandraboorne@hotmail.com
Sandra Boorne is a visual artist based in Montreal. Sandra works from her studio in the Complexe du Canal in Saint-Henri.
She primarily paints contemporary landscapes and also more recently, urban scenes of her city.
Her media of choice is oil pigment either in stick form or painted with a brush in the impasto technique. Sandra also paints in watercolours in a free and expressive style.
A kaleidoscope of colours overlooking Sainte-Catherine Street was an emblematic piece that hung over the pedestrian mall in the Village for many years… and it is gone. To commemorate the magic of this expression of hope and joy is especially relevant during these times of confinement. The rainbow of colours and textures over the darkness of the evening sky and the street full of people ambling about are the dream of a near future when life will be back to normal. Whatever that new normal will be.
Five Roses by Night
Oil Stick on Canvas
24" x 30"
Price: 850$
Sharron M. Gallagher
A native Montrealer, Sharron Mary Gallagher is a painter who is inspired by her feelings about nature and light.
While oil is her preferred medium she also enjoys watercolour, acrylic, pastel, charcoal, ink & pencil.
As an abstract expressionist, Sharron loves exploring texture, flow and colour. She creates her own colour combinations and compositions.
Sharron’s understanding of nature and the environment influence her work insimple and playful ways. A student at the Visual Art Center [2001+] the Montreal Museum of Fine Art [School of Art] and the CummingsCenter, Sharron also studied with Marilyn Rubenstein for four years. She has painted at workshops in Europe,S.E. Asia and the Laurentians.
Sharron has shown her work in solo, juried and group shows in Quebec since 2009. Sharron participated online in’ Leslie Saeta: Fine Art Challenge of ‘30 Paintings in 30 days’ three times.
Artistswho influence her are Renoir, Monet, Kandinsky.
Over the years, Sharron has been a member of many associations like Woman’s Art Society of Montreal, LaSalleArtists Association, Woman’s Art Studio of Montreal, Montreal Council of Women, ELAN, YES Montreal
.Sharron was a Nursing professor at Dawson College [ Montreal] for twenty-eight years.Her education includes a Masters in Education [ McGill], Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Nursing, [University of NewBrunswick ], CEPEC [University of Sherbrooke ] Registered Nurse, St Mary’s Hospital School of Nursing
Floating Blue
Oil
41.75" x 41.75"
Price: 1475$
Spanish Garden
Watercolour
17.5" x 21"
Price: 450$
Nature is my main inspiration and topic of interest. The process of painting in an abstract way allows me to open my arms and embrace reality in my terms. It grants me the space to breathe,dance and feel the moment. I am not interested in describing the complete story, but rather I explore the shape, colour and elements that constitute the whole. Emotions are my stimulus to paint. Colour and contours whisper or shout that I am not intimidated by factors that are larger than myself. When I sense the sun on a cold winter day and see the gentle rays upon the landscape, I am moved and can feel the unleashing of all kinds of somatic songs within me. The emotion of discovering something beautiful or sad does not have specific dimensions or boundaries in my mind. Joy, sorrow, dark, light are topics that interest me on a regular basis.I love the act of creating. I enjoy the free-flowing movement of strokes and shapes. I love the thickness of paint, the surprises that evolve on paper and how the paint intermingles with the texture of my canvas. I enjoy how my body dances to the rhythm of my work.Painting is my voice, my hands, my heart, my music, my passion and a portal to my soul.
Sophie Bisaillon
I am an emergent artist interested in exploring abstract art, the feeling of color and to trust intuition to reveal the painting who wants to emerge, serving as a simple instrument.
Alumni of the Creative Visionary Program with Nicolas Wilton and the Find Your Joy Program with Louise Fletcher, abstract art is a new adventure an inner voyage. May my art makes people happy and loved.
Line of Thoughts
Oil Pastel and Acrylic
24" x 24"
Price: 550$
Art is a natural expression of love in its highest form, beauty exist within us and around us. Art is love.
Trust
Oil Pastel and Acrylic
24" x 24"
Price: 550$
Sonia Roseval
An abstract ,chromatic work that negotiates the aesthetic space between figurative and abstract art. Thanks to its intuitive,basal geometry.
Choreography of Colours
Ink jet on paper
22" x 32"
Price: 800$
Self taught mentored by int''l artists.Born in Tunis, Tunisia Sonia has been an artist since 12 years of age.
Exhibited in Museums,Galleries, solo and group shows. Washington D.C., Halifax, Victoria B.C., Montreal, Toronto, Lyon.
Intuition of Space and Colours
Ink jet on paper
10" x 14"
Price: 400$
An abstract ,chromatic work that negotiates the aesthetic space between figurative and abstract art. Thanks to its intuitive,basal geometry.
SORian (Sorin Cretu)
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Born Sorin Cretu in 1977, of Romanian origin.
Lives, works and develops his art practice in Montreal and Laval, Quebec, Canada.
His artist name is SORiaN, his art is called SORiaN ArT and his style of painting is named visionary philosophical surrealism.
He implies a multitude of painting techniques, using mostly oil on canvas and air brush.
Studied the fine arts (panting, drawing, art history) at École de Beaux Arts Piatra-Neamt, Romania (1984 to 1992).
Holding a Bachelor Degree in Philosophy with the Department of theoretical philosophy of the University of Bucharest, Romania (1997-2001).
Participated in more than thirty local, national and international art exhibits, shows, art fairs for the past five years (Canada, USA, France, UK, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Romania, while being recognized with significant awards, medals, distinctions.
Presented his art in interviews, newspapers, publications in English, French and Romanian, both in Canada and abroad.
Active member of various art organizations (WASM, American Society for the Art of Imagination, Cercle des Artistes Peintres et Sculpteurs du Québec, ALPAP)
Undying
Oil
48" x 36"
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A painting about Our Rebirth, about the emergence of an Unified Act of Love and Life, the most human one of all, rising above the shadows of fears, through the voices of uncertainty. It is a story about Undying, about Being truly Alive, Unending Fire of Our desire to materialize the vision of being One, that reveals Our Path. Our Beauty and Our Light carry in their fiber the meaning that matters the most, for what is true and precious in Our Heart to become Our Reality. We Are reborn from Seeing the Other, We are fulfilled by receiving the Other into Ourselves.
What We build inside each other are the seeds of Our World.
This is a painting about Love that does not die, about Light that does not turn into darkness. Undying is Our ΩriginS.
Life matters..
Beauty matters..
Light matters..
Goodness matters..
Belief matters..
Love binds them all into US.
Let’s Let Love, Hope, Trust and Strength define Who We Are!
Nefertum
Oil
40" x 60"
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This is a story about Humanity's Dawn, about the Rise of what We truly Are, about our believes, about the force of creation. The Sun, this healing light, is unique, raising Ourselves from the eternal mother Sea. ..Conquering of our unsighted struggles, over and over again. It is a story about fertility, about its mysterious force that makes Our Path emerge into a New Birth.
Our Birth, in all its scents of Love and Faith beyond any sacrifice...It is a story about the Beauty of Our awakening, about the nurturing pleasure of walking our given ground, flying at the heights of Our Heart, without counting its beats. We are the blooming Blue Lotus flowers of our most precious uncharted Wishes. We are the harvesters of Vision and Brightness of our rising sun which is holding dearly in its eternal fire the sweetness of God's nectar. It is Nefertum
Stanley Wasilewski
Stanley Wasilewski, born in Montreal, Quebec.
Graduate of Sir Williams University.
STOP, LOOK LISTEN, 3 words that created the tapestry of
a city/farm boy to the extraordinary world around him. Today called "Art", yester/years called "work/play". My painted themes revolve around camping sites, exploration of color, form, touch, and surprise as to how much we do not see around us. My creations started with realist pictures and have over the years moved to imagination
Nature out shines all human activity.
Lost in a Sun Flower Field
Oil on Wood
14" x 16"
Price: 300$
Poker Anyone
Mixed Media and Oil
16" x 20"
Price: 150$
Suzy Charto
Rocket Man
Acrylic
24" x 24"
Price: 450$
Kaleidoscope Smile
Acrylic
20" x 24"
Price: 425$
Thelma Savelson
I first studied with Eric Goldberg. In 1974 I earned a BA with a major in Fine Arts from Concordia. In 1991 I joined WASM and was a member until 1998 after which I belonged and still do to Women’s Art Studio of Montreal.
I reinstated my WASM membership 3 years ago. Through the years I earned several prizes in both clubs starting with 2nd prize at WASM in 1994.
Inspired by the palette used to paint ‘In Bruges
Bruges Palette
Acrylic
16" x 20"
Price: 600$
Fabricated Landscape
Acrylic
10" x 14"
Price: 600$
An abstraction inspired by fabric draped on an easel
Theresa Passarello
My work investigates issues that have preoccupied me for over a decade: memory and language, spaces of transformation or limned moments of consciousness, often referenced through the metaphor of water. Unfilled spaces, gaps, missing parts -speaks to a more direct focus on and concern with the absence of memory, the emptiness in between what we know and do not know, the echo that remains in its wake.
Born in the Bahamas, Theresa Passarello is a graduate from Concordia University’s Studio Arts Program and also has a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Passarello’s work considers the human condition, particularly themes of impermanence, longing and memory. Her work has been exhibited extensively, featured in magazines and is collected internationally in private and corporate collections.
Lacuna 1
Oil on mylar
40" x 40"
Price: 1650$
I am looking for a word that means blank space, gap or missing part. Some of the letters are missing and the blank spaces are gaps in my life”.
Slipstream
Oil on canvus
30" x 24"
Price: 1650$
Toni Lavery
Subconscious vision expressing cultural commentaries on English tea time and the delicious seduction of United States Southern hospitality.
Tea Time and Picnic
Mixed Media Collage
17" x 24"
Price: 500$
How to reach this artist:
email: tonilav@wasmtl.org
Training:
Kansas City Art Institute 1973 to 1975 painting, Colorado Institute of Art 1975 graphic design, University of Kansas 1976 independent study in set design and photography.
Art Career: Graphic Artist 1976-1982. Resumed painting in January 2019 after a 40 year absence.
Medium: Painting in mixed media, watercolor and collage.
Influences: surrealism, impressionism, decorative arts.
Favorite Painters: Klimt, Van Gogh, O’Keefe and Chagall
Subconscious vision combining decorative and culinary art to express the importance of both to nurture a civilized society.
Serving a Colourful Breakfast
Mixed Media Collage
17" x 24"
Price: 500$
Wendy Fee
How to reach this artist:
email: info@wendyfeestudio.art
One of the strongest motivators that drives an artist to create, is the impulse to express and capture the emotional truth to an idea, a place or a time. Wendy Fee’s vibrant, dynamic paintings are her response to the ever-changing landscape of natural elements that inspire her both at home and when travelling.
Wendy has been expressing herself artistically for over thirty years, yet the path to pursue art on a professional level has been as unpredictable and flowing as the paint that washes over her canvases. Originally from Montreal, Wendy obtained an MBA from Athabasca University in Alberta and a Postgraduate Diploma in Event Management from Fitzwilliam Institute in Dublin, Ireland. She enjoyed a successful career in the health care industry, launched her own event planning business, and now her focus is creating art on the boat and in her studio.
Living aboard a boat for months at a time has inspired the artist’s subject matter as well the need to develop alternative techniques with both paint and substrates. Her onboard materials include a roll of polyester canvas as well as Yupo and Terraskin papers that are portable and easily stretched and mounted back home in her studio. These substrates are chosen for their properties of sustainability and working surface that enable a variety of effects. Her ongoing goal is to communicate the restorative power of nature to rebuild tired brains and heal them, based on the knowledge that neuroscientists are currently in the process of examining this concept. Richard Fernandes, the former executive coach at Google speaks to having an internet compass, and the need to balance the capabilities that technology offers with qualities of the lives that we live offline, words that resonate deeply with the artist.
“Joy Ride” is one of the newest editions to the Jelly Dancer* series, painted in late fall in the studio after being away from the ocean for almost four months. The chosen colour of red, purple, and turquoise has become one of my favourites and perfectly showcases the feisty spirit of Joy Ride, expressing the freedom of movement and the mystery of the ocean that I realized I was longing to get back to.
Joy Ride
Acrylic on Terraskin
36" x 24"
Price: 1600$
Early Summit
Acrylic
32" x 34.5"
Price: NFS