Nada Sesar Raffay took inspiration from Hozier’s soaring anthem Sunlight for her first solo exhibition at the Roberts Gallery, naming her show after the musician’s “mesmerizing, uplifting and inspiring” track. In Sunlight, a new series of 14 paintings, Raffay says her “ultimate desire is to express my life […]
French painter Francine Van Hove is well known for the transparent skin tones of her women subjects, which she paints exclusively, and always from life. The expression of beauty, sensuality, femininity and freedom is the philosophy behind her work. Van Hove, represented by Galerie De Bellefeuille in Montreal, […]
From the jungles of Borneo to the Niagara Escarpment, this award-winning Canadian artist continues to explore the topography of the natural environment in new oil paintings. Duane Nickerson: Tree , his solo exhibition, is on at Abbozzo Gallery in Toronto through March 2.
Vincent Giarrano’s realist paintings center on New York City, which he says he finds inspiring. Well known in the comics industry, he also was an illustrator for popular publications before turning to scenes in oil.
Yehouda Chaki presents works that are a believable reality yet entirely of his own making. Chaki’s sought-after oil paintings have been described as “a collision of the outside world with the artist’s innermost visceral perceptions.” The Montreal-based painter combines forceful lines with an emotion-driven sense of colour, as […]
Oregon based artist Dan Attoe interprets landscapes and water in a show of soothing paintings at Peres Projects in Berlin.
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