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Brave Waves by Dana Cowie

2/22/2019

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This painting depicts an young woman and an older woman walking into the waves together. The child looks a little uncertain but the older woman gently guides her into the water. As a mother I see the importance of teaching and guiding our children and I think that is why I was inspired to paint this piece. Not only for the movement and colour of the water but the underlying meaning. As an artist, I am attracted to these types of scenes that are essentially small moments in our lives that can be so meaningful.
Dana spent much of her childhood in Hamilton before enrolling in the visual art program at Central Technical School in Toronto. She has also lived in Japan and in Victoria, British Columbia. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows and group exhibitions at several galleries, including Canvas Galleryand Westland Gallery. She has sold work through the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the West Hamilton Artists Tour and from her private studio, and has clients across Canada, the United States, England, Germany and Sweden. She also accepts commissions. Her paintings have also been featured in the Hamilton Spectator, Hamilton Magazine, House & Garden magazine (UK), and The Mayfair Life Magazine (UK). Dana is also an art instructor, having taught both privately and at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. She lives in Owen Sound with her family and travels regularly for her work.
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​Using an impasto, painterly technique in oil and bold use of colour I create moments of joy. Small points in time draw me in as my subject matter.  Fleeting moments that are simple, meaningful and accessible are relevant in my work. My paintings are an impression of light and form and a thought of a happy memory that is to be stopped in time.

Using classical oils and painting on my grandmothers 1940’s easel, I work instantaneously across my canvas, creating layers of colour that overlap as the image emerges as an organic abstraction of a my inspiration. As each piece emerges, a chapter in the novel of the story I am telling is created. As in life, our story is played out each day without knowing the future. My work celebrates living in the moment.
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Residual Beauty by Jill Price

2/22/2019

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Residual Beauty: Reflections of Florence, 2019, is an expressive rendering of memories assembled while visiting this magnificent city during coursework in 2016 and 2017.  Known as the largest outdoor gallery in the world, for me it was the Arno river, monumental architecture and rich history of artisans, politics and economics that stitched time and space together in a way that makes it an extremely relevant place to visit in order to examine society today.  Gilded in golds, bronzes and nature's pink light, the city is the perfect balance of mystery and magic, revealing hidden truths behind the ornamental beauty it wears as its disguise.

Currently pursuing a PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen's University, Jill Price is a professional artist, curator and educator whose practice examines landscapes as archives of our material and immaterial pasts.  Price completed her undergraduate work at Western Ontario and recently received the 2017 Research and Writing Award for her MFA thesis at OCADU.  Now living and working in Barrie, Ontario, Price balances her creative practice and studies with curatorial work and teaching part-time at Georgian College, OCADU and Queen's University.  
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Lunchtime, Boys by Elizabeth Kusinski

2/22/2019

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In Elizabeth's words

The painting “Lunchtime, boys” is of my mother, a young Polish immigrant who arrived in Canada with my father to work for a wealthy magnate Bud McDougald as maid and butler.

My mother was a strong and resilient woman who survived atrocities in a Siberian labour camp (taken with her family at the age of 7 from her family farm in eastern Poland by the Russians and put in cattle cars and sent to the frozen wastelands of Siberia.
​They were released two years later and were part of a long refugee line made up of women and children and the elderly to walk through Iran, Pakistan and India, where they then took a ship to Africa to live in a Polish refugee camp run by the British in Uganda. 

My mother spent her early teen years there till the war was over and then was sent to England where she met and married my father. My mother is the most courageous and strongest woman that I know. This painting represents an easy moment in her life as a young mother in her newly adopted country.
ABOUT ELIZABETH

Elizabeth is a successful professional oil painter and has participated in numerous group shows throughout Ontario including a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Bancroft and most recently a solo portrait exhibition at the St. Thomas Public Art Centre. Her work has been shown in galleries in London, Toronto & Bancroft. Elizabeth's work is diverse, ranging from portraits to landscapes, water, figurative t still life. Capturing the light in a subject is the artist's main goal. Her work can be found in private collections around the globe.
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