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Member's Showcase
This Member's Showcase features Artists in Canada's Active Membership who are dedicated to producing new artwork and crafts. Find Canadian art from paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolour, as well as mixed media, photography, drawings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, wood working and jewelry. Pay no commissions. All transactions are with the artist unless represented by Artists in Canada. Prices are the same as dealing with the artist.
Karen Haines (Vande Vyvere)
Hints of Green
Plein Air Painting - Legal Alberta; promise of spring
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Karen Haines (Vande Vyvere)
Hints of Green
Plein Air Painting - Legal Alberta; promise of spring
Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki
Coastal Patterns
Helby Island, Barkley Sound
Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki
Low Tide at Brady's Beach
Bamfield, Vancouver Island
Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki
Coastal Sanctuary
Gabriola Island
Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki
Coastal Oaks
Gabriola Island
Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki
Arbutus Cove
Salt Spring Island
Betsy Miller
RENEWAL
Contemporary abstract with vivid acrylic design on a gallery canvas.
Kyla Bresch
Moving through Time
Moving through Time was the first piece where I had a preconceived idea of what I wanted to paint. Before I started, I kept seeing this mane of rainbow coloured hair waving and flowing. I had to paint that hair! Initially, I wanted to paint two people kissing, but as the images evolved, they became less human-like and more animal in form. It felt necessary to evolve them into something beyond human, something otherworldly with the hope they could offer some insight into another kind of love. Something of wonder and marvel. Yet, as I painted, the one figure became more and more distorted and the other became clearer and more refined. He was beautiful and brilliant in colour, a warrior actually, but every stroke I did kept erasing him. I couldn’t get this kiss right- and in a moment of frustration, I erased him completely. Then began to evolve this expression of sorrow and rage in the remaining figure. Her watchful eye is adorned with glitter, a pointed slit, and a feather-like image… she is flushed with the heat of her feelings, and she is releasing this vortex of emotion- probably some rage, but more like this guttural grief and anguish that literally takes form. There are veins and branches in the texture that rise up from this vocal eruption, and spill forward into future time. This knotted emotional projectile also veins out into future time. Perhaps her anger was at me for erasing her paramour or perhaps, with her slitted, reflective eye, she looked into my soul. Either way, in Moving through Time, this powerful creature, who is also a kind of warrior, makes clear that deep wounding won’t be silenced, that expressing our deepest hurt can create impressions that carry forward, and that we must keep moving 💜
Kyla Bresch
The Invocation of Fury Part Two
Process was the goal with this painting. I wanted to explore a range of emotions and also play with texture and form, but as I was painting with no direction in mind, I started to imagine how much easier things would be if I could teleport into another place—the same life, just slightly adjusted to be a life with less turbulence. And then I thought, why not use the boldest Colors possible to communicate this intense need to express the depth of frustration, of anger, and rage, even, that needed an outlet. Slashing the canvas, destroying canaries..bleeding gold. at the same time, I started with this deep mechanical center, thinking about the intricacy of the ways our lives unfold, but also, for me, thinking that there is design to living well. And if I could build a time machine to go back to the choices I’ve made I could do better. But in the end, the narrative is flawed. So as I painted, dreaming of escapism fell away, and I saw her sitting there— beautifully regal but not without raw power—the resolute kind that doesn’t give away to fear or regret. Firmly rooted in the now, caught under some kind of acid rain storm— not moving, not even seeking shelter- just looking ahead, determined but focused. There’s some dark energy brewing above her because it seems like demons are still caught up here too, so her environment is volatile. There’s this mesh weapon projecting from chest, slashes around it as it tears out of her skin. It symbolizes her fight, her heartache, and her force—both emotional and physical. And she rocks this floral dress with hints of black because Fury, like wildflowers, is vivacious and brilliant in form. She isn’t human—visible by her skeletal claw hand and her cat-like eye. She is Fury— invoked but steeled by the knowledge that the chaos of anger can be felt and transformed into a vision that sets an alternative course. But first, we must sit in the aftermath in order to engrain it into our reality.
Kyla Bresch
Parallel Universe
Parallel Universe was inspired by a 2017 film called the Discovery. One overarching premise in the film is that our consciousness exists in parallel planes, and that when we die in one plane, our consciousness finds itself in another plane. I wanted to paint this concept of a side-by -side existence divided by some invisible membrane or realm. It seemed fitting to imagine beyond an earthy plane. What if conscious energy from the universe could also be absorbed into an alternate universe (s)? (Not an original thought- I know- but one I wanted to try painting). At the top of the painting, in one plane of existence, there is a black hand/claw reaching down. It’s sharp-edged with some bursts of red and shades of blue- in fact. For me, it was an alien claw wreaking havoc and causing destruction. There is also a giant whisk-like structure mixing up a natural order of living. In film, The Discovery, people begin to take their own lives in order to have their consciousness absorbed into an alternative plane—seeking a life with less suffering. The film opens this controversial concept, and it creates a powerful implicit narrative in the story. This painting, Parallel Universe seeks to visualize this film’s concept by juxtaposing dark against a lighter, brighter variation. The soft hues of pinks and purples suggest a lighter, more promising existence. I didn’t intend to reconcile this film's complex meaning, but rather to wonder further and sometimes, even still, get lost in thought.
