Mixed media artists in Canada broach the contemporary to create multifaceted, multi-textural and multi-dimensional works of art. Canvas, photography, textiles, metals and whatever other visual medium the artist can imagine might be used to complete an art piece.
I am a long time artist and illustrator, and have been painting and drawing since I was a child. Primarily self taught, I have been experimenting with many mediums and have settled into acrylics for decades now, and in the last several years, find... (more)
When I was a child, I was told to stick to sports as I couldn’t stay in the lines when colouring. I thought I didn’t have a creative bone in my body which led me to a career in the corporate world confor... (more)
Karen Wynne Mackay is an abstract artist. Her paintings are deeply manipulated surfaces, intertwined with coloured abstract markings, that emanate from her calligraphic influences. She uses fluid colourful layers, strong calligraphic marks made w... (more)
Joanne MacNair's Art: Painting, Giclee prints, Wearable art:
Paintings in acrylic, watercolour, palette knife, pencil drawing , and printmaking (not shown).
Landscape, portraits, floral, architecture.
Joanne's art is char... (more)
Inspiration: Imaginative textile designs of representative scenes from the natural world as well as fibre-based crafts for household soft goods.
Areas of practice: textile wall hangings with machine and hand embellishment; quilting and mix... (more)
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Originally from Montreal,Quebec after working for some time in the banking industry, I decided to pursue my life-long passion for design and colour. Following completion of the Fine Arts Certificate program in 2010 at She... (more)
Michelle Montague is a mixed media artist based in Toronto, Canada. Drawing and painting for nearly 20 years, Michelle spent her formative years in Edmonton and Windsor before returning to Toronto in 1996. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree... (more)
Fascinated by our interactions, I like to study human beings and their impact on the world.
After several years spent in music venues as a singer, I rediscovered my first love: visual art. To recover my eye-hand coordination and... (more)
The landscape features most prominently in the body of my work. It is a landscape of suggestion, rather than a faithful figurative rendering; it is a landscape of fiction and abstraction. It contains elements of the earth and sky, the sea and rive... (more)