CONTACT: ioana.bertrand.art@gmail.com


My artistic work and explorations continue, between various travels, 
and I share some of them on my Facebook Pages:


You are invited to visit and comment!



2017  SO  FAR:
 
Participated to the DVAC and TWS Spring shows celebrating Canada's 150'th anniversary
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I  travelled for three months through New Zealand, enjoying Summer at the antipodes,

        

and also visit Switzerland several times this year.

 
  

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2016 IN  REVIEW:

I had 3 solo exhibits and participated to 10 collective shows during 2016, 
between four trips to Switzerland to care for my parents.

In June & July, I travelled across Newfoundland - pictures and comments to be found on Facebook.
Some of the paintings were displayed in the OPAS show, the others somewhere later.

I have also been deeply affected by the decline of my elderly parents and their poor health, 
and that has obviously influenced my art. 
I find trees continue to express my emotions and thoughts well, as you can see here:

 
              
Yesterday, TWS Award of Merit                           Afeared II                                                                Inside-Out IV


Please see 'Past Exhibits' for details about 2016's concluded shows


2015  IN  REVIEW:

During this year I participated to seven collective exhibits and had two solo shows.
[see 'Past Exhibits' for details]


I also attended several inspiring art classes over the Summer: 
  = Fold, Tear and Cut [paper] at the TSA with Donnelly Smallwood, and
= Printmaking at CTS with Dawn Hemmy

                                  
Elliptoid, scored paper construction       Persistence, lt.ed. etching on Japanese paper               Map, rice paper and ink




2014  IN  REVIEW:

At the beginning of 2014 I focused on finishing my 3-year visual art programme at the Art Centre, 
graduating from CTS at the end of June.   During that time, I developed three series of works:

                                                            = Gestation/ Germination, a series of sculptures, installations and 3-D pods
                                                            = Groves, a series of abstracted acrylic paintings and drawings
                                                            = Fractured, a series of large acrylic paintings with palette knives


                                                                                    
                                                                                  Gestating, hydrocal & cotton mesh                                 Summer Grove, abstract acrylic
                                                                                  sculpture, January 2014 [detail]                                       painting, March 2014   [detail]  


In September 2014 I went painting outdoors with OPAS 
for most of a week in Killarney, and another week in Killbear Provincial Park.


Between October and December 2014 I had 4 solo exhibits 
and participated to one collective show.
[see 'Past Exhibits' for details]




Solo Exhibits in Preparation:


STARK  SHORES
Newfoundland in Watercolour and Acrylic Paintings

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PAKEHA  EYES
New Zealand Landscapes

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CONTACT: ioana.bertrand.art@gmail.com