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! CURRENT SOLO EXHIBIT: FOGLIE Hand-pulled screen-prints and block prints of autumnal foliage October 1 - November 4, 2018   Lazy Daisy's Cafe 1515 Gerrard Str. East [at Coxwell] Toronto Tel: 647/ 341-4070 Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 8 am - 4 pm: Sat & Sun 8.30 am - 4 pm *** CURRENT COLLECTIVE EXHIBIT: TORONTO WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY Group Show September 12 - October 19, 2018  Sunnybrook Hospital 2075 Bayview Ave Main Entrance Hallway Open 8 am - 10 pm daily From the Main Entrance, go straight ahead past the Gift Shop and Optometrist on the left, then the food court and the elevators on the right. Turn left at the T-junction and you can see the paintings, with a few gaps, all along the corridor to its end at D wing and the Harlequin Restaurant. To purchase, please take the label to the Gift Shop in the main lobby, or call 416-480-4132 This is a project of the Fine Arts Group, supporting patient comfort initiatives *** UPCOMING EXHIBITS: SKY TREES Solo Show of Watercolours November 5 - 29, 2018  Lazy Daisy's Cafe 1515 Gerrard Str. East [at Coxwell] Toronto Tel: 647/ 341-4070 Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 8 am - 4 pm: Sat & Sun 8.30 am - 4 pm *** DOES SIZE MATTER? Art In All Sizes, Large-Small-Square Don Valley Art Club's Annual Winter Show and Sale Including a whole wall of 1' square paintings at $ 155.- each! November 14 - 25, 2018  Papermill Art Gallery Todmorden Mills Heritage Site 67 Pottery Road Toronto Opening Reception, Awards & Meet the Artists: Wednesday, November 14, 7 - 9 pm Refreshments, Door Prizes Free Parking: behind the gallery or across the road at Fantasy Farms *** SIX DIRECTIONS Six Cardinal Directions Interpreted by the Six Artists of MURMURATIONS ART COLLECTIVE  January 23 - February 21, 2019  Etobicoke Civic Center Art Gallery 399 The West Mall Etobicoke, ON M9C 2Y2 Tel: 416/ 394-8628 Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am - 8 pm; Sat/ Sun 9 am - 5 pm Artists' Opening Reception: Sunday January 27, 2019, 2 - 4 pm *** 2018 SO FAR: Participated to 13 collective exhibits so far [see News -- Past Exhibits], had 2 solo shows, took a week-long watercolour workshop with Ron Hazell to perfect painting water in all its forms, and visited my ailing elderly mother in Switzerland multiple times.   2017 IN REVIEW: Participated to the DVAC and TWS Spring & Fall shows celebrating Canada's 150th anniversary, and to 7 other group shows at John B. Aird Gallery, Artusiasm Gallery & The Freedom Factory [see 'Past Exhibits' for details] + I travelled for three months through New Zealand, enjoying Summer at the antipodes, and also visited Switzerland three times.    In the second half of 2017 I have been deeply affected by the loss of my 95-year-old father. I am mourning him still.  *** 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 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 *** 2015 IN REVIEW: During this year I participated to seven collective exhibits and had two solo shows. 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. *** Solo Exhibits in Preparation: STARK SHORES Newfoundland in Watercolour and Acrylic Paintings *** PAKEHA EYES New Zealand Landscapes *** SIX DIRECTIONS Six Cardinal Directions interpreted by the Six artists of the MURMURATIONS ART COLLECTIVE *** CONTACT: ioana.bertrand.art@gmail.com |