Joanne Tod

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Joanne Tod. She is a Canadian contemporary artist and teacher whose paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally for the past thirty years. From the Canada Council Art Bank : “Evolving from an early interest in...

Martin Parr

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Martin Parr. Parr is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector : Parr is best  “known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of...

Dora Maar

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Dora Maar (1907 – 1997). Born Henriette Théodora Markovitch, she was a French photographer, painter, and poet. Too often dismissed as ‘simply’ a model and muse for Pablo Picasso, any examination of her life and...

Jean Hélion

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Jean Hélion (1904–1987). Hélion (1904 – 1987) was a French painter who “worked with both non-objective and figurative painting over the course of his career, often straddling the two” : his abstract compositions...

Betye Saar

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Betye Saar. Betye Irene Saar is an African American artist who works primarily in assemblage creating artworks that are direct responses to her political and social environment in the United States. Saar is also a fine printmaker :...