Daniel Solomon

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Daniel Solomon. Solomon is (primarily) an abstract painter who uses intense, vibrant colour in his work, combined with complex, pictorial space, inspired by artists such as Jack Bush, from the Painters Eleven. David Bolduc (a...

Paraskeva Clark

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Paraskeva Clark (1898 – 1986). A Russian – Canadian painter, Paraskeva Clark was a member of the Canadian Group of Painters (1936); the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (1937); Canadian Society of Graphic Art...

Ray Mead

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Ray Mead (1921 – 1998). Mead was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter and a member of the artists group known as Painters Eleven. Writing about an exhibition of Mead’s work at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in 1988,...

Xiaojing Yan

Our latest Artist You Need To Know is Xiaojing Yan  闫晓静. She is a Chinese-Canadian artist whose “work embraces her sense of having a hybrid identity.” (from her site) Curator and critic Suzanne Luke offers the following about Yan’s art : “Yan’s...

David Hlynsky

Our latest Artist You Need To Know is David Hlynsky. Hlynsky was born in the United States, but emigrated to Canada in 1971. His grandparents had left Poland and the Ukraine around 1912, for North America. He attended Ohio State University from 1965 to 1970, earning a...