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Toronto Art Scene
They did it again those talented volunteers and organizers of the Annual
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. They hosted a popular art event in the midst of
Toronto Summer.
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Title: Jewelry Box
Artist: John Ireland
Medium: Wood
TOAE Category: Wood
Dimensions: 15 x 12 x 4 in
Image Courtesy: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
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John Ireland takes great care in his wood
products, ensuring all surfaces are smooth. Put your hand under one of his
tables and it will feel exactly the same as the top. The artist points out
that while he's creating the piece he sees it from all angles and that gives him
the incentive to add that extra special touch.
John describes his jewelry boxes as "versions of traditional
cabinet-makers' toolboxes."
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| Sylvia Naylor finds inspiration from nature saying, "My
work is usually based on the natural environment from ideas gathered
from sketches, observations and photographs when I am out walking, cycling,
paddling my canoe or gardening."
The pieces can take "several weeks but I may well have several
ones on the go." Sylvia says she has "become quick over the
years."
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Title: Fall Bog
Artist: Sylvia J. Naylor
Medium: Fibre
TOAE Category: Fibre
Dimensions: 6 x 8 in.
Image Courtesy: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
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Title: Long Boughs
Artist: Bonnie Brooks
Medium: Watercolor
TOAE Category: Watercolor
Dimensions: 23 x 10
Image Courtesy: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
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Painting the negative intrigues Bonnie Brooks. She adds,
"The illusive negative space, that area which surrounds a shape plays
a vital role in the process. Without the negative space, the shape cannot
exist."
Bonnie was honored to have one of her watercolors selected for HM
Queen Elizabeth II for addition to the Royal Collection of Drawings &
Watercolors at Windsor Castle in 2001
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TOAE continues its long tradition of including
students in many of the categories. For many this will be their first opportunity to meet a large crowd who
wish to view art and learn what is happening in the Toronto Art Scene. Not to suggest that all of the artists are from Toronto. Many travel
from far and wide to enter the juried event and the successful ones
attend.
Title: Flower
Artist: Jennifer Linton
Medium: Intaglio
Dimensions: 9 x 12
TOAE Category: Printmaking
Image Courtesy: Jennifer Linton
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"It is a collage, it's fabrics,
it's high relief. I wanted to make it look metal like with a patina. It
has those beautiful patina colors greens, blues and moss greens.
It's a small piece, fairly light, and it's kind of fungus like to me. I'm
not quite sure where the idea came from. I just love the way it
started to grow organically. I let it grow like a forest and then
stopped myself and it was finished," explains Denyse Courville when
asked to describe Sea Forest.
Denyse defines her style as, "all different types, it's not
painting, it's not sculpture. I'm not quite sure where I fit which is fine
because I don't want to be pigeon-holed. Mixed media is the most accurate I can get."
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Title: Sea Forest
Artist: Denyse Courville
Medium: Fabric, Acrylic on Board
TOAE Category: Mixed Media
Dimensions: 12 x 12 in.
Image Courtesy: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
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Peter Shoebridge's Andrea "is done
in clay. It's the original model head, from which I will cement studies that vary. What's unique about this piece is the openings in it.
It's as though the piece can be looked at as either disintegrating or
coming together. I'm concerned about making
it a portrait and at the same time bringing out the sculptural qualities
of any particular face or feature."
Peter has entered the juried competition as a painter in prior years.
However this time he was chosen for his sculptures. Peter explains,
"Sculpture was my earliest interest. Painting was a later
interest. I'm currently doing both and trying to decide whether I need to
stop and do one or the other." His favorite genre is sculpture,
but he adds the caveat, "that's because I'm here at the show
looking at it. I really don't know."
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Title: Brodiaea, 2002
Artist: Lois Scott
Medium: Blown, Carved, Etched Glass
TOAE Category: Glass
Dimensions: 36 cm H
Image Courtesy: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
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The art of glass making was on display with the inclusion of
several artisans in this popular category at the juried art exhibition.
Lois Scott made her fourth appearance at TOAE with her intricate blown,
carved and etched glass works.
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Title: Sterling Silver and Copper Ring and
Earrings
Artist: Annette VanLeeuwen
Medium: Sterling Silver and Copper
TOAE Category: Jewelry
Image Courtesy: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
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Jewelry is always popular at TOAE. Visiting the
jewelry booths might take an extra few moments of time as there are always
crowds to view these artisan's wares.
Annette VanLeeuwen was one that had a popular booth during the sunny
weekend. "I do a line of work that incorporates sterling silver
and copper. I started about 7 years ago working with copper. I love
using that in combination with silver because the contrast the two
metals give each other which embraces the warmth of the copper. Over the years I've
developed different ways of using the two by incorporating them together. I
found that people have responded well."
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Arleigh Wood uses computers in the creation of
her art, one of the newer categories at the TOAE. "Mating Calls uses
a technique of digital collage. I take my own photos, drawings and
paintings and I scan them into the computer. I then manipulate them in the
computer and have them printed on archival paper in limited
editions."
She describes her unique style. "I actually work a lot with the
symbol of the bird and the circle, that search for finding the perfect
circle, the circle of life. The idea of the Zen Buddhist circle, the
circle brush stroke that you always try to do to make it perfect. I use
that in my work with a lot of different textures. I'm very interested in
nature and bringing it into a modern view."
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Title: Mating Calls
Artist: Arleigh Wood
Medium: Digital Collage
TOAE Category: Computer
Dimensions: 20 x 20 in
Image Courtesy: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
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Title: The Familiar, 2002
Artist: Jennifer Linton
Medium: Colored Pencil on Mylar
TOAE Category: Printmaking
Dimensions: 17.5 x 12.5 cm
Image Courtesy: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
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Jennifer Linton was
recognized at the 2004 TOAE.
"It's very exciting I won an Honorable Mention in Printmaking."
She said. "My prints are [created in] a process called intaglio which
involves a metal plate, in my case copper. I draw directly onto the
plate and immerse it in an acid bath which then bites where I have drawn
and prints lines that are then filled with ink and run through a
press."
Jennifer is accomplished at drawing as well as printmaking. "My
drawings are colored pencil. The Familiar is just a small 5 x 7
pencil drawing that I did. A lot of my work is self-referential so I did a
portrait of myself with a two-headed cat. My work is quite odd as it's very
fantasy driven. I make a lot of historical references to mythology
and biblical stories. Some of it is just simply a personal mythology that
I've made up."
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Title: Quiet Conversation
Artist: Guinevere Pura
Medium: Photography
TOAE Category: Photography
Dimensions: 8 x 10 in
Image Courtesy: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
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"Quiet Conversation is a photo taken near
the water filtration plant at Queen and Victoria Park. It's one of the
very few photographs that I have of people." Guinevere Pura discusses
one of her entries at TOAE. "Right now I find it a little bit
difficult to take pictures of people. The two people in the photograph
are completely unaware that I did take a picture. Sometimes I find it is
invading their space to take pictures of people. It's quiet and there is a
warmness to it, although it was taken in the wintertime. It's a very simple
composition." She adds, she prefers to photograph "he scenes
of Toronto. If I do photograph people, then I want to photograph their activity
or their back, I don't want to identify these people with their
faces."
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TOAE continues its long tradition of including
students in many of the categories.
For many this will be their first opportunity to meet a large crowd who
wish to view art and learn what is happening in the Toronto Art Scene.
Not to suggest that all of the artists are from Toronto. Many travel
from far and wide to enter the juried event and the successful ones
attend.
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Title: Fragment 5
Artist: Lesley Ashton
Medium: Silver, Patina
TOAE Category: Metal Students
Dimensions: 1.4 x 2.3 cm
Image Courtesy: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
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Artisans, artwork, thousands of visitors and a beautiful
summer weekend combined for a successful Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition!
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Title: Teapot
Artist: Tony & Sheila Clennell
Medium: Stoneware, Hickory Ash Glaze, Wood Fired
TOAE Category: Ceramics
Dimensions: 8 in H
Image Courtesy: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
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TOAE 2004 Award Winners
Title: Bad Fence Pin, 2003
Artist: Sarah Troper
Medium: Sterling Silver, Resin, Enamel
TOAE Category: Jewelry
Dimensions: 2 x 5 cm
Image Courtesy: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
- Best of Show Award Sarah Troper
- Board Award of Excellence Sandy Plotnikoff
- Founding Chairman’s Purchase Award Scott
Griffin
- City of Toronto Purchase Award Jesse Boles
- Best Sculpture Award Gareth Lichty
- Honorable Mention in Sculpture Ryan McLay
- Best Watercolor Award Sally Milne
- Honorable Mention in Watercolor Dominique Prévost
- Best Photography Award Annie MacDonnell
- Honorable Mention in Photography Stephanie
Cormier
- Honorable Mention in Photography Joshua
Jensen-Nagle
- Best Drawing Award Olexander Wlasenko
- Honorable Mention in Drawing Cathy Cahill
- Honorable Mention in Drawing Balint Zsako
- Best Mixed Media Award Jason McKay
- Honorable Mention in Mixed Media Silvana Bruni
- Best Computer-Generated Purchase Award Aniko
Meszaros
- Best Decorative/Applied Arts Award Max
Blankstein
- Best Jewelry Award Gina Fafard
- Honorable Mention in Jewelry Petra Luz
- Best Glass Award Blaise Campbell
- Honorable Mention in Glass Rachel Wong
- Best Ceramics Award Ying-Yueh Chuang
- Honorable Mention in Ceramics Joanne Noordhuis
- Honorable Mention in Ceramics Mary Philpott
- Honorable Mention in Ceramics Robin Tieu
- Best Fibre Award Heather Goodchild
- Honorable Mention in Fibre Nika Feldman
- Honorable Mention in Fibre Dorie Millerson
- Best Printmaking Award Steven White
- Honorable Mention in Printmaking Jennifer Linton
- Honorable Mention in Printmaking Lisa Puopolo
- Honorable Mention Student Printmaking David Fisher
- Best Painting Award Sarah Cale
- Honorable Mention in Painting Karim Awad
- Honorable Mention in Painting Gwen Ramsay
- Best Student Painting -Telford Fenton Memorial Award Julie Cosgrove
- Best Student Award Derek Mainella
- Honorable Mention Student Award Alex Anagnostou
- Honorable Mention Student Award Katie Pretti
- Best Portrait Award Shauna Marie Born
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