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Item Ships From: Montreal
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By Fabian Jean
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Fabian Jean graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University. He has had solo exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto and Halifax and has been included in several group exhibitions throughout Canada including, recently, Rideau Hall, Ottawa. Jean’s work can be found in public and private collections, including the Department of External Affairs (Canadian Embassy – The Hague), Musée du Québec, Royal Bank of Canada, Summit Maritime and the Royal Victoria...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$18,025
Ariadne
By David Wightman
Located in Montreal, Quebec
David Wightman (b. 1980, Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK) is a British painter and printmaker based in London, UK. He creates beautiful paintings and prints of fictional landscapes. The surfaces of his paintings are made from textured wallpaper collaged with a technique similar to marquetry. Colour and composition are the key aspects of his work. He studied Fine Art at Middlesex University (2001) and gained an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2003).
David Wightman’s solo exhibitions include My Atalanta, Long & Ryle, London (2020), In Arcadia, DuranMashaal Gallery, Montréal (2018), A Devotion, Someth1ng Gallery, London (2018), EMPIRE, Long & Ryle, London (2016), New paintings + Akris collaboration, Akris, 30 Old Bond Street, London (2014), Redux, 10 Gresham Street and Halcyon Gallery (2014), Hero, commission for House Arts Festival (2013), Paramour, Halcyon Gallery, London (2012), Homage to Loreleia, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland (2011), Secret Name, Sumarria Lunn, London (2010), Behemoth, Cornerhouse, Manchester (2009), and Aspirations, William Angel Gallery, London (2008).
In 2010, David Wightman was awarded the Berwick Gymnasium Arts Fellowship – a sixmonth residency in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, funded by Arts Council England and English Heritage. In 2013, he was selected by the curator of House Arts Festival, Mariele Neudecker...
Category
2010s Post-Minimalist Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper
Falderals III
By Simon Casson
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Simon Casson’s paintings are singular statements of pure uniqueness. Their contemporary abstraction inflicts its imprint upon the often capriccio paintings, through predatory slabs o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cloud Indigo
By Robert Marchessault
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Omori Omori
By Robert Marchessault
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Falderals II
By Simon Casson
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Simon Casson’s paintings are singular statements of pure uniqueness. Their contemporary abstraction inflicts its imprint upon the often capriccio paintings, through predatory slabs o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chanel Box
By Paula Urzica
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Born in Transylvania, Romania and of Hungarian origin, Paula Urzica lives and works in London, England. She is known for her hyperrealist paintings depicting large-scale macaroons.
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$13,042
Celestine iv
By David Wightman
Located in Montreal, Quebec
David Wightman (b. 1980, Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK) is a British painter and printmaker based in London, UK. He creates beautiful paintings and prints of fictional landscapes. The surfaces of his paintings are made from textured wallpaper collaged with a technique similar to marquetry. Colour and composition are the key aspects of his work. He studied Fine Art at Middlesex University (2001) and gained an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2003).
David Wightman’s solo exhibitions include My Atalanta, Long & Ryle, London (2020), In Arcadia, DuranMashaal Gallery, Montréal (2018), A Devotion, Someth1ng Gallery, London (2018), EMPIRE, Long & Ryle, London (2016), New paintings + Akris collaboration, Akris, 30 Old Bond Street, London (2014), Redux, 10 Gresham Street and Halcyon Gallery (2014), Hero, commission for House Arts Festival (2013), Paramour, Halcyon Gallery, London (2012), Homage to Loreleia, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland (2011), Secret Name, Sumarria Lunn, London (2010), Behemoth, Cornerhouse, Manchester (2009), and Aspirations, William Angel Gallery, London (2008).
In 2010, David Wightman was awarded the Berwick Gymnasium Arts Fellowship – a sixmonth residency in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, funded by Arts Council England and English Heritage. In 2013, he was selected by the curator of House Arts Festival, Mariele Neudecker...
Category
2010s Post-Minimalist Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper
Lake (wild)
By Darlene Cole
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Childhood, a reoccurring theme in Darlene Cole’s work, is represented by prepubescent girls and boys, engaged in some type of action. Without adult supervision, these activities confer on Cole’s children an adult-like aura, empowering them. The artist cites Neil Postman’s 1982 book about the decline in innocence in American culture The Disappearance of Childhood as a text that informs her work. In it, Postman argues that communications technology, such as the invention of the television and later, the Internet, contributed to children losing their innocence, thus transforming them into young adults.
A source of inspiration for Cole are the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848. They studied nature attentively, employed vivid colours and depicted unconventional-looking women. Just like in Pre-Raphaelite works, the girls in Cole’s paintings embody enigma, distance, and beauty.
The past, in general, is a great source of inspiration for the artist. Cole’s cottage, or ‘artist’s retreat’ as she calls it, was built at the beginning of the 20th century. Since she kept all the original furniture and linens intact, the cottage, on the side of a lake, seems to belong to the past.
Nature, another omnipresent theme in Cole’s work, is in many works represented by flowers, such as pink David Austin roses...
Category
2010s Impressionist Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paradise (polka-dot chiffon under the magnolias)
By Darlene Cole
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Childhood, a reoccurring theme in Darlene Cole’s work, is represented by prepubescent girls and boys, engaged in some type of action. Without adult supervision, these activities conf...
Category
2010s Impressionist Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paradise (summer solstice)
By Darlene Cole
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Childhood, a reoccurring theme in Darlene Cole’s work, is represented by prepubescent girls and boys, engaged in some type of action. Without adult supervision, these activities conf...
Category
2010s Impressionist Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paradise (blue velvet + hydrangeas)
By Darlene Cole
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Childhood, a reoccurring theme in Darlene Cole’s work, is represented by prepubescent girls and boys, engaged in some type of action. Without adult supervision, these activities conf...
Category
2010s Impressionist Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dance in a Storm (peony reverie)
By Darlene Cole
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Childhood, a reoccurring theme in Darlene Cole’s work, is represented by prepubescent girls and boys, engaged in some type of action. Without adult supervision, these activities conf...
Category
2010s Impressionist Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Zart and Vair
By Simon Casson
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Simon Casson’s paintings are singular statements of pure uniqueness. Their contemporary abstraction inflicts its imprint upon the often capriccio paintings, through predatory slabs o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rococo Lady, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
By Nadia NL
Located in Yardley, PA
Acrylic painting on paper and paper cut Title: Rococo Lady Two layers of paper painted with acrylic and paper cut Medium: Acrylic Support: Fabriano paper 140 lb (300 g / m2) a...
Category
2010s Realist Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Saint-Tite-des-Caps, Quebec
Located in Westmount, QC
Albert Rousseau, 1908 - 1982, Canadian
Oil on masonite
18 x 24 in
46 x 61 cm
Signed lower right ; Titled on the reverse
framed
Category
Mid-20th Century Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Six Macaroons
By Paula Urzica
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Born in Transylvania, Romania and of Hungarian origin, Paula Urzica lives and works in London, England. She is known for her hyperrealist paintings depicting large-scale macaroons.
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Wishes, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nadia NL
Located in Yardley, PA
Title: Wishes Original Acrylic Painting Medium: Acrylic and paper Support: Stretched Canvas, Staple-free edges, Acid-free acrylic titanium gesso, Ready to Hang Size : 24? x 18? x...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
A Memory, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
By Nadia NL
Located in Yardley, PA
Acrylic painting on paper and paper cut Title: A Memory Two layers of paper painted with acrylic and paper cut Medium: Acrylic and Marker (Sakura Pigma Micron), gold foil paper...
Category
2010s Realist Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Parasite
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For her first solo exhibition at Art Mûr, Nova Scotia-based emerging artist Jazz Keillor presents Landscape(d), a body of work which evokes as well as subverts the visual language of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Soak
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For her first solo exhibition at Art Mûr, Nova Scotia-based emerging artist Jazz Keillor presents Landscape(d), a body of work which evokes as well as subverts the visual language of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
$1,800
Charge
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For her first solo exhibition at Art Mûr, Nova Scotia-based emerging artist Jazz Keillor presents Landscape(d), a body of work which evokes as well as subverts the visual language of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Control
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For her first solo exhibition at Art Mûr, Nova Scotia-based emerging artist Jazz Keillor presents Landscape(d), a body of work which evokes as well as subverts the visual language of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Switch
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For her first solo exhibition at Art Mûr, Nova Scotia-based emerging artist Jazz Keillor presents Landscape(d), a body of work which evokes as well as subverts the visual language of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Run
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For her first solo exhibition at Art Mûr, Nova Scotia-based emerging artist Jazz Keillor presents Landscape(d), a body of work which evokes as well as subverts the visual language of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
$2,800
Sit
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For her first solo exhibition at Art Mûr, Nova Scotia-based emerging artist Jazz Keillor presents Landscape(d), a body of work which evokes as well as subverts the visual language of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
$2,500
Rest
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For her first solo exhibition at Art Mûr, Nova Scotia-based emerging artist Jazz Keillor presents Landscape(d), a body of work which evokes as well as subverts the visual language of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
$3,000
Suez
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Building on a series of exhibitions titled Panorama of the Anthropocene which examined the ecological impact of human activity through an array of paintings, digital prints and video...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Varnish
$1,300
Glass Octopus
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
With Into the Deep Blue Sea, Nova Scotia-born, New Brunswick-based artist Colleen Wolstenholme presents a series of deep sea oil paintings and ink drawings, accompanied by a tent ins...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Polka Dot Dandy
By Renée Duval
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Renée Duval lives and works in Montreal. Born in British Columbia, she graduated with Honors from Emily Carr College of Art (1986) and completed an M.F.A. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Westmount, QC
William Arthur Winter, Canadian, 1909 – 1996
Oil on canvas panel
10 x 8 in
signed
framed
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Category
1960s Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red Wave
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Portrait is a result of transformations in Judith Berry’s painting practice from singular landscapes into abstracted forms, still lives, and now, into human and animal life. These lu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Heads and Walls
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Portrait is a result of transformations in Judith Berry’s painting practice from singular landscapes into abstracted forms, still lives, and now, into human and animal life. These lu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait with Two Small Waves
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Portrait is a result of transformations in Judith Berry’s painting practice from singular landscapes into abstracted forms, still lives, and now, into human and animal life. These lu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Double Portrait with Blocks
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Portrait is a result of transformations in Judith Berry’s painting practice from singular landscapes into abstracted forms, still lives, and now, into human and animal life. These lu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Finding a Way Forward
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Portrait is a result of transformations in Judith Berry’s painting practice from singular landscapes into abstracted forms, still lives, and now, into human and animal life. These lu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Sideways Head with Landscape
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Portrait is a result of transformations in Judith Berry’s painting practice from singular landscapes into abstracted forms, still lives, and now, into human and animal life. These lu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Four Cones
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Portrait is a result of transformations in Judith Berry’s painting practice from singular landscapes into abstracted forms, still lives, and now, into human and animal life. These lu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Looking Backward
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Portrait is a result of transformations in Judith Berry’s painting practice from singular landscapes into abstracted forms, still lives, and now, into human and animal life. These lu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Wooden Horse Head
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Portrait is a result of transformations in Judith Berry’s painting practice from singular landscapes into abstracted forms, still lives, and now, into human and animal life. These lu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Speak
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Portrait is a result of transformations in Judith Berry’s painting practice from singular landscapes into abstracted forms, still lives, and now, into human and animal life. These lu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$3,800
Mine
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Building on a series of exhibitions titled Panorama of the Anthropocene which examined the ecological impact of human activity through an array of paintings, digital prints and video...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
$6,000
Lost Worlds Triptych
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Bloody-Belly Comb Jelly
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
With Into the Deep Blue Sea, Nova Scotia-born, New Brunswick-based artist Colleen Wolstenholme presents a series of deep sea oil paintings and ink drawings, accompanied by a tent ins...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Triptych
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
With Into the Deep Blue Sea, Nova Scotia-born, New Brunswick-based artist Colleen Wolstenholme presents a series of deep sea oil paintings and ink drawings, accompanied by a tent ins...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Helmet Jellyfish
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
With Into the Deep Blue Sea, Nova Scotia-born, New Brunswick-based artist Colleen Wolstenholme presents a series of deep sea oil paintings and ink drawings, accompanied by a tent ins...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Diplulmaris Antarctica
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
With Into the Deep Blue Sea, Nova Scotia-born, New Brunswick-based artist Colleen Wolstenholme presents a series of deep sea oil paintings and ink drawings, accompanied by a tent ins...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Barreleye Fish
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
With Into the Deep Blue Sea, Nova Scotia-born, New Brunswick-based artist Colleen Wolstenholme presents a series of deep sea oil paintings and ink drawings, accompanied by a tent ins...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Smog
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Oli Sorenson’s solo exhibition, «Après moi, le déluge » discloses a series of impactful works on the deadly perils of capitalism through a group of paintings, prints, watercolours, a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood, Oil
$5,000
Pelagic Polychaete
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
With Into the Deep Blue Sea, Nova Scotia-born, New Brunswick-based artist Colleen Wolstenholme presents a series of deep sea oil paintings and ink drawings, accompanied by a tent ins...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Triptych
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
With Into the Deep Blue Sea, Nova Scotia-born, New Brunswick-based artist Colleen Wolstenholme presents a series of deep sea oil paintings and ink drawings, accompanied by a tent ins...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Triptych
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
With Into the Deep Blue Sea, Nova Scotia-born, New Brunswick-based artist Colleen Wolstenholme presents a series of deep sea oil paintings and ink drawings, accompanied by a tent ins...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Solmissus Jelly
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
With Into the Deep Blue Sea, Nova Scotia-born, New Brunswick-based artist Colleen Wolstenholme presents a series of deep sea oil paintings and ink drawings, accompanied by a tent ins...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Yellow Ctenophore
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
With Into the Deep Blue Sea, Nova Scotia-born, New Brunswick-based artist Colleen Wolstenholme presents a series of deep sea oil paintings and ink drawings, accompanied by a tent ins...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Blanket Squid
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
With Into the Deep Blue Sea, Nova Scotia-born, New Brunswick-based artist Colleen Wolstenholme presents a series of deep sea oil paintings and ink drawings, accompanied by a tent ins...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Benthic Ctenophore
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
With Into the Deep Blue Sea, Nova Scotia-born, New Brunswick-based artist Colleen Wolstenholme presents a series of deep sea oil paintings and ink drawings, accompanied by a tent ins...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Consumption (diptych)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Oli Sorenson’s solo exhibition, «Après moi, le déluge » discloses a series of impactful works on the deadly perils of capitalism through a group of paintings, prints, watercolours, a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Blue Sea I
By Fabian Jean
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Fabian Jean graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University. He has had solo exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto and Halifax and has been included in several group exhi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$14,650
Hills, Projection
Fire
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The themes visited in this show stem from a desire to extend the vocabulary of my painting while forming a metaphor for the chaos of contemporary life.
The title, Escalade, has differing and complimentary functions in English and French.
Continuing to paint, over a lengthening career, the medium poses more questions than answers. The title is a reference to my attempt to overcome these difficulties through the expansion of my painting language. The title also refers to the escalation of crises in the world at large. It is the larger picture in which I am a small person trying to make my way.
In a concrete sense, the title also refers to a strategy I have taken in a number of these paintings. That is, to re-examine very small paintings...
Category
2010s Abstract Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Peindre le paysage
By Eric Lamontagne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
When creating his artworks, Éric Lamontagne begins by painting a landscape scene, often with a body of water or cliffs. He then carefully cuts, folds, rips, and slashes the canvas bo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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