Two of my pieces from Transformations have been juried into the annual OSA open juried exhibition, Memory.

Reception: Thursday, April 3. Ongoing to April 29. Location: John B. Aird Gallery at Bay and Wellesley in Toronto.

Dennis Cliff juried in two of my "horse" paintings for the Markham Group of Artists' first show in Toronto called Breaking Boundaries. The venue is at Art Square across the street from the AGO on Dundas. These are especially large pieces for the show. Open March 14 to 28.

On right now at Markville Mall in Markham, Hwy. 7 and McCowan is the Art Show in the nicest venue we have shown in. I've got 14 pieces up. From March 8 to March 20, Reception on Thursday, March 10, 6-9 p.m.

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I also want to thank the people who have supported and encouraged me in these artistic endeavours. I am getting to be where I am supposed to be... I love it.

Now, what is it I was doing?

I've been a little frantic because I chose to submit my art to a number of juried venues and they are now coming up. Here's what's happened so far:

I was accepted in the Ontario Society of Artists pARTners project in which 10 artists and 10 emerging artists from two colleges will collaborate on a painting over the summer. This culminates with a show of 30 pieces in the Woodstock Gallery in the Fall. Each artist will show his/her personal work and each pair will show their collaborative results. The exhibition will travel, at least, around Ontario.

What a great way to educate aspiring young artists. I'm looking forward to the collaboration.

I did practice!

I felt it was inspiring to finish a painting in only 20 minutes. But I did it! I did it 5 times and had a blast painting and listening for the alarm to go off. This is a good exercise, too, for those who are feeling a little flat with their work. Because you must stop in 20 minutes, you work from the heart without that long thought process. You should try it.

Varley Art Battle 2011

The Varley–McKay Art Foundation of Markham welcomed Art Battle (http://artbattleto.com/) to host an exciting live competitive painting event inside the halls of the beautiful Varley Art Gallery.

Art Battle at the Varley included a curated one-night, 30-painter exhibit in the gallery with all painters battling for the title. Standing easel to easel, artists had 20 minutes to create the best work possible. There were 3 rounds of competitive painting, audience voting and an auction of all the work created.

I put my name into the hat, hoping to be drawn so I could compete with a 20 minute painting. That didn't happen, so I had a wonderful time looking at the work being done by the chosen artists. Over 350 people attended this event and everyone seemed to be having a great time.

Markham at the Movies

I’m a programmer for Markham Art Council’s Markham at the Movies. Our series started in September with a gala showing of the newly restored classic, Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis.” What a great night that turned out to be.

The next films for this series are:

January 24 The Secret in Their Eyes

February 14 Bright Star

March 28 Incendies

April 18 Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie

June 20 Love Crime

Coming Soon...

I know it's still only January, but already there is excitement in the air, my air anyway, about a whole new set of ART happenings in the coming months.

February 5: I've submitted my name for the Varley Gallery Art Battle on this date. http://www.artbattleto.com/#889445/Feb-5-AB-theVarley

March 8 - 20, 2011: Markham Arts Council "Art Show" group show. Markville Mall Loft, Markham ON

March 14 - 28, 2011: Breaking Boundaries, Markham Group of Artists at Art Square, Dundas St. across from AGO, Toronto

April 5 - 29, 2011: Ontario Society of Artists Open Juried Exhibition, theme: "Memory". John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto

May 26 - June 5, 2011: Markham Group of Artists Spring Juried Show, McKay Art Centre, Unionville, ON

July 14 - 24, 2011: Ontario Society of Artists Members' Juried Exhibition at Papermill Gallery at Todmorden Mills