Art Inspirations

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Art Advice, Local Art Community & Inspiration

Gwartzman's is happy to provide insight to any questions you might have regarding art materials-- what's the difference between brush tip shapes? What does all the labelling on the back of a paint tube or jar mean? Find these answers and more below!

The art community can be a fantastic place to gain inspiration! Check out local artists that you may be familiar with, and some new art and new faces. Look inside studios big and small, and learn about some of our own favourite big names in the art world.

Celebrating Women in Art | Ramona Nordal

Ramona Nordal is a contemporary Canadian artist. Her work is very well known for her extraordinary use of colour in her large scale portrait paintings. Nordal unifies the traditional with innovative use of colour and technique. Her subject matter is usually female forms and figures, with the in...

Celebrating Women in Art | Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler's career spanned six decades, and is considered to be one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. She was prominent among the post second world war American abstract painters. Her work is part of an important transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Fie...

Artist Spotlight | Vincent Van Gogh | Drawings

“I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.” ~ Vincent Willem van Gogh Dutch Post-Impressionist Vincent Willem van Gogh was a painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in the art world creating 2,100 artworks. During ...