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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.
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.
Melissa Neil is known for her painted landscapes on mylar and linen. Her work pays tribute to the ephemeral, wild, and sentimental found in forms of nature - both naturally occurring and manufactured by humans - often drawing on such imagery as gravel pits, brush piles, sand dunes, sand pits, bea...
I am an oil painter and pencil artist, practicing my art for decades! I started as a high school art teacher in the 90s and, after a hiatus taking care of children and aging parents, got back to the world of art through courses at The Toronto School of art and the three year art adult art program...
Working across traditional media, Robyn creates figurative works and still life paintings with feminist themes. She seeks to combine the techniques and refinement of European masters with contemporary feminist perspectives and subjects. The aim of her work is to create emotionally direct images, ...
Laura Thipphawong is a Toronto-based artist, writer, and historian, and has exhibited art and presented her research throughout several galleries and international academic forums.
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A self-taught oil painter since the age of twelve, Laura made her way from small-town northern Ontario to Toro...
"Our Share Your Space Artist of the week is Ruslana Levandovska. I work in oil on canvas mainly (also charcoal and watercolour...."