Honorable Mention #3

Oksana Baczynsky

Oksana hopes her art offers others the same spiritual peace that fulfils her own soul in this harsh world. The majesty of Canadian landscape nourishes great love, awe and inspiration. Watercolour provides the luminosity and ethereal quality to capture the mood of a scene, the essence of a flower, or the mystery of a figure for her. Acrylics serve best for rugged Canadian landscapes.

Honorable Mention #2

Teodorico Asuncion

The artist’s colourful and expressive acrylics depict contemporary life and urban landscape in techniques influenced by impressionism, cubism and fauvism. His degrees in Architecture and Drafting Technology were earned in his native Philippines. When he and his young family moved to Canada, he combed through libraries and pursued on-line art studies in the continuing quest to develop his own style.

Honorable Mention #1

Linda Kalianteris

When this commissioned portrait painter fell in love with plein air painting, her quest for ideals of light and colour in engaging brushwork intended to draw the viewer into the story in her art. Awarded in our 2020 contest, Linda is back to charm us again.

Best Human Interest

Grace Downer

This avid plein air and studio artist enjoys creating landscapes, cityscapes and the occasional figurative painting. She recently founded a collective called “East Toronto Plein Air Group” that meets weekly in various locations in that part of the city. Visit the artist on Facebook @ “Grace Downer Studio”

Most Daring

Pamela Dey

What began as a hobby and a healing meditative self immersion for the self-taught Indian born artist became a full-time activity following a career in Science and Research. Oils and acrylics allow her the freedom to push colours with expressive brushstrokes. Outdoors in Ontario is where she can be found applying her love of impressionism to landscape and portrait that are guided by her love of Art History and the Great Masters.

Best Architectural Feature

Antonio Afable

Best Natural Feature

Joe Trimmeliti

Awarded in the 2021 contest for his charming naïf pastoral scene, the artist is a graphic designer who has recently rekindled his love of painting and whose inspiration is nature with its many textures and colours. He lives in King City with his family.

Best In Show

Caterina Liberatore

My artistic background varies from graphic design to fine arts. I enjoy working from the model to studies of the natural and urban environments. I make works of art that capture my surroundings in colourful approaches that can be abstracted.

Frank Cuzet

Frank has painted his world since boyhood. His art shows his reverence for nature and his style reflects changing trends of painting from realism and impressionism to abstraction. Self-taught, the artist also attended Seneca College and George Vanier in Toronto and has exhibited in numerous shows, including solos in Metro Toronto to date. The retired Toronto Police officer can devote himself to creating artworks in his distinctly Canadian in style.

Ida DeMaria

Sensory overload is how the artist describes the transfer of ideas onto canvas. To feel, touch, smell, see and morph into the art. Images echo ideas and a drive to create, study, reflect and execute the art. When white canvas and even brown Masonite proved limiting, this intrepid explorer sought out surfaces like rocks, distressed wood, metal, then natural fibres for wearable art.

Patricia Earl

On canvas and on paper, I paint to convey the light, colour and mood of what I see and feel around me as Mother Nature so generously provides. I don’t have to travel far to find subjects that inspire me. The gently rolling hills, farmlands and wildflowers that I love to paint are found in abundance in the King countryside and surrounding townships on the hiking trails, and in my own backyard. Painting Plein Air is not easy for me and I am enjoying the challenge!

Donna Greenstein

The artist’s love of rural life and all its living beings shines from her realistic oils alive with animals and birds in evocative and familiar landscapes. Her work has featured in major galleries and shows. ABOUT | donnagreenstein

Mary Morganelli

Unafraid to explore with different mediums and styles whether finding inspiration from a beautiful scene or from personal hardships, the artist seeks to capture an image or feeling and translate it into a painting that lives on past the moment. Ever on the search for new insights, her mission is also to spark the imaginations of her viewers.

Evangeline Munns

Evangeline strives to bring a unique approach and to capture a feeling of passion for whatever she is painting.

Alessandra Salvalaggio

I paint to free my mind in other places. The ones on canvas. I love seeing colors and the shapes together. I like the compositions and the fact that time is needed if you want to create. I am still learning but as with all the passions, it is matter of practice and dedication.

Susan Walker-Ing

During her lengthy hospital stays as a young child, Susan found solace in the art that became her avocation. The York U alumnus did her post-grad degree in Italy. The experience led her to paint en plein air around Europe then back to Canada to capture the essence and the spirit of the land. Much exhibited and awarded for her art in diverse mediums, the artist has founded and led various arts organizations. Visit Youtube to hear her speak.