

Emily & Natalie
- Feb 19, 2020
- 1 min
Markus Davies
Dublin based artist Markus Davies creates paintings that explore geometric linework and bold colour fields in response to urban environments. Davies' palette plays with value and saturation to create extreme contrasts within each work. He paints a deep black alongside a striking lime green or poppy red, or he places two vibrant colours together so they appear to shimmer where their edges meet. These paintings push the limits of composition possibilities by reproducing simila

Emily & Natalie
- Feb 12, 2020
- 1 min
Emma White
Toronto based painter Emma White explores the intervention of humans on the natural world, and attempts to correct the imbalance we inflict. White's paintings are rich with pigment, their oily surfaces built up wet on wet into thick textures and creamy brushstrokes. She plays with pattern and rhythm, allowing repetitive marks to punctuate the surface of each image. The close-up crops of her subjects reveal her photographic source material, with moments captured from her concr

Emily & Natalie
- Jan 29, 2020
- 1 min
Seana Reilly
American artist Seana Reilly creates intricate and detail-filled drawings drenched with tension and mystery. The subject matter of these drawings is elusive, and shape shifting with each glance. At first, they appear as a microscopic slide of bacteria or the cross section of plant or animal fibers. Then, they suddenly shift, transforming into a photograph of the surface of a planet, perhaps the texture of the side of the moon. Each piece brings us into its artificial world, i

Emily & Natalie
- Jan 15, 2020
- 1 min
Ibrahim Abusitta
Toronto based artist Ibrahim Abusitta paints inviting yet eerie group portraits of fun gatherings and social spaces in his series "A Past Life that Exists for Nostalgia" Each painting is filled with an ominous wash of colour, a rust orange, neon fuchsia, and muted burgundy, tinting the scenes with an emotional backdrop. They capture a cinematic moment, a movie still that has been eroded with time with details that have faded away. The texture of the wood-grain surface comes t

Emily & Natalie
- Jan 8, 2020
- 1 min
Albert Chamillard
American artist Albert Chamillard creates ballpoint pen drawings that are intricately layered and pleasantly nostalgic. Using paper from vintage ledger books as a surface, Chamillard allows faded page lines to become part of his compositin, directing their outcome. Each geometric form rises with the textured layers of cross-hatched marks, the repetitive motion of his hand embossing the smooth, yellowed paper until it is glossy. By building up these small lines, he is able to

Emily & Natalie
- Jan 1, 2020
- 1 min
Joey Slaughter
American artist Joey Slaughter creates captivatingly colourful paintings. Each piece oozes with energy from an anthropomorphic personality, creating a cast of characters through Slaughter's body of work. Slaughter's paintings are full of crisp line work and graphic channels, creating intricate colour fields in saturated hues, which mirror and wrap the surfaces of his uniquely shaped panels. While their abstract shapes are strange and unfamiliar, their bulbous nature hints at

Emily & Natalie
- Dec 18, 2019
- 1 min
Katherine Duclos
Vancouver based artist Katherine Duclos creates compositions and collages that offer escape to another world. Duclos invokes familiar colours, textures, and forms to create scenes that are captivatingly strange. She toes the line between representation and abstraction, allowing us to understand a visual cue and then subverting its context. Working playfully with scale to create works ranging from miniature to massive, she offers unique experiences with each body of work. Thei

Emily & Natalie
- Nov 13, 2019
- 1 min
Gisela Navarro
Gisela Navarro is a London based illustrator and graphic designer that creates beautiful designs celebrating the expression and identity of women. Using a pleasant combination of pastel colours and organic shapes, Navarro creates aesthetically pleasing works that are simple but extremely effective. She depicts women with broad shoulders and strong legs, figures that take up space in her utopic land. With their free flowing bodies, these women become one with their captivating

Emily & Natalie
- Nov 6, 2019
- 1 min
Matthew Mahler
Matthew Mahler explores the process of abstract painting as a repeatable, instructional-able methodology in works that carry our eyes around, through and off the surface of the canvas. In his most recent body of work, Mahler loosely uses instructions found on the internet, specifically wikihow, describing how to make an abstract painting in a step-by-step format that we can imagine as almost humorously simple. Working within these constraints, he uses tape and thick layers of

Emily & Natalie
- Oct 23, 2019
- 1 min
Melissa Borrell
. Melissa Borell is a Texas based installation artist that employs light and colour to activate spaces for her viewers. Module shapes are constructed to create a form that references both by geometry and nature. The shadows created by the piece become part of the installation itself as Borell's art merges with its installation environment. Her works are created from vibrantly coloured pieces of wood or acrylic sheets. Materials are layered so that light and colour can

Emily & Natalie
- Sep 25, 2019
- 1 min
Hazel Eckert
St. John's based artist Hazel Eckert explores colour through a digital lens with her series of soft abstract photographs. Soft Focus captures the ephemeral compositions created by time lag glitches on smartphones. Eckert's out-of-focus photographs offer a suggestion of an image that is just moments away from appearing, placing a veil of disorientation over the screens we constantly consume. Each one asks the viewer to pause and meditate on the instant abstraction and presents

Emily & Natalie
- Sep 18, 2019
- 1 min
Emma Childs
American artist Emma Childs creates captivating abstract paintings that delve into the possibilities of minimal composition. Childs' forms extend beyond the edges the paintings and dictate the shape of the canvases. Irregular geometry on their surfaces create skewed angles and complimentary corners, and the works are given an extra dose of drama with a pop of colour or a deep shadow wrapping around the perimeter. Each composition is built up in layers, with the matte colours

Emily & Natalie
- Sep 11, 2019
- 1 min
Elise Puddy
Guelph-based artist Elise Puddy surrenders control to the materials of drawing to create captivatingly enigmatic graphic work. Tendrils of graphite and pools of ink create intricacies to pull the viewer in, their fluidity allowing them to exist as shape shifters, conveying a bird's eye view or the depths of the ocean floor. As Puddy states, they have an ability "to change identity from; terrestrial to cosmic, atomic to macroscopic, biological to mineral, but still remain ambi

Emily & Natalie
- Sep 4, 2019
- 1 min
Jane Guthleben
Jane Guthleben is an artist working in Sydney, Australia, who carefully collects natural elements in her environment and preserves them in oil paint. Guthleben's body of work "Ornament" is filled with thick, juicy brushstrokes that mix muted pinks with muddy greens, allowing each layer to sit on top of the one below with decisive mark making. The texture of the flora she selects is echoed through the texture of the paint she uses to recreate them, and her ability to capture i

Emily & Natalie
- Aug 21, 2019
- 1 min
Steve Fortier
Vancouver based painter Steve Fortier creates pixelated acrylic works that breakdown photographs through colour and repetition. Beaches, sunsets, flowers, and other idyllic subjects are transformed into pattern; their resemblances are obscured, yet offered to the viewer through the revealing title of the work. Each painting contains a colour palette that is vibrant and broad, with complex colour mixing and careful execution. He varies each composition, building his abstractio

Emily & Natalie
- Aug 14, 2019
- 1 min
Angeline Simon
Angeline Simon is an artist based out of Lethbridge, Alberta who works in many disciplines including photography, collage, and installations. Her series of sculptures caught our attention with their powerful message. Simon creates replicas of everyday items that seem to shrug with insignificance; a styrofoam container, a coffee cup, a pair of pill bottles. These overlooked, disposable items are so tenderly recreated in plaster or coated in wax they appear as artifacts, mement
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