The Encaustic Media Art Portfolio of Lisa Printz
Untitled, encaustic collage on cradle board
Artist Lisa Printz works in painting, pastel, and encaustic media, creating works ranging from impressionistic landscapes to animal portraits to textured abstractions. Lisa has a background in art education, and made the transition to being a full-time artist in 2015.
Untitled, encaustic collage on board
I’m really enjoying Lisa’s recent works in encaustic. Combining the wax medium with…
The Portfolio of Artist, Poet, and Animateur Allison Rennie
Allison Rennie is an artist, poet, and animateur who works with people in her practice, helping individuals and groups of all ages discover new ways of navigating through their own experiences.
I appreciate the way that Allison’s artistic practice is intertwined with her workshops and teaching materials. There’s a thread of spiritual and personal awareness that runs deeply through each section…
The Art Portfolio of Pierre-Luc Deziel
Les Dividus (detail), mixed media
Pierre-Luc Deziel is an artist who explores the boundary between painting and sculpture, often using methods and philosophies native to both approaches in an individual work. Pierre’s current oeuvre uses the notion of social constructions as a jumping-off point.
The Saberwings (perspective), mixed media
As we saw in our previous feature of Pierre-Luc’s exploration of social constructions, the…
Print Techniques: The Art Portfolio of Tim Van Ginkel
IWF-10, serial monoprint, lithography
Tim Van Ginkel is an artist currently based in Rhode Island. In his practice, Tim specializes in printmaking, using various print techniques to build images that focus on layered, abstracted figures, subdued earth tones, and negative space.
I really enjoy the sense of cohesion in Tim’s art portfolio. Though each work is distinct, and the artist has produced several series, each focusing…
The Art Portfolio of Paul de Guzman
When Fiction Follows Fact -- Skeletons in the Closet, newspaper, ink, stickers, reflectors, Kromekote silver foil paper
Paul de Guzman is a conceptual artist based between Manila, in the Philippines, and Vancouver, Canada. In his artistic practice, Paul uses various materials and aesthetics to explore social and cultural constructs including language, architecture, and media.
Sacred Places: The Art Portfolio of Jon Harris
The Emerald Palace of Dreams, acrylic on canvas
Jon Harris is a San Francisco-based painter who specializes in geometric landscapes, depicting dreamlike, spiritually-infused spaces. Through the use of clean, straight lines, impeccable perspective and a bright colour palette, the artist imagines sacred places.
Crystal Lotus, acrylic on canvas
I adore the sense of three-dimensional space that Jon creates in each of his works. Even seeing…
The Art Portfolio of Thea Yabut
palmate snag, paper, pencil shavings, graphite, chalk pastel, clay, glue, joint compound, pins
Thea Yabut works in a variety of media, creating layered images that often emulate textiles in their construction. Thea’s portfolio features complex, patterned abstract drawings that layer coloured lines like thread, and wall-based mixed media sculptures.
spicule, paper, pencil shavings, graphite, pigment, glue, joint compound, pins, clay…
Nature's Hues: An Art Portfolio by Laurie Flaherty
Laurie Flaherty is a Connecticut-based artist who uses her artistic practice to capture and immortalize the stunning patterns and colours found in nature. Laurie’s artworks usually take plants and animals as their subjects, showcasing the beauty and variety in nature’s hues.
Cedar Green Radiant, oil on canvas
I really adore Laurie’s painting series of bromeliads. The plants in this family have thick leaves…
Texture and Negative Space: Art by Jill Tompkins
Artist Jill Tompkins creates subdued pastel images that often have a focus on texture and negative space. Though her images are mostly figurative, the figure never seems to be the focus – rather, the viewer is drawn to the materiality of the paint, and the abstracted formal elements of each work.
It’s fascinating to be able to see the artist’s recent works contrasted against some of…
Psychedelic Abstraction: The Art Portfolio of Mark Jungmeyer
Mark Jungmeyer is based in Springfield, Illinois, where he creates works of art spanning a variety of subjects and styles, including landscape, abstraction, and portraiture. The artist’s style moves easily between detailed realism and wild, psychedelic abstraction.
I really enjoy the works in Mark’s gallery of abstract works. The pieces in this series are all packed with such intensely saturated hues…
The Art Portfolio of Leah Biggs
Leah Biggs is a Vancouver-based artist who is interested in the aesthetics and moods of noir films from the 1940s and 50s. In her artistic practice, Leah emulates and explores these aesthetics, putting her own unique spin on motifs of deep shadows, old-fashioned telephones, and beautiful women.
I really enjoy the overall mood that’s infused into Leah’s portfolio. Looking…
The Watercolour Art Portfolio of Sophie Blouet
Sophie Blouet, also known as BLOUET, is a watercolour painter currently based in California. In her portfolio, Sophie demonstrates great skill and precision with a medium that lends itself to a gestural, impressionistic approach.
Aux courses, Beaver 1, watercolour on paper
As we saw in our previous feature of Sophie’s detailed, gestural watercolours, the artist’s practice spans decades and a wide range of…
Cultural Meanings: The Art Portfolio of Morgan Wedderspoon
Surface Reader 5, woodcut, digital print
Morgan Wedderspoon is an artist who works in installation, assemblage, printmaking, and other media. In her practice, Morgan explores the nature of, and connections between, various found objects, applying these objects and their cultural meanings to the greater sphere of human existence.
GIVE UP AND PARTY, inkjet print, screenprint
I like the way that Morgan combines various disciplines in her…
Processes and Materials: Art by Jacqueline Bell Johnson
Beauty in the Beast, wood, paint, merino and camel wool, dye, paint, hardware
Jacqueline Bell Johnson is a sculptor and installation artist currently based in the Los Angeles area of California. Jacqueline’s practice explores the processes and materials of art-making, often drawing inspiration from arts and crafts, and utilizing unexpected or “lowbrow” materials.
A Solution for a Wall, found gate, safety pins, wire, jack chain,…
The Art Portfolio of Photographer G.W. Jones
Photographer G.W. Jones uses the photographic medium as a method of seeing the world through a variety of different lenses and viewpoints. From series that are divided both by style and subject, G.W. has created a portfolio that has something for every viewer.
I really enjoy the way that G.W. tailors the style of each photograph to suit the subject matter, time of day, angle, and other variables in…