Canadian Art Junkie

Wereldse Duinen, Soesterduinen with map pieces from around the world, 40 x 60 cm

Anna Belleforte trained as an architect but her first loves were drawing and maps. So she eventually started creating imagined places with materials like old maps that have real histories.

Undeniably Connected, acrylic and acrylic-tinted paper maps (Canada) on canvas, 100 x 100 cm ...

Wherever there are protests, there are artists telling the story. These sketchbook pages are a few examples of their interpretations.

Sketch artists who capture protests on the spot have been a fact of life for decades. Above, from the

Sahar Manri is a Toronto-based artist whose vivid, colorful paintings reflect her passion for animals and nature.

Living in the Moment, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 x 1.5 in

With a background in graphic design, art, and environmental planning, Manri creates vibrant depictions of animals in geometric forms. Above: One of the paintings in a series inspired by do...

Ailene Vrana MacDougall’s mixed-media paintings draw inspiration from travel, architecture, her love of colour, and the emotional memory of place.

Lisbon tram

Working in acrylic, collage, graphite, oil pastel, and mixed media, MacDougall creates layered abstract compositions, viewable in a solo exhibition in Toronto this summer.

Beach

Through layere...

Bucharest-based artist Cristian Blesnoc says his work lives somewhere between graphic design and illustration , “symbolic, a little rough, always intentional.” His creative ideas begin in his sketchbook.

I try to come up with things that seem off and weirdly pleasing… but I always feel that in the back of my mind I pull influences from a lot of the ...