February 16, 2014

William Lazos

February 16, 2014/ Michael Warren

William Lazos is a Toronto-based Canadian photorealist painter and muralist, born in Cairo in 1964. Known for his meticulous detail and realistic paintings, he has built a career in fine art, murals, and public commissions.

Among his career honours are the First Place in Portraiture at the National Fine Art Competition and the 2011 Kingston Prize People’s Choice Award. His work is represented in public and private collections, including the City of Toronto Art Collection, Art Gallery of Peel, and Royal Canadian Mint.

William Lazos

Madrona Gallery

A leading contemporary and historic fine art gallery based in Victoria, B.C. Canada. The gallery exhibits and sells art from both established and emerging Canadian artists. Madrona Gallery prides itself on providing a welcoming environment to new and established art collectors alike.

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Lesley Finlayson

August 22 - September 05
Opening Reception: August 22, 1-3 PM

Lesley Finlayson’s work captures scenes of coastal BC landscape with a light touch and gestural energy, highlighting the ephemeral beauty of seasonal growth and changing light. This new exhibition of paintings and drawings highlights her ability to translate the deft mark-making of her pastel studies into richly atmospheric acrylics. Her work is featured in public and private collections throughout Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Ernestine Tahedl, R.C.A.

September 12 - 25
Opening Reception: September 12, 1-3 PM

Austro-Canadian painter Ernestine Tahedl has been exhibiting in Canada and abroad for over 50 years. Her vibrant abstract canvases draw the viewer into an immersive experience of colour, texture and light. Named for pieces of classical music she listens to while painting, her works are a paradoxical balance of painterly freedom and underlying rhythmic structure.

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

October 10 - 23
Opening Reception: October 10, 1-3 PM

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is an internationally celebrated artist. His distinctive ‘Haida Manga’ explores his own hybridity as an artist of indigenous, European and Asian descent by combining aspects of Northwest Coast First Peoples art with Asian influences such as Chinese brushwork and Japanese manga comics.

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Madeleine Wood

April 11 - 24
Opening Reception: April 11, 1-3 PM

Madeleine Wood's paintings evoke a sense of intimacy. She chooses to include the viewer in private moments that could be snapshots of memories or fantasies. She captures the play of tension and release in her figurative works, while in her landscapes focuses on tiny details such as the curl of arbutus bark.

Halin de Repentigny

April 25 - May 9
Opening Reception: April 25, 1-3 PM

Halin de Repentigny is an acclaimed artist with paintings held in national and international collections. Halin first made his name when he moved to Dawson City, Yukon. He became well known for his depictions of life in Canada’s Klondike, interpreting the beauty and majesty of the remote northern wilderness and capturing it on canvas. His love of landscape, colour and light is now manifested in his winter home in Patagonia, Argentina, while the Klondike summers continue to inspire his work.

Sean Yelland: Don't Look Now

June 6 - 20

Opening Reception: June 6, 1-3 PM
Artist in Attendance

In DON’T LOOK NOW! Sean Yelland focuses on moments of transition and tension. Each painting in this collection isolates spaces and people captured in a moment of change articulated through Yelland’s uncanny technical ability.

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William Lazos

Madrona Gallery

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