Art Gallery

2023

2022

Contest Winner

Diane Swartzberg

Born to Bloom

Ink drawing

Artist Statement:

I feel a great connection to the natural world around us and I try to communicate this appreciation for nature through my art. In this drawing I wanted to convey a sense of hope and a vision of a brighter future for us women and girls. The woman and child are looking up and towards the light and the flowers are turning to face the sun. The relative darkness in the lower right side of the drawing represents the struggles and darker moments each of us face. However, turning our focus away from the dark and towards the light, even if it is just a faint glimmer, can help us to experience greater joy.

Contest Winner

Coral Chen

Blessed are the meeks

Watercolour

Artist Statement:

“Blessed are the meeks” is the painting I created for the 2022 International Watercolour Society Watercolour Festival and the 7th Gold Brush Watercolour Competition. “Blessed are the meeks” is a quote from the Bible. People who have God in their hearts will find blessings. This painting is God's blessing. It turns out to be the only top winner in the final.

Coral Chen

SOLITUDE

Watercolour

Artist Statement:

“SOLITUDE” is the painting for a quiet moment to stare…both from the lady in the painting and the viewer. It is in Granville Island, The Federation Canadian Artists Gallery “Artist’s Choice” exhibition now till Feb 20th, 2022.

Contest Winner

Sarah Soll

Rose

Coloured pencil and silhouette

Artist Statement:

In my art I wanted to show the flourishing of young women through the rose and I added the butterfly to symbolize hope and freedom.

Contest Winner

Robyn, Emma, Valeria, Fabiola

We Are Love

Coloured pencil and crayon

Artist Statement:

This collaborative piece was inspired by nature. A hug is a feeling of love and security. The love of God is the animals he created. The flowers and the colors represent happiness and tenderness.

Holly Warburton

Mirror Self

Watercolour

Natalia Rodriguez

One Billion Rising 2022

Pencil, crayon and marker

Artist Statement:

My art piece is a drawing of the One Billion Rising logo. To fit the theme, I decided to draw flowers flourishing and the earth.

Andrea Ashton

One Billion

Vinyl

Bruniewska

Earth

Watercolour

Katherine Turcios

One to One

Watercolour

Artist Statement:

The two people represent a mother and daughter figure acting as guardians of the world.

EL (Elena Liptschanski)

Flowers

Watercolour

Kelly Groom

Peace

Photography

Artist Statement:

I found this image from my Friend Loral. It is taken in Alberta near Turner Valley. I thought that when one’s Heart is breaking because of abuse that we need a PEACEFUL spot to view the Heavens. God painted a picture and called it the world, with mountains valleys and streams. He gave it to man saying this is your world, guard it with LOVE and felicity keep FAITH with me, keep FAITH with ME.

Hsiang-Chin Lee

Fantasy Pond

Watercolour

Charissa World

Salt Lake Temple

Pencil

Belle Curd

Home from the Slope

Oil

Artist Statement:

“Home from the Slope” is a picture I painted a long time ago as the cover to "Finding My Family,” a book that I wrote and is widely distributed in English and French later this month, on Amazon etc. and courtesy of Knowledge Network on Google. The scene is SO Regina, Saskatchewan east end in the old days and will be easily recognized by old-timers from there. It is probably all built up now. I love the picture and never get tired looking at it.

Belle Curd

Aunt Minni and Uncle Mel Anderson

Oil

Artist Statement:

The photo that was chosen for the cover of "Finding My Family" was of Aunt Minni and Uncle Mel standing in front of the sod hut they built near Riverhurst, Saskatchewan (ca. 1914). This painting is one I painted from a photo that has been lost. I never met those relatives but it is indicative of my pioneer family who came up from Duluth, Minnesota in 1912 and ran the ferry at Riverhurst, Saskatchewan and farmed, but most eventually went back to the U.S. It would be 1969 before I found them, although I had joined the church in 1951 and tried to find my genealogy for all those years. I love to paint and to write.