Opened as part of the Purple Hill Arts Creemore Festival of the Arts. This selection of mokuhanga prints were inspired by Elizabeth Forrest's residencies at Woody Point, NL. The remarkable geology of the area is reflected in small stones and larger rocks, with colours often seen to best advantage when soaked with salt spray of the ocean.
Stories and meaning exist in every special wine bottle, and every piece of original art. Thus, we are incredibly pleased to be the first to present Daniel Maluka's 'The Black Cowboy' series at Chin Chin, an independent wine shop in Creemore, Ontario. Striking cowboy paintings of real-life Black Cowboys, like John Ware, look right at home amongst the countryside and whisky barrels, but each with more significance and meaning just below the surface.
Emily King Simpson is a multidisciplinary artist who creates work that engages in dialogues surrounding queer feminine identities and the introspective nature of discovering one’s own identity.
Cherie Daly finds her artistic expression in creating abstract art, using mediums like acrylic paint, pastels, and collage. Seeking a deep connection with viewers, Cherie plays with paint and pastels, exploring the interplay of shapes, lines, colors, and textures intuitively.
Of the hundreds of artists on Partial, meet the ten most viewed fresh artists of 2023.
Brian Jiang is a queer trans multi-disciplinary artist of Chinese-descent based in Tkaronto. As an artist collaborator working within the cultural sector, their arts-practice is informed by their love for the communities that they belong to.
Audrey Feltham, a seasoned artist with 30 years of experience in traditional print and fibre art, was born and raised in Southern Alberta. Her work reflects a fusion of prairie upbringing and Maritime experiences, and exploring those diverse cultural connections.
Mahir Siraj is an Eritrean-born artist who lives and works in Toronto. Mahir’s works employ the use of symbols and metaphors to investigate the relationship between memory and meaning in the context of personal and social identity formations.
Qudsia Hussain is a Pakistani Canadian Muslim woman and recent graduate of OCAD University's Drawing and Painting program. Her work weaves personal narratives, media references, cultural motifs, and childhood nostalgia into a compelling tapestry of the human experience.
A former Criminologist from the University of Cape Town, Aadila Munshi grew up in South Africa during the apartheid regime. She is inspired by street art as a powerful voice for social justice and equity. Her abstract expressions represent her perception of the push and pull between struggle, hope, and the ability to rise above.
Elizabeth Forrest, a printmaking graduate of the OCA, mastered traditional Japanese woodblock printing in Kyoto during the 90s. Her internationally showcased mixed-media art, known for exploring social behaviours and natural phenomena, features Japanese paper ("washi") as a defining element.
The day that her son started grade one, Rita Vindedzis decided that she would not work for anyone again other than herself. She began painting again and the rest is history. Get to know her work, practice, and inspirations.
Beyond her work as an artist, Jamie Ly co-founded and facilitates FACES Collective which focuses on widening participation in the arts sector by dismantling barriers for BIPOC artists.
Diane Fine's artistic process involves the exploration of an array of subjects and mediums, allowing her to incorporate her fascination with colour, shapes, and textures. Through the organic use of materials, she allows compositions to emerge from her imagination.
Partial is thrilled to announce the launch of the Emily Carr University of Art & Design Showcase. Featuring both current students and alumni of the university, the showcase brings together noteworthy artists working across a wide range of mediums. Meet six artists on our radar from the showcase.
Grace is a multimedia artist and production designer, with a Bachelor's of Environmental Design from OCAD University. She is interested in the intersection of wellness and design; drawing inspiration from the abstractions found in nature and everyday life using simple patterns and textures.
Of the hundreds of artists on Partial, meet the ten most viewed artists of 2022.
Toronto based artist, Jennie Lau works across a wide range of mediums and styles. She is dedicated to exploring new techniques and subjects of painting, and investigate how her artwork contributes to the local community and beyond. She holds a BFA degree with Distinction in the Drawing & Painting program from OCAD University.
Jonathan Palter began his art career as a sculptor and gradually explored other mediums such as painting. Informed by his background in sculpture, he creates abstract art which elicits a range of emotions that invite the imagination to explore.
The artworks of Canadian-Iranian artist, Maryam Ebrahimi, are magnetic in their meditative flow. Her paintings have captivated the attention of viewers and collectors from all over the world for their calming silhouettes and vibrant colours. Her work can be found in the corporate collection of the State Farm Insurance Company, Lomita, California and private collections in Canada and Europe.
Camilla Teodoro is a Filipina-born illustrator based in Toronto, Ontario. Her art is often based on observations and little delights found in her environment; a central theme of her illustrations as they often include playful characters who interact with their surroundings. She finds inspiration in everything from old children toys to the natural world.
Toronto based artist, Grace Dam creates work that investigates the complexity of being human and interconnections between ourselves and nature. Working mainly with oil and acrylic, she draws from ideas formed during childhood to her time in finance and travels.
Cherie Harte is a self-taught artist following in the tradition of Art Brut. Harte utilizes gestural painting techniques that juxtapose a character’s complex inner life with tangible expressions of naïveté and innocence. Tapping into her own life experiences, from the saddest to most uplifting, her paintings trigger a blending of feelings that express the full gamut of emotions.
Hee J. Jo was born in Seoul, Korea and studied Educational Psychology before immigrating to Canada and earning a BFA from OCAD U. Her identity as an immigrant and asian woman in an interracial marriage are major subjects of her work. She questions the boundaries between normal and abnormal, experimenting with tradition, universal value, and rational ways of thinking.
Nadiya Svirsky is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in printmaking, painting and sculpture. Svirsky’s main preoccupations lie in themes of memory, in-betweenness, heritage, and depictions of moments that connote the passage of time.
Partial’s goal of ‘more art on more walls’ means that we have the pleasure of championing visual artists from across Canada. Here are six artists from Beautiful B.C. that are on our collectors' radar.
Toronto-based multi-media artist Margie Kelk takes an exploratory and experimental approach as she appropriates and reconstructs visual fragments of ideas through diverse media.
Harley Yang is a street photographer interested in documenting the everyday through lines, angles, light, and shadows. After working as an IT specialist for years, Harley only fully re-engaged with photography in 2015. Since then he has been awarded the first place prize for the National Award from Sony World Photography and has received several other accolades for his work.
Sophia K. Kim is a visual artist and illustrator based in Toronto. Through her experience as a police officer in Korea and as a mother of three, her love and communication to ignored and devalued beings are constantly reflected in her art. Informed by her love of nature, she discovers unnoticed beauty, and dreams of a sustainable world.
Donny Nie is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist with a BFA from OCAD University, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From large-scale oil painting, monotype, digital projection, to small-scale ceramic and glass form, her interdisciplinary abstractions coalesce to manifest an intuitive, gestalt experience.
With a principle focus on abstract, Sobo seems to consistently capture the essence of the human condition in her works. With a style that varies from the layering of colour to vibrant palette knife painting, she continues to grow in style and confidence with each new work.
Michael Hu is a Toronto-based illustrator. Most of his works are digital, composed of various color blocks and few lines, and often inspired by verse fragmentation thoughts from dreams.
April is a visual artist living in Moncton, New Brunswick. Her work explores minimalist objects, simplified shapes and fragmented forms that are reminiscent of interiors, exteriors and sky. April is self-taught and has studied the language of abstract art, while creating a visual vocabulary of her own.
Afifa Bari is a contemporary realist oil painter and textile artist based in Toronto. She earned her BFA from York University in 2020. Through representational art, she examines the contemporary world through the lens of capitalism, and discusses the constant desire to purchase more in modern society from a socio-political and environmental outlook.
Our latest Meet the Artist feature is of Justin Mezzapelli, a multi-media artist interested in domesticity, multiplicity and queerness. Currently working with pointillist ink illustration, his images depict activity of everyday life, suggest an attention to time, and reference media of the public domain.
Marianne Sung is a contemporary Korean-Canadian artist whose art is intended to spark feelings of magic and warmth while inspiring nostalgia. Her works are expressive through the application of thin layers of acrylics as well as through the use of mixed media.
OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers and Partial are excited to share that artist Hau Pham currently has work installed as part of Gladstone House’s Art Program.
We asked Janna Robins Walters with ten questions about her art practice, studio, and what inspires her. "I explore the use of various media in unison and independently to delve into the fragments of people’s lives. What lies beneath the surface of each individual? Where are you from? What is their story?"
Being an independent artist in the 21st century isn't just about making art. Nowadays, selling art online comes with a whole slew of other requirements beyond just uploading a JPG. Knowing how to properly provide customer service is an essential skill for any successful visual artist.
In this series, we get to know the Artists behind the work with ten questions about their practice, their space, and their ideas. These are their Stories. Lorette C. Luzajic is an award-winning mixed-media artist in Toronto, Canada.
Jason Balducci's artworks attract attention with their charisma, dynamism, and wit. The rebellious styles of Basquiat, Willem de Kooning, Warhol are named among his sources of inspiration.
We are so happy to be supporting Lauren Pirie's COVID RELIEF SALE. As if there wasn't already a reason for adding her work to our collection now, we've just added two more very good reasons to.
Born in Chennai, India, Keerthana has chosen to set most of her paintings in her hometown. Some of her collections are inspired streets and localities such as thousand lights and Besant nagar.
Travels, daydreams, field guides, coffee and film. Laura Kay Keeling pulls inspiration from beautiful everyday moments shared through her 35mm photography, collage work and installation projects. Her focus is on creating work that instills an overall feeling of calm, curiosity and peacefulness within others as well as introducing opportunities for celebration and self reflection often with her own humorous twist.
Daniel Maluka is a self-taught Toronto-based visual artist and writer. His work takes an Afrocentric approach while incorporating surrealist elements. In using his interest in the subconscious, Daniel brings what lurks in the deep recesses of the mind into the forefront of his work.
Jordan Clayton focuses on restructuring narratives that intersect between art, science, fiction, and queerness in a melange that forecasts a reality only a few degrees separated from the present. His painted “worlds” employ techniques rooted in abstract and surrealist painting tropes and allow him to create spaces wherein he believes he truly fits as a self-proclaimed oddball.
The Artist & The Viewer is a Toronto Art Newspaper with the goal of "Making Art accessible in Toronto". It is our pleasure to announce a new collaboration with them beginning with their September-October 2019 issue.
Metaphors of transformation sift the surface of her work, reflecting ideas of change and perspective shifts; while contrasting matte black paint magnifies the sensation of renewal despite the unknown.
Jordan Nahmias is a photographer living and working in Toronto, Ontario. Jordan captures images of places and things which he comes across in travel and daily life. His works instill nostalgia while focusing on issues of solitude, loss, and abandonment.
Born and raised in Cuba, visual artist Diana Rosa draws inspiration from her hometown of Holguin, a city rich in culture, tradition and history. As a child, she fondly remembers growing up in a house full of music, surrounded by relatives who played in bands or sang in groups.
Getting to know the artist is as important as the art itself. We reach out to artists to tell us their story. Meet Christina Essue, artist and creative strategist. Her artwork focuses on watercolour paintings and patterns with a minimalist approach. Learn about what inspires her and how she gets creative!
In this series, we get to know the Artists behind the work with ten questions about their practice, their space, and their ideas. Meet Jill Huang, a Toronto artist with a Bachelor of Visual Arts. She describes her art as visceral, textural, colourful, playful and raw. Get to know her process and inspiration when it comes to creating art!
Self-taught artist Linds Miyo is a Canadian abstract painter. Born and raised in California, her work strives to evoke the strong, direct light of her childhood. A trauma survivor, Linds is interested in the balance between intention and that which is beyond our control, the meeting place between our best efforts and happenstance.
Canadian artist Gwynne Giles is of Anglo-Welsh ancestry who came from an academic background but began painting when he retired from a successful career in the hospitality industry. He has lived in the Beaches in Toronto for 35 years and is “as happy as a pig in muck”. With no formal training in art, his ideas are at times quirky but always original. His work has been described by collectors as 'something new and completely different’.