I have recently added some new work to my website, the oil painting A Hollywood Still Life and eleven small watercolours. The watercolours were created as maquettes to work up ideas via a small format. If there’s anything that watercolour teaches, it’s that it’s fiercely independent and possesses unique qualities not shared with other painting […]
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Earlier this year I announced I’d be painting Teach Us Consent founder and CEO, Chanel Contos. This work was completed and, in this post, I’m sharing the development of the piece. Upon accepting my request to paint Chanel’s portrait, the first step was to conduct a survey of what already existed of Chanel on the […]
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Emma Landis is an art consultant and historian whose passion for art stokes the fires of Toronto and Ontario’s art scenes. We discuss art collecting, her research into Abstract Expressionist founding father Clyfford Still, and Emma’s unique gift of applying lessons of the past to the social issues of the present and future. In The […]
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