Joy MacFadyen was a prominent leader, and often president and executive leader, for The Art Guild of Scarborough for decades
THE EXISTENTIAL ART GALLERY
Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario
Phil Bergerson has been photographing and exhibiting internationally for over thirty-five years. His work can be found in significant public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa;
Canada’s ocean coastlines and inland waterways are, by any measure, a global treasure. These watery vistas supply an endless source of inspiration and interpretation for the visual artist.
I am a landscape painter and I like to work directly from the subject. (…)I am happy to be outside and have worked directly in every month of the year.
Landscape painting is about all the senses for me. (…) I treasure my travels with a group of like-minded artists, the PORDS, who enjoy working en plein-air.
The source of inspiration can come from my surroundings. Driving to me is like watching good cinematography. There is an ever-changing delight for the eye in Nature.
The artistic intention rolled out tends towards a search for novelty.
A questioning of technical and creative work is regularly necessary.
I make sketches and photos which I then take back to the workshop. The pleasure of watercolour is irreplaceable. The dialogue between water, paper, the long time and the immediate is a mixed cocktail of risk and pure happiness.
With each stroke I see a story of myself, as water flows my mind begins to wander, holding to grasp the strands past memories, gently pulling me out of the room in the whirlwinds of my imagination.
Nature is my source of inspiration, the link of life between creation and breathing.
Its many facets bring me joy, wonder, surprises, and sometimes sadness …
All around us, and within us, is only vibration and waves, from the infinitely large to the infinitely small. Vibrations in a huge void!
Through my art, my aim is to capture the layers of nature that resonate in my soul. I paint nature’s vastness, I capture the beauty, and I harness its power at the same time.