Joy MacFadyen was a prominent leader, and often president and executive leader, for The Art Guild of Scarborough for decades
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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.
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.
For me creativity is a rather personal experience as opposed to painting for the satisfaction of somebody else, it is more a matter of making my little contribution to the continuous river of human expression.
I seek to capture the different personalities of my subjects and express those idiosyncrasies that are unique to tell their stories.
It is my curiosity and the desire to decipher, understand and organize the shapes and colours that motivate me to paint.
I look for interesting shapes, pattern and light in the landscape. The way the angle of the light hits the corner of a rock, or the complex patterns formed by snow on an evergreen, pebbles on a shoreline, all these inspire me.