Amelia Valentine / Dinner in Paris

Amelia Valentine / Dinner in ParisAmelia Valentine is a Toronto based painter living and working in the citys west end. Her practice centers around the dialogue between control and spontaneity, using ink, acrylic, and raw canvas to explore what happens when intention loosens its grip. Her compositions are shaped as much by deliberate mark making as they are by the unexpected spills, splatters, bleeds, and other so called accidents that challenge traditional ideas of mastery and

"Almost complete" doesn't have to mean satisfactory or unfulfilled

Marcia Bianchi has completed a studio residency with Akin Collective at Auto BLDG in the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto

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Michigan-raised

Each piece reflects a fusion of nature and artistry

Working in mediums of clay

Los Angeles-based artist Suz Born is trained in psychology and interior design

In her newest series

and natural dyeing while living in Japan

and the handmade paper is sourced from a Montreal paper mill made from t-shirt fibres

opt for a black frame to accentuate the colour-blocks in the piece and incorporate it into a gallery wall

when she began fusing the design principles with canvas