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Our Artists at Latitude 44 Gallery Framing Decor
At Latitude 44 Gallery Framing Decor, based in Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood, we represent Canadian artists in all forms of media. Whether you’re looking for fine art, or custom framing, we can do it all. Take a look at works from local and national artists.
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David Crighton
Beginning at an early age, his fascination with art and architecture developed into a career which combines them both. Since graduating from Central Technical School in 1974 David Crighton has been recording the architectural diversity of Toronto & Southern Ontario with his distinctive style.
Consequently you can explore the extensive and ever expanding catalogue of images on this website. Pen and ink drawings with the addition of bright acrylic paint are the basic ingredients of David’s art-making techniques.
In addition to that, he utilizes computer software to enhance the finished products by the insertion of custom lettering on various elements of the design such as billboards, newsboxes and marquees. Corporate identities can be inserted in the form of company vehicles and logos.
Ana Gribbons
Ana Gribbons is an artist who paints in acrylics. As a resident of Toronto, Canada for many years, her urbanscapes reflect the nuances of that city. She also paints scenes from Hamilton, Ontario, where she grew up. Her landscapes and waterscapes are inspired by the countryside of Ontario and across Canada.
Rose Hirano
"My works are pages from my visual journal – a log of my ideas and points of view using images instead of words. Searching for balance and personal peace draws me to the simplicity of abstracted images using a muted palette. I am drawn to bare trees, which are akin to the true nature of people: the way they truly are - unadorned and without pretense. I am equally intrigued by reflections, which impart essentially what appears to be – on the surface – leaving what lies below an intriguing source of wonderment." Rose Hirano 2012
As an established artist, Rose Hirano now works almost exclusively in reduction woodcut, a multi-inking process, printing from light to dark values using a single piece of wood. Each image averages ten to twelve colour layers. She has come to embrace this methodical and meditative process.
Bob Morouney
Kay Murray-Weber
Kay Murray-Weber was born in Ayr, Ontario. An early interest in art instigated her move to Toronto to attend The Ontario College of Art where she began her studies under two distinguished teachers: printmaker, Fred Hagan and painter, Jock Macdonald. She held major exhibitions in Winnipeg, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, Burnaby and Toronto. In 1985, the Miriam Perlman Gallery in Chicago exhibited Kay’s work alongside work by fellow Canadians Anne Meredith Barry and Sandra Alterger. Abroad, Kay exhibited in England, Yugoslavia, Poland, Austria and the United States.
She was elected to memberships in the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Ontario Society of Artists, Canadian Society of Graphic Arts, Canadian Society of Printer-Etchers and Engravers, and the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto.
Francis Baucan
Francis Baucan was born in Montreal, in 1968. A poet of images, music and words, he left college to focus on his artwork. In his twenties, he published two poetry books, participated in many poetry collectives and readings, recorded an album under an independent label.
A few years later, he invented and constructed an antique photographic camera, made from paper, which functions with a real 35 mm negative. After having sold his invention, he traveled for three years, from Czech Republic to North Africa.
His paintings were exhibited all over the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. He also exhibited for three years in Pont-Aven, Brittany and recently, in an art gallery in Bastille, Paris.
Denise Buisman Pilger
Professional artist Denise Buisman Pilger (the -Artist Abroad) is a frequent globetrotter. Having called Amsterdam, Fort Worth, Montréal and Nagoya home, she takes each relocation as an opportunity to explore the world, gathering inspiration for her urban, hand layered mixed media paintings along the way. Exhibiting and selling her work prolifically in North America and Europe over the past several years, Denise has proudly exhibited her work at the 2011 Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, both the Artist Project and Outdoor Art Exhibition in Toronto and galleries in New York, Montréal, Ottawa and Toronto.
Denise's work reflects her love of photography, painting and travel, configured into graphic pseudo-realities of everyday life filtered through her own whimsical creative lens. Fascinated by the urban landscape and the people that populate it, her bustling pastiches of architectural elements and city life invite us to step into her world, where urban elements are arranged at unusual angles, irregular scale, and not necessarily in their true-to-life configuration.
Her creative practice spans close to two decades, beginning with several years as a professional graphic designer and art director for print media, both in Europe and North America. A sensibility that is reflected in her current body of work, both aesthetically and technically. Her creative process involves photo manipulation, acrylic image Transfer, hand layered mixed media elements and other innovative techniques. Often her pieces are black and white with minimalist colour accents, while others abound with colour — her visual vocabulary is always unique and always authentic. From her home-based studio, she produces cityscapes that are graphic and contemporary, yet nostalgic.
Originally from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Denise has a Bachelor of Arts in Illustration from Willem de Kooning Academy of Arts in Rotterdam. She continues to pursue creative professional development to stay on top of new techniques and materials as well as find inspiration in the classic local techniques and materials of her current home country.
Janet Potter
John Trigiani
I’ve been a photographer for over 30 years and photography is in everything I do, every day. It’s more than just a job for me. It’s a way of life. I feel extremely lucky being able to do the work that I do and creating images for clients that can appreciate the love and energy that goes into this passion of mine.
Believe it or not, it all started at the tender age of 7. I was on a school bus on a trip to the museum. As I was looking out the window, I saw a very cool 1972 red Corvette driving beside the bus on the highway. The first thing I did was grab my camera and shot the car while going 80 km/hr. When I got the photo processed, I was amazed at the results! While everything around the car was blurred, the image of the Corvette itself was tack sharp and as perfect as could be!
I remember thinking how incredible it was for a single moment to be captured and frozen forever, and wondering how I did that? To me, it was like a memory box, frozen in time, and that’s when I started seeing glimpses of the world in a different light, daily scenes really stood out, colours, lighting just day to day goings on. From that point forward, regular images started becoming STILL images in my mind and that’s when I truly fell in love with photography.
Over the years, I, John Trigiani ( sorry google food:), accumulated a vast amount of experience and knowledge of lighting. To me, the ideal image is created through an intuitive creative feel and a sense of design, basically using shape, texture and a gut feeling.
But I don’t do this alone. It’s a collaborative effort, I prefer to work with the client to create a plan and vision and then I use my skills to make it come to life. I want to build a story with the photos, set a mood, feeling and leave a lasting impression.
Paula Vandermey
Paula studied glass at Sheridan College in Ontario, Canada. She earned a BFA(hons)glass at the University of Sunderland in the United Kingdom. She has worked with a diverse group of internationally established artists which has allowed her to diversify and develop her work in other countries.
Paula explores the technical process of three-dimensional sculptural sandcasting, hot glass, and kiln casting She combines mixed mediums and found objects as part of her creative process to create tactile, erotic sculptures.
Paula’s work has always shown passion towards the human form as well as a fascination with the emotions which animate it. For someone interacting with one of these sculptures, the beauty and lyricism combine with an energy and tension which gives a dramatic qualify to her work.
Artist’s statement:
One can appreciate my sculptures as a celebration of creation, regeneration and mortality. I create my own cultural identity in which the visual codes of my subconscious become reanimated. I creatively reconstruct the past and redefine its meaning.
My art gives form to the soul and entices the audience to interact and unravel the mysteries of who we are as human beings. Touch is as revealing as vision, and when this exchange happens the audience internalize and correlate a story unique to them.
Alexandre Zerbe
Alexandre Zerbé was born in Montréal, in 1974. Zerbé paints and draws every day. Inspired by photographs he takes of his own city or from the ones he travels to, Zerbé chooses surprising viewpoints rather than the obviously traditional scenes. He is interested in the geometry of the urban landscape, the vertical and horizontal intersections of lines that make up a modern city. Whether the subject is a person, a room’s interior or a cityscape, every part of the composition claims your attention at once. Your gaze moves across the image, settling nowhere. In a view through a window, chimney tops, telephone wires and balconies all seem equally meaningful and this experience of registering all of the information at once is akin to physically being in the scene.
Zerbé’s technique is stylized: he usually sketches compositions before beginning to paint, mindful not to “over-finish” a piece as he wants the liveliness of the sketch to remain visible. His purposely discernable brushstrokes, boldly unpredictable colour choices like bright red skies, black contour lines adopted from the essence of drawing, and the calligraphy of his signature are all markers of his singular style.
Lucie Michel
Lucie Michel was born in Montreal, Canada has always been interested in painting, drawing and mixed media.Having taught 26 years as a high school art teacher, she now teaches painting and mixed media to adults at the Fine Arts Museum in Montreal and at her studio in Mont Saint-Hilaire ,Quebec. She has her Master’s in Art Education and is continuously taking workshops in Canada and in the U. S. during her travels. Her work is represented in several galeries in Quebec, Ontario and in the United States. Lucie is also a Golden Art Educator and enjoys teaching watercolor part-time on cruise ships. She is known for her colourful and abstract landscapes in acrylic but also works in Cold Wax &Oil.
Marie-Chloe Duval
Marie-Chloé Duval, originally from Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada, has a diverse and adventurous path in her artistic career. After initially pursuing an academic career in criminology, Duval discovered her passion for art while finishing her graduate studies. Her thesis writing served as the catalyst for expressing herself and illustrating her vision of humanity and society through her work.
Duval honed her visual identity and explored photography before fully committing to painting in 2016. She made a strong impression in her first symposium by winning 5 prizes, and since then has gained recognition with solo and group exhibitions around the world. Her curiosity and desire for knowledge have also led her to participate in multiple artistic residencies in Canada and Europe. She is deeply engaged in the artistic community, serving as vice-president of art center boards, participating in residential projects for artists, and writing for art blogs.
Currently based in New York City, Duval draws inspiration from the endless human actions that surround her. She continues to create prolifically and is completing her degree in Fine Arts through a partnership with Concordia University and Wagner College.
Linda Laflamme
Born in Montreal, Linda Laflamme began experimenting with painting at the young age of ten.
Today, she draws inspiration from nature and the inescapable passage of time, exploring this subject through abstraction and mix-media. Luminous shades of copper, gold and silver are applied in transparency over heavily textured surfaces, resulting in an experience that is at once tactile and visual. Through these different applications of paint, figures, objects and landscapes tend to emerge.
Always conscious of the environment, Laflamme is unafraid to incorporate fragments of glass, paper and other recycled items to her work in order to pay homage to Mother Earth. These everyday objects, sprinkled across the surface and coated with a palette inspired by precious metals, glisten under a lustrous coat of varnish. The beauty and quality of Laflamme’s work is sure to attract the viewer who will want to discover its every detail and nuance.
To paint is to see the beauty in everything and get inspired!
Lina Vandal
Lina Vandal was born in Montreal in 1952. At an early age, her father, an architect, introduced her to arts, encouraging her to attend the Montreal School of Fine Arts. Later on, her curiosity and her passion for the art world expanded to include ceramics, sculpture, drawing, painting, theatre and even the circus.
In 1999, while pursuing a career in advertising, she decided to invest herself in painting. Portraits and human bodies became the focus of her research, and a central theme in the work.
Vandal’s paintings combine raw drawing, subtle tones, figurative and abstract elements. She uses acrylic, charcoal and pastels on canvas. She sometimes trades the brush for a sponge. She studied namely with Sophie Jodoin, Jacques Clément, Olivier Longpré and Jean-Louis Émond. She regularly participates in live model workshops and is an avid reader on human anatomy.
Shinah Lee
Talented in hand craft and drawing when I was a little child, I have never imaged my life without arts. I was still a little girl when I came to Canada, and my sentiment as an adolescent grew while I was experiencing new cultures and education in Montreal. I had no hesitation to join the Fine Arts program in Dawson College and was ready to take the path of creating my place within the art community when I graduated in Graphic Design from UQAM.
My aspiration for painting and my desire accumulated through my experience as a graphic designer. Then it had exploded when my father passed away. I needed some way to create a legacy. This led me to paint flowers as a metaphor for lifetime which is sometimes calm, energetic, mostly focused on love.
When I start to work, I initially painted on the floor. It’s more conducive to accidents and the pigment flows to explore chance which gives the freedom. I usually let the movement flow on the canvas until I feel the flower itself is alive and blooming up on the surface. Then I start to add more performance to develop the emotions.
Janet Hendershot
After graduating from York University with a B.F.A., Janet continued drawing and painting with her work being shown in more than 300 exhibitions - both group and solo - over the 45 year period. During that time, works have been selected to represent Canada at the Olympics, selected as award recipients and have also been given as awards. They have earned Ms. Hendershot Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council Grants. Many public galleries have added the work to their collections including ArtBank, the Government of Ontario, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, etc.
Janet is active in numerous art societies and arts organization boards and serves both on exhibition committees and as exhibition chair.
Carenie Little
Canadian Artist Carenie Little works with collage & mixed media painting, and pen & ink drawings in her studio in Whitefish Ontario.
Viviane Gurais
Originally from France, Viviane Gruais was raised in a creative family atmosphere. From a young age, Viviane started to paint large formats paintings and regularly participated in various workshops. Her youth was punctuated with colors, materials, shapes, abstraction and exploration of patterns.
Throughout the seasons she would observed the landscape in all its forms, shapes and smells. All this natural materials helped her create her own space of peace and creativity. Her parents, being both art teachers and visual artists, were able to transmit this passion for painting and nature.
Viviane remains totally fascinated by the surrounding nature where she still finds refuge. It is in this atmosphere that she first began to write texts with poetic and spiritual resonance.
In 2003, after experimenting with several jobs, her existential quest led her back to school in the field of social studies. Meanwhile, the artist retained her lively creativity, writing and painting more than ever.. Therefore, painting became a necessity. Self-taught artist, it was only in 2007, after hibernating for sometimes, that she decided to put together her first exhibitions. It became her way of letting go. And so they were, full of doubts and daring, raw in their way of pointing the inexpressible that molds us all.
In 2010, the northern call awakens and brings her to reconnect with the wilderness that still lies dormant inside of her. A very strong attraction for indigenous peoples led her to study the customs and religious rites of the First Nations people.
Breaking with her roots, she decides to experience the great outdoors of Quebec. Quebec City will become the gateway where her pictorial writing will vibrate under the influence of speed and color. Spontaneous gestural painting then characterized Viviane Gruais. Through the lyrical abstraction of her paintings appear some flags that lead the eye to the more evocative. The sensitivity of the artist is reflected in the brightness of the colors and the richness of graphics and textures. Her works captivate the senses and nourish the soul. Paintings by Viviane Gruais are found on both continents, in temporary and permanent exhibitions, and in many private collections. The artist has also received several international art reviews for the entire of her work.
Astrid Denelle
Nature is the principal source of inspiration of Astrid Denelle. Nature: with all its facets, its changing moods, and colours. When Denelle paints, she abandons herself to the movements and colours which emerge freely from the canvas. Even with a successful career as an actor, Denelle chose to return to school to complete a certificate in Visual Arts in 1993. In 2004, she obtained a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Université du Québec à Montréal.
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