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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.
Come in to see our latest collection of art, gift ideas, or if you need custom framing
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
Janet Potter
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.
John Trigiani
