Painting

** Call for Submissions ** ** ** In collaboration with the City of Ottawa, the Manotick BIA invites mural artists to submit proposals. The successful artist will design and paint a mural that will be hung on the wall adjacent to the Mill Street Park (back of Splash Pools building) on Mill Street. ...

[caption id=“attachment_27364” align=“aligncenter” width=“600”] Fred Varley Portrait of a Naval Officer, Harry Kelman CWM 20150552-001 Canadian War Museum[/caption] The Canadian War Museum has made a significant addition to its Beaverbrook Collection of War Art: a 1943 portrait of Naval Officer Harry Kelman painted by Frederick Horsman Varley, official First World War artist and original member of the Group of Seven. ...

Figureworks is calling artists in all media to participate in our sixth annual juried award show from November 23rd until December 6th, 2015 at Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts. Submission deadline is October 5th. Figureworks.org is a not-for-profit organization promoting art of the human form. ...

New murals were officially showcased today on highway underpasses along Bank Street and Carling Avenue. This is the second year of the Murals on Underpasses program intended to feature local artists and beautify the City. ** ** “These murals beautify and enhance underpasses as key gateways to the City with images that reflect and depict local culture, history and visions of artistic expression,” said Mayor Jim Watson. ...

In the days that followed the October 22 fatal shooting of Corporal Nathan Cirillo at the National War Memorial, Ottawa artist Katerina Mertikas searched for a way to express the grief shared by all Canadians and to somehow help Corporal Cirillo’s five-year-old son Marcus. ...