Throughout four decades of her career, JvdA has described herself as a "figurative artist" a painter and printmaker. Influenced by media imagery, archaic iconography, quotations by writers and philosophers…her art often reflects a personal narrative engaging the viewer in the psychological drama of human emotions .
EDUCATION
2010 - Skills Development Course For Artists, The Royal Conservatory
1992 - Computer Application in Graphic Design, University of Toronto, Apple Design & Modeling Centre.
1979 - Continuing Studies. Canadian Art, University of Toronto
1975 - Fine Arts Graduate, Honours Diploma of The Ontario College of Art & Design.
AWARDS
2013 - Ontario Art Council: Exhibition Grant
2004 - Clare County Council, Ireland. Project Grant
2003 - Clare County Council, Ireland. Project Grant
1975 - Ontario College of Art & Design, W.C.Forsyth Scholarship Award for Excellence in Painting
EXHIBITIONS
2022- "And She Can Cook" STEPARTCENTRE St.Thomas, Ont, Canada (solo)
2022 - "Visual Elements 64" WOODSTOCK ART GALLERY Woodstock Ont. Canada (group)
2020 - "Current Contemporary Selections" STEPARTCENTRE Ont. Canada (group)
2019 - "Cantos" EXCAVO FINE ART London Ont. Canada (solo)
2019 - "Portrait Installation" STEPARTCENTRE Ont.Canada (group)
2017- 2018 - "Pop-Ups" UNKLE COLLECTIVE, London Ont. (group)
2017 - "Hometown Big-Top" Selections STEPACARTCENTRE, London Ont.Canada (group)
2017 -2019 - ‘In View of the Artist" STEPARTCENTRE St.Thomas, Ont. Canada (group)
2016 - "West End Arts Mingle" STEPARTCENTRE St.Thomas, Ont. Canada (group)
2015 - ”In View of the Artist" STEPARTCENTRE St.Thomas, Ont. Canada (group)
2013 - "Juried Art Show" JUDITH & NORMAN ALIX ART GALLERY, Sarnia Ont. Canada (group)
2013 - "Unpack Yourself"STEPARTCENTRE, St.Thomas, Ont. Canada (solo)
2013 - "identity Transfer" STEPARTCENTRE ST.Thomas, Ont. Canada (group)
2012 - "The Arts Mingle" STEPARTCENTRE, St.Thomas, Ont. Canada (group)
2010 - "Look" GALLERY LAMBTON, Sarnia Ont CANADA (group)
2010 - "Juried Art Sale " ART GALLERY OF HAMILTON Hamilton Ont Canada (group)
2009 - "A Life Portrait" WILLIAM STREET GALLERY Port Stanley, Ont. Canada (solo)
2009 - "Portraits" THE WINJAMMER INN. Port Stanley, Ont. Canada (solo)
2008 - "Art Mart" MUSEUM LONDON, London Ont. Canada (group)
2007 - "Art At The House" TRILLIUM HOUSE FINE ART GALLERY, St.Thomas Ont. (group)
2007 - "In Good Company Nascent Dreams" THE ARTS PROJECT London Ont. Canada (group)
2005 - "In View" MARZIART INT. ART GALLERY, Hamburg, Germany (group)
2004 - "The Red Shoes" BELLTABLE ART GALLERY, Limerick Ireland ( solo)
2003 - "Circum Me" THE DROICHEAD ARTS CENTRE, Co. Louth Ireland (solo)
2003 - "St.Bridget’s Well" GLOR ART GALLERY, Ennistymon Co.Clare Ireland (group)
2002 - "Still Life on the Horizon" RUSSELL CURTURAL CENTRE Co.Clare Ireland (group)
2001- "Blow-Ins" TIDES GALLERY, LaHinch, Co.Clare Ireland (solo)
2000 - "Portraits" TIDES GALLERY, LaHinch, Co.Clare Ireland (solo)
2000-2002 - "Annual Exhibition" KENNY WOOLEN MILLS ART GALLERY, CoClare Ire. (solo)
2000 - “Doolin Atrists" RUSSELL CULTURAL CENTRE, Doolin Co. Clare Ireland (group)
1994 - "Irish Artists" RIVERRUN GALLERY, Grainstore, Galway Ireland (group)
1990 - "Suilis" ICA CANADA (International Cultural Association ) Toronto Ont. Canada (solo)
1989 - "In Tradition" CALLIGRAM GALLERIES, Ottawa, Ont. Canada, (group)
1988 - "Studio Etchings & Lithos" GALLERY D, Toronto, Ont. Canada (group)
1987 - "At My House" GERALDINE DAVIS GALLERY, Toronto Ont. Canada (solo)
1987 - "One Added Dimension" THE JUSTINA M. BARNICKE GALLERY, Hart House, University of Toronto Ont. Canada.
1980 - "Huntsville Landscape Commission" BANK OF MONTREAL , Huntsville Ont. Canada. (solo)
1980 - "Etchings & Watercolours" HARBOURFRONT ART GALLERY, Toronto, Ont. Canada(group)
1979 - "Central Station" D.MALEK & ASSOC. ARCHITECTS, Toronto Ont. Canada (group)
1976 - "The Colour of Geometry" GALLERY OMEGA, Toronto, Ont. Canada (group)
ABOUT
Born in The Netherlands… JvdA is a. Naturalized Canadian Citizen
COMMENTS’
" Here comes the Bride"…
A composition on the subject of transformation, consisting of two canvases and two plexiglass columns structures. The canvases having a diamond motif, change from one geometrical figure to another. The female figures painted on the plexiglass represent the virgin being transformed to wife and mother. A double being sharing a single body"
* The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery April 03 to May1, 1986
"The outspoken humanism of her recent paintings is ardent and sincere. She deals in large, strong statements about society without the slightest hesitation. The powerfully rich execution of the work furter testifies to her serious intentions. The elegant brushwork and somber colour in these paintings commands the viewer to join her in a day of reckoning"
* Geraldine Davis Gallery April 4-26, 1986
QUOTATION
"…in all the arts there are usually two things going on at the same time: the desire to make it new, and a continuing conversation with the past" *Julian Barnes
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