David R. Maracle

Transformation to the Spirit World

2016

The title means to ‘shine a light’ or illuminate. Alice Vander Vennen’s beautiful contemporary compositions are designed to tell a story. Fashioned by hand, the canoe-like shape of t...

Canadian artist Alice Vander Vennen returns to a familiar theme in this contemplative mixed media piece called Illumination. The shape of a canoe-like vessel provides the backdrop for an imaginative array of stones gathered from the shores of Lake Ontario...

It’s an intriguing collection and it was created by Toronto born artist Raymond Waters. The multi-media visual artist creates artwork that explores the relationship between objects a...

This large fun, colourful interactive sculpture is a fully functioning swing designed by the Japanese born artist Natsuki Takauji. Now living in New Yo...

Copper burnished in fire, solid brass, piano wires, nylon, aluminum blasted with glass beads and stones—these are the elements used to create Alice Vander Vennen’s elegant new sculpt...

In the 1960’s, Canadian Otto Rogers was one of the first artists to create abstract sculptures out of welded steel and continued to do so during his long career. The elegant curves a...

Eternal is comprised of a photograph, acrylic paint, found objects in nature (bones, leaves, flowers, stones, crystals, sand) and resin. The base materials for the work consist of a ...

Large French 20th century 'montage' mixed media work by Armand Avril titled 'Trinité à l'oiseau'. This montage fully demonstrates Avril's inspiration drawn from tribal art whilst al...

Imposing and very large scale mixed media 'assemblage' by French artist Armand Avril. The work includes the French tricolour flag, figures and heads in various poses, his symbolic cat sculptures and large stylised poppies. The work is not signed but comes with a certificate of authenticity from the artist. This montage fully demonstrates Avril's inspiration drawn from tribal art whilst also expressing the humour and joy that he puts into all his work. A very strong sculptural image and a feast for the eyes in searching for and recognising the everyday objects used in making this piece come alive. This montage is made from wood pieces, bottle tops, string, paint, cork, nails buttons, clothes pegs and netting. The more sculpted areas of the piece stand out up to 4cm from the frame. Armand Avril was born in 1926 in Lyon. His father, Marcel Avril was a painter and collector of African art. At 16 Armand became an apprentice shepherd in Provence. Avril could always be seen equipped with a sketchbook and a book on the history of art whilst tending his flock. It was not until the age of 30, in 1956, that Armand embarked on painting as an autodidact, influenced by Raoul Dufy, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse and the Lyonnaise School of Painting. He exhibited for the first time in 1957. In 1960, he left for a one-year trip to Africa. There he met the painter Jean Arène who introduced him to the village of Cotignac in the Var and to Louis Pons...

The Bruce High Quality Foundation Copper Plate Bruce Shadow Box Sculpture, 2017 Customized wooden shadow box featuring a copper printmaking plate with hand-painted Bruce face. Accomp...

Carefully applied nontraditional materials including light green crushed jade, snakeskin shed, porcupine quills, bonded copper, fossilized wood, eggshell, wood ash, and tiny glass be...

Joseph Kosuth, father of conceptual art, once famously said: “Works of art that try to tell us something about the world are bound to fail (…)The absence of reality in art is exactly...