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A Modern
Canadian Impressionist Painter: For Seonaid, painting has opened up
the world ... She has studied privately in Italy, Hawaii and
Toronto, but is largely self-taught. While evocative of European and
Canadian impressionists, Seonaid’s paintings are decidedly her own.
Her paintings are in private and corporate collections. For almost
fifteen years, Seonaid taught children with multiple disabilities
and channeled her love of art into creative ways of teaching math
and science, literature and history. A back injury in 2000 followed
by surgery and a long recovery, meant that she could not return to
the special ed classroom. She decided to pursue her childhood
passion for making art full-time, and since then has lived to paint.
Seonaid’s paintings take iconic images - cypresses, field stone,
wild flowers - and infuse them with new life. Although people are
often absent, there is a profound sense of relationship between
people and place. The scene draws you in, and invites you to see the
familiar in startling new ways.
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1.LIBERTA SUL PONTE,
VENICE, ITALY, 2013 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 36X24 IN
US$ 2,000.00
2.CHIARI SCURI VENEZIANI, VENICE, ITALY, 2013 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
24X30 IN
US$ 1,800.00
3.GLORIOSO SPAZIO, TUSCANY
ITALY, 2013 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 36X24 IN
US$ 2,000.00
4.A WINDOW OF TZARSKOYE
SELO PALACE, ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, 2014 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 20X16 IN
US$ 1,400.00
5.ANTIGUA SHADOWS,
ANTIGUA, 2014 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 20X16 IN
US$ 2,000.00
6.HE SMOLNY
CATHEDRAL ,ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, 2013 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 36X24 IN
US$
2,000.00
7.ST. BASILS CATHEDRAL,
PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, 2014 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 36X24 IN
US$ 2,000.00.
8.ANTIGUA DREAMING,
ANTIGUA, 2014 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 20X16 IN
US$ 1,400.00 |
Fragments of conversation float through the air at her shows -
people searching for the words that match the feelings evoked by
her images: the juxtaposition of old and new -a dirt road
winding through a violet Tuscan sky, cypresses so dark a green
they’re almost black, reaching up, ancient, stalwart, mindless
of their staggering beauty; a verdant rain forest in British
Columbia, a sea bird riding a thermal, rocks and tide pools
shimmering like stars; delicate white ground cover of spring, an
ancient stone wall (is that the imprint of the hand that placed
it there?) worn by centuries of weather; a riot of poppies and
wild irises at the foot of a twisted tree trunk. People are
still and excited and speak of feeling as if they could enter
the picture, walk up to the big old wood door in the middle
distance to find something waiting for them. |
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