In July of 2005, eighteen members of the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA) each donated a piece of their own work to the Government of Ontario Art Collection. Diverse in style and subject matter all the works however share a commonality in representing some aspect of Ontario as reflected through the eyes of its talented artists. Works by Debra Archibald, Leon Belsky (his City Portrait is seen to the right), Gil Caldwell, Susan Clark, Shirray Langley, Lillian Michiko Blakey and Nancy De Boni focus on the urban and suburban environment, while those of Jean Eng, Judy Finch, Janet Hendershot, Sonia Tarantour Pearl, Bev Rodin, Janice Mason Steeves, Ernestine Tahedl, Darryl Thorogood and Arlene Turkington take their inspiration from the natural landscape. |
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Individual and personal themes also find expression in these paintings. The commercialization of water, one of our most important natural resources, is the subject of the multi-media work, Containing Water, by former OSA President, Michael Mills while the ambiguity of confronting the familiar in an unfamiliar setting is explored in Anne-Marie Kornachuk’s Witness.
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