Thick paint, rich colour, strong rhythms and patterns define Mandy Budan’s love affair with fine art. An award-winning professional painter, Mandy Budan has paintings in collections around the world. Mandy Budan travels around the beautiful Canadian countryside seeking out those perfect moments where light, colour and the landscape collide. Photos, sketches and memory come together in the studio as she strives to recapture that moment in a contemporary, abstract way.

Mandy Budan Artist Statement: I paint abstracts of the landscape, emphasizing and rearranging the elements to show the beauty of the landscape in unexpected ways. Inspired by nature, I use strong colour, discrete shapes and rhythmic patterns to create my abstract landscape paintings which can be enjoyed for both their abstract and realistic qualities.

Edwin Holgate was born in Allandale, Ontario. Holgate began his art education at the Art Association of Montreal studying under William Brymner who was also A.Y. Jackson’s teacher. In 1920,some of the Brymner graduates found a large building on Beaver Hall Hill in Montreal that could serve for a number of studios. Over the years [...]

Marian Dale was born into a well-to-do anglophone Montreal family in 1906.  Recent immigrants to Canada, the Dales were part of that social milieu which sought to uphold the values and customs of Victorian England.  A published author, Marian’s mother encouraged all her children to explore their creative gifts.  At an early age Marian displayed a talent for painting and she was soon enrolled at the Art Association of Montreal.

Marian Scott had colleagues among Montreal’s anglophone and francophone arts communities alike.  Over the course of the 1950s, she was invited to participate in numerous exhibitions of modern painting organized by the community of French speaking artists.  She was included in the 1954 exhibition organized by Marcelle Ferron, entitled “Drawings by 12 Montreal Artists.” In 1956, she exhibited in the “panorama de la pientures montréalaise” along side artists such as Jean-Paul Riopelle and Alfred Pellan.  Her art was recognized and accepted among the art vivant circles of the 1950s.

The artist died at her home in November, 1993.  A pioneer of modern art in Canada, Marian Scott’s career had spanned the evolution of modern art in Canada, from its early awakening to the powerful force it became on the international scene.