Title TBD by Elaine Comeau Saturday, August 9 - Saturday, August 30
Elaine has been creating fine art her whole life. Mostly self taught, she loves to create art intuitively. She has also taken many art courses at the Ottawa School of Art. Having a true passion of all types of art, Elaine studied drawing, charcoal, pastels, pen & ink, watercolour, oil painting, acrylic painting, oriental brush painting, mixed media, collage, papier-mache, sculpture, and print making. She loves both representational and abstract art and to experiment with mixing up the styles and materials. Elaine studied Interior Design at Algonquin College and worked as a professional Interior Designer for 30 years. Working on both commercial and residential projects, she used her knowledge of space, colour, balance, textures, and flow to create functional and visually pleasing interiors. While working as a Designer, she also taught at Algonquin College for 28 years. Teaching courses in the Interior Design, Architectural and Fine Arts programs. Teaching art in all forms comes very naturally to Elaine. She had her own teaching art studio, Wild Pigments Art Studio, in Ottawa, for 12 years until the pandemic forced her to close. She is currently teaching live online art classes. Today, Elaine spends most of her time painting very colourful acrylic paintings in a loose brush style on cradle boards. When she is not painting, she is creating her very unusual decorative bowls in a combination of papier-mache, plaster and fabrics. Every bowl and teacup is hand crafted, painted and finished with a very high gloss varnish. Each piece is unique.