Category Archives: Art

Featured Member – Hilary Slater

Watercolour is one of Hilary Slater’s many activities, as she says here: “I am a creative artist and I work in a number of fields. I paint in oils and watercolours, and I produce original pottery, photography, and Landscape Architecture designs. I am a licensed yoga and pilates teacher, and I have also written 23Continue reading “Featured Member – Hilary Slater”

Featured Member – Alain Godbout

Alain Godbout is one of the founders of IWS Canada, and served as a Co-Representative from 2014 to early 2017.  He specializes in landscapes and scenes from everyday life. Alain J. Godbout est un aquarelliste spécialisé dans le paysage et les scènes de la vie quotidienne.  A l’occasion il propose des dessins à l’encre deContinue reading “Featured Member – Alain Godbout”

Featured Member – Anthony Saldutto

Anthony Saldutto is a Canadian artist who paints landscapes as well as scenery. Experienced in watercolours and oils for over 30 years, Anthony’s attention to detail is what draws emotion from each piece. His work creates a sense of familiarity and incites a sentimental moment that resonates on a personal level to each viewer. Although bornContinue reading “Featured Member – Anthony Saldutto”

Featured Member – Art Cunanan

Now that entries for our exhibition this fall are closed, we can breathe a little easier and get back to featuring those artists who have joined IWS Canada as full members.  We are so grateful for all the entries – over 300 from 32 different countries! Born and educated in the Philippines, Art Cunanan immigratedContinue reading “Featured Member – Art Cunanan”

A Little Extension

Dear watercolour artists, Thank you so much to those who have completed their entries to our exhibition, A Symphony in Watercolour, taking place this fall in Richmond Hill, Ontario. For those of you who still intend to enter, and are feverishly painting, and photographing your paintings, and wishing you had just a little more time….Continue reading “A Little Extension”

Featured Member – Gord Jones

Gord Jones has always been an artist. After experiencing many different mediums such as oils, pastels, acrylics, even egg tempera he returned to his greatest love, transparent watercolour. Gord has sought direction throughout his artistic career from many of Canada’s most loved watercolourists. He has always found visual communication speaks clearest, even though his interpretationsContinue reading “Featured Member – Gord Jones”

Featured Member – Shahram Sinaei

Our next featured member of IWS Canada, Shahram Sinaei, is an international artist from Iran.  He is the holder of a M.Sc Degree in the field of Civil Engineering – Concentration from Islamic Azad University Najafabad Branch/2000. Shahram’s painting techniques include Niello, Watercolor, and Pastel, his professional art activity starting in 2001 with the lateContinue reading “Featured Member – Shahram Sinaei”

Congratulations Anne McCartney!

We shall interrupt our series of featured members with this bit of breaking news: Our IWS Canada Regional Director, Anne McCartney, has received news today that her painting ‘Art for Art’s Sake’ has been selected for the Gold Medal of Honor, i.e. the top award, at the American Watercolor Society’s 151st juried international exhibition thisContinue reading “Congratulations Anne McCartney!”