Artwork from Visual Arts Brampton members, featuring: Aditi Ganeev Sangwan, Aleksandra Skrabka, Chris McGlynn, Colleen Dee, Eric Hansen, Ghazi Toutounji, Manju Das, Marian Simpson, Merlene Boyce, Natasha Jain and Zahra Motiei-Najafi.
My name is Zahra and besides being a Medical Laboratory Technologist, I am an artist which is my passion, or better to say my life. I like to paint on types of surfaces: canvas, paper, glass, wood and leather, all using different techniques and materials accordingly: oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal or pencils. On most of my paintings, I use brushes, but what I like the most to do is to use my fingers. Another important aspect with my techniques is that I like to put resin and gilding on top. This helps to reflect light and adds a sheen to the artwork, brightening it up for a beautiful finish. My main goal with my artwork is to give it a sense of a tri-dimension, hoping the observer sees and feels it as realistic and alive as I do.
One of my techniques with some of my acrylic paintings is to pour the colours randomly onto the canvas and then move the canvas in a rotational fashion to mix the colours, then use a hair dryer to apply heat while blowing the paint. This allows for additional mixing of the colours where they randomly flow giving it a sense of movement.
Zahra is available for commissions upon request.
Artwork from Visual Arts Brampton members, featuring: Chris McGlynn, Colleen Dee, Erin Hansen, Gisele Boileau, Manju Das, Maria Dlubak, Mary Jones, Maureen McLellan, Merlene Boyce, Natasha Jain & Sibaji Bhattacharjee.
Passionate about photography and building community, Connie Munson’s Studio By Design is hosting the Looking Back, Looking Forward exhibit as a teaser showcase for the 3rd annual May exhibit, FORMS, FACES & SPACES, figuratively speaking!
Enjoy work from some of the winners, featured photographers and artists, and community sponsors from the 2022 and 2023 May exhibits, PLUS, a sneak peek at pieces submitted for the 2024 exhibit.
The annual exhibit in May 2024 is at registered satellite sites in the hills of Caledon and Halton as part of the prestigious CONTACT Festival, the world’s largest photography event, and now in its 28th year. studiobydesign.ca
Born in Lebanon in 1954. A mechanical engineer by profession with a hobby for drawing, painting and sculpture. He draws and paints in various media such as pencil, pastel, watercolor and oil. The subjects are mainly portraits and landscape. Few works of clay and wood sculpture as well as computer sculpture have been produced by him. Ghazi also does story illustration.
Fine art education in Canada: First year Studio Art at Concordia University, one Summer School of animation at Sheridan College.
He has participated in several collective shows in Cyprus and Canada. He sold his paintings in Cyprus, Canada and internationally. He is a member of Artists in Canada, CSPWC (Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor), Mississauga Watercolor Society, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga Arts Council.
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