Laura Culic, Author at Laura Culic Art

August 25, 2017July 18, 2018

Getting ready for Bancroft Studio Tour!

The Bancroft Studio Tour is coming up fast! Black Spruce Art Works is a destination on the tour on the weekends of September 16, 17 & 23, 24. My guest artist is the amazing, award winning painter Carol Westcott.
My own work continues to be very much inspired by the surrounding landscape here in Hastings Highlands, and is at times verging towards the abstract.

littlebogintheaprilwoods2_40x60 — Little Bog in the April Woods No. 2 40″ x 60″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel: available at Paula White Diamond Gallery, Waterloo ON

waterlovesong2_30x30 — Waterlovesong No. 2 30″ x 30″ oil & cold wax on wood panel, available at Paula White Diamond Gallery, Waterloo **SOLD**

stillsummerno4_b_12x12 — Still, Summer No. 4 12″ x 12″ mixed media on wood panel **SOLD**

July 12, 2017October 13, 2018

Work from Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition July 14 – 16

TOAE was lots of fun and a great success!! I had a wonderful time seeing many familiar faces and meeting lots of new ones. A huge thank you to all who came out, and to those who added one of my paintings to their collections!

tamarackbogno3_24x24 — Tamarack Bog No. 3 24″ x 24″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel. This painting is the winner of the David B Milne Award of Best in Show at the Art Gallery of Bancroft Annual Juried Show **SOLD**

littleponddeepinthewoods_24x24 — Little Pond Deep in the Woods 24″ x 24″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel. Available at Paula White Diamond Gallery, Waterloo **SOLD**

tamarackbogno2_24x24 — Tamarack Bog No 2 24″ x 24″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel **SOLD**

paddle_30x30 — Paddle 30″ x 30″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel, donated to Lake Ontario Waterkeeper SwimDrinkFish Fundraising Gala, Toronto **SOLD**

waterlovesong1_30x30 — Waterlovesong No. 1 30″ x 30″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel, available at Black Spruce Art Works, Maynooth

waterlovesong3_30x30 — Waterlovesong No. 3 30″ x 30″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel, available at Black Spruce Art Works, Maynooth

dwellingintheforest_30x60 — Dwelling 30″ x 60″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel, available at Paula White Diamond Gallery, Waterloo **SOLD**

thekingfisherwaits_20x70 — The Kingfisher Waits 20″ x 70″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel **SOLD**

trailbehindmyhouseno1_24x24 — The Trail Behind My House No. 1 24″ x 24″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel **SOLD**

warmrain_12x12 — Warm Rain 12″ x 12″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel, available at Black Spruce Art Works, Maynooth SOLD

aprilthawno4_12x12 — April Thaw No. 4 12″ x 12″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel, available at Paula White Diamond Gallery, Waterloo **SOLD**

littlebogintheaprilwoods_12x12 — Little Bog in the April Woods 12″ x 12″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel **SOLD**

nearlysilent_12x12 — Nearly Silent 12″ x 12″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel, available at Black Spruce Art Works, Maynooth ON **SOLD**

sparrowsong_12x12 — Sparrow Song 12″ x 12″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel, available at Paula White Diamond Gallery, Waterloo **SOLD**

stillsummer1_12x12 — Still, Summer 2 12″ x 12″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel **SOLD**

stillsummer2_12x12 — Still, Summer 1 12″ x 12″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel **SOLD**

stillsummer3_12x12 — Still, Summer 3 12″ x 12″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel **SOLD**

Southwood_40x48 — Southwood 40″ x 48″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel **SOLD**

May 4, 2017October 24, 2018

Spring at Black Spruce Art Works, Maynooth!

My little gallery is all spruced up for spring, with fresh paint on the walls and many new paintings hanging – some from my Art Gallery of Bancroft show, some newer still – and lots more in progress in the studio. The weather is warming up and there seem to be more visitors every weekend here in the busy town of Maynooth!

aprilthawno3_12x12 — April Thaw No. 3 12″ x 12″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel SOLD

aprilthawno2_12x12 — April Thaw No. 2 12″ x 12″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel **SOLD**

octobertrackntowertrail_20x — October: Track & Tower Trail 20″ x 60″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel, available at Black Spruce Art Works, Maynooth

eganchutes_20x60 — Egan Chutes 20″ x 60″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel, available at Black Spruce Art Works, Maynooth ON **SOLD**

thetrailbehindmyhouse_20x60 — The Trail Behind My House 20″ x 60″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel **SOLD**

musicale_24x50 — Musicale 24″ x 50″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel, available at Paula White Diamond Gallery, Waterloo **SOLD**

soicanfindyouintheforest_40 — So I can find you in the forest 40″ x 40″ mixed media on wood panel, available at Paula White Diamond Gallery, Waterloo ON

reflect_24x24 — Reflect 24″ x 24″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel **SOLD**

whisperandtrillno2_24x24 — Whisper & Trill No. 2 24″ x 24″ cold wax, oil & dry pigment on wood panel, available at XC Art Restorations, Toronto

April 14, 2017May 4, 2017

Art Gallery of Bancroft April 5 to 29

Invocation is the title of my show at the Art Gallery of Bancroft. I have sixteen large paintings – mostly brand new – which depict my feelings of intimacy and belonging to the northern environment where I now reside.
I am leading a workshop at the gallery on Sunday April 23 called “Liberate your Landscapes” about creating personal and painterly work from your photos.

This is my exhibition statement:

Invocation
[in-vuh-key-shuh n]
noun
1. the act of invoking or calling upon a deity, spirit, Muse, etc., for aid, protection, inspiration, or the like.
For all my painting life, I’ve been a painter of landscapes: big skies, open vistas, distant woods and evocative atmospheres. And all my life, I’ve lived in the city. That landscape was something I dreamed of, and longed to be in, and would head to at any opportunity.
And now I live here, in the place I’ve always painted. And there has been a subtle shift in what I paint – no longer are my landscapes dreamy, distant, idealized places, but real, rugged and textured. My muse lives in these woods, and I am feeling the roughness of the bark, I’m hearing the rustlings and chirrupings, and smelling the brackish water of the bog. I am now a part of the place I paint.