Barbara Sutherland
Price range: $300-3000
Barbara Sutherland
Price range: $300-3000
Secluded Island
12x16" oil on wood
Lievre River, Gatineau
12x16" oil on wood
Kayak Country
12x16" oil on wood
oil on wood 12x16"
16x12" oil on wood
Martineau Homestead, Gatineau
16x12" oil on wood
Watercolour
Watercolour
Watercolour
Toronto Island Cottage Watercolor
Born in Toronto, Barbara Sutherland graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1984 after a final year of study in Florence, Italy.
She is a member of both the Ontario Society of Artists and the
Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour.
Barbara’s travels by boat and RV across Canada provide abundant material for her work. Summers are spent cruising Lake Huron’s North Channel where Barbara paints in oils and watercolours in secluded anchorages, along wooded trails and windswept shores. A rugged, remote landscape appeals to her. With abundant enthusiasm for life’s adventures, Barbara delights in the solitary hike to find new inspiration in nature.
A bold manner expresses her delight for new places, coastal landscapes, changing seasons and her love of colour, both seen and felt.
While Barbara considers landscape and the energetic abstraction of it to be the thrust of her work, she is fond of portraiture and turns her hand successfully to it as well. In the 2010 CSPWC international juried competition, a portrait of the artist’s father won the Curry’s – M. Graham & Co. Award for watercolour.
Collectors of Barbara’s paintings comment on the excellent use of colour and line to create good, rhythmic compositions. In the words of the late Doris McCarthy, “Barbara’s works show a delightful sense of design. She uses colour with freedom and courage which makes her paintings good to live with.”
AWARDS
2010: Curry’s & Graham Co. Award for Watercolour,
CSPWC Open Water Juried Show
2008: Woolfitt’s Award for Watercolour, CSPWC Open Water Juried Show
2000: Ledsham Award, Ontario Society of Artists Juried Show
2000: Woolfitt’s Award for Watercolour, Scarborough Arts Council
1981: Printmaking and Drawing Award of the Year, Guelph University, Fine Arts
1976: Artist of the Year Award, Sir. John A. MacDonald Collegiate
SELECTED SHOWS
2018: Water Reflections, CSPWC juried exhibition
CSPWC/SFA Exhibition, Avignon France
Inside/Outside, Fool’s Paradise
Yorkminster Park Gallery, Toronto
2017: Water and Pigment: Mysterious Interactions
CSPWC Diploma Collection, Peel Art Gallery
2015: The Kingston Prize, Canadian Portrait Competition Finalist
Watermark, CSPWC Ontario Regional Juried Exhibition
2010: Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Open Water, Toronto
2008: Scarborough Arts Council, Hiu-Shiu Hung Gallery, Toronto
C.S.W.P.C., Open Water, Toronto
Annual Juried Drawing Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
2006: C.S.P.W.C., Open Water, Toronto
2005: Ontario Society of Artists, Hummingbird Centre, Toronto
2004: Cancer Fundraiser Show, Tilley Endurables with Doris McCarthy, Toronto
S.A.C., Annual Juried Show, Toronto
Annual Juried Drawing Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
2002: S.A.C. Annual Juried Show, Toronto
2001: S.C.A., Annual Juried Show
Annual Juried Drawing Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
2000: Women on Front, Peterson Fine Art Gallery, Toronto
O.S.A., Art and Healing Exhibition, Toronto
Art Gallery of Mississauga, Annual Juried Exhibition
Society of Canadian Artists, Annual Juried Exhibition
C.S.P.W.C., Open Water, Toronto
1999: C.S.P.W.C., Open Water, Toronto
Inspired by Newfoundland, Heliconia Club with Doris McCarthy
O.S.A. New Member’s Show, Toronto
1998: Bowmanville Arts Centre, Annual Juried Show
1997: Colour and Form Society, Annual Juried Show
1995: Colour and Form Society, Annual Juried Show
1993: C.S.P.W.C., Open Water, Toronto
Gallery 306, Annual Juried Exhibition, Toronto
MEMBERSHIPS
Ontario Society of Artists
Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour