Exhibition at Poor John's Café

Bikes and more bikes

Paintings and giclée prints
January 1-31

Please join me for the closing reception!
Friday January 27th
7-9pm

Poor John's Café
1610 Queen Street West in Parkdale

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11th Annual Bayview Art Tour

Come and visit me:
October 1st & 2nd
NOON-5PM
Carrie Cockburn will also be featuring her jewellery.
109 Rumsey Road (near Bayview + Millwood)
Click here for the 11th Annual Bayview Art Tour Website
This year's tour includes 26 artists in 15 venues. Look for the yellow balloons!

Art Gala Forum Third annual Show and Sale

On now until June 26
KUMF Gallery, 2118-A Bloor St W., Suite 204
West of Keele St Near High Park Subway Station
Hours: Thurs & Fri 1-6 Sat & Sun 1-5
T. 416 766 68 02

Bicycle series available as giclée prints

Bicycle series on the go...

I've been SNAP'd!

10th Annual Bayview Art Tour Event press - click here:

10th Bayview Art Tour - October 23rd-24th

Come and see my new paintings, mirrors and photographs and Carrie (my niece) Cockburn's beautiful jewellery.

Also visit the studios of other talented artists and artisans in the Bayview / Mount Pleaseant / Eglinton Area.
Email me for more information or download the brochure as a pdf from this link:
BAYVIEW ART TOUR BROCHURE

New Paintings at the Hangman Gallery

12th Annual RAW Artists' Network Members' Theme Show
June 1 - 20

Up North

mmmmmm...POP!

I will be participating in the upcoming show at the Hang Man Gallery. The opening is Thursday January 21st from 7pm-9pm. The show runs from January 19th to February 14th, 2010. (756 Queen St. East, Toronto)

The Hang Man Gallery in the historic Riverdale district of Toronto is the public face of a thriving community of visual arts professionals. For five years the Hang Man Gallery has pursued its mandate to showcase emerging and established artists – local, national and international – through fully juried individual, group, and Artists' Network member exhibitions.

The body of work highlighted through Hang Man celebrates the full range of approaches, techniques and points of view that make the visual arts so arresting. Here artists explore their specific media and the evolving sensibilities of the arts themselves, with a confident freedom that produces unique and accomplished results. Yet the Hang Man remains firmly anchored in its time and neighbourhood: its very name connects the artists and the gallery with the notoriety of the nearby Don Jail, a landmark that once helped define a neighbourhood that included factories, crowded housing for workers, and a reputation as being outside the main. Embracing that ethos, The Hang Man is also a venue where artists wrestle with the gritty realities of contemporary life.

Bayview Art Tour October 17-18 2009

Get ready for the Bayview Art Tour 2009, October 17-18 more information coming soon

Hang Man Gallery 756 Queen St East

Two of my acrylic paintings are exhibited in a group show at the Hang Man Gallery during July 16-August 27

Riverdale Art Walk - June 6+7, 2009

Come and see my new paintings on the Riverdale Art Walk. As a preview here is a painting I have just finished, "Invitation au voyage" inspired by a walk by the Rhône in Lyon, France.

Bayview Art Tour coming soon...

This year the Bayview Art Tour will be November 29th and 30th. I hope to see you there. More info coming soon...

Recent Paintings at the Queen West Art Crawl

Come and see me and my paintings at the Queen West Art Crawl Saturday, September 13 & Sunday, September 14 at Trinity Bellwooods Park (11AM to 6PM) - 790 Queen Street West (at Strachan Ave.)

Mexican Vistas - Photographic Series

The five years I lived in Mexico City before coming to Canada were a very significant period of my life. My son and daughter were born there and, because I worked in Spanish, first with hard of hearing children and later children with Down Syndrome, I developed a very personal relationship with Mexico and the people I lived and worked with.

When, twenty years later, my son, the printmaker and musician, Alec Dempster under the spell of the “son jarocho”, married a woman from Santiago Tuxtla I had the opportunity to renew my ties to Mexico, meeting new people and seeing old friends, rediscovering some places I had visited and loved, in particular the regions of Oaxaca and the state of Michoacan where most of the photographs of this series were taken.

With my camera I captured the texture of the skin of an old potter’s hands, the light and shadows framing the view of the valley of Oaxaca from Monte Alban, the rich colors of various arts and crafts: baskets and earthenware, murals or the vivid pink of two chairs. Mexican markets offer an endless source of fascination for me as a photographer and painter, as my”photomosaic” of Mexican markets shows.

My daughter, the visual artist and photographer, Marina Dempster, also got her inspiration from Mexico when a Huichol artist came to the Gardiner Museum and taught her his yarn painting technique and shared his view of the world. Mexico has a big place in my heart and mind.

Photo-Mosaic Series

In this "Mosaic Series" I engage in a re-creation of captivating places I have visited. The process involves a labour-intensive transferring of my photographs to 24"x24" canvas, arranging them in a dance of colour, pattern and rhythm reflecting the character and spirit of each environment. The mosaics are also available as limited edition 20" x 20" or 8" x 10" giclée prints (printed on archival rag paper). To order email me at: francoisecockburn@sympatico.ca.

"Happiness"

"Doors"

"Clocks"

"Stone Angel - Brittany"

"Fruits of Provence"

"Windows to the World"

"Red Maples"

"Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao"

"Old Lyon"

"Hydrangea, Brittany"