The final talk in our series is coming up on April 2nd!

Free pizza and refreshments for students in room 187 at 5:45 before the talk. 

HOW WE PAINT Steve Driscoll

April 2nd, 7:00 PM 

OCAD U,
100 McCaul, Room 190
Toronto, ON

Have you ever looked at a painting and wondered ‘how did they do that?’

“How WePaint” is a unique artist speakers series presented by the programme of Contemporary Drawing and Painting at OCAD University. Unlike a traditional artist talk, this event invites esteemed local Toronto artists to share their materials and processes with the arts community at large. This dynamic programming will pull back the curtain on the artist studio and instigate conversations around our creative decision-making processes.

"Steve Driscoll is a modern alchemist. He transforms the base materials of urethane and pigment into ecstatic visions of the Canadian wilderness. Like his historical forefathers, the Group of Seven, Driscoll heads to the forest for inspiration. But rather than re-enacting the plein air sketching method practiced by Canada’s archetypal landscape painters, Driscoll instead mentally banks the images he sees — lakes and trees, sunsets and sunrises, moons and stars, cabins and campfires — creating a storehouse of visual memories that he brings back to his Toronto studio. There he sets about finding ways to make his unorthodox materials suggest those aspects of the wilderness experience that loom large in his mind."– Barbara Isherwood