Cherie Daly
Cherie had a career in public policy and raised her family. In her spare time she volunteered with environment and community groups. Art was a pastime throughout her life. In 2016, she enrolled at Central Tech’s Adult Art Program and began to develop her art practice with a concentration on non-objective abstract painting. She is an intuitive painter working mostly in acrylics and some mixed media. She works in studios in Toronto and Muskoka. She has shown her work at outdoor shows in Toronto, the Federation Gallery in Vancouver, at ADC Fine Art in Cincinnati and other juried shows.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
After a career where I had to be organized and plan ahead, my art practice has taken the opposite turn. I enjoy the spontaneity of painting without a plan in mind. Painting has been a way to escape difficult periods in life as once I am engaged in the work I have a singular focus that calms my mind. I paint intuitively. I am amazed at how thoughts and emotions can flow through your body onto the canvas. I try not to labour over a piece but to engage with it energetically, responding to the marks I’ve already made without judgement. So often in life we try to “manage” situations when we really don’t have full control. Through my art practice I’ve learned to trust my instincts, to let go of the outcome and to just manage the process. My work is bold, energetic and fun.
I like to produce a sense of immediacy and rawness, letting some of the original expressive marks show through the layers and to keep it simple by using a limited palette.
Cherie had a career in public policy and raised her family. In her spare time she volunteered with environment and community groups. Art was a pastime throughout her life. In 2016, she enrolled at Central Tech’s Adult Art Program and began to develop her art practice with a concentration on non-objective abstract painting. She is an intuitive painter working mostly in acrylics and some mixed media. She works in studios in Toronto and Muskoka. She has shown her work at outdoor shows in Toronto, the Federation Gallery in Vancouver, at ADC Fine Art in Cincinnati and other juried shows.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
After a career where I had to be organized and plan ahead, my art practice has taken the opposite turn. I enjoy the spontaneity of painting without a plan in mind. Painting has been a way to escape difficult periods in life as once I am engaged in the work I have a singular focus that calms my mind. I paint intuitively. I am amazed at how thoughts and emotions can flow through your body onto the canvas. I try not to labour over a piece but to engage with it energetically, responding to the marks I’ve already made without judgement. So often in life we try to “manage” situations when we really don’t have full control. Through my art practice I’ve learned to trust my instincts, to let go of the outcome and to just manage the process. My work is bold, energetic and fun.
I like to produce a sense of immediacy and rawness, letting some of the original expressive marks show through the layers and to keep it simple by using a limited palette.
$675.00
Mixed media on canvas.
24x30"
This began as a soft pastel painting, but was revised with punchy pink, turquoise, lime and energetic black marks. No longer reminiscent of a grandma’s handkerchief but with a few remnants of the past remaining. Enjoy its energy.
$625.00
Mixed media on wood panel.
24x24"
Soft colours yet with a hard black line to give it boldness and contrast.
$975.00
Mixed media on wood panel.
30x30"
Inspired by the beautiful colours of a crisp, sunny winter day.
$1,720.00
Acrylic on wood panel.
60x36"
I am continuing to explore a limited palette with contrast and energetic marks on the surface of the paint. Surrounded by blue skies and the fading leaves of fall I am inspired as I look out my studio window at the cottage. Nature never stops being inspirational.
$1,375.00
Acrylic on canvas.
36x36"
A loose abstract in cool colours, with one hit of translucent hot pink.My work is about energy and movement. This piece has both.
$1,375.00
Mixed media on wood panel.
24x48"
I was inspired by thinking about the colour of spring. The bright yellow green and the blue skies that you can see through the trees that are just starting to leaf out. I was in my Studio in the Woods but it was in the winter. I was trying to imagine spring. Although this piece turned out to have more blues than greens, and perhaps be more watery than like the growing spring buds, I still think it has a feeling of energy that we receive in the springtime. It has many layers. I used many techniques of applying paint and then moving it around, pulling it off and covering it over in an attempt to stay loose and not too attached to any one stage.
$1,375.00
Mixed media on wood panel.
24x48"
Vibrant colours in a vertical format can fit small corners. This painting has a contrast of dark with bright, with soft undertones and dramatic large shapes.
$1,375.00
Mixed media on wood panel.
36x36"
This painting has a nice see through effect from some veiling over the top. Blues and greens are calm, yet with a little surprise of the orange color.
$625.00
Mixed media on wood panel.
24x24"
An abstract painting in pinks and soft green. The piece feels soft and hopeful.
$1,600.00
Mixed media on wooden panel.
40x40"
This piece is very dramatic. It has very loose vibrant marks on a dark background. Main colours are pink and medium green.
$1,425.00
Mixed media on wooden panel (framed).
37.25x37.25"
A soft background of green and blue, with a bold loopy yellow line over the top. Dramatic yet subtle.
$1,250.00
Mixed media on canvas.
30x36"
This piece used to be called One Direction, but with a little more energy, brighter colours, but still a solid shape to anchor it, it is a strong piece. The composition is somewhat lopsided, with the bulk of the interest on the left, but with space to breathe on the right. We all have our strengths, but also our soft sides. This painting speaks to both sides of ourselves.