Ingrid Whitaker
I have created art all my life and have always been interested in more realistic and natural forms and images. While I admire more abstract works, I have never been drawn to create them and have instead worked from nature and from the world I see around me. I like to paint people and to also create from the natural world.
Having lived in other countries, I also enjoy painting the landscapes and cityscapes of wherever I find myself. While my husband was working in Europe, I was living with him there in a small apartment. To keep busy, I found myself painting the scenes of the everyday life that I saw around me.
Thus, “The Far Distant Alps” a large painting, is the view from a little town in Switzerland where across a large lake the majestic Alps sometimes showed their face. (More often than not, the view was swathed in fog or mist). This painting shows that glorious moment when the mountains started to reveal themselves.
People are also endlessly fascinating to me and I try to capture their expressions in paint. My other works show my need to delineate faces in paint so as to reveal the underlying emotion of each person.
I prefer to use oil paint on smooth surfaces for the flexibility of the paint and its long manipulation time. Thus, my work tends to be detailed and complex.
I have created art all my life and have always been interested in more realistic and natural forms and images. While I admire more abstract works, I have never been drawn to create them and have instead worked from nature and from the world I see around me. I like to paint people and to also create from the natural world.
Having lived in other countries, I also enjoy painting the landscapes and cityscapes of wherever I find myself. While my husband was working in Europe, I was living with him there in a small apartment. To keep busy, I found myself painting the scenes of the everyday life that I saw around me.
Thus, “The Far Distant Alps” a large painting, is the view from a little town in Switzerland where across a large lake the majestic Alps sometimes showed their face. (More often than not, the view was swathed in fog or mist). This painting shows that glorious moment when the mountains started to reveal themselves.
People are also endlessly fascinating to me and I try to capture their expressions in paint. My other works show my need to delineate faces in paint so as to reveal the underlying emotion of each person.
I prefer to use oil paint on smooth surfaces for the flexibility of the paint and its long manipulation time. Thus, my work tends to be detailed and complex.
$200.00 CAD
Acrylic on masonite panel.
16x20"
Pastel colours whirl in a circular pattern from which emerges a face.
$200.00 CAD
Oil on pine panel with cold wax.
16x12"
This abstracted landscape features subtle colour variations and strong horizontal lines which create the feeling of depth in the work.
$200.00 CAD
Acrylic on canvas.
16x20"
For those longing for springtime year round this vibrant colourful canvas features bright tulips in front of a blooming flowering cherry tree.
$250.00 CAD
Acrylic on masonite panel (panel).
16x13"
Vibrant colours and textural acrylic feature in this sunset scene with an almost three-dimensional painted surface.
$350.00 CAD
Acrylic on pine panel.
20x16"
A striking northern scene of vibrant colours depicting a typical Canadian scene.
$80.00 CAD
Acrylic on canvas.
10x8"
A small detailled work which shows a simple still life yet has virbrant colour
$250.00 CAD
Acrylic on pine panel.
16x12"
This very Canadian view features actual birchbark as part of the painting. The work is roughlytextured and has a three dimensional quality to it.
$350.00 CAD
Oil on pine panel.
11x14"
While her head is turned, her tatooed body still has eyes that stare directly at you. While you look at her, she looks at you. This oil painting is smoothly varnished and is ready for hanging.
$300.00 CAD
Oil on pine panel.
12x16"
This dynamic work feature penetrating eyes and vibrant colour
$225.00 CAD
Oil on Canvas
20x16"
Painted just as the leaves were falling in October this artwork conveys the brilliant colour and life that occurs at the end of the Fall season. Dominated by a palette of bright oranges and reds, it has the subtle colours of mauve, green and blue in the background.
$225.00 CAD
Oil on Canvas
14x18"
painted plein air, this oil painting highlights the fabulous colours of the autumn season with its multitude of oranges and yellows set amongst the grassy background of a small hill.
$350.00 CAD
Acrylic on pine panel.
20x16"
This colourful painting features several dominant burgundy red trees lit up by the fast falling sunset and an unusual apple green sky.