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.
$325.00
Acrylic and birchbark on a pine panel.
20x16"
The subject of a rocky cliff and night sky uses a large piece of bark to create texture and to show landscape details .while the sky is created with paint
$130.00
Acrylic and birchbark on canvas.
12x9"
This is an oval artwork that has been created using bark to show texture. It is in part three-dimensional as the bark stands out from the canvas surface.
$500.00
Oil and acrylic on canvas.
30x24"
A typical Toronto scene in winter showing the people waiting for the 501 Queen streetcar.
$185.00
Acrylic and birchbark on a pine panel.
12x16"
this acrylic uses real birchbark to achieve the textural effects of the landscape so that paint and bark create the scene
$200.00
Acrylic on masonite panel.
16x20"
Pastel colours whirl in a circular pattern from which emerges a face.
$200.00
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
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
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
Acrylic on pine panel.
20x16"
A striking northern scene of vibrant colours depicting a typical Canadian scene.
$80.00
Acrylic on canvas.
10x8"
A small detailled work which shows a simple still life yet has virbrant colour
$250.00
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.