Painting and photographing the world around us gives us the opportunity to look, touch and organize our thoughts; we learn about our subject and we learn about ourselves. Our instructors have the ability to articulate and identify problems and solutions in drawing, painting, photography and design. Their empathy towards a student's struggle combined with their energetic and enthusiastic teaching style, have made them highly popular instructors.
Michaela Constantine and Trudy Wood are taking care of the organizing, support and companionship in all aspects of the tours while providing assistance to the Art and Photography Instructor.
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Michaela has a Masters Degree in Fine Arts
and a European Art Instructor's certification.
She has worked for 15 years as an art conservator and has been involved in several large projects including the conservation treatment of the
University of Toronto’s collection of medieval icons and the Heraldic Collection of the Great Hall, Hart House,
U of T. She also teaches ceramic arts in
the Hazelton Place on Avenue Road, Toronto.
Trudy’s experience and thirst for adventure has sparked her renewed interest in travel combined
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Capturing everyday life in Avignon France or San Gimignano, Italy through a lens, allows you to notice the little things we take for granted. Whether it’s observing tourists visiting the numerous museums and cathedrals, or watching the local residents catch-up with each other at the markets, or the spectacular vistas throughout the countryside – it’s all worth seeing. Having detoured from the corporate world to running a business in the music industry, she has embraced a new passion that provides a better balance. Won’t you join her as you share the sights and sounds of your journey?
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John David Anderson - Canadian Contemporary Impressionist
Canadian, because I am...contemporary because I'm alive and an impressionist because you have a pretty good idea of what you might be looking at in my work...
I paint because that's what I do. I paint. Within me are ways of seeing which are mine although they are built upon many traditions from generations of artists and their practices long before me. Painting is a way for me to express with a range of values, edges and colours an emotional response to light on surfaces in a space. The subject can be anything. Charles Hawthorne, a noted New England painter of the 1920's wrote that we have a duty to find beauty in the ordinary. I look for elements of beauty within anything that light touches.
My work evolved from an oil painter's perspective of brush on canvas. I use paint tonally applied with rich colour and an impressionist character. The subject does not drive the composition for me but the light does. http://johndavidanderson.ca/
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Michael Gerry has been exhibiting since 1975 in Canada, United States, Europe and Asia and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions.
He has been an elected member of The Ontario Society of Artists and
has a teaching degree in visual art from the University of Toronto. He is included in the Canadian Book of Who's Who and continues to be a
sought after instructor in and around Toronto, Canada having taught at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Sheridan College, Toronto School of Art and Central Technical School. He is represented by Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto, Art Interiors, Toronto, Thielson Gallery London, Ontario and Wallace Gallery Calgary Alberta.
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Vivian Ducas A.O.C.A.D. is a Toronto based artist. Her teaching experience includes design at the OCAD and watercolour painting at the TBCE. She has been recognized by the Art Director's Club of New York and New York Society of Illustrators for her career as an art director in advertising and publishing. Her art work has been exhibited in solo and group shows.
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Lanny Shereck is a Toronto based painter, sculptor, and potter. He has had numerous solo exhibitions in a variety of media over the past 30 years. He holds a teaching degree from the University of Toronto, and has been teaching painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture and art history at Central Technical School since 1986. Currently, he is represented by Fran Hill Gallery and the collective Loop Gallery.
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Jack Schachner is a multi-faceted creative artist, devoting his life to the pursuit of his eclectic diverse passions. Through decades of photographic achievement he has melded his delight of experiencing life with his creative talent for expressing it. Among his photographic achievements he has been an accredited photographic judge, won many awards, participated in exhibitions, created commissioned works and had his work published. Jack's photographic journey began at his father's knee, himself an accomplished photographer well ahead of his time. Jack has always kept pace with ever- evolving photographic and computer technologies, successfully consolidating their strengths to the visual art form. Jack's photographic and instructional approach helps students to develop keen observation skills and an artistic eye. In this way students are equipped to continue on their own to discover their unique style and method of self-expression.
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