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Victoria Pearce
Artist Summary
Victoria Pearce creates a highly unique style of paintings she describes as her labyrinth landscapes. She uses line within shapes to describe the various elements of the landscape from cloud filled skies , rocky ledges and isolated islands to multi layered waterfalls . The constant movement and interconnectedness of nature is illustrated with dynamic colour compositions. These line filled images are viewed quite differently from a distance than from close up. The mind seems to switch perspective upon closer inspection.
Each landscape is inspired by her wanderings on the paths of the Bruce Trail, Algonquin, Muskoka and numerous other parts of Canada as well as her paddles in Ontario’s cottage country
Victoria is an elected member of The Ontario Society of Artists and Canadian Society of Artists.
Please, come have a closer look.
Full Biography
Awards
2025 Society of Canadian Artists, 2nd place Award of Excellence
2024 Artists Mark 1st Place , Burlington Fine Arts Association
2021 Artists Mark 1st Place, Burlington Fine Arts Association
Corporate Commissions and Collections
2025 Bank of Montreal Mural
2023 Pearl Hotel, Burlington
2023 Blackstone Investments, Toronto
2018 Security Bank , Bemidji, Minnesota
2017 Wickham Investments, Hamilton
2015 Hollis Wealth, Oakville
2015 MacMaster University, DeGroote Business School, Burlington
2012 Boehringner Ingelhelom Abstract Figurative Mural 30’
2009 St Anthony’s Polish Church, sky mural and decoration of Naïve
2006 Euroline Appliances, Oakville, wine country landscape mural
2003 Royal York Conservatory, Toronto 40 x 8 country scene
2003 Innovus Burlington, 40 x 10 forest mural
2001 Roslyn Retirement Home, Hamilton mural35 x 9 garden scene,6×4 Gage park scene, 7 x 8 Garden Scene
Public Commissions
2005 Eastview Public School, Entrance Mural 15’ x 10’
2002 Carpenter Hospice
2001 Grace Haven, Salvation Army, Hamilton, Mother and Child in clouds
2000 John T Tuck Public School Burlington, Cougar in children’s entrance
Education and Training
2014 McMicheal Gallery , master class with John Leonard
2013 McMicheal Gallery, master class with John Leonard
2006 Haliburton School of Art , Lila Lewi pres Irving
2003 Haliburton School of Art ,John Leonard
2002 Haliburton School of Art, Gary Blundell
1999-2000 Burlington Arts Centre,Burlington, Painting with E. Robert Ross
1975 uh -1979 York University , Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts, Eugene Tellez and Doug Morton
1969 – 1974 Lord Elgin High School, Instructor Robert Bateman
Gallery Representation
Art Etc, Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington, Ontario
Cloud Gallery ,Orillia, Ontario
Crown and Press Gallery, Hamilton
Memberships
Canadian Society of Artists
Ontario Society of Artists
Burlington Fine Arts Association
One and Two Person Shows
2024 Earls Court Gallery In.ter.re.la.tions
2024 Kidner Gallery, Variations on a Landscape, Toronto
2024 Cloud Gallery , Meet the Artist, Orillia
2022 Art Gallery of Burlington, Fireside Lounge, Drawn to Water, Deborah and Victoria Pearce
2022 Earls Court Gallery , Land and Lakes
2017 Earls Court Gallery, In Between Land
2016 Fireside Lounge, Art Gallery of Burlington , one woman show
2015 Earls Court Gallery , Halcyon Skies
2014 Peterborough Hospital Gallery
2012 Fireside Lounge, Art Gallery of Burlington
2005 Cannington House, Oakville
Group Shows
2025 Jordon Art Gallery, Reflections on the Bruce Trail, Jordon village
2025 All Guilds Show, Art Hall of Burlington
2025. Internal Voice, Collective 919, Etobicoke Civic Center
2025 Together in Harmony, Canadian Korean artists, Queen Elizabeth ParkOakville
2025 OSA, The Unquiet North, Donna Childs Gallery
2025 Ottawa Art in the Park, Central Park, Ottawa
2025 Social Space, Hamilton
2025 Ontario Society of Artists, (Western) St Thomas, Ontario
2025 DVSA 54th annual Art Auction
2025 Earlls Court Gallery , The Feature
2025 PiArt Squared Show, Toronto
2025 BFAA The Hub , Small is Beautiful
2024 Ontario Society of Artists , At Georgian Bay, Trestle Brewery, Parry Sound
2024 Cloud Gallery, Great Big Summer Show, Orillia
2024 Canadian Art Daily , Northern Visions, National Online Show
2024 , Cloud Gallery, My Happy Place, Orillia
2024 Together, Korean/Canadian Collaboration Art Show at Queen Elizabeth Park Centre, Oakville
2024 AGH Annual Art Sale
2024 Dundas Valley Art School Auction
2023 The Hub, Bruce Trail Inspired 2 Fundraiser Show
2023 Ontario Society of Artists, Homeward Show, Neilson Park Gallery
2023 Artists Mark, Burlington Fine Arts Juried Show
2023 Together, Korean/Canadian Collaboration Art Show at Queen Elizabeth Park Centre, Oakville
2023 Colour Splash , Ontario Society of Artists at John B Aird Gallery, Toronto
2023 AGH Annual Art Sale
2023 Dundas Valley Art School Auction
2023 Bruce Trail Inspired Art Show, Burlington Centre
2023 All Guilds Juried Show,Art Gallery of Burlington
2020 Bruce Trail Inspired , Three person fundraiser show Bruce Trail Conservancy
2017 to 2021 Earls Court Gallery, January Gallery Artists_ Out Of The Back
2019 to 2022 The Hub,Burlington Centre, BFAA Juried Show, The Artist’s Mark
2015 to 2023The New Art Festival, Ottawa
2016 to 2019, 2022 Buckhorn Fine Art Festival
2021 Art In Action, Burlington Artists Tent Tour
2021 Paint Ontario, Grand Ben
2021, 2022 Bookshelf Book and Cinema Gallery, Guelph
2017 to 2021 Dundas Valley School of Art Little Black Frame Fundraiser
2018 Off The Racks, Art Gallery of Burlington
2017 Shane Norrie Gallery, Stratford, Terrain
2014, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2002 to 2006 Toronto Outdoor Art Show
2014 In the Garden in the AIC Gallery , Art Gallery of Burlington
2001 to 2016 Burlington Fine Arts Juried Show
2005 Mississauga Art Gallery Juried Show
2002 to 2007 Colour and Form Shows, Mississauga
2002 Ciparis Lenox Gallery , Toronto –Sorid Stems
2002 Oakville Art Society, Oakville Centre for Performing Arts
Press
Hamilton Spectator 2023 , 2020 Bruce Trail Inspired Show
Bruce Trail Members Magazine Fall 2023
Hamilton Magazine Feature article 2022
Burlington Post 2006 Artists have joined together for new gallery venture
Hamilton Spectator, Around Town 2005
Burlington Arts Centre Newsletter “Highlights” 2005
Hamilton Spectator 2004 Old Pro Pearce Tries New Tricks
Hamilton Spectator 1997 Reviving An Ancient Art , Artist uses Walls as her Canvas by Alex Matheson
Residency
2024 Hammer and Sky, Brier Island, Nova Scotia
Artist’s Statement
Victoria lives and paints in Hamilton’s James North art district and cottages on the edge of Algonquin Park where she enjoys hiking and paddling the natural spaces of Ontario’s north, be it Muskoka, Algonquin, Haliburton, Kawartha, Madawaska or the length of Bruce Trail. The contrast of sky to rocky cliffs, grand pines and idyllic islands make for great inspiration. Her labyrinth style finds much inspiration in the exposed rock of the Canadian Shield or the escarpment geology.
Over the last 20 years she has painted oversized ants eye view florals combined with abstractions and surreal nests floating in the sky. She is currently focused on the Ontario Landscape in all its vast diversity.
As an artist and avid hiker, observing and recording as she hikes or paddles along is an important part of her process. Victoria is an enthusiastic Bruce Trail Conservancy member and cottager in Haliburton Highlands on the edge of Algonquin Park. The province boasts so many waterfalls and grand pine forests, silhouetted islands, craggy cliffs and voluminous skies that there will never be time to experience them all, but she tries. Within them she finds the shapes, lines, colours, patterns and forms she so loves. To play with the juxtaposition of one colour pushing against another and interlocking shapes as parts of an overall interconnecting composition is a challenge and a joy. To see the constant movement of all things natural is sometimes easy, as in a waterfall, but more challenging in a wall of granite. She says it’s the geography geek in her that is excited by a ridge of Dolostone a Granite outcrop, or the rush of a water cascade, all products of the time glaciers covered the land. Expressing that friction and interconnectedness is what she strives to do.
Pearce’s labyrinth style of landscape is a unique one. It evokes a myriad of associations from ancient writings to tile or knitted patterns, even mathematical principles to some. You will find looking at the paintings from a distance is a drastically different experience than a closer inspection. Please, come for a closer look.
