Drea Cohane

Drea is a visual artist who draws and paints from the city of Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada. Her works have been exhibited in Canada, America, and the UK and are held in private collections worldwide including Canada, America, Mexico, Ireland, England, Scotland, France and Finland.

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Like Alice Neel's approach to painting, Drea does not think of herself as a portrait painter but rather a painter of people. She is fascinated by human nature; more specifically, by the interior lives we carry within us. These enigmatic inner landscapes are mostly kept hidden from a passerby, but will sometimes - and often fleetingly, reveal themselves in a passing gesture or look. In her portraits, Drea looks to capture a quality or expression through the use of colour and contour that distills something of the interior life of a person. Whether it's just a mere glimpse of what's going on under the surface, there is always an acute sense of a passing mood playing out before the viewer.

Turps, Correspondence Course, 24-25

2026

Gallery 1065, Toronto, Canada - National Portrait Gallery of Canada of Bloorcourt Exhibit

Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada - Portrait Exhibit

Gallery at Green & Stone, London, UK - Works on Paper 2026

Tacit, Toronto, Canada - IWD Broken Telephone

Janey, Cambridge, Canada - Softening

Plural, Montreal, Canada - Janey