Frankie Ip

Painting is like playing music or writing a poem. It is the way I express my concept of beauty, my passion and feeling. I choose painting because I love the vibrant colours and textures; I experiment with the flexibility of form and design and enjoy the absence of boundaries in the creative process."

Frankie's art fuses the classical and the modern, the flat and the defined. Exhibiting an impeccable instinct for the emotionally evocative power of colour, movement, texture, and shape, Frankie's work, whether a quintessential Canadian landscape, a whimsical abstract concept, relates more to a state of mind, mood or feeling than tangible objects. His personal biography meets movement and passion in a very physiological presence.

Rooted in the Orient, with extensive training in art and design in Asia, and moulded by a western art education, Frankie's work bridges both Eastern and Western cultures and is held in public institutional and private collections in Canada, the USA, Australia and Asia. He has worked as a professional visual artist since 2002 and by local galleries in Toronto and Southern Ontario.

Frankie is a member of the Colour and Form Society and the Markham Arts Council and a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His work is held in public institutional and private collections in Canada, the USA Europe and Asia.

2013 Trilogy: Green and pleasant, Men don’t cry and Obsession, Mckay Art Centre, June – July
2013 Norman Felix Arts: Jumper 2013 June – July
2013 Art of Prom, Promenade Des Anglais, Nice, France, June 7 – 9,
2012 Outlook, Tag Art Gallery Sept - Oct, 2012
2012 Transformation, Wychwood Community Art Gallery Sept - Oct,2012
2012 Alluring Provence, McKay Art Centre, Unionville, Ontario; Aug, 2012
2012 New York Agora Gallery Collective Show May – June 7, 2012 Landscape of Mind
2012 Pomora Part Mural Project, Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
2011 Equilibrium, Abstract works by Frankie Ip, McKay Art Centre, Unionville, Ontario; June-July 2011
2011 ArtTrax Gallery, Port Credit: Spring Awakening, 3 Artist Show April 20 – May 12, 2011