Suzanne Dennis

I am a Toronto artist-painter and member of the Akin Collective. My studio is located in the Bloordale Village area of the city.
I have an Honours Degree in Fine Art. My studies included art & architecture balanced with studio work focusing on life drawing, painting and printmaking.
My greatest influences come from the New York School of painters in the 1950's such as Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hoffman, William de Kooning and Mark Rothko.
I paint on canvas and paper using acrylic paint and mediums. I prefer acrylic paint because of the diverse selection of mediums that can be added to them. The versatility is fantastic and the process is safe.
My paintings are primarily abstract and non objective, however the work is inspired by details found in architectural elements in modern and ancient urban landscapes (most often in the formations of rock and stone surfaces).

I travel and visit ancient and modern "meeting places" where I photograph or sketch naturally formed designs found in the stone floors and walls.

What intrigues me is not just the beautiful natural designs, but the changes in the role of the these places with the passage of time.

I then reinterpret the designs as drawings on canvas using them as a "roadma...

-Honours Degree -Fine Art - University of Toronto
-Toronto School of Art
-Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux-Arts (1 term)
-Boca Raton Museum Art School -Abstract and Non Objective -ongoing courses and Workshops

-"BowsArt" Holiday Exhibition & Group Show - At Art Square Gallery, Toronto, December 2016
-Bridgepoint Health - Corporate Installation & Group Show - November 2015 - March 2016
-"The Art of Healing" Ronald McDonald House Charities, Toronto Group Show and Auction September 17, 2016
-Solo Show as Featured Artist of the Month at -"Cantine" in Toronto - "What Lies Beneath" -October 2015
-"The Art of Healing" Ronald McDonald House Charities - Group Show and Auction -June 6, 2015
-Boca Raton Museum School Juried Show- January 2015
-''BowsArt " Holiday Show & Group Show- Art Square Gallery, Toronto, 2015
-Oakdale Golf and Country Club- Art Exhibition -group show June 25-28, 2014
-Solo Show as Featured Artist of the Month at Cantine "Evolution" September 2013
-Solo Show as Featured Artist of the Month at "Cantine" 2011
-"Other Places" Joint Show - Women's Art Association of Canada Gallery-Toronto -October 2010
-"Finding a Balance" - Joint Show - Women's Art Association of Canada Gallery- Toronto -October 2008